Abstract
Two political peculiarities distinguish Israel from many democratic states. First, it rests on a duality of being both a liberal democratic state under the rule of law and the homeland of one exclusive ethnic group that rules militarily over another ethnic group. Other states with separate ethnic groups have managed to reconcile this contradiction by creating separate polities and territories for the group segregated from the political system, but Israel has never systematically implemented such a system. Leaving the ethnic conflict unresolved fosters a coexistence of several civic incorporation regimes in one society or anethnocracy, a regime motivated to
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Taking Stock |
Subtitle of host publication | Cultures Of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 114-140 |
Number of pages | 27 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780253020574 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780253020475 |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |