Jonathan Mendilow
Biographic Data
| ID | 366033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Mendilow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendilow |
| SIGNATURE | MENDILOW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rider University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Democracy and Corruption: Resistance and Regime Decline
In order to have clean, impartial, and effective governance, one needs to go beyond the domain of the state for initiating reform. Much work needs to be done at the societal level on the issues of values and norms. Such work should be the responsibility of social leaders trusted by the people. Only social leaders can talk about higher motives and goals beyond what a personal utility maximizing political and economic man or woman (including the ki…
Populism and Corruption: The Other Side of the Coin
This chapter describes the ways in which changes in American campaign finance since 2010 have worked to the advantage of a subset of “populist billionaires.” The donors who have been advantaged by the deregulation of American campaign finance law are individuals whose sources of wealth make them less accountable to the public and less dependent on conventional forms of political access than past donors. The chapter draws upon recent research on t…
Handbook of Political Party Funding
Corrupción y financiación electoral: Una perspectiva burkeana
At the end of 18th century when Britain became a calm and wealthy kingdom, the politician and thinker Edmond Burke was concerned with economic reform and political corruption in his country. Corruption was an increasing problem that threatened the government of any state if all cooperative relationship between political and social actors collapses. It was a time to reaffirm traditional values under new circumstances; therefore a Burkean perspecti…
Georg Picot (2012) Politics of Segmentation: Party Competition and Social Protection in Europe. Abingdon: Routledge. 201pp., £75, hbk
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Ideology Party Change and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965–2001
Epilogue: A Comparative Perspective
Money, corruption, and political competition in established and emerging democracies
Preface by Michael Pinto-Duchinsky Chapter 1. Introduction: Political Finance, Corruption, and the Future of Democracy by Jonathan Mendilow Chapter 2. Do Parties Spend Too Much? by Manuela S. Kulick and Karl-Heinz Nassmacher Chapter 3. Parties as Competitive Public Utilities?: The Impact of the Regulatory System of Political Financing on the Party System in France by Lou Brenez Chapter 4. Campaign Financing and Politicians' Careers: A Dynamic Per…
Israel's Palestinian Minority: From 'Quietism' to Ethno-nationalism
Hillel Cohen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Palestinian Politics and the City since 1967 (New York: Routledge, 2011), 162 pp. Oded Haklai, Palestinian Ethnonationalism in Israel (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 243 pp. Amal Jamal, Arab Minority Nationalism in Israel: The Politics of Indigeneity (New York: Routledge, 2011), 324 pp. Ilan Pappé, The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel (New Ha…
The Telescoping Effects of Public Campaign Funding: Evaluating the Impact of Clean Elections in Arizona, Maine, and New Jersey
Supporters of public campaign funding say it democratizes the election process; detractors say it fails to meet its intended goals and, in fact, has unexpected negative results. Examining data from Arizona and Maine, which have full public funding, and from New Jersey's “Clean Election” pilot program, has enabled us to determine empirically if critics are correct. We conclude that neither advocates of Clean Elections nor its detractors are comple…
The Hidden Agenda of the 2009 Elections
David Rebovich
On the morning of the day before he passed away David Rebovich felt under the weather. However, no flu (as he believed it to be) could prevent him from meeting his students to plan the next activity sponsored by the Institute of New Jersey Politics. Nor could it keep him from staying after the meeting to speak with those students who had need for his help or advice. One of the latter was a senior who decided to pursue the sought-after position of…
Uniqueness and Similarities in the Study of Israeli Parties: The Case of the 2003 Elections
A survey of the literature on Israeli parties and elections reveals a gradual shift from a perception of the country as sui generis toward the study of Israeli parties as a seedbed for hypotheses to be tested elsewhere. The dramatic nature of the Israeli party system also renders it a suitable testing ground for dynamic heuristic models, such as one that explains strategic choices that guide party competitiveness under shifting circumtances. The …
Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001
Public Party Funding and the Schemes of Mice and Men: The 1992 Elections in Israel
