Is the Party Over? How Israel Lost Its Social Agenda Paperback BOOK jewish

Description: NEW/UNREAD - HOWEVER SOME MINOR SHELF-WEAR FROM WAREHOUSE STORAGE. Purchased at a local Amazon warehouse sale.Ideology is a real force in modern politics; it is not something ethereal and detached from reality. This book, inspired by the call for a return to examine the role that ideas play in politics -- as Michael Freeden, Mark Blyth, Daniel Beland, and others have advocated--builds on this basic assumption in discussing the ideology of Israel's Labor Party.In the period 1965-77, Mapai and its successor, the Labor Party, maintained a clear ideological line on social matters, despite growing conflict within the party's apparatus and clashing policy demands. Contrary to various claims questioning the party's primary motives and ideological consistency, an evaluation of it's social policy reveals that the party maintained clear goals and pursed them vigorously, in the face of massive demographic changes and unrelenting security pressures that drained the country's resources and demanded attention be directed elsewhere. As the party disintegrated from an organizational standpoint, it lost ability to realize its own aims. Moreover, due to the growing tendency to focus on security and foreign affairs, and in part because social policies were pursued so persistently and over such a long period of time, the electorate lost interest in them. Thus, ironically, the period in which social policy was most developed prepared the way for its later curtailment--or, to paraphrase, socialism contained the seeds to its own destruction. SEE OUR OTHER ITEMS UP FOR SALE. WE WILL OFFER COMBINED SHIPPING UPON REQUEST.

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