Trouble in Utopia
The Overburdened Polity of Israel
Moshe Lissak author Dan Horowitz author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:State University of New York Press
Published:5th Oct '89
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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 book not only reflects a broad and comprehensive approach, but also focuses on themes that cut across institutional structures, such as the weakening of social and political cohesion in an overburdened polity.
At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dan Horowitz is Professor of Political Science and Sociology and Moshe Lissak is Professor of Sociology. They are co-authors of Origins of the Israeli Polity, and each has written other books.
ISBN: 9780791401149
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
Weight: 544g
357 pages