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The Politics of Regime Structure Reform in Democracies

Israel in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective

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The Politics of Regime Structure Reform in Democracies

Israel in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective

By: Gideon Rahat

This book examines the success or failure of initiatives aimed at reforming regime structures in democracies, particularly their electoral and government systems. Through a comparative analysis of the several attempts at this type of reform in Israel over more than four decades, Gideon Rahat begins with the failed attempts at electoral reform in the 1970s and 1980s. He then analyzes Israel's successful attempt at promoting government system reform from 1988 to 1992. Finally, he compares the Israeli cases to cases of electoral reform in New Zealand, Japan, and Italy in the 1990s. While the book focuses on the Israeli cases, it places Israel within a comparative framework and makes an important contribution to the debate concerning the politics behind regime structure reform.

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Democracy within Parties

Candidate Selection Methods and Their Political Consequences

By: Reuven Y. Hazan,Gideon Rahat

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Democracy within Parties

Candidate Selection Methods and Their Political Consequences

By: Reuven Y. Hazan,Gideon Rahat

Can too much participation harm democracy? Democratic theory places great importance upon the conduct of elections, but it is not often recognized that the electoral game takes place in two arenas, not only between parties but also within them. This pioneering book presents a new approach to understanding political parties. It sheds light on the inner dynamics of party politics and offers the first comprehensive analysis of one of the most important processes any party undertakes - its process of candidate selection. Candidate selection methods are the mechanisms by which a party chooses its candidates for the general elections. It may be the function that separates parties from other organizations. For such an important function, this field has certainly faced a dearth of serious investigation. Hazan and Rahat, the leading scholars on this topic, conduct an in-depth analysis of the consequences of different candidate selection methods on democracy. This book is a culmination of almost two decades of research and defines the field of candidate selection. Part I of the book delineates candidate selection methods based on four major dimensions: candidacy; the selectorate; decentralization; and voting versus appointment systems. Part II analyses the political consequences of using different candidate selection methods according to four important aspects of democracy: participation; representation; competition; and responsiveness. The book ends with a proposed candidate selection method that optimally balances all four of the democratic aspects concurrently, and answers the question 'Is the most participatory candidate selection method necessarily the best one for democracy?' Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr The General Editor is Professor David M. Farrell, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin.

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The Politics of Regime Structure Reform in Democracies

Israel in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective

By: Gideon Rahat

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Israel in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective

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From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?

Party Change and Political Personalization in Democracies

By: Gideon Rahat,Ofer Kenig

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Party Change and Political Personalization in Democracies

By: Gideon Rahat,Ofer Kenig

What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of political parties. This volume systematically examines these two prominent developments in contemporary democratic politics and the relationship between them. It presents a cross-national comparative comparison that covers around 50 years in 26 democracies through the use of more than 20 indicators. It offers the most comprehensive comparative cross-national estimation of the variance in the levels and patterns of party change and political personalization among countries to date, using existing works as well injecting fresh cross-national comparative data. In the case of party change, it offers an analysis that extends beyond the dichotomous debate of party decline versus party adaptation. In the matter of political personalization, the emphasis on variance helps in bridging between the high theoretical expectations and disappointing empirical findings. As for the theoretically sound linkage between the two phenomena, not only is this the first study to comprise a comprehensive cross-national examination, but it also proposes a more nuanced understanding of this relationship. Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science, University of Houston.

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Oxford University Press

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0192535439

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Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections

A Comparative Perspective

By: William P. Cross,Ofer Kenig,Scott Pruysers,Gideon Rahat

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Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections

A Comparative Perspective

By: William P. Cross,Ofer Kenig,Scott Pruysers,Gideon Rahat

While primary elections are most often associated with presidential candidates in the United States, similar methods for selecting party leaders and candidates are becoming increasingly common in parliamentary democracies around the world. The Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections introduces the first comprehensive examination of both the concept and the practice of primary elections outside of the United States. By offering a clear definition of primary elections and examples of their types, the authors deliver the tools needed for comparative analysis within and across diverse party systems. Focusing their attention on Canada and Israel - two early adopters of primary elections - the authors unveil the most pressing challenges of conducting internal elections, including questions of financing, monitoring and oversight, and the recruitment of new party members. At the same time, the book highlights the democratic benefits of primaries through direct and widespread participation in internal party decision making. Drawing upon the experience of parties with a long history of primary elections, The Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections offers valuable lessons and insights for parties around the world in search of more open and inclusive democratic practices.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773548564

