1992
DOI: 10.2307/1964231
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Ethnic Democracy and the Legal Construction of Citizenship: Arab Citizens of the Jewish State

Abstract: The citizenship status of its Arab citizens is the key to Israel's ability to function as anethnic 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 citize… Show more

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“…In this respect, considering the creation of citizenship, Israel represents a political system that combines democratic institutions with the dominance of one ethnic group (Peled 1992). In this political system, which consists of two types of citizenship -the Jewish citizen and the Arab citizen -, the rights of Arab citizens are much more restricted than those held by Jewish inhabitants of the region, not to mention the complete lack of rights of the non-citizen Arab.…”
Section: Discourse Classifications and The Postcolonialmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this respect, considering the creation of citizenship, Israel represents a political system that combines democratic institutions with the dominance of one ethnic group (Peled 1992). In this political system, which consists of two types of citizenship -the Jewish citizen and the Arab citizen -, the rights of Arab citizens are much more restricted than those held by Jewish inhabitants of the region, not to mention the complete lack of rights of the non-citizen Arab.…”
Section: Discourse Classifications and The Postcolonialmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The inclusion of the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel in research studies and surveys is an expression of the process of democratization and expansion of the collective boundaries of Israeli society (Herzog 2000;Kimmerling 1993). However, as a result of the prolonged Arab-Israeli conflict, Arabs are still labeled as "others" within the Jewish nation-state (Peled 1992).…”
Section: Contexualizing the Israeli Casementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Their resistance to the socio-economic consequences of globalization further fuels their tendency to fragment Israeli society into ethnic sectors. It is argued that the three tendencies co-exist in the current historical situation (Peled, 1992;Ram, 1999). …”
Section: Social Space In Tel-aviv-jaffamentioning
confidence: 99%