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The Challenge of Ethnic Democracy The State and Minority Groups in Israel, Poland and Northern Ireland
By Yoav Peled
Copyright 2014
200 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ethnic democracy is a form of democratic ethnic conflict regulation in deeply divided societies. In The Challenge of Ethnic Democracy, Yoav Peled argues that ethnic democracy is constituted by the combination of two contradictory constitutional principles: liberal democracy and ethno-nationalism, and that its stability depends on the existence of a third, mediating constitutional principle of... Read more
1. Introduction: The Model of Ethnic Democracy 2. Northern Ireland: The Pitfalls of Populism 3. The Second Polish Republic: A Failed Ethnic Democracy 4. Israel: The Archetypal Ethnic Democracy 5. Conclusion
Biography
Yoav Peled is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, specializing in citizenship, ethnic relations and Israeli politics. Co-author, with Gerhson Shafir, of Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship (2002). Co-Editor in Chief, The Public Sphere: Tel Aviv Journal of Political Science (in Hebrew).
"Throughout the book, Peled shows an in-depth knowledge of the subject matter, as reflected in the wide array of sources. Also, Peled demonstrates in vivid detail how ethnic democracy works in practice."
Karlo Loncar, Croatia
