Policy Making in Israel: Routines for Simple Problems and Coping with the ComplexAll 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. Sharkansky’s analysis of the Israeli government’s 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. |
Contents
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2 Simple Problems Complex Problems and Insoluble Problems | 18 |
3 Israeli Government and Politics | 39 |
4 The Drama and Routine of Immigration | 71 |
5 Bringing Peace to the Middle East | 90 |
6 The Difficult Problems of Jerusalem | 115 |
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