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Let Shepherding Endure

Applied Anthropology and the Preservation of a Cultural Tradition in Israel and the Middle East

By: Gideon M. Kressel

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Let Shepherding Endure

Applied Anthropology and the Preservation of a Cultural Tradition in Israel and the Middle East

By: Gideon M. Kressel

Examining the crucial problems confronting present-day livestock breeders, principally Bedouin and Jews in Israel, but also pastoral nomads in neighboring Middle Eastern countries, Let Shepherding Endure proposes new ways for these governments to enhance and sustain the long-term future development of shepherding communities. Adopting a broad historical and anthropological perspective on the topic, and assessing various pastoral relief programs, Kressel proposes an alternative program whereby the region's states would promote a brand of pastoralism that preserves rangeland herding while keeping in step with the contemporary cultural and political context. This truly visionary set of recommendations would have several dividends, especially for the Bedouin: their cultural legacy, in danger of obsolescence, would be preserved while at the same time enhancing both their pastoral skills and ability to secure a livelihood from herding.

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The Archaeology of Early China

By: Gideon Shelach-Lavi

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The Archaeology of Early China

By: Gideon Shelach-Lavi

This book covers Chinese archaeology from the first people to the unification of the empire, emphasizing cultural variations and interregional contact.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521196892

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Charm of Graves

Perceptions of Death and After-Death Among the Negev Bedouin

By: Gideon M Kressel,Sasson Bar-Zvi,Aref Abu-Rabia

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Charm of Graves

Perceptions of Death and After-Death Among the Negev Bedouin

By: Gideon M Kressel,Sasson Bar-Zvi,Aref Abu-Rabia

The authors provide a comprehensive picture of burial, mourning rituals, commemoration practices and veneration of the dead among the Negev Bedouin. A primary emphasis is the pivotal linkages between the living and the dead embodied in the intermediary role of healers, sorcerers, seers and other arbitrators between heaven and earth, who supplicate -- publicly and privately -- at the gravesite of chosen awliyah (deceased saints). This book brings together integrated findings of three scholars, based on decades of field work that combine close to 65 years of scrutiny. It maps out the locations and particularities of venerated tombs, the identity of the occupants and their individual abilities vis-a-vis the Almighty. Attitudes, beliefs and customs surrounding each gravesite, when combined on a longitudinal scale, reveal changes over time in beliefs and practices in grave worship and burial, mourning and condolence customs. Analysis of the data reveals that the dynamic of grave worship among the Negev Bedouin throws light on ancient traditions in a complex relationship with mainstream Islamic doctrine and the impact of modernity on Bedouin conduct and belief. The authors' observations and interviews with practitioners about their beliefs are compared and augmented with references that exist in the professional literature, including grave worship elsewhere in the Arab world. The Charm of Graves is essential reading for anthropologists, scholars of the sociology of religion, and students of Islam at university and popular levels. The topic has received only marginal attention in existing anthropological works and has been keenly awaited.

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Liverpool University Press

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1837641749

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Search for the Image of Forefather in Dreams

Among Former Bedouin Now Living in Town

By: Gideon M. Kressel

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Search for the Image of Forefather in Dreams