A main aim of public party funding was to present parties with opportunities to participate on equal terms in public debate and to finance their ability to represent the general public. However, its impact on party communication and on party-voter contacts is a neglected aspect of research in the field. This paper suggests a disparity between intentions and consequences, mirroring that observed in the effects of public party funding on party expe…
What is conservatism? Some signposts in the wilderness
Attempts to define conservatism have hitherto steered an uncertain, zig‐zag course between over‐specificity and over generalization. The difficulty inheres in the very nature of what thinkers, unquestionably regarded as conservative, have argued. Their emphasis on developmental continuity within particular societies without reference to genesis or telos yields a protean body of ideas which changes according to circumstances. This paper suggests a…
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Conservatism's “Night of Ambiguity
L'A. etudie les conceptions politiques du romancier americain Hawthorne dans la premiere moitie du XIX e siecle. Comparant sa conception de l'egalitarisme, de la democratie et du conservatisme a celle de Tocqueville, l'A. trouve des elements dans ses romans permettant de se representer un conservatisme americain mele de la conscience d'un necessaire changement liberaliste
Waiting for the Axe to Fall: Carlyle's Place in the Study of Crises of Authority
The Swing of the Pendulum: The Israeli Labor Alignment, 1988
Any exploration of the wider implications of the 1988 electoral campaign for the Israeli Knesset invites two questions: first, were the surprising conduct and results aberrations? Or were they the effects of underlying forces slowly changing the patterns of Israeli politics? If the latter, then, second, to what extent are such forces controllable by party leaders and at what cost? My contention is that what happened in 1988 did, in fact, herald c…
Waiting for the Axe to Fall: Carlyle's Place in the Study of Crises of Authority
The aim of this paper is to bring into the comtemporary discussion of crises of authority an ignored pre-Marxist approach best manifested in the writings of Thomas Carlyle and in the related ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville. Both stressed the importance of a nation's "collective unconscious" or value orientations in maintaining political legitimacy. If these erode, a "crisis in incubation" ensues, when authority is passively accepted until a major …
Public Party Funding and Party Transformation in Multiparty Systems
This article analyzes the changes in the Israeli party system since the inception of public party funding in 1969 and compares them with party transformations elsewhere with a view to comparing the intended and the actual impacts of such funding on multiparty systems. Although the overall effect is in line with the catch-all thesis of Kirchheimer, Epstein, and others, there are important potential consequences that run counter to it. Chief among …
Israel's Labor Alignment in the 1984 Elections: Catch-All Tactics in a Divided Society
Some two decades have passed since Otto Kirchheimer put forward his seminal thesis concerning transformations within western multiparty systems. Parties, he predicted, would respond to increasing affluence, welfare policies, and reduction of social tensions by jettisoning most of their ideological cargo and turning into catch-all parties. Programs that provided rose-colored glasses would offer previews of happy days for all and sundry among ... p…
Federal Factions and Federated Host Parties in Israel: Some Ideological and Structural Dimensions
A new type of party has emerged in Israel—the federated host party. It consists of political groups and former parties which have the status of factions. Formal agreements set the rules of the game; hence, heavy constraints are placed on the host party in appointments and policy. The article discusses the emergence of federated host parties and federal factions, factors of stability and unrest in the relations of host party and factions, and the …
Merrie England and the brave new world: Two myths of the idea of empire
(1985). Merrie England and the brave new world: Two myths of the idea of empire. History of European Ideas: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 41-58
Past, Future, and Present Perfect: Three Tenses of the British Idea of Empire
Public Party Funding and Party Transformation in Multiparty Systems
This article analyzes the changes in the Israeli party system since the inception of public party funding in 1969 and compares them with party transformations elsewhere with a view to comparing the intended and the actual impacts of such funding on multiparty systems. Although the overall effect is in line with the catch-all thesis of Kirchheimer, Epstein, and others, there are important potential consequences that run counter to it. Chief among …
Party Clustering in Multiparty Systems: The Example of Israel 1965-1981
