Best Laid Plans: The Impact of Power Sharing and External Support on Separatist Violence
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

Secessionist movements, when they resort to violence, can undermine the stability and threaten the security of states. Institutional designs, like power sharing, that mitigate issues associated with secessionism may be instrumental for states that contain potentially violent separatist groups. Strategies to share power include regional autonomy, which diffuses power to local levels, and complex power sharing, which centralizes power among elites at the national level. Support from external actor