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The Challenge of Sustaining Democracy in Deeply Divided Societies - Citizenship, Rights, and Ethnic Conflicts in India and Israel (Hardcover)
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The Challenge of Sustaining Democracy in Deeply Divided Societies - Citizenship, Rights, and Ethnic Conflicts in India and Israel (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Public Policy
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In this book, Harel-Shalev analyzes public policy and governmental
features in procedurally democratic states that govern deeply
divided societies. The book traces the political formula that
enables such states to survive while sustaining a democratic
process in the face of religious, ethnic, and national conflicts.
It investigates citizenship discourses, analyzes the mechanisms
political regimes use to give rights to minorities while
simultaneously limiting their power, and illustrates how this
unique political formula can be applied in two case studies of
vastly different countries-Israel and India. The analogous
conflicts in India and Israel that threaten the survival of
democracy-the ethno-religious conflict between Hindus and Muslims
in India and the ethno-national conflict between Jews and
Arab-Palestinians in Israel-are analyzed in depth. In addition, the
core cases of India and Israel, states in which democracy has
survived for over sixty years, are compared with two additional
countries where democracy was short-lived. This issue is especially
pertinent to the world today, as many young nations currently in
the process of state building are coping with the challenges
inherent in building democratic institutions in plural and
polarized societies. The book explores the inherent tension between
the conflicting logics of democracy, citizenship, and nation-state,
and suggests enhanced tools for investigating societies in which
this tension exists.
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