A Critical Test of Consociation Democracy in Mordern Belgian Federal Parliarmentary System

Like many a plural society such as Nigeria, there are other countries across the globe that witness conflict and cleavages in their political space. Belgium is one such country in Western Europe, which has mirrored a state in peril albeit politically. This way, this paper has sought to trace how the Belgian state is configured, in view of federalism and consociation. How has the Consociationalism politics of accommodation worked in the Belgian polity? How has the federal system helped in the arrangement of consociation? The paper found that even though the Belgian state is federal in character, political gridlocks usually rear their head in the political life of the country.