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Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel » (1)

Book cover image of Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel by Yoram Peri

Authors: Yoram Peri
ISBN-13: 9780804750028, ISBN-10: 0804750025
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: 1

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Author Biography: Yoram Peri

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).

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction : the union of media and politics in Israel1
Pt. 1The emergence of "Mediapolitik"
1The media revolution of the 1990s13
2Television and popular culture33
3The political revolution of the 1990s52
4The history of media-politics relations in Israel73
5The fusionist character of "Mediapolitik"94
6Israel's media-centered democracy120
7Symbolic politics144
Pt. 2Netanyahu's telepopulism
8Populism and neopopulism165
9Netanyahu's media strategy189
10The characteristics of Israeli telepopulism215
11Netanyahu's war against the media234
Pt. 3Communitarianism and the alternative media
12Minority media in a sectorial society261
13Will the public sphere survive?284
Conclusion : "Mediapolitik" and the future of democracy297
Notes321
Works cited337
Index357

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