Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 89-105
Keywords:
Democracy Evaluation
;
Judaism and state History 20th century
;
Arab-Israeli conflict
;
Israel Politics and government
Abstract:
Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic? If Jewishness is seen properly as ethnicity, Israeli democracy should be judged by the same standards as other nation-states. The Jewish community in Palestine, and later Israel, faced serious objective difficulties in democratization but drew on a traditional Jewish politics that emphasized voluntary consent and inclusion. Standard rankings of states on a democracy scale have consistently classified Israel as a democracy, if sometimes a flawed one. The relative weaknesses of this democracy, in both external and internal analysis, appear in freedom of expression, freedom of association, equality before the law, and judicial constraints on the executive. In practice, most of these problem areas are related to the Arab–Israeli conflict and the status of Israel’s Arab citizens.
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190675585.013.6_update_001
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