Pickering, Paula M.Mullen, Rani D.Rafeq, Abdul-KarimAbdel-Fattah, Dina2025-06-122017-04-202010-05-25https://scholarworks.wm.edu/handle/internal/12500Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.This thesis is primarily a study of the effect of consociational arrangements on shared governance in post-conflict societies. Specifically, I look into how the formality of minority vetoes in consociational parliaments affects the level of inter-ethnoreligious political party cooperation in the legislative process. My two case studies, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Lebanon, were chosen based on the presence of formal (written) or informal (implicit) minority vetoes in their consociational parliaments, respectively. I find that the formality of a minority veto does in fact play a role in differentiating the legislative processes in these two consociational governments, such that Bosnia-Herzegovina suffers more legislative inefficiency in comparison to Lebanon.© The Authorhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ConsociationalismBosnia-HerzegovinaLebanonhonorsthesis_restricted