Ayelet Harel-Shalev is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

The Challenge of Sustaining Democracy in Deeply Divided Societies: Citizenship, Rights, and Ethnic Conflicts in India and Israel by Ayelet Harel-Shalev explores the inherent tension between the conflicting logics of democracy, citizenship, and nation-state. Majority-minority relations are comparatively explicated by analyzing and theorizing the practices democracies utilize to allocate legal rights to minorities while limiting their share in power. The discourse of legal rights offers minorities empowerment while simultaneously limiting their access to national power; it also functions as a political formula that enables such states to survive while sustaining a democratic process in the face of ethno-religious conflicts.

1 Preface 2 Acknowledgements Part 3 I. A Conceptual Framework Chapter 4 1.Democracy in deeply divided societies: Theoretical and comparative aspects Part 5 II. Disaggregating Citizenship in Deeply Divided Societies-Empirical and Analytical findings Chapter 6 2.The Formative Years-A Base to Majority-Minority Relations in Deeply Divided Societies Chapter 7 3.Public and Judicial Policy toward the Minority Throughout 60 years of Independence Chapter 8 4.Placing the Comparison in a Broader Context-Democracies That Did Not Survive Part 9 III. Comparative and Theoretical Findings Chapter 10 5.Conclusions-he Fate of Democracy In Deeply Divided Societies 11 Bibliography 13 About the Author