Abstract
South Tyrol?s political system corresponds to the model of consociational democracy described by Arend Lijphart. The consociational democracy model for the elites stands in stark relation to the ethnic division of South Tyrolean civil society. The creation of language-comprehensive structures within parties, trade unions and associations, represents a reaction to the ethnic separation system. The political elites of South Tyrol of all three language groups, namely Italians, Germans, and Ladins, were legitimized to a large extent by their homogeneity and uniform representation after World War II up until the adoption of the Second Autonomy Statute. The Autonomy Statute (1972) has a double legal nature. On the one hand, it grants the region of Trentino-South Tyrol and the provinces of Bolzano/Bozen and Trento a territorial autonomy and, on the other hand, it incorporates a series of collective rights for the protection of ethnic minorities living in the territory. Keywords: Autonomy Statute; Bolzano; Bozen; collective rights; consociational democracy; ethnic separation system; political elites; South Tyrolean civil society; Trentino-South Tyrol
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