Last Days in Israel - Understanding the New Israeli Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Abraham Diskin Klappentext This volume examines the challenges and circumstances Israel has faced during the 1990s and addresses both the public's and leadership's singular goal of "peace and security". Zusammenfassung This volume examines the challenges and circumstances Israel has faced during the 1990s and addresses both the public's and leadership's singular goal of "peace and security". Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Basic Problems and Basic Objectives: The Basic Social Dilemma and Israeli Democracy 1. The Jewish State: Demography and the Legal Norm 2. The Security Equation: Motivation and Means 3. Social and Political Polarization: Democracy, Jewishness, Security and Peace Part 2: The Constitutional Revolution and the Breakdown of Balances between the Branches of Government: The Judiciary - "Make us a king to judge us" 4. The Legislative and the Executive: The Courage to Repent before the Fall Part 3: The Party Map: Roots and Development, 1949-92 5. The New Party Map, 1996-99 6. The Power of the Political Centre Part 4: Days of Storm and Stress: From Rabin to Peres - "Yes to peace - no to violence" 7. From Peres to Netanyahu: The Shifting Sands of Parity 8. The Netanyahu Government: In the Absence of Checks and Balances 9. The 1999 Elections 10. The Barak Government: From Dilemma to Dilemma 11. The Sharon Government Part 5: Conclusion: Solutions in the Absence of a Solution

Product details

• Authors: Abraham Diskin, Diskin Abraham
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2003
• EAN: 9780714654218
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-5421-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society; Cass Series--Israeli History,; Israeli History, Politics and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Middle East, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies