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The Consequences of Consociationalism in Belgium University of Mississippi eGrove Honors College (Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors Theses Honors College) 2019 Regionalism and Reform: The Consequences of Consociationalism in Belgium Elizabeth L. Brown University of Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis Part of the French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons, and the International and Area Studies Commons Recommended Citation Brown, Elizabeth L., "Regionalism and Reform: The Consequences of Consociationalism in Belgium" (2019). Honors Theses. 1146. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/1146 This Undergraduate Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors College (Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College) at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. REGIONALISM AND REFORM: THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONSOCIATIONALISM IN BELGIUM © 2019 By Elizabeth L. Brown A thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for completion Of the Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies Croft Institute for International Studies Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College The University of Mississippi University, Mississippi May 2019 Approved: ___________________________________ Advisor: Dr. Susan Allen ___________________________________ Reader: Dr. William Schenck ___________________________________ Reader: Dr. Alice Cooper ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my utmost gratitude to Dr. Susan Allen for her guidance and support throughout this project. I am also thankful for the feedback provided by my readers, Dr. Alice Cooper and Dr. William Schenck. Thank you to the Croft Institute of International Studies and the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College for making this project possible. I am indebted to my friends who graciously listened to my endless diatribes on institutional designs and Belgian politics and managed to continue to feign interest in the subject. Finally, I would like to thank my parents for their constant encouragement and for supporting my decision four years ago to attend the University of Mississippi. i ABSTRACT ELIZABETH L. BROWN Regionalism and Reform: The Consequences of Consociationalism in Belgium (Under the direction of Dr. Susan Allen) With the success of the Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA), a Flemish regionalist party, in recent federal and regional elections, the continued role of regionalism in Belgian politics has been made clear. This has occurred despite significant efforts by Belgian politicians to counteract this tendency. By analyzing the impact of the six state reforms that have drastically affected the political system within the country, this paper outlines how the reforms themselves have unintentionally incentivized the political parties to pursue regionalism as a winning political strategy, which laid the groundwork for the current success of the N-VA. Furthermore, this paper demonstrates how the institutional system known as consociationalism has been unable to implement the moderating tendency that it seeks to provide in the Belgian case and has instead contributed to stagnation in the federal parliament and to a centrifugal pull of the parties into separate linguistic communities. In examining this, the paper makes use of the devolutionary framework proposed by Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Nicholas Gill (2002) to show how the reforms have impacted the legitimacy of the subnational governments. ii Table of Contents LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................................ iv CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 1 CHAPTER 2: OVERCOMING THE PLURAL SOCIETY DILEMMA ........................... 5 2.1 Identity Theories ........................................................................................................5 2.2 Stability in Plural Societies ........................................................................................6 2.3 Consociationalism ......................................................................................................7 2.4 Devolution and Federalism ......................................................................................12 2.5 Centripetalism ..........................................................................................................15 CHAPTER 3: HISTORY OF REGIONALISM IN BELGIUM ....................................... 17 3.1 The Flemish Movement Prior to the State Reforms ................................................18 3.2 The Walloon Movement Prior to the State Reforms ...............................................21 3.3 The Reforms.............................................................................................................24 CHAPTER 4: A RESHAPED BELGIUM ....................................................................... 33 4.1 The Disappearance of the Belgian Voter .................................................................34 4.2 Devolution and Regional Legitimacy ......................................................................44 CHAPTER 5: SHIFTING INCENTIVES FOR POLITICAL PARTIES ......................... 53 5.1 The 2007 Federal Election and Coalition Formation ...............................................59 5.2 The 2010 Federal Election and Coalition Formation ...............................................61 5.3 The ‘De Wever’ Effect .............................................................................................65 CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSIONS ....................................................................................... 70 BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................. 75 Appendix A: Map of Belgium .......................................................................................... 83 Appendix B: Theoretical Framework of Devolution ........................................................ 84 Appendix C: Structure of Belgian Government................................................................ 85 iii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS BCR Brussels Capital Region BHV Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde cdH Centre Démocrate Humaniste / Humanist Democratic Center (Francophone) CD&V Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams / Christian Democratic and Flemish FDF Front Démocratique des Francophones / French-Speaking Democratic Front (Francophone Regionalist Party) MR Mouvement Réformateur / Reformist Movement (Francophone Liberals) N-VA Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie / New Flemish Alliance (Flemish Regionalist Party) PS Parti Socialiste / Socialist Party (Francophone) OpenVLD Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten / Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats RW Rassemblement wallon / Walloon Rally (Walloon Regionalist Party) sp.a Socialistische Partij Anders / Socialist Party Differently (Flemish) iv CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION In 1970, rising tension between Flemings and Walloons, the two major ethnolinguistic groups in Belgium, led to a series of reforms aimed at better representing the needs of these two groups. This process slowly transformed the country from a unitary state to a federal state and cemented representation based on language. Leaders hoped that these changes would quell the divisions between the groups and return stability to the government. Instead, continual calls for additional reforms to shift the power towards the Communities and Regions have become the norm and regionalist parties continue to play an important role. The largest political party in Belgium, the Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (New Flemish Alliance/N-VA), advocates for an eventual termination of the Belgian state with the rise of an independent Flanders. The reforms have objectively failed to accomplish their goal of quelling the divide. Thus, this paper seeks to explain the continued importance of the ethnolinguistic divide and the strength of regionalist parties despite the efforts of the past six state reforms to pacify these problems. The situation in Belgium reflects the predicament faced by many countries that lack ethnic homogeneity. Such countries face a challenge in ensuring that their diverse group of citizens believe that their system of government properly represents them. As a result, many of these societies, known as plural societies, are fraught with instability and violence.1 This problem is especially common when these countries are democracies, since the legitimacy of a democracy is partially grounded on the idea of representation. As a result, the exclusion of segments of the population directly undermines the 1 Alvin Rabushka and Kenneth A. Shepsle, Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic Instability (Columbus: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1972), 21. 1 legitimacy of that government. Thus, democracies in plural societies must find a way to ensure the stability of their system by addressing this concern. Countries that are attempting to democratize may try to emulate the model of other countries that seem to overcome the violence that often accompanies pluralism. Belgium is cited as an example of such a country due to its extensive history of pluralism with limited political violence. It is for this reason that the emergence of a secessionist movement in Flanders is particularly noteworthy. The rise of regionalism demonstrates the challenges of finding a suitable and stable system of government for plural societies, even without the presence
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