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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1073-1092 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Israel Affairs |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2 Nov 2018 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Democracy
- Israel
- Likud
- Menachem Begin
- Zeev Jabotinsky
- democratic indices
- democratisation
- labour