Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | This article tests another theoretical approach to deconstruct the processes leading to the imposition of security policies in the parliament. Drawing on the notion of referential developed by Muller, the article argues that security laws are an arena of struggle between referentials of political regime, which both shape and are shaped in the discursive competition. More specifically, it shows through an analysis of citizenship laws passed in the name of security in Israel that three referentials have competed in the debates: a majoritarian democracy, an ethnocratic regime and a universal democracy referentials. Ultimately, it demonstrates that the laws presented in the name of security were passed as a result of the imposition of a majoritarian referential of the polity that was compatible with the ethnocratic referential. It also shows how, by imposing itself, the majoritarian referential has been reshaped hence turning the majoritarian democracy into a conditional democracy. |
