When I first saw the word "consociational" I thought it was a typographical error.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hope in Lebanon] Reference

This may be a consociational weakness, a set of institutions that make compromise more difficult.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

This consociational characterisation not only fails to conform to reality but it is also aimed at preventing the emergence of a national identity.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He opts instead for a consociational democracy: a system in which religious, cultural, national, and economic considerations will be balanced by mutual agreement, within a power-sharing government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ami Kaufman: Israel: The One-State Solution Should be Taken Off the Table] Reference

It would free us from the shackles of the current consociational state of affairs and would create the space for ‘normal politics’ that strange phenomenon everyone claims to desire to finally take root.    From Wordnik.com.  [“As my colleague was just saying…” (Or why consensus makes me puke)] Reference

Yash Tandon from Uganda had long ago questioned the basic assumptions and definitions implied in the European notion of a centralized state or the conception of ‘consociational democracy’ being imposed on Africa with multi-tribal societies.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist)] Reference

Look instead at the consociational record, say the authors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

Once more, the idea was to resolve conflict within a consociational power-sharing arrangement.    From Wordnik.com.  [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference

This departure from the consociational principle could cost unionism and the Assembly as a whole dear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

To these novelties, apparently without any thought of their uncouthness, Fowler added to missionate and consociational.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 2. The Language in the Making] Reference

Words “connected with our ecclesiastical institutions, ” as associational, consociational, to fellowship, to missionate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 1. Introductory. 6. The Materials of the Inquiry] Reference

This confusion added to the difficulty the electorate has understanding the complex politics of Stormont's consociational structures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

It was not the consociational model but British prevarication over implementing the 1999 Patten policing reforms that was responsible for the delay in IRA decommissioning and dogged the first Assembly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

To funeralize and to missionate, along with consociational, were contributions of the backwoods pulpit; perhaps it also produced hell-roaring and hellion, the latter of which was a favorite of the Mormons and even got into a sermon by Henry Ward Beecher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary] Reference

The tendency of electorates to grow tired, disgruntled and ultimately impatient with the governing party (ies) is a common theme across western liberal democracies, hence the importance of Sinn Fein acknowledging and providing a simultaneous function to fill the opposition deficit within the consociational arrangements at Stormont.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

Instant, yes, but also consociational, open source, and freely available.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Doyle: The Newspaper Is Dead, Long Live The Newspaper] Reference

147 consociational, 39, 89, 91 consols, 123 constable, 115, 122 constituency, 124 consumptionick, 407 contact, v.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mencken, H] Reference