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Research examines the necessity of legitimacy and enforceability for the effectiveness of power sharing and partition in peace durability.
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Abstract: Scholars have produced an impressive compendium of literature pertaining to power sharing and partition as methods of consolidating peace durability. Empirical tests primarily focus on which method is associated with durable peace, however, and stop short of how the method achieves durable peace or why it fails to do so. My research seeks to advance the existing literature by theorizing that any arrangement for the consolidation of durable peace must meet two basic requisites—legitimacy and enforceability—and by exploring the impact partition and power sharing have on the legitimacy of post-conflict arrangements. Using riots and anti-government demonstrations as a proxy for legitimacy, I run a logistic regression analysis to test my hypotheses. I found that, ultimately, while power sharing is significant in increasing the legitimacy of post-conflict arrangements following an ideological conflict, under no circumstances tested is partition significantly associated with legitimacy.
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