Politics and Society in Contemporary Israel

In its first decades, studies of Politics in Israel-regardless of the number of time the word "change" appeared in their titles-were more likely to assume an underlying continuity than its opposites. Such continuity was exemplified in their undergirding models, "nation-building," for example or the "absorption" of Oriental immigrants contingent on their "modernization". Today studies of Israeli politics and society  are more likely to assert and seek to explain discontinuity.