The Challenge of Ethnic Democracy : The State and Minority Groups in Israel, Poland and Northern Ireland

ISBN-13: 9780415664219 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 198 str.

Yoav Peled

Opis

This study examines the conditions for the viability of ethnic democracy by comparing the relations between three ethno-democratic states and their minority groups over time.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).