OCCUPATIONs AND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOR A PALESTINIAN STATE (Paperback)

The forces that shape administrative structures include the goals and objectives of minority and majority groups, modern management principles, and a legacy or history in which domestic political factions have gradually accepted rules and roles for mutual tolerance and inclusion. However, this process can be muted or redefined in societies where centuries of occupation and dispersion "short- circuit" maturation processes and introduce non- indigenous systems externally imposed without any level of popular acceptance or active citizenship participation. This theoretical framework guides this study and its effort to proscribe appropriate local government institutions for Palestine. Palestine - in the modern era - emerges from centuries of externally imposed governance systems used by the Ottoman Empire, the British government, Egypt, Jordan, and Israel. In addition, many of Palestine's leaders came to maturity as part of a Diaspora in Western and Islamic countries. As a result, the usual dichotomy between politics and administration has never been applicable at any point in Palestine's recent history including its administrative systems.