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Article: ISRAEL AS ETHNIC DEMOCRACY: WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PALESTINIAN MINORITY?
- Article from:
- Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
- Author:
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INTRODUCTION
THE QUESTIONS OF DEMOCRACY, citizenship, equality and domination are of crucial importance for the understanding of minority-majority relations in deeply divided societies. One of the main issues in multi-ethnic states which is still awaiting further exploration, research and theorization is: To what extent can democracy, in such societies, serve as a useful framework for abolishing or containing the various forms of a majority's domination -- political, cultural or socio-economic?
In Israel where the state is legally considered to be both Jewish and democratic, Israeli social scientists tended, until recently, to underplay the inherit ...