Power-sharing

What is the importance of power-sharing in a democracy according to the text?

What are some elements of the Belgian model of power-sharing as described in the text?

What majoritarian measures were adopted in Sri Lanka to establish Sinhala supremacy?

What contrasting examples of power-sharing are provided by Belgium and Sri Lanka in the text?

Read any newspaper for one week and make clippings of news related to ongoing conflicts or wars. A group of five students could pool their clippings together and do the following: Classify these conflicts by their location (your state, India, outside India). Find out the cause of each of these conflicts. How many of these are related to power sharing disputes? Which of these conflicts could be resolved by working out power sharing arrangements?

If the parents of Annette and Selvi were to approach respective governments to realize the desire of the child who is more likely to succeed? And why?

Why power sharing is desirable?

What, according to this cartoon, is the relationship between democracy and concentration of power? Can you think of some other examples to illustrate the point being made here?

What are the different forms of power sharing in modern democracies? Give an example of each of these.

State one prudential reason and one moral reason for power sharing with an example from the Indian context.