Wildfire - Grassroots Revolts in Israel in the Post-Socialist Era

Wildfire is a wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary study of the "other side" of Israeli public life. Because the governmental service systems work poorly, and political protest has proved to be largely ineffective, the Israeli public has begun to take matters into their own hands, in effect creating numerous "alternative" service systems in almost all spheres of life.
Lehman-Wilzig describes this phenomenon and analyzes the impact of the most important alternative systems: illegal settlement activity, a huge underground economy, pirate cable TV stations, "gray" education, Black medicine, anti-religious as well as anti-secular activity, and a growing demand for electoral reform and constitutionalization of the Israeli polity.

About the author

Sam N. Lehman-Wilzig is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University, and is Chairman of the Institute for Journalism and Public Communications. He is co-editor of Comparative Jewish Politics: Public Life in Israel and the Diaspora, and author of Stiff-Necked People, Bottle-Necked System: The Evolution and Roots of Israeli Public Protest, 1949-1986.

Product details

• Authors: Sam Lehman-Wilzig
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.1992
• EAN: 9780791408728
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0872-8
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 281 g
• Series: Suny Series in Israeli Studies; SUNY series in Israeli Studies; Suny Israeli Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education