Wildfire : grassroots revolts in Israel in the post-socialist era / Sam N. Lehman-Wilzig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehman-Wilzig, Sam N.

Series:

SUNY Series in Israeli Studies

SUNY series in Israeli studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--Israel.

Political participation.

Israel--Politics and government--1967-1993.

Israel.

Israel--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 198 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wildfire is a wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary study of the "other side" of Israeli public life. Because the governmental service systems work poorly, and political protest has proved to be largely ineffective, the Israeli public has begun to take matters into their own hands, in effect creating numerous "alternative" service systems in almost all spheres of life.Lehman-Wilzig describes this phenomenon and analyzes the impact of the most important alternative systems: illegal settlement activity, a huge underground economy, pirate cable TV stations, "gray" education, Black medicine, anti-religious as well as anti-secular activity, and a growing demand for electoral reform and constitutionalization of the Israeli polity.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Content""; ""Part I: Background""; ""The Spark: Zionism, Socialism, and Governmental Paternalism""; ""Rotting Timbers: The Decay of the Establishment""; ""Brushfires: Early Grassroots Awakenings""; ""Part II: Issues""; ""National Security: Settling Scores""; ""Economy: Blue and Black""; ""Communications: The Mess Media Revolt""; ""Health: A Hemorrhaging System""; ""Education: School Is Out""; ""Religion and State: Holy Wars""

""Constitution-Making: Founding Sons"" ""Part III: Conclusions""; ""Potential Grassroots Fires""; ""Conflagration? Fireproofing the System""; ""Loyalty, Voice, and ltex It: A Theory of Alter-Politics""; ""Between Past and Future: Israel's Grassroots Revolts in Historical Cross-Comparative Perspective""; ""Back Matter""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Back Matter""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-185) and index.

ISBN:

9781438410395

1438410395

OCLC:

1476162226