Through the Lens of Israel
Auteur: Joel S. Migdal
Nombre de pages: 237 pages
ISBN: 0791449866, 9780791449868
Edition: SUNY Press
Date de publication: SUNY Press
Description: Through the Lens of Israel illuminates Israeli history through the use of the authors unique state-in-society approach, and, at the same time, refines, develops, and expands that approach. The book provides a window for the formation of Israeli state and society during the twentieth century, while using the Israeli experience to ask how social scientists can better investigate and understand other societies as well. Three central themes of Israeli history are at the core of the analysisstate formation, society formation, and the mutually constitutive roles of state and society. By analyzing how Israels state and society continually reconstruct one another, Migdal addresses larger questions with resonance far beyond Israel: How do particular societies and states end up with their distinctive character? How are the rules that shape everyday behavior determined? Who gains from these rules and who loses? And how and when do these rules and patterns of privilege change?