The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled 9783110796582, 9783110796452
A narrative chronicle of Israeli democracy that defines historic phases and follows thematic challenges to democracy, in
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English Pages 277 [278] Year 2023
Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Contents
Section I Introduction
Section II Pre-State Zionism and the Tangled Roots of Democracy: Late Nineteenth Century to 1947
Section III Independence and the Least Democratic Decades, 1948 –66
Section IV Diverging Paths: Occupation, and Democratic Progress, 1967 –77; 1977 –92
Section V The Liberal Potential: 1992 –2009
Section VI Backlash: 2009–present
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
