Sammy Smooha (; born 1941) is a Professor of Sociology at the

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Biography

He is recipient of the

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. He specializes in comparative ethnic relations, and has researched the internal divisions in Israeli society, and the society of

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in comparative perspective. Smooha introduced the concept of

ethnic democracy The term ethnic democracy, as used by some political scientists, purports to describe a governance system that combines a structured ethnic dominance with democratic, political and civil rights for all. Both the dominant ethnic group—typically ...

, in a book published in 1989. Smooha contends that Israel is a model or archetypical ethnic democracy.S Smooha,
Ethnic democracy: Israel as an archetype
' Israel, 1997

Books

* Index of Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel 2004. Haifa: The Jewish-Arab Center,

; Jerusalem: The Citizens' Accord Forum between Jews and Arabs in Israel; Tel Aviv: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. 2005. * Autonomy for Arabs in Israel. Beit Berl: The Institute for Israeli Arab Studies, 1999, 143 pages. (Hebrew). * Arabs and Jews in Israel. Vol. 2: Change and Continuity in Mutual Intolerance. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1992. * Arabs and Jews in Israel. Vol. 1: Conflicting and Shared Attitudes in a Divided Society. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1989. * The Orientation and Politicization of the Arab Minority in Israel. Haifa: The Jewish-Arab Center, University of Haifa, 1984. * Israel: Pluralism and Conflict. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; Berkeley and Los Angeles:

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Press, 1978.

References

Israeli sociologists 1941 births Israel Prize in social sciences recipients Living people Academic staff of the University of Haifa {{Asia-sociologist-stub