This article tackles the tensions in consociational political systems between the politics of the collective and the politics of the individual citizen. It focuses on the particular form of consociationalism that was introduced by the international community into Bosnia and Herzegovina as a political solution following the 1991-1995 war. Based on a theoretical framing of the tensions between collective consociational and citizen-based politics, the article conducts a multi-method empirical analysis of the causes and timing of the 2014 Bosnian Spring and the lessons learned from the political innovations of these protest movements.
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