The Belgian Dilemma of Partition. A Pattern Study for the East
The Belgian Dilemma of Partition. A Pattern Study for the East

Summary/Abstract: The practice of post-modernity revived in the concept of devolution as the best referential to local governence as compared to the permanent structure of federalism. As a result of almost continuos state reform in the last 40 years, Belgium has both systems, but also no full-fledged government. Divided in a complicated array of linguistic-based communities and regions boasting large competencies from education to fiscality and voting rights, the kingdom faces not only the fluctuant political choices of its citizens (as shown by the modern tool of manipulation, namely the polls), but also the specter of dissolution - due to the political deadlock of defining a common functional governing agenda, and to a sort of reciprocal ethnolinguistic cleansing.

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