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Author Keren, Michael

Title Professionals against Populism : the Peres Government and Democracy
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (173 pages)
Series SUNY Series in Israeli Studies
SUNY series in Israeli studies.
Contents ""Front Matter""; ""Front Cover""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table Of Contents""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Contents""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""KNOWLEDGE AND DEMOCRACY""; ""LAW AND SECURITY""; ""IN QUEST OF MODERATION""; ""THE SOCIAL CONTRACT""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Back Matter""; ""THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT OF 1984""; ""DISTRIBUTION OF KNESSET SEATS IN 1984*""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""Back Cover""
Summary Annotation This book, based on Shimon Peres's private papers, tells the unusual story of the Peres government of 1984-1986 in Israel. It is the story of an unpopular politician, demonized by his political enemies, who operates under great time restraints to manage a pluralistic democracy losing ground to enchanted masses in public squares. Lacking support from his own national unity government, Peres reverted to his old-time alliance with Israel's technocrats in his combat against populism. Michael Keren analyzes the role of legal professionals, strategic experts, and economists in the three main events of the Peres era: the scandal over the killing of two Arab terrorists by the General Security Service; the efforts to renew the peace process in the Middle East after the Lebanon war; and the economic stabilization program of 1985. The analysis illumines Israel's hitherto unexplored technocratic stratum and its ongoing struggle over Israel's nature as an advanced industrial state. This stratum, the author contends, has,been the moving force behind the construction of the nuclear reactor in Dimona in the 1960s, the combat against populism in the 1980s, and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process of today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-141) and index
Notes English
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Subject Peres, Shimon, 1923-2016.
SUBJECT Peres, Shimon, 1923-2016 fast
Subject Democracy -- Israel
Populism -- Israel
Technology and state -- Israel
Democracy
Politics and government
Populism
Technology and state
SUBJECT Israel -- Politics and government -- 1967-1993. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96011903
Subject Israel
Form Electronic book
LC no. 95011831
ISBN 9781438408781
1438408781
0585045976
9780585045979