Policing Citizens

Guy Ben-Porat is Professor and Department Chairperson at the Department of Politics and Government at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is the author of Global Liberalism, Local Populism (2006), which won the Ernst-Otto Czempiel Award of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, and Between State and Synagogue (Cambridge, 2012), which was awarded the Shapiro Best Book Award and the Israeli Political Science Association Best Book Award. Fany Yuval is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Policy and Administration at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Her research focuses on municipal systems, management strategies and policy instruments, organizational behaviour and public opinion in municipalities, with a particular interest in gender and minorities. Supported by the Ministry of Science in Israel, she recently led a project researching the role played by municipalities in reducing gender inequality.

• Introduction. Policing citizens; 1. Theoretical Framework; 2. Police and policing in Israel; 3. Arab citizens: national minority and police; 4. The skin color effect: police and the Jews of Ethiopian descent; 5. The religious factor: ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim); 6. Integration and citizenship: Russian immigrants; Conclusions.

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