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Polarization and Consensus-Building in Israel: The Center Cannot Hold

Polarization and Consensus-Building in Israel: The Center Cannot Hold

Friedman, Elie
Neubauer-Shani, Michal
Scham, Paul

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Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032293322
ISBN13: 9781032293325
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2024
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This edited volume examines the most pressing social and political issues confronting Israel from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the breakdown of social solidarity and the inability to formulate consensus.

The contributors - encompassing political scientists, historians, communication researchers, sociologists, economists, and educators - focus on specific topics that serve as exemplary cases of various trends of consensus and polarization. These trends are examined in the context of ideological, religious, economic, national, and ethnic cleavages. In addition, this volume analyzes how political actors' preference for non-decision on various issues has resulted in the maintenance of a status quo, with cleavages or conflicts being neither mitigated nor polarized. Together, this collection of articles paints a picture of Israel as a state racked by increasing polarization along ideological and religious lines. It is argued that this difficulty in determining a consensual definition of the state threatens to destroy social solidarity in Israel altogether, a climate in which the center cannot hold.

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