Politics and Government in Israel

Gregory S. Mahler is Academic Dean Emeritus and Research Professor of Politics at Earlham College. Reuven Y. Hazan is Chair in Israeli Democracy and Politics and Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. The Political Settingby Gregory S. Mahler 1. History and the Creation of Israel2. Zionism, Population, Judaism, and the Domestic Political Environment3. The Military, Economic, Bureaucratic, and Local SettingII. The Government Institutionsby Reuven Y. Hazan 4. Parliamentary Government and the Constitutional Setting5. Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches and Relations6. Elections and Voting7. Political Parties and Civil Society8. Democracy in IsraelIII. Foreign Policy and the Middle Eastern Political Settingby Gregory S. Mahler 9. The Foreign Policy Setting10. The Palestinians, the West Bank and Gaza, and Jerusalem11. The Peace ProcessNotesIndexAbout the Authors

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