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Policy making in Israel : routines for simple problems and coping with the complex

Ira Sharkansky

(Pitt series in policy and institutional studies)

University of Pittsburgh Press, c1997

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction
  • Simple problems, complex problems, and insoluble problems
  • Israeli government and politics
  • The drama and routine of immigration
  • Bringing peace to the Middle East
  • The difficult problems of Jerusalem
  • Insoluble religious disputes among the Jews
  • Another look at problems, routines, and coping mechanisms

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780822939849

Description

This analysis of the Israeli government's ability to address problems, looks at the specific issues of: large-scale immigration; Israel-Arab disputes and the Middle East peace process; Jerusalem; and disputes between religious and secular Jews concerning the role of religion in the state.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780822956334

Description

All governments face problems and are judged by their ability to solve them and the policies they develop in doing so. Compared with other Western democracies, Israel has faced a devastating number of problems of unusual severity in a relatively short time: war, terrorism, heavy immigration, unsettled boundaries, economic stresses, internal disputes about ethnicity and religion, and the lingering scars of the Holocaust and other persecutions. SharkanskyAEs analysis of the Israeli governmentAEs routines and methods for coping with such an array of difficulties, from simple to complex to intractable, offers general insights into how governments make policy in a democracy.

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