Minority Arab voting: village dynamics and electoral observations in Israel

摘要: For all the novelty of a democratizing “Arab Spring”, there have long been pockets in Middle East where Arabic-speaking voters gone to polls competitive elections, albeit as minority citizens. This article sheds light on such voting at grassroots level, Israel, passions are intense even issues and candidates local. Contradictions between Western notions electoral democracy power Arab extended family (hamula) result what we call “electoral hamulism”. Unexamined heretofore scholarly literature variability polling station openness methodology observation world. Also underappreciated psycho-cultural consequences loss. Overall, takes up Valbjorn’s for “meta-study” analysis “self-reflective” rethinking study politics.