Summary
Israeli political scientist whose concept of Illegalism Dowty uses in Chapters 2 and 4 to name the expediency toward the law carried from traditional Jewish politics into Israeli life, and who is among the colleagues Dowty thanks in the Preface (The Jewish State: A Century Later, lines 60-90, lines 1660-1695).
Details
- Sprinzak defines illegalism as “an orientation that regards respect for the law and respect for the rule of law not as a basic value, but as a specific mode of behavior that one may or may not follow according to considerations of expediency” — a definition Dowty quotes from Sprinzak’s Every Man Whatsoever Is Right in His Own Eyes — Illegalism in Israeli Society (in Hebrew, 1986), the work Dowty’s Chapter 4 notes cite throughout for the pattern, the spoils system and the Black Panthers reports (The Jewish State: A Century Later, lines 1660-1680; Chapter 4 notes, lines 1780-1931).
- Dowty notes, following Sprinzak, that the push for Mamlachtiut did not focus on the rule of law and did not even include a legal theory as one of its elements (The Jewish State: A Century Later, lines 1665-1690).
Related pages
The Jewish State: A Century Later, Illegalism, Mamlachtiut, For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel