Israel

David Vogel wurde 1891 in Satanow, Podolien, geboren und schrieb Lyrik und Prosa in hebräischer Sprache. Von 1912 bis 1925 lebte er in Wien, später zog es ihn nach Zwischenaufenthalten in Berlin und Palästina nach Paris. Nach der Besetzung Frankreichs wurde Vogel von der Gestapo verhaftet und ins Konzentrationslager Auschwitz deportiert, wo er 1944 ums Leben kam. Sein Werk umfasst expressionistische Gedichte, mehrere Novellen und Romane.

These essays examine changes in Israel's political, social and economic institutions, and describe how Israeli culture and institutions are resisting convergence. They are in four categories: political institutions and organizations; political economy; ethnicity and religion; and public policy.

The essays here attempt to move beyond the question of Israel's "uniqueness" to examine the pace and direction of change of Israel's political, social and economic institutions.

Change and continuity - a framework for comparative analysis, David Levi-Faur, Gabriel Sheffer, David Vogel; courts as hegemonic institutions - the Israeli Supreme Court in a comparative perspective, Gad Barzilai; Israeli constitional politics - the fragility of impartiality, Menachem Hofnung; structural changes and leadership transformation, Gabriel Sheffer; interest politics in a comparative perspective - the (ir)regularity of the Israeli case, Yael Yishai; the social organization of the Israeli economy - a comparative analysis; Danial Maman; business in politics - globalization and the search for peace in South Africa and Israel/Palestine, Gershon Shafir; have globalization and liberalization normalized Israel's political economy? Michael Shalev; warfare, polity-formation and the Israeli national policy patterns, David Levi-Faur; consociationalism and ethnic democracy - Israeli Arabs in comparative perspective, Alan Dowty; from what edah are you? Israeli and American meanings of race-ethnicity in social policy practices, Dvora Yanow; changing places - Jerusalem's holy places in comparative perspective, Roger Friedland, Richard D. Hecht; imported problem definitions, legal culture and the local dynamics of Israeli abortion politics, Noga Morag-Levine; Israeli environmental policy in comparative perspective, David Vogel; the gender and pacifism hypothesis - opinion research from Israel and the Arab world, Mark Tessler, Jodi Nachtwey, Audra Grant; the promised land of the chosen people is not all that distinctive - on the value of comparison, Ira Sharkansky.