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In modern democracies, power sharing arrangements can take many forms.

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In modern democracies, power sharing arrangements can take many forms.

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1. Power is shared among different organs of government, such as the legislature, executive and judiciary
2.  Power can be shared among governments at different levels – a general government for the entire country and governments at the provincial or regional level. Such a general government for the entire country is usually called federal government.
3.  Power may also be shared among different social groups such as the religious and linguistic groups.
4.  Power sharing arrangements can also be seen in the way political parties, pressure groups and movements control or influence those in power. In a democracy, the citizens must have freedom to choose among various contenders for power.

Amrita Jayamon
10B

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Some of the elements of the Belgian model are :

1. The Constitution prescribes that the number of Dutch and French-speaking ministers shall be equal in the Central Government. Some special laws require the support of the majority of members from each linguistic group. Thus, no single community can make decisions unilaterally.

2. The state governments are not subordinate to the Central Government.

3. Brussels has a separate government in which both communities have equal representation.

4. Apart from the Central and the State Government, there is a third kind of government. This ‘community government’ is elected by people belonging to one language community – Dutch, French and German-speaking – no matter where they live. This government has the power regarding cultural, educational and language-related issues.

- Ananya Garg
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PFA

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Power Sharing is necessary for a country to run smoothly and eradicate any chances of conflict between different groups in society and ensures the stability of orders

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In Russia the two influential political parties, Union of Right Forces and Liberal Yabloko Movement, agreed to unite their organisations into a coalition. They also proposed to have a common list of candidates in the next election
~Aditya Sunil

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Garima Mishra 10A

Power sharing is the very spirit of democracy. People have a right to be consulted on how they are to be governed.

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As one page related to this is added in the book, I wanted to share more details about this incident. It started from 1975-1990, for approximately 2 and half decades. The reason behind the civil war was the distrust created between 3 ethnic groups, namely- Christians, Shia Muslims, and Sunni Muslims. These groups wanted to get to the power and political instability was thus created.
Before, in 1926, a power sharing model was implemented, where different posts were secured for particular ethnic groups.
For example:
>President- Christian
>PM- Sunni Muslim
>Deputy PM- Christian
>Speaker of the Chambers- Shia Muslim
Furthermore, these communities agreed upon not to seek any foreign help.
However, this order was disrupted in 1975 leading to a long civil war which ended in 1990 by foreign intervention.
Even today, it continues to face these problems.

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Power-sharing help to reduce the possibility of conflict between various social groups. Power-sharing is one of the most significant tools in ensuring political stability of a country. Power-sharing gives the right to be consulted to the people.

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Firstly, power sharing is good because it helps to reduce the possibility of conflict between social groups.

There is a second, deeper reason why power sharing is good for democracy. Power sharing is very spirit of democracy. A democratic rule involves sharing power with those affected by its exercise, and who have to live with it effects.

While prudential reasons stress that power sharing will bring out better outcomes, moral reasons emphasizes the very act of the power sharing as valuable.
Ahad Ali
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Power sharing is important because of the following reasons:
1) Power sharing reduces the possibility of conflict between social groups.
2) Social conflict often and political instability, power sharing is a good way to ensure the stability of political order
3) Power sharing is the very spirit of democracy. A democratic rule involves sharing power with those affected by its exercise, and who have to live with its effects.
10-A

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Power sharing is desirable as it reduces the chances of conflict between different social groups within a country, which lead to political instability. There are also moral reasons as to why power sharing is better structure, as it adheres to the basic principles of a democracy by respecting the views of different groups.

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The government in Belgium divided the powers equally between Dutch and French speaking populations. It was decided that equal representation should be given to the French- and Dutch-speaking population. ... Thus, in Belgium power was divided equally between the Dutch and French speaking populations.

Soni X-C

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Forms of Power Sharing
We need power sharing because of the following reasons:-
1. It reduces social tension.
2. It reduces violence.
3. It reduces backwardness.
4. It keeps our freedom safe.
5. It creates our confidence in the mind of the citizen that all are equal in particular country.
6. It is the very spirit of democracy.

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powered shared from central government and state government to local govermnet is good as they would look the issues faced in local areas seriously as other bodies are having other casese to solve at national,country,internalional etc.

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Horizontal distribution of power: In this, the power is shared among different organs of government such as the legislature, executive, and judiciary. ...Federal government (vertical distribution of power): In this, the power can be shared among governments at different levels.

SACHI SARDANA

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Power sharing is indeed a important concept. In short, it helps in reducing the conflict between various social groups by sharing power among various organs of the government, among various levels of the government, among different social groups, etc. Hence, power sharing is necessary for maintaining social harmony and peace. Also, it helps in avoiding the tyranny of majority. The tyranny of majority not only destroys the minority social groups but indirectly also the majority social group.

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Power sharing is good because it helps to reduce the possibility of conflict between social groups. Since social conflict often leads to violence and political instability, power sharing is a good way to ensure the stability of political order. Power sharing is the very spirit of democracy.

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Power sharing is the very essence of democracy. It is important for a country to function well . Like, Belgium followed power sharing and prevented the division of country on linguistic lines. On the other hand Sri-Lanka didn't follow it and hence faced a civil war. Since the interests of all communities have to be looked upon, power sharing is very important even in India.

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Power should be shared among the governments in a country. Like in Belgium they shared the power among the French-speaking and Dutch-speaking communities. In Belgium, no majority is putting their dominance over the minority and there have been no conflicts between the 2 communities. Whereas in Sri Lanka, an Act came on action which disregarded the minority. The Sinhala put their dominance over the Tamils which later created a civil war.
Therefore, power sharing is very much important for a country to work in a better manner where both majority and minority are treated equally.
~ Sandra Reji

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Ethnic is social division based on shared culture. Depends upon religion too