Local Government in Israel

by Daniel J. Elazar and Chaim Kalchheim

This study offers the first comprehensive analysis of governmental structure and authority in Israel. Well known as a centralized state, Israel traces the roots of this conception of authority to the political culture the Jewish people have carried with them since the beginning of their history and the European concepts of state sovereignty drawn from Israel's founders. It shares with other new societies a conception of government as a contractual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819169390
• ISBN13: 9780819169396
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 460 Pages