Empirical Measurement of the Way in Which Israel’s Majority Government Makes its Fiscal Allotments to the Arab Minority：（实证测量的以色列的大多数政府财政分配的阿拉伯少数民族）.pdfVIP

Metodološki zvezki, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2010, 73-93 Fiscal Allotment Policy vis à vis Minorities: An Empirical Measurement of the Way in Which Israel’s Majority Government Makes its Fiscal Allotments to the Arab Minority Tal Shahor1 Abstract This paper examines government attitudes to minorities in multi- national countries. The aim is to present a procedure that empirically measures government attitude to the minority sector of the population on matters relating to fiscal allotments. The paper applies the proposed procedure to the current situation in Israel, and examines whether the Israeli Government, which is dominated by the Jewish majority, adopts a policy of affirmative action to benefit the Arab minority. The study will examine this question within the parameters of local government. The general trend evident in the results of this study shows an increase in fiscal allotments transferred to Arab sector local authorities. Furthermore, results show that in the years 2006 and 2007 there was no significant difference between Arab and Jewish local authorities in the same socio-economic characteristics and the same peripheral level. 1 Introduction In multi-national countries where one group dominates the government system, a question regarding the governments attitude to the minority may be raised. There is an important practical application to this question as psychologists have found that when a minority group feels (justifiably or not) that it is being subjected to discrimination, clinical responses