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"This edited volume examines the most pressing social and political issues confronting Israel from a multi-disciplinary 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 analyses 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; this difficulty in determining a consensual definition of the state, it is argued, threatens to destroy social solidarity in Israel altogether, a climate in which "the center cannot hold". The book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the majo

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Author

Elie Friedman & Michal Neubauer-Shani & Paul Scham

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781032293325

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences