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From Projecting Power

Week 3 Optional Reading

Questioning "Ethnic Democracy": A Response to Sammy Smooha

    • "Ethnic Democracy" Model: a system which combines the extension of civil and political rights to individuals and some collective rights to minorities, with institutionalization of majority control over the state.

Critiques

  • Israel as cannot be used as an "archetype" case of majority-minority relations due to the continuing "Judaization" of the country.
    • "Tyranny of the majority" that structurally prevents the Arabs from mobilizing effectively within this system and excludes them from key positions and resources. Therefore not an "archetype" of a democratic regime.

Flaws in the "ethnic democracy" concept are:

  • civil inequality and lack of minority consent
  • ethnic exclusion
  • problems in the definition of state boundaries

"Ethnic Democracy" and Civil Inequality

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