Trouble in Utopia

Moshe Lissak, Dan Horowitz

Description

This book provides a thorough and detailed examination of Israeli institutions and how they function. It explains the decline in effectiveness of the government and the spread of cultural malaise in the Israel of the eighties. Horowitz and Lissak trace the integrative and disintegrative trends in Israel and show how a society that had laid the foundations for a cohesive Jewish nation-state became increasingly vulnerable to centrifugal forces.

The book not only reflects a broad and comprehensive approach, but also focuses on themes that cut across institutional structures, such as the weakening of social and political cohesion in an overburdened polity.
Preface

1. Introduction: Israel as a Social Laboratory

2. Israel as a Multi-Cleavage Society

3. Ideology and Political Culture

4. Government and Politics: From a Dominant Center to a Dual Center

5. Democracy and National Security in a Protracted Conflict

6. Israel at Forty: Utopia Impaired

Appendixes

Notes

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Index

Sujets

• Israel
• History of the Middle East

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438407081
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

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