TY - JOUR
T1 - Failed peace and the decline in liberalism in Israel
T2 - A spiral model
AU - Feinstein, Yuval
AU - Ben-Eliezer, Uri
N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by the FP7 Ideas: European Research Council, Marie Currie Career Reintegration [grant number 618140]. Publisher Copyright: © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2019/10/20
Y1 - 2019/10/20
N2 - Illiberal democracies that include ultra-nationalist elements have become more common across the globe, and often go hand-in-hand with conflict and war. Most prior studies have proposed a single direction of causality such that insecurity and violence lead to the spread of illiberal political culture and the rise of illiberal political elements. In contrast, we propose a spiral process in which illiberal elements are not only the product of insecurity and violence, but are also among the main drivers of these conditions. We illustrate this spiral model using the rapid transformation of Israel’s democracy from peace-prone liberalism to hawkish illiberalism.
AB - Illiberal democracies that include ultra-nationalist elements have become more common across the globe, and often go hand-in-hand with conflict and war. Most prior studies have proposed a single direction of causality such that insecurity and violence lead to the spread of illiberal political culture and the rise of illiberal political elements. In contrast, we propose a spiral process in which illiberal elements are not only the product of insecurity and violence, but are also among the main drivers of these conditions. We illustrate this spiral model using the rapid transformation of Israel’s democracy from peace-prone liberalism to hawkish illiberalism.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2018.1434595
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2018.1434595
M3 - Article
SN - 1362-9395
VL - 24
SP - 568
EP - 591
JO - Meditteranean Politics
JF - Meditteranean Politics
IS - 5
ER -
