Author: Daniel J. Elazar
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: polls, israel
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0847679764
ISBN-13: 9780847679768

The results of the June 1992 Israeli elections at first indicated a normal transition of power from Likud to Labor in the tradition of Western democracies, rather than an upset. However, one and one-half years later there were signs of a major change. "Israel at the Polls, 1992" looks at the parties, election campaigns, major institutions, and analyzes the policies of the new government’s first year. Co-published with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Author: Daniel J. Elazar
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: constitutionalism
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1990-07-24
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 0819177989
ISBN-13: 9780819177988

In Israel today there is increasingly vigorous support for the framing of a constitution. At the same time there is almost no recognition that in forty years Israel has acquired an almost complete set of basic laws that form a constitution. The aims of this volume are threefold: to inform the Israeli public and the world as to what exists and consider what still is needed in the way of a constitution; to enter constitutionalism firmly on the Israeli public agenda; and to learn from the American experience. The author shows that Israel’s constitution is more than anything else a modern ad

Author: Daniel Elazar
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: cities, prairie, politics, american, frontier, metropolitan
Number of Pages: 514
Published: 2003-02-24
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0765809559
ISBN-13: 9780765809551

American civilization has been shaped by four decisive forces: the frontier, migration, sectionalism, and federalism. The frontier has offered abundance to those who would/could take advantage of its opportunities, stimulated technological innovation, and been the source of continuous change in social structure and economic organization; migration has been responsible for relocating cultures from the Old world to the New; various sections of geographic territories have adjusted to the overall American culture without losing their individual distinctiveness; and federalism has shaped the United

Author: Daniel J. Elazar
Publisher: HSRC Press
Keywords: federalism, application, theory, amp
Number of Pages: 76
Published: 1995-12-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0796916993
ISBN-13: 9780796916990

Author: Daniel J. Elazar
Publisher: Lexington Books
Keywords: commonwealth
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-03-27
List price: $87.00
ISBN-10: 0739102362
ISBN-13: 9780739102367

The late Daniel J. Elazar was increasingly concerned with the distortions of democracy in contemporary society. In "Commonwealth", he brought together a distinguished group of political scientists to examine the Swiss model of democracy, in its original emphasis on community, or the "commonwealth." Contributors to the volume take the Swiss model as a base from which to critique the liberal model, best exemplified by the United States. While it is admittedly the best contemporary example of liberal democracy, or "civil society," America also displays the problems of this model. The modern idea

Author: Daniel J. Elazar
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Keywords: jewish, communal, public, affairs, jewry, american, polity, organizational, dynamics, community
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 1995-05-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 082760565X
ISBN-13: 9780827605657

This revised and updated edition of Community and Polity examines the transformations taking place in local community federations and in the countrywide federation movement, the decline of the mass-based organizations, the shift in the forms and organization of Jewish education, the changes taking place in the synagogue movements, and the problems of Jewish unity generated by intermovement competition.

Authors:Daniel J. Elazar, Stuart A. Cohen,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: jewish, political, social, series, studies, present, biblical, polity, organization, times
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1984-12
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0253331560
ISBN-13: 9780253331564

This major work covers the Jewish political tradition from its biblical beginnings to the present day. The tradition is illuminated in its various epochs by identifying how its principles and modes of action were embodied in the institutions of the Jewish people over their long history.