Ernest Krausz - Politics and Society in Israel

POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN ISRAEL

Studies of Israeli Society

Volume III

POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN ISRAEL

Studies of Israeli Society

Volume III

Editor: Ernest Krausz, Bar-Ilan University

Assistant Editor: David Glanz, Bar-Ilan University

Editorial Board:

First published 1985 by Transaction Publishers

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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 79-93045

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(Revised for vol. Ill)

Main entry under title:

Studies of Israeli society.

Vol. 2: Editor, Ernest Krausz; assistant editor, David Glanz.

Includes bibliographies.

v. 1. Migration, ethnicity, and communityv. 2. The sociology of the kibbutzv. 3. Politics and society in Israel.

1. IsraelSocial and conditionsCollected works. 2. IsraelEmigration and immigrationCollected works. 3. IsraelEthnic relationsCollected works. 4. KibbutzimCollected works. 5. IsraelPolitics and governmentCollected works. I. Krausz, Ernest. II. Glanz, David.

HN660.A8S8330609569479-93045

ISBN 0-87855-369-X (v. 1)

ISBN 13: 978-0-87855-969-5 (pbk)

Contents

Karl W. Deutsch

Yonathan Shapiro

Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak

Daniel J. Elazar

Baruch Kimmerling

Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak

Asher Arian and Michal Shamir

Baruch Kimmerling

Charles S. Liebman and Eliezer Don-Yehiya

Donna Robinson Divine

Yael Yishai

Hanna Herzog

Menachem Friedman

Yonathan Shapiro

Erik Cohen

Sammy Smooha

Yoram Peri

Avi Gottlieb and Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar

S.N. Eisenstadt

David Glanz, assisted by Grace Hollander

The object of this series, as defined in the previous two volumes, is to identify the major themes of sociological research on Israeli society, and to gather the best material that has appeared in international scholarly journals and books in English. Such a selection of previously published articles, accompanied by original integrative essays, is intended to provide a review process of sociological research in the field, and to generate discussion, reassessment, and further research.

The selection of the topic for each volume has been guided by two principal criteria: (1) that the subject should be of considerable interest both for Israeli society and for social science, and (2) that a critical mass of literature on the topic be available, to provide a comprehensive view of the state of the art, and to facilitate a better understanding of Israeli society.

The current volume not only meets these desiderata but goes beyond that. A sociological view of political life in Israel demonstrates the links with other institutional facets of Israeli society, such as the class and ethnic factors at work; the ideological and religious dimensions in politics; the military variable; and so on. Since Israeli politics is of very wide interest, the special contribution of a sociological analysis is that it clarifies the important processes of change that have occurred in Israeli political life in the last decade, marked by the political upheaval (mahapach) of 1977; the Begin era; and the break in the national consensus since the 1982 war in Lebanon. This volume appears before the significance of the July 1984 election will be fully analyzed by social scientists. Nonetheless, we are confident that the volume will be useful in analyzing future developments in Israeli political life.

The volume contains a comprehensive bibliography, the first of its kind on the subject of politics and society in Israel, including some 500 items. We hope that this bibliography will serve as a significant resource for readers interested in studying the topic in greater depth.

The preparation and publication of this volume would not have been possible without the help of a number of organizations and individuals. First and foremost we are most grateful to the Schnitzer Foundation for Research on the Israeli Economy and Society, Bar-Ilan University, for its generous support in sponsoring this volume. We also wish to express our gratitude to the Sociology and Anthropology Department of Tel-Aviv University, which has provided the excellent facilities of the Israel Sociological Society. We wish to express our appreciation to members of the Editorial Board and especially to two individuals who invested a considerable amount of time and effort in the preparation of this volumeProfessor Elihu Katz (chairman of the Editorial Board) and Ruth Bokstein (secretary of the Israel Sociological Society). We thank Professor Yonathan Shapiro (chairman of the Israel Sociological Society), who wrote an original introductory essay, and whose guidance in the review and selection process of material for this volume was invaluable. We were also fortunate that two distinguished scholarsProfessor Karl W. Deutsch and Professor S.N. Eisenstadtagreed to write the introduction and the epilogue respectively. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the kind cooperation we received from the authors and publishers who permitted us to reprint their articles.

We also wish to gratefully acknowledge the following journals and publishers for permission to use previously published material:

Authority without Sovereignty: The Case of the National Centre of the Jewish Community in Palestine, Government and Opposition, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1973):48-71. Government and Opposition Ltd.

Israels Compound Polity, in Israel at the Polls, ed. Howard R. Pen- niman, 1979, pp. 138. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

The Reopening of the Frontiers, 1967-82, in Zionism and Territory, by Baruch Kimmerling, 1982, pp. 147-82. Institute for International Studies.

Ideological Dimension, in The Origins of the Israeli Polity, by Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak, 1978, pp. 120-56. The University of Chicago.

The Primarily Politicial Functions of the Left-Right Continuum, Comparative Politics, Vol. 15, No. 2 (1983): 139-58. The City University of New York.