Among Former Bedouin Now Living in Town

By: Gideon M. Kressel

On evaluating dreams as the most important source of information concerning the unconscious, we are to bear in mind the contemporary cultural conscience that effect both the capacity of dreams and their interpretation. Dreams reflect memorized occurrences that have an impact on peoples psyche. Although human minds are shaped alike and dreams may occur, confronting them with a self-same manner, the analysis of dreaming materials and the sense given to dreams are culturally varied. It is the cultural accent tested at a Middle Eastern society that promotes the appearance of elderly men while conceals speaking on the presence of women (mothers or others) in dreams. Assimilation of the fundamental insight causing psychic life is founded on two poles, maternal and paternal. It is the accent of cultural life that differentiates estimation of the image of each parent when appearing in dreams; whether the first or the second is left largely unobserved, the other obliges a perceiving attention. Primordial images of The Great Mother find an outward expression in the ritual, mythology and art of early man. Revealing in track of The Golden Bough of J. G. Frazer, present-day accounts of dreams evince its relevance in tackling with modern mans dreams. We call attention to selective concerns with Great Fathers appearing in dreams, a pattern born in mind following the ancient matriarchal era, that causes an avoidance of talk of dreams engaging the visit of mothers in dreamers minds.

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1491788275

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Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China

Archaeological Perspectives on Identity Formation and Economic Change During the First Millennium BCE

By: Gideon Shelach

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Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China

Archaeological Perspectives on Identity Formation and Economic Change During the First Millennium BCE

By: Gideon Shelach

The northern borders of China - known as the Northern zone - were a key area of interaction between sedentary and nomadic people during the late second and early first millennium BCE. During this period the region's unique economy, socio-political systems, local cultures and identities took shape. 'Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China' analyses the archaeological record to examine the changes that took place in Northern China in the first millennium. Drawing on field work in the Chifeng area of Inner Mongolia, the book explores dramatic changes in the construction of identities alongside more gradual changes in subsistence strategies and political organization. The book is unique in integrating the archaeological data and historical records of this period with anthropological theory to examine the role of identity construction and the use of symbol in the shaping of East Asian society.

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Routledge

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1134944810

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The Israeli Constitution

From Evolution to Revolution

By: Gideon Sapir

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The Israeli Constitution

From Evolution to Revolution

By: Gideon Sapir

Israeli constitutional law is a sphere of many contradictions and traditions. Growing out of British law absorbed by the legal system of Mandate Palestine, Israeli constitutional law has followed the path of constitutional law based on unwritten constitutional principles. This book evaluates the development of the Israeli constitution from an unwritten British-style body of law to the declaration of the Basic Laws as the de facto Israeli constitution by the supreme court and on through the present day. The book is divided into a chronological history, devoted to a description of the process of establishing a constitution; and a thematic one, devoted to the review and evaluation of major constitutional issues that are also the subject of discussion and research in other countries, with emphasis on the unique characteristics of the Israeli case.

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Oxford University Press

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0190680334

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Democracy Within Parties

Candidate Selection Methods and Their Political Consequences

By: Reuven Y. Hazan,Gideon Rahat

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Democracy Within Parties

Candidate Selection Methods and Their Political Consequences

By: Reuven Y. Hazan,Gideon Rahat

This text presents a new approach to understanding political parties. It sheds light on the inner dynamics of party politics and offers a comprehensive analysis of one of the most important processes any party undertakes, its process of candidate selection.

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From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?

Party Change and Political Personalization in Democracies

By: Gideon Rahat,Ofer Kenig

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Party Change and Political Personalization in Democracies

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Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections

A Comparative Perspective

By: William P. Cross,Ofer Kenig,Scott Pruysers,Gideon Rahat

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A Comparative Perspective

By: William P. Cross,Ofer Kenig,Scott Pruysers,Gideon Rahat

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The Politics of Regime Structure Reform in Democracies

The Politics of Regime Structure Reform in Democracies

Democracy within Parties

Democracy within Parties

The Politics of Regime Structure Reform in Democracies

The Politics of Regime Structure Reform in Democracies

From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?

From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?

Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections

Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections

Let Shepherding Endure

Let Shepherding Endure

The Archaeology of Early China

The Archaeology of Early China

Charm of Graves

Charm of Graves

Search for the Image of Forefather in Dreams

Search for the Image of Forefather in Dreams

Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China

Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China

The Israeli Constitution

The Israeli Constitution

Democracy Within Parties

Democracy Within Parties

From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?

From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?

Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections

Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections

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