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Book SynopsisThis 1972 work explains how Mapai governed Israel from 1948 to 1969 when it gave up its independent identity to become a major partner to the newly formed Israeli Labour Party. It analyses how Mapai successfully adapted itself to the changes which resulted from it becoming an independent state.
Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The problem and the setting; Part I. Party and Society: the Incorporation of Diverse Social Forces: Introduction: non-competitive and competitive patterns of organisational penetration and control; 2. Agricultural settlements: non-competitive organisational penetration; 3. Industrial workers, artisans, and professionals: competitive penetration; 4. Ethnicity, sex, religion and age: cross-cutting cleavages and attenuated penetration; Part II. Internal Party Organisation: Membership, Representation, Participation and Leadership: Introduction; 5. Individual membership, branch organisation and local representative institutions; 6. National representative decision making institutions: the conference, council and central committee; 7. National executive institutions; 8. The party machine; Part III. Party and Government: Leadership Selection, Decision Making, Institutional Control, and Succession: 9. Leadership selection and direction of parliamentary and Histadrut institution; 10. Decision making; 11. Depoliticisation and state integration; 12. Leadership, succession and organisational maintenance: conflict, split and reunification; 13. Conclusion: political organisation and political success; Selected bibliography; Index.
