Politics of Belgium
For too long Belgium remained an unexplored terrain by comparative political scientists. Belgium''s politics were best known through the writings of Arend Lijphart, who considered it a model case of consociationalism. Over the past ten to fifteen years, the analysis of consociationalism has been complemented by a more detailed coverage of Belgium''s spectacular transformation process from a unitar...
For too long Belgium remained an unexplored terrain by comparative political scientists. Belgium''s politics were best known through the writings of Arend Lijphart, who considered it a model case of consociationalism. Over the past ten to fifteen years, the analysis of consociationalism has been complemented by a more detailed coverage of Belgium''s spectacular transformation process from a unitar...