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Ethnic Democracy and the Legal Construction of Citizenship: Arab Citizens of the Jewish State

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The citizenship status of its Arab citizens is the key to Israel's ability to function as an ethnic democracy, that is, a political system combining democratic institutions with the dominance of one ethnic group. The confluence of republicanism and ethnonationalism with liberalism, as principles of legitimation, has resulted in two types of citizenship: republican for Jews and liberal for Arabs. Thus, Arab citizens enjoy civil and political rights but are barred from attending to the common good.The Arab citizenship status, while much more restricted than the Jewish, has both induced and enabled Arabs to conduct their political struggles within the framework of the law, in sharp contrast to the noncitizen Arabs of the occupied territories. It may thus serve as a model for other dominant ethnic groups seeking to maintain both their dominance and a democratic system of government.

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  • Peled, Yoav, 1992. "Ethnic Democracy and the Legal Construction of Citizenship: Arab Citizens of the Jewish State," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 86(2), pages 432-443, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:86:y:1992:i:02:p:432-443_08
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    1. Ghazi Falah & Michael Hoy & Rakhal Sarker, 2000. "Co-existence in Selected Mixed Arab-Jewish Cities in Israel: By Choice or by Default?," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 37(4), pages 775-796, April.
    2. Sammy Smooha, 1998. "The Implications of the Transition to Peace for Israeli Society," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 555(1), pages 26-45, January.
    3. Ayelet Harel-Shalev & Ilan Peleg, 2014. "Hybridity and Israel’s Democratic Order," Contemporary Review of the Middle East, , vol. 1(1), pages 75-94, March.
    4. Nadim N. Rouhana & Susan T. Fiske, 1995. "Perception of Power, Threat, and Conflict Intensity in Asymmetric Intergroup Conflict," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 39(1), pages 49-81, March.
    5. Maya Hadar, 2019. "Renegotiating Israeli Identities, Collective Victimhood and Social Exclusion of Arab Israelis in a Changing Social Reality," Psychology and Developing Societies, , vol. 31(1), pages 7-30, March.

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