Jarring Road to Democratic Inclusion (eBook)

A Comparative Assessment of State-Society Engagements in Israel and Turkey

Yusuf Sarfati, Aviad Rubin (Herausgeber)

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2016
264 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2508-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This edited volume brings together that offer theoretically pertinent comparisons between various dimensions of Israeli and Turkish politics. Each chapter covers a different aspect of state–society interactions in both countries from a comparative perspective, including the public role of religion, political culture, women rights movements, religious education, religious movements, marriage regulation, labor market inclusion, and ethnic minorities.

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This edited volume brings together chapters that offer theoretically pertinent comparisons between various dimensions of Israeli and Turkish politics. Each chapter covers a different aspect of statesociety interactions in both countries from a comparative perspective, including the public role of religion, political culture, women rights movements, religious education, religious movements, marriage regulation, labor market inclusion, and ethnic minorities. Israel and Turkey share significant similarities, such as state formation under nationalist ideologies, familiarity with democratic governance since the 1940s, strong affiliation with the West, recent resurgence of religious parties, ongoing conflict with ethno-national minority groups that challenge the dominant national project, contemporary popular protests against the incumbent regime, and recent serious erosion of democratic rights. At the same time they differ on major variables, such as size, majority religion, geopolitical location, level of economic development, policy towards ethnic minorities, and institutional arrangements to managing the statereligion relations. The presence of these differences in face of common backgrounds facilitates analytically grounded comparisons in a host of dimensions. Therefore, employing a case-oriented comparative method, this book provides historically interpretative and causally analytic accounts on the politics of both societies. The contributions reveal the dynamic and complexrather than one-dimensional and linearnature of political processes in both settings. This empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated volume should contribute to a better understanding of these two important states, and, no less important, stimulate new directions for comparative research, especially on Middle East regimes, social movements, and democratization.

Autor

Aviad Rubin is associate professor in the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa.Yusuf Sarfati is associate professor of politics and government at Illinois State University.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction: Israel and Turkey in Comparative Perspective, Yusuf Sarfati and Aviad RubinChapter 2. Contesting the Religious in a (Secular) Democracy: A Comparative Assessment of the Theoretical, Judicial, and Political Approaches to the Public Role of Religion, Sultan TepeChapter 3. Political Mobilization through Religious Schooling: A Comparison of Ma’ayan schools in Israel and Imam Hatip Schools in Turkey, Yusuf SarfatiChapter 4. Challenges to the Religious-Political Establishment: The Cases of Anticapitalist Muslims in Turkey and Women of the Wall in Israel, Gözde ErdenizChapter 5. Comparative Trajectories of the Women’s Movement in Israel and Turkey: Transforming Policy and Agendas in Divided Societies, Canan Aslan AkmanChapter 6. Dominant vs. Hegemonic Tendencies as Critical Features in Israel’s and Turkey’s Political Cultures, Aviad RubinChapter 7. Elections 2015: Israel and Turkey—the Joint List and the HDP, Louis FishmanChapter 8. Marriage Regulation in Israel and Turkey: The Interplay between Institutional Dynamics and Public Preferences, Niva Golan-NadirChapter 9. On the Margins of Social Citizenship: Turkish Women in Germany and Palestinian Women in Israel, Inna Michaeli

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.8.2016
• Co-Autor: Canan Aslan Akman, Gozde Erdeniz, Louis Fishman, Niva Golan-Nadir, Inna Michaeli, Aviad Rubin, Yusuf Sarfati, Sultan Tepe
• Zusatzinfo: 5 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations; - 3 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: comparative politics • Democracy • Democratization • Identity politics • Inclusion • Israel • Middle East • Middle Eastern Studies • Political Science • Social Movements • state-society • Turkey
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-2508-3 / 1498525083
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-2508-4 / 9781498525084