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University of Canterbury Law Faculty in New Zealand, Universiti Kebangsaan in Malaysia, the National University of Singapore (in Political Science and later in Asian Legal Studies), and in the Academic Icon program at the University of Malaya. A former Guggenheim Scholar and Carnegie Scholar, he has twice been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a Siemens Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
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politicians in plural societies. Nevertheless, consociation remains the more widely adopted method of formal interethnic power sharing and the one with more scholarly adherents. Horowitz is working on a book-length study of the problems of ethnic power sharing and constitutional design for severely divided societies.
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