"While under military rule and in the absence of sovereignty, what does self-government look like? Mayors in the Middle combines original, fine-grained data and rich, qualitative evidence to show how Israel's exclusive annexation of the West Bank has shaped Palestinian politics at the local level. More broadly, this book uses the West Bank - a territory, only slightly larger than the state of Delaware, that Israel has militarily occupied since 1967 but where, since 1994, it has delegated certain governing tasks to the ...
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"While under military rule and in the absence of sovereignty, what does self-government look like? Mayors in the Middle combines original, fine-grained data and rich, qualitative evidence to show how Israel's exclusive annexation of the West Bank has shaped Palestinian politics at the local level. More broadly, this book uses the West Bank - a territory, only slightly larger than the state of Delaware, that Israel has militarily occupied since 1967 but where, since 1994, it has delegated certain governing tasks to the Palestinian Authority - to develop a theory of how indirect rule shapes local governance within indigenous communities. Diana Greenwald argues that local officials in Palestine learn to balance full cooperation with Israeli government with small acts of resistance and local leadership, minimizing their involvement with unpopular governance tasks like taxing and policing while avoiding drawing too much attention from overall Israeli authorities in their handling of local disputes. This book is both a novel study of Palestinian local politics and a rich addition to the study of stateless governance more generally"--
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