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The Challenge of Ethnic Democracy - The State and Minority Groups in Israel, Poland and Northern Ireland (Paperback)
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The Challenge of Ethnic Democracy - The State and Minority Groups in Israel, Poland and Northern Ireland (Paperback)
Series: Exeter Studies in Ethno Politics
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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
whatever kind. This central argument is supported by an analysis of
the history of three ethnic democracies; Northern Ireland under
Unionist rule, where ethnic democracy was stable for almost 50
years (1921-1969), then collapsed; The Second Polish republic
(1918-1939), where ethnic democracy was written into the
constitution but was never actualised; and Israel within its
pre-1967 borders, where ethnic democracy was stable for 35 years
(1966-2000) but may now be eroding. This book examines the
different trajectories of the case studies, demonstrating that
Poland lacked a third, mediating constitutional principle, while
Israel and Northern Ireland did have such a principle - civic
republicanism in Israel, and populism in Northern Ireland. The
collapse of ethnic democracy in Northern Ireland resulted from the
weakening of populism, that depended on British monetary subsidies
for its implementation, whilst the erosion of ethnic democracy in
Israel resulted from the decline of civic republicanism since the
onset of economic liberalization in 1985. Dealing with ethnic
democracy in a comparative framework, this book will appeal to
students, scholars and researchers of Sociology, Political Science
and Middle East Studies.
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