The Crisis of Israel's Democracy, 19482025 by Ilan Peleg, Ru... - 9781666977127

The Crisis of Israel's Democracy, 19482025Origins, Developments, and Consequences\nAuthor(s): Ilan Peleg, Ruth Amir\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781666977127, 978-1666977127\nSynopsis\nThe Crisis of Israels Democracy, [tel]: Origins, Developments, and Consequences focuses on Israeli democracy, its deep historical origins, development over seven decades, long-term consequences, and possible resolutions. While most commentaries on Israels crisis focus on the proposals for judicial reform by the Netanyahu government, this study focuses on what it identifies as the fundamental problems of the Israeli regimeits ethnonational (rather than liberal-democratic) form, its lack of a written constitution undermines the countrys deeply divided society, the greatly dysfunctional relations between the secular majority and the sizeable Orthodox minority, and above all the seemingly permanent occupation of the Pal.