Professionals against populism : the Peres government and democracy /

Professionals against populism : the Peres government and democracy /

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Author / Creator:	Keren, Michael.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1995.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 147 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in Israeli studies SUNY series in Israeli studies.
Subject:	Peres, Shimon, -- 1923-2016. Peres, Shimon, -- 1923-2016 Populism -- Israel. Democracy -- Israel. Technology and state -- Israel. Democracy. Politics and government Populism. Technology and state. Israel -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Israel. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11104547

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ISBN:	0585045976 9780585045979 0791425649 0791425630 9780791425640 9780791425633 9781438408781 1438408781 9781438408781 0791425630 9780791425633
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Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-141) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Keren, Michael. Professionals against populism. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1995 0791425649
Standard no.:	9780791425633

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Knowledge and Democracy
3. Law and Security
4. In Quest of Moderation
5. The Social Contract
6. Conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index