Ayelet Harel-Shalev

The Challenge of Sustaining Democracy in Deeply Divided Societies

Citizenship, Rights, and Ethnic Conflicts in India and Israel

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Produktbeschreibung

The Challenge of Sustaining Democracy in Deeply Divided Societies: Citizenship, Rights, and Ethnic Conflicts in India and Israel by Ayelet Harel-Shalev explores the inherent tension between the conflicting logics of democracy, citizenship, and nation-state. Majority-minority relations are comparatively explicated by analyzing and theorizing the practices democracies utilize to allocate legal rights to minorities while limiting their share in power. The discourse of legal rights offers minorities empowerment while simultaneously limiting their access to national power; it also functions as a political formula that enables such states to survive while sustaining a democratic process in the face of ethno-religious conflicts.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Public Policy
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 514
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 979g
• ISBN-13: 9780739126844
• ISBN-10: 0739126849
• Artikelnr.: 30882279

Autorenporträt

Ayelet Harel-Shalev is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Preface 2 Acknowledgements Part 3 I. A Conceptual Framework Chapter 4
1.Democracy in deeply divided societies: Theoretical and comparative
aspects Part 5 II. Disaggregating Citizenship in Deeply Divided
Societies-Empirical and Analytical findings Chapter 6 2.The Formative
Years-A Base to Majority-Minority Relations in Deeply Divided Societies
Chapter 7 3.Public and Judicial Policy toward the Minority Throughout 60
years of Independence Chapter 8 4.Placing the Comparison in a Broader
Context-Democracies That Did Not Survive Part 9 III. Comparative and
Theoretical Findings Chapter 10 5.Conclusions-he Fate of Democracy In
Deeply Divided Societies 11 Bibliography 13 About the Author