Likud’s rise to power and the ‘Democracy in Danger’ fearmongering campaign: rhetoric vs. facts

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Abstract

The 1977 elections in Israel marked the first time since the country’s establishment in 1948 for a right-wing government to be elected. Immediately after this sea change, a ‘Democracy in Danger’ fearmongering discourse was instituted by representatives of academic, cultural, political and media elites. In fact, as this article shows, Likud’s ascendance served as a formative event of democratic transformation in the deepest sense of the word, strengthening and deepening Israel’s democratic identity that had hitherto been limited at most.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1073-1092
Number of pages20
JournalIsrael Affairs
Volume24
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Nov 2018

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Keywords

  • Democracy
  • Israel
  • Likud
  • Menachem Begin
  • Zeev Jabotinsky
  • democratic indices
  • democratisation
  • labour

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