Israel's governability crisis : quandaries, unstructured institutions, and adaptation / Maoz Rosenthal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An alternative model of governability : the heresthetic of preferences and veto points -- Israel's political institutions and policy dimensions? : a prelude for a crisis -- Israel's governability crisis : sources and consequences -- Cabinet compositions and duration : Israeli governments 1949-2015 -- Agenda gate-keeping and the power of the chair : policy making in Israeli Knesset committees -- Bureaucratic agenda control and political leadership in policy design -- Policy implementation : the reprisal of political agenda control -- So where is the problem? : the Drorian high-order tasks.

This book examines Israeli strategies of adapting to a crisis of governability brought on by institutional stagnation. The book uses a new theory emphasizing the role of policy entrepreneurs in political institutions, and ultimately offers a method of electoral reform to address systemic maladies in the Israeli political system.