Konsosyonel Demokrasi ve Küçük Azınlıkların Temsili: Kuzey Makedonya Örneği
Consociational Democracy and Representation of Small Minorities: The Case of North Macedonia

Summary/Abstract: Consociational democracy is considered a viable model for building stable democracies in deeply divided societies and is frequently employed in post-conflict nation-building. In North Macedonia, the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA), which ended the 2001 ethnic conflict between Albanian armed groups and Macedonian security forces expanded the rights of ethnic Albanians to halt the conflict but faced criticism for insufficient representation of smaller minorities. This study examines small minority representation in consociational democracies using North Macedonia as a case study. It argues that smaller minorities such as Turks and Roma have not seen significant improvements in their rights compared to Albanians in post-Ohrid North Macedonia.

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