Jewish State - A Century Later, Updated With a New Preface

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List of contents

LIST OF MAPS AND TABLES 
PREFACE TO PAPERBACK EDITION 
PREFACE 

PART I · THE SHAPING OF ISRAELI DEMOCRACY
1. Democracy in Israel
2. Jewish Politics
3. The Zionist Revolution
4. Building a Civic State
5. The Filter of Security 
6. The Erosion of Ideology 

PART II · CHALLENGES TO ISRAELI DEMOCRACY
7. The Communal Split 
8. Religion and Politics
9. Arabs in Israel 
10. The Impact of the West Bank and Gaza 

EPILOGUE 
NOTES 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
INDEX 

About the author

Alan Dowty is Professor of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Fellow at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. His earlier books include Middle East Crisis (California, 1984) and Closed Borders: The Contemporary Assault on Freedom of Movement (1987).

Summary

Elucidates the broad cluster of cultural, historical, and ideological tenets which came to comprise Israel's contemporary political system. This book demonstrates that such tenets were not arbitrary but in fact developed logically from Jewish political habits and the circumstances of time.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Dowty
• Assisted by: Alan Dowty (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2001
• EAN: 9780520229112
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22911-2
• No. of pages: 371
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Israel, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Constitution: government & the state, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Constitution: government and the state, Social groups: religious groups and communities