Table 4.2 Majoritarian and consensus democracy: nine clusters of democratic regimes

		Dimension II (federalist structure)
		Majoritarian:	Intermediate:	Consensual:
	Majoritarian:	New Zealand United Kingdom	Ireland Austia*	Australia   Canada Germany United States
Dimension I (political process)	Intermediate:	Iceland Luxembourg	France V Norway Sweden	Italy Japan
	Consensual:	Denmark Israel	Belgium Finland France IV Netherlands	Switzerland

*Plural and semiplural societies are italicised.

Source: Arend Lijphart, Democracies. Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus

Government in Twenty-one Countries (Yale, New Haven/London, 1984)