Review: "The Challenge of Ethnic Democracy. The State and Minority Groups in Israel, Poland and Northern Ireland" / Yoav Peled. London: Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 9780415664219

Abstract

Yoav Peled's book brings again into international academia an almost forgotten concept of ethnic democracy. After a theoretical introduction reviewing the concept, Peled examines if ethnic democracy could be found in three cases: Northern Ireland (co-authored by Natalie Kosoi), interwar Poland, and Israel. He uses the case studies also "to offer a critical reexamination of the conditions for the consolidation and stability of ethnic democracy" (p. 1).