[PDF] Muting Israeli Democracy eBook

Author : Amit M. Schejter
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 2009-08-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780252076930

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The result of years of critical analysis of Israeli media law, this book argues that the laws governing Israeli electronic media are structured to limit the boundaries of public discourse. Amit M. Schejter posits the theory of a "mute democracy," one in which the media are designed to provide a platform for some voices to be heard over others. While Israel's institutions may be democratic, and while the effect of these policies may be limited, this book contends that free speech in Israel is institutionally muted to ensure the continued domination of the Jewish majority and its preferred interpretation of what Israel means as a Jewish-democratic state. Analyzing a wide range of legal documents recorded in Israel from 1961 to 2007, Muting Israeli Democracy demonstrates in scrupulous detail how law and policy are used to promote the hegemonic national culture through the constraints and obligations set on electronic media.

Author : Amit M. Schejter
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 025209235X

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The result of years of critical analysis of Israeli media law, this book argues that the laws governing Israeli electronic media are structured to limit the boundaries of public discourse. Amit M. Schejter posits the theory of a "mute democracy," one in which the media are designed to provide a platform for some voices to be heard over others. While Israel's institutions may be democratic, and while the effect of these policies may be limited, this book contends that free speech in Israel is institutionally muted to ensure the continued domination of the Jewish majority and its preferred interpretation of what Israel means as a Jewish-democratic state. Analyzing a wide range of legal documents recorded in Israel from 1961 to 2007, Muting Israeli Democracy demonstrates in scrupulous detail how law and policy are used to promote the hegemonic national culture through the constraints and obligations set on electronic media.

Author : Abraham Diskin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2003-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135759456

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This volume examines the challenges and circumstances Israel has faced during the 1990s and addresses both the public's and leadership's singular goal of "peace and security".

Author : Dahlia Scheindlin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3110796589

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A narrative chronicle of Israeli democracy that defines historic phases and follows thematic challenges to democracy, including: competition between religion and the rule of law; the statist society and chaotic minoritocracy; modern illiberal populism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The comprehensive portrait exposes endemic flaws of democracy in Israel, but also shows that Israel has considerable capacity – and responsibility – to fulfill the promise of democracy.

Author : Ami Pedahzur
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9780719063725

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Ami Pedahzur looks at the theoretical issue of how a democracy can defend itself from those wishing to subvert or destroy it without being required to take measures that would impinge upon the basic principles of the democratic idea. The text links social and institutional perspectives to the study, and includes a case study of the Israeli response to Jewish extremism and violence, which tests the theoretical framework outlined in the first chapter. There is an extensive diachronic scrutiny of the state's response to extremist political parties, violent organizations and the infrastructure of extremism and intolerance within Israeli society. The book emphasises the dynamics of the response and the factors which encourage or discourage the shift from less democratic and more democratic models of response.

Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 2023
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781685856465

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The authors explore the increasing ungovernmability of the Jewish state, its obsolete electoral system and cynical coalition politics, its overburdened judiciary, its stagnant economy, and related issues. While highly critical, they present the most comprehensive effort to date to provide a scholarly foundation for political reform in Israel.

Author : Nir Kedar
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0253057450

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In David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy, Nir Kedar offers a poignant study of the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel. Kedar provides an explication of the making of Israeli democracy in terms of its institutional-legal structures and social-cultural underpinnings. David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy connects the formal structures of democracy to the fundamental principles that they were constructed to serve—human freedom and dignity.

Author : Ido Dembin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
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Then, it researches the government's specific interest in crippling and limiting its influence. Finally, it highlights the government's toolbox and utilization thereof against it. By shining a light on this case, the research seeks to show the process of watering down of a fundamental right within Israeli democracy -which is instrumental to understanding the state's risk of decline towards illiberal democracy.