Ethnic Democracy: Israel as an Archetype

Smooha, Sammy

doi:10.1353/is.2005.0060

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“…Such a situation, when equal opportunities in access to national institutions only pertain to members of a single ethnic group and are refused to others based on nationality is called either ethnocracy (Smooha, 1997) or exclusive democracy. The latter one is, according to Merkel's (2004) conceptual scheme, one of four possible defects of democratic regime, a reduced democratic sub-type violating one of the basic characteristics of democracy -the political equality of citizens regardless their ethnic origin.…”

Section: Factors Preventing Democratisationmentioning

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De Facto States and Democracy: The Case of Abkhazia

Kopeček

Hoch

Baar

2016

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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Abstract. De-facto states constitute an interesting and important anomaly in the international system of sovereign states. No matter how successful and efficient in the administration of their territories they are, they fail to achieve international recognition. In the past, their claims for independence were based primarily on the right to national self-determination, historical continuity and claim for a remedial right to secession, based on alleged human-rights violations. Since 2005, official representatives of several de facto states have repeatedly emphasised the importance of democracy promotion in their political entities. A possible explanation of this phenomenon dwells in the belief that those states which have demonstrated their economic viability and promote the organization of a democratic state should gain their sovereignty. This article demonstrates the so called "democracy-for-recognition strategy" in the case study of Abkhazia. On the basis of the field research in Abkhazia we identify factors that promote, as well as those that obstruct the democratisation process in the country.

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Section: Factors Preventing Democratisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

De Facto States and Democracy: The Case of Abkhazia

Kopeček

Hoch

Baar

2016

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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“…The privileged cohort outnumbers the non-privileged, so that elections can occur without disrupting the system of classification and discrimination. Scholars have advanced two labels for such states, with Israel as the central case: 'ethnocracy' and 'ethnic democracy' (Dowty, 1999;Gavison, 1999;Ghanem, 2009;Ghanem, Rouhana, & Yiftachel, 1998;Smooha, 1997). The key players in the debate over which term should be employed agree upon many of the characteristics of the 'beast' they seek to describe (Dowty, 1999, p.1;Gavison, 1999, p.3); at stake is the normative connotation of the label.…”

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“…The critical scholars also draw attention to how the roles played by international Zionist organisations in Israeli bureaucracy defy the notion of a demos (Ghanem et al, 1998, p.2, 6;Yiftachel, 1999, pp.376-7). Like Smooha (1997) (Yiftachel, 2006, pp.20-32); Malaysia, Russia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Slovakia (Ghanem, 2009, p.464).…”

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Ethnocracy Without Groups: Conceptualising Ethnocratiser States Without Reifying Ethnic Categories

Attwell

2015

Ethnopolitics

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Attwell, K. (2016) Ethnocracytheir populations. They do so by demarcating the population into ethnic categories. They apply labels to individuals and hierarchically order the categories to which they are deemed to belong, awarding one cohort more privilege than the other. Existing literature on such states has obscured the processes by which states reify and institutionalise identity, instead presenting it through groupist frames in which ethnicity is a pre-existing variable. Reconceptualising the doing of ethnicity as a process enables us to study internal dissent against ethnic privilege and consider its transformational capacity in inspiring new nationalist discourses.

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“…19 For example, 'with the adoption of the separation principle' following the Oslo Accords and the modes of power implemented in response to the second intifada, the nature of the Green Line changed from a comparatively 'open membrane' to a border that is 'normally closed' to Palestinians, 'transforming the OT into a container of sorts ' (212; 180). 20 On the other hand, since 1966 Palestinians in Israel proper have been increasingly challenging the promises of Israeli democracy by levering the discourse of rights and, lately, of multiculturalism for the sake of creating a more inclusive regime (Smooha 1990(Smooha , 1997Adalah 2007).…”

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The Empty Square of the Occupation

Svirsky

2010

Deleuze Studies

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This paper is an attempt to implement Gilles Deleuze's theory of the series and the event, and the related function of the empty square (as formulated primarily in The Logic of Sense), in relation to the geopolitical regime comprising ‘Israel proper’ and the system of occupation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The purpose of this exercise is to help establish a practical access to Deleuze's philosophies, and to offer a clinical account of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

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Ethnic Democracy: Israel as an Archetype

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De Facto States and Democracy: The Case of Abkhazia

De Facto States and Democracy: The Case of Abkhazia

Ethnocracy Without Groups: Conceptualising Ethnocratiser States Without Reifying Ethnic Categories

The Empty Square of the Occupation

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