Shared
Society
Index
The concept of a shared society and its accompanying practices come to replace the idea of “coexistence.”
While the latter emphasizes accommodations between groups in conflict, the former seeks to build a more equal society in which everyone feels at home across different spheres of life.
Sharing the concern about harm to national resilience resulting from divisions within society and with a desire to promote levels of cooperation and partnership between different groups, for the purpose of creating a more cohesive and resilient society.
One of the goals of the Frieze Center is to develop a Shared Society Index, which will serve as an important tool in advancing these objectives.
The Index will examine the challenges involved in implementing the principles of a shared society in a context of diversity. Through regular measurement, it will seek to hold up a mirror to social and institutional realities and indicate where action is needed in order to promote practices that support a shared society.
The goal of
the Frieze Center
from government policy and institutional practice to everyday modes of conduct and shifts in civic consciousness. The Index will monitor and accompany the functioning of public institutions over the coming year, at both the national and local levels. Its purpose is to serve as a supportive and guiding factor for implementing changes in policy and its application, as indicated by the results of the Index.
Method
of action
The Index will provide a broad analytical foundation, mapping comprehensively the key challenges involved in building a shared society, from which the emphases of measurement are derived.
The Index rests on three foundations, which serve as building blocks for a comprehensive examination of the concept of a shared society:
The institutional-organizational level
comprehensive examination of the ways in which state organizations and public institutions implement principles of a shared society in their routine work, including legislation, governance, administration, and the judicial system.
The performative level
the extent to which the performance of policy systems as well as civil society, formal and informal, translates the principles of a shared society into everyday practice, or conversely contributes to increased polarization within society.
The
perceptual level
the extent to which there exists a consciousness of a shared society or an aspiration to advance its principles, exists among citizens: the extent to which citizens feel that principles of a shared society are implemented to their satisfaction, and the importance they attribute to advancing shared society values.
The Index will examine each of the building blocks across several spheres simultaneously: local-municipal, regional-spatial, and national-state levels.
The Index will provide a broad analytical foundation, mapping comprehensively the key challenges involved in building a shared society, from which the emphases of measurement are derived.
The Index rests on three foundations, which serve as building blocks for a comprehensive examination of the concept of a shared society:
The
institutional-
organizational
level
comprehensive examination of the ways in which state organizations and public institutions implement principles of a shared society in their routine work, including legislation, governance, administration, and the judicial system.
The
performative level
the extent to which the performance of policy systems as well as civil society, formal and informal, translates the principles of a shared society into everyday practice, or conversely contributes to increased polarization within society.
The
perceptual
level
the extent to which there exists a consciousness of a shared society or an aspiration to advance its principles, exists among citizens: the extent to which citizens feel that principles of a shared society are implemented to their satisfaction, and the importance they attribute to advancing shared society values.
The Index will examine each of the building blocks across several spheres simultaneously: local-municipal, regional-spatial, and national-state levels.