Trouble in Utopia: The Overburdened Polity of Israel

by Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak

Book Overview

This book provides a thorough and detailed examination of Israeli institutions and how they function. It explains the decline in effectiveness of the government and the spread of cultural malaise in the Israel of the eighties. Horowitz and Lissak trace the integrative and disintegrative trends in Israel and show how a society that had laid the foundations for a cohesive Jewish nation-state became increasingly vulnerable to centrifugal forces.

The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791401146
• ISBN13: 9780791401149
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"