LEADER 03628nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910953487603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781438408781 010 $a1438408781 010 $a9780585045979 010 $a0585045976 035 $a(CKB)111004366802470 035 $a(OCoLC)42854969 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10588817 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000228605 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11173814 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000228605 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10152857 035 $a(PQKB)10099773 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14059 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408267 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10588817 035 $a(OCoLC)923414002 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408267 035 $a(DE-B1597)736224 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438408781 035 $a(Perlego)2674445 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366802470 100 $a19950302d1995 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aProfessionals against populism $ethe Peres government and democracy /$fMichael Keren 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc1995 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 147 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aSUNY series in Israeli studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780791425640 311 08$a0791425649 311 08$a9780791425633 311 08$a0791425630 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tChapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- $tChapter 2 KNOWLEDGE AND DEMOCRACY -- $tChapter 3 LAW AND SECURITY -- $tChapter 4 IN QUEST OF MODERATION -- $tChapter 5 THE SOCIAL CONTRACT -- $tChapter 6 CONCLUSION -- $tAppendices -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aPopulism$zIsrael 606 $aDemocracy$zIsrael 606 $aTechnology and state$zIsrael 607 $aIsrael$xPolitics and government$y1967-1993 615 0$aPopulism 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aTechnology and state 676 $a956.9405/4/092 700 $aKeren$b Michael$0541038 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953487603321 996 $aProfessionals against populism$94346173 997 $aUNINA