"Leading scholars and practitioners of politics, political science, anthropology, Israel studies, and Middle East affairs examine aspects of continuity and change in political culture in tribute to Professor Myron J. Aronoff, whose work on political culture has built conceptual and methodological bridges between political science and anthropology"--.

• Cover
• Continuity and Change in Political Culture
• Continuity and Change in Political Culture: Israel and Beyond
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
  • Notes
  • References
• Section I Conflict and Peace
• Chapter 1
• Pathways to Peace
  • Assessing Legitimacy
  • Challenges to the Legitimacy of the Two-State Paradigm
  • Continued Legitimacy of Two-State Solution Relative to Alternatives
  • Triggers and Trends that Influence the Future Legitimacy of the Two State Solution
  • Notes
  • References
  • Interviews Conducted by the Author
• Chapter 2
• Memory, Identity, and Peace in Palestinian-Israeli Relations
  • Considering History, Memory, and Identity
  • Addressing the Holocaust and Al-Nakba
  • Empathizing with the Other: Four Case Studies
  • Reshaping Memory and Identity, Advancing Peace
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 3
• Denationalization in the Israel-Palestinian Context
  • Three Forms of Denationalization
  • Pathways of Denationalization
  • Reflections on Denationalization in the Israeli and Palestinian Contexts
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 4
• The Ecological Fallacy
  • Notes
  • References
• Section II Challenges to Democracy
• Chapter 5
• Israel’s Democracy at a Turning Point
  • The Specificity of Israel’s Democratic Evolution
  • The Components of Israel’s Democratic Erosion: The What
  • The Process of Israel’s Democratic Erosion: The How
  • The Explanations for Israel’s Democratic Erosion: The Why
  • Israel’s Democratic Pushback
  • Trends and Implications
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 6
• Majority-Minority Relations in Deeply Divided Democratic Societies
  • Majority-Minority Relations in Israel
  • Challenges to the Existing Formula
  • Recent Developments
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 7
• Creating the Public in a Society of Strangers
  • The Public
  • The Triumph of the City
  • Intimacy and Freedom: The Triumph of the City and the Roots of America’s Ambivalence
  • Segmentation and Integration: Streets and Quarters
  • Organic and Contractual Unity: The Struggle over Who Were Real Americans
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
• Section III National Memory, Memorialization, and Dramatization
• Chapter 8
• The Bible Now
  • The Bible Now: Selected Texts
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 9
• Victim Sculpture and an Aesthetic of Basque Politics
  • Basques, ETA, Victims
  • The Call for a Victim Monument
  • From Guggenheim to Parliament: In Search of a Political Aesthetic
  • From Parliament to Guggenheim: Sculptor, Sculpture, Text
  • “Midnight Compass”: The Inauguration and Beyond
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 10
• Tadeusz Kantor’s Theater as an Antidote against the Excesses of Nationalism and Idiocy of State Socialism
  • An Event
  • Aesthetoscapes, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism
  • Post-Colonialism, Censorship, and Socialist Realism in Poland and the Soviet Union
  • Kantor’s Global Theater and Its Cultural-Political Significance
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
• Epilogue
  • Notes
  • References
• Index
• About the Contributors