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consociation [kən‚sō·sē′ā·shən]
(ecology)
A climax community of plants which is dominated by a single species.


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He argues that confronting the realities of ethnicity has forced Nigeria to search for alternate models of democracy and national integration that can balance the interests of the three major ethnic groups within different institutions, although their reliance on consociationalism has sometimes undermined the possibilities for the development of a democratic and inclusive nation-state.
Ehrlich, Democratic Alternatives to Ethnic Conflict: Consociationalism and Neoseparatism, 26 BROOK.
12) This is the reason that consociationalism and federalism have been advanced as models of accommodating diversities and protecting minorities in a plural society.
 
 
 
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