Israels Governability Crisis

This book examines Israeli strategies of adapting to a crisis of governability brought on by institutional stagnation. The book uses a new theory emphasizing the role of policy entrepreneurs in political institutions, and ultimately offers a method of electoral reform to address systemic maladies in the Israeli political system.

List of contents

1. An Alternative Model of Governability: The Heresthetic of Preferences and Veto Points
2. Israel's Political Institutions and Policy Dimensions¿ a Prelude for a Crisis
3. Israel's Governability Crisis: Sources and Consequences
4. Cabinet Compositions and Duration: Israeli Governments 1949-2015
5. Agenda Gate-Keeping and the Power of the Chair: Policy Making in Israeli Knesset Committees
6. Bureaucratic Agenda Control and Political leadership in Policy Design
7. Policy Implementation: The Reprisal of Political Agenda Control
8. So where is the Problem? The Drorian High-Order Tasks

About the author

By Maoz Rosenthal

Summary

This book examines Israeli strategies of adapting to a crisis of governability brought on by institutional stagnation. The book uses a new theory emphasizing the role of policy entrepreneurs in political institutions, and ultimately offers a method of electoral reform to address systemic maladies in the Israeli political system.

Product details

• Authors: Maoz Rosenthal, Rosenthal Maoz
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781498513418
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1341-8
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Israel, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, International Relations, Political structure & processes, Political ideologies and movements, Political structure and processes