Language:
שפה נוכחית
Sign in with Google
Sign in with Facebook
The Only Contemporary and Comprehensive Text that Offers Students a Framework for Understanding Israel's Past and Present Politics.
| Title |
Politics in Israel : governing a complex society / Brent E. Sasley and Harold M. Waller. |
|---|---|
| Contributors |
Waller, Harold M. (author) |
| Publisher |
New York : Oxford University Press |
| Creation Date |
[2017] |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-326) and index. |
| Content |
1. Israel in historical and comparative perspective -- pt. I. Historical processes -- Chronology of key events in Israel's history, 1882-2015 -- 2. Zionism and the origins of Israel -- Jewish history before Zionism -- The Jewish predicament in the Nineteenth Century -- The founding of the Zionist Movement -- Zionist ideologies -- The Palestine Mandate -- 3. Yishuv politics during the Mandate period -- Constructing a Jewish society -- Development of a party system -- Conflict between Arabs and Jews in Mandatory Palestine -- Deteriorating Zionist-British relations -- The end of the Mandate -- The Mandate Period in perspective -- 4. State building after 1948 -- Mamlachtiut -- The political arena -- Defense -- Education -- Economy -- Personal status issues -- Other state-building efforts -- pt. II. Israeli society -- 5. Political culture and demography -- The pre-state period -- Foundational values of the state -- Changes since 1967 - From collectivism to individualism -- Political culture in the Arab community -- Demography -- 6. Religion and politics -- Religion and the idea of a Jewish state -- Setting the parameters of the religion-state relationship -- Growing involvement in politics -- Issues in religion-state relations after 2000 -- Religious parties and coalition politics -- 7. The politics of the Arab minority -- What's in a name? -- Changing politics of the community -- Jewish attitudes toward the Arab minority -- Arab leaders and the Arab public -- Voter turnout -- Sayed Kashua as barometer? -- pt. III. The political process -- 8. The electoral system -- The development of the electoral system -- Election laws -- Parties and lists -- Electoral reforms -- 9. Political parties and the party system -- Party clusters -- Leftist parties -- Rightist parties -- Religious parties -- Arab parties -- Center or "third" parties -- Ethnic or special issue parties -- Party organization -- 10. Voting patterns -- Four main issues -- Demographic factors -- Voter turnout -- Electoral trends -- 11. Interest groups and political protest -- Changing access in the Israeli political system -- Interest groups -- Political protest -- pt. IV. Institutions -- 12. The Knesset -- Structure of the Knesset -- Legal aspects -- Knesset members -- Functions and powers of the Knesset -- Relationship to the government -- 13. The government -- The government at the center of the system -- Powers of the government -- Forming a government -- Maintaining and running a government -- Relations with the Knesset -- The President of the State -- 14. The judiciary and the development of constitutional law -- The judicial system -- Structure of the court system -- The religious court system -- The Attorney General -- Basic laws : a constitution in the making? -- Interpreting the constitution -- pt. V. Politics and policymaking -- 15. Political economy -- Ideas about economic development in the Yishuv -- A state(ist) economy -- Likud and the free market -- Structural weaknesses -- 16. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- Three levels of threat perception -- Israel's threat environment -- Hawks and doves in the political system -- The defense establishment -- Public opinion -- pt. VI The transformation of Israeli politics -- 17. The changing Israeli political arena -- An economic transformation -- Transformation of the security situation -- The Israeli-Palestinian relationship -- Dampening of ideology -- Political culture and the party system -- The passing of a heroic generation -- A more consequential Arab sector -- Transformation of the judiciary -- Change versus continuity -- 18. Confronting the meaning of Jewish state -- The political question : what is Jewish and democratic? -- The social question : who belongs? -- The academic question : whose historiography? |
| Extent |
xxi, 345 pages : illustrations. |
| Language |
English |
| Copyright Date |
©2017 |
| National Library system number |
990041022630205171 |
תנאי השימוש:
Prohibition of copying
It may be prohibited to copy and use of the item for purposes of reproduction, publication, distribution, public performance, broadcasting, dissemination via the internet or by any other means, and creating a derivative work of the item (for example, translation, modification or adaptation) in any form or by any means, including digital or analog media, without prior agreement of the copyright owner and/or the owner of the collection.
To check the use of an item, please complete the Inquiry for Copyright form.
Additional information: The item may be subject to copyright and/or terms of agreement.
If you believe that there is an error in the information above, or in case of any concern of copyright infringement in connection with this item, contact us using the Inquiry for Copyright form.
MARC RECORDS
Have more information? Found a mistake?
