Authors: Yoram Peri
ISBN-13: 9780804750028, ISBN-10: 0804750025
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: 1
Yoram Peri is the Head of The Chaim Herzog Institute for Media Politics and Society and Professor of Political Sociology and Communication in the Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University. His previous books include The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin (Stanford, 2000).
This is the first account of Benjamin Netanyahu’s political communication strategy during his term as prime minister. It presents the dramatic cultural and political changes that occurred in Israel in the 1990s with the creation of media-centered democracy. The author shows how Netanyahu used these to construct his political project—Telepopulism.
Introduction : the union of media and politics in Israel | 1 | |
Pt. 1 | The emergence of "Mediapolitik" | |
1 | The media revolution of the 1990s | 13 |
2 | Television and popular culture | 33 |
3 | The political revolution of the 1990s | 52 |
4 | The history of media-politics relations in Israel | 73 |
5 | The fusionist character of "Mediapolitik" | 94 |
6 | Israel's media-centered democracy | 120 |
7 | Symbolic politics | 144 |
Pt. 2 | Netanyahu's telepopulism | |
8 | Populism and neopopulism | 165 |
9 | Netanyahu's media strategy | 189 |
10 | The characteristics of Israeli telepopulism | 215 |
11 | Netanyahu's war against the media | 234 |
Pt. 3 | Communitarianism and the alternative media | |
12 | Minority media in a sectorial society | 261 |
13 | Will the public sphere survive? | 284 |
Conclusion : "Mediapolitik" and the future of democracy | 297 | |
Notes | 321 | |
Works cited | 337 | |
Index | 357 |