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Segregation versus integration of public service communities in Jerusalem
Author(s) -
Azmon Yael
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
public administration and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1099-162X
pISSN - 0271-2075
DOI - 10.1002/pad.4230080308
Subject(s) - unification , ethnic group , state (computer science) , social welfare , welfare state , public service , welfare , public administration , sociology , political science , political economy , law , politics , algorithm , computer science , programming language
There is a trend in the welfare state which pushes towards unification of public services. The situation described here is the existence of separate public services, alongside each other, not only in the same state but also in the same city. Social divisions and cleavages not only reflect different cultural and social identities, but also rest on such concrete realities as the segregated supply of public services which creates dependency on community institutions. The use of separate public services as a means of nurturing cultural and social separatism is markedly characteristic of two communities in Jerusalem: the Arabs and the Ultra‐orthodox Jews. In addition to a description of some of the public services in these two communities this paper offers an explanation for the perpetuation and the exacerbation of religious and ethnic or national cleavages.