In recent years parties in many multiparty systems have grouped together in clusters. The motives, processes, and consequences are already illustrated by the shifting patterns of Israeli party politics since 1965. This analysis throws doubt on the validity of the Kirchheimer and Epstein hypotheses that parties respond to environmental pressures by changing their position along an ideology-pragmatics continuum. Party clusters arise from willed lea…
Public Party Funding and the Schemes of Mice and Men: The 1992 Elections in Israel
A main aim of public party funding was to present parties with opportunities to participate on equal terms in public debate and to finance their ability to represent the general public. However, its impact on party communication and on party-voter contacts is a neglected aspect of research in the field. This paper suggests a disparity between intentions and consequences, mirroring that observed in the effects of public party funding on party expe…
Party-Cluster Formations in Multi-Party Systems
An examination of the multi-party system in Israel and to a large extent also in France during the last two decades reveals the emergence of three distinct types of party clusters. These approximate to a limited extent to Kirchheimer's catch-all thesis, but reveal motives and conditions other than those he postulated. The party clusters are distinguished as Conglomerate Blocs, Proportionally Amalgamated Parties and Unitary Amalgamated Parties. An…
What is conservatism? Some signposts in the wilderness
Attempts to define conservatism have hitherto steered an uncertain, zig‐zag course between over‐specificity and over generalization. The difficulty inheres in the very nature of what thinkers, unquestionably regarded as conservative, have argued. Their emphasis on developmental continuity within particular societies without reference to genesis or telos yields a protean body of ideas which changes according to circumstances. This paper suggests a…
Israel's Labor Alignment in the 1984 Elections: Catch-All Tactics in a Divided Society
Some two decades have passed since Otto Kirchheimer put forward his seminal thesis concerning transformations within western multiparty systems. Parties, he predicted, would respond to increasing affluence, welfare policies, and reduction of social tensions by jettisoning most of their ideological cargo and turning into catch-all parties. Programs that provided rose-colored glasses would offer previews of happy days for all and sundry among ... p…
Merrie England and the brave new world: Two myths of the idea of empire
(1985). Merrie England and the brave new world: Two myths of the idea of empire. History of European Ideas: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 41-58
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Conservatism's “Night of Ambiguity
L'A. etudie les conceptions politiques du romancier americain Hawthorne dans la premiere moitie du XIX e siecle. Comparant sa conception de l'egalitarisme, de la democratie et du conservatisme a celle de Tocqueville, l'A. trouve des elements dans ses romans permettant de se representer un conservatisme americain mele de la conscience d'un necessaire changement liberaliste
Waiting for the Axe to Fall: Carlyle's Place in the Study of Crises of Authority
The aim of this paper is to bring into the comtemporary discussion of crises of authority an ignored pre-Marxist approach best manifested in the writings of Thomas Carlyle and in the related ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville. Both stressed the importance of a nation's "collective unconscious" or value orientations in maintaining political legitimacy. If these erode, a "crisis in incubation" ensues, when authority is passively accepted until a major …
Carlyle, Marx & the ILP: Alternative Routes to Socialism
There are striking similarities as well as differences between how Carlyle and Marx viewed the industrial revolution and capitalism. Jonathan Mendilow argues here that their differences result from their opposite modes of analysis: materialism in the case of Marx and, for Carlyle, an axiological theory which posits that social relations, and our interpretations of them, are determined by ethical values which, in turn, are conditioned by the modes…
The Neglected(I) Carlyle’s Political Philosophy: Towards a Theory of Catch‐ All Extremism
IT IS A TRUISM TO STATE THAT ALL AGES ARE AGES OF TRANsition, and that the clash of tradition and experiment never ceases. Nevertheless, there are periods when history seems to collapse in on itself, and the time-span of change so contracts that revolution, not only political, becomes almost a norm. Since the Industrial Revolution many writers have dealt with the ideological reaction to the predicaments of rapid social change. J. S. Mill describe…
Party-Cluster Formations in Multi-Party Systems
An examination of the multi-party system in Israel and to a large extent also in France during the last two decades reveals the emergence of three distinct types of party clusters. These approximate to a limited extent to Kirchheimer's catch-all thesis, but reveal motives and conditions other than those he postulated. The party clusters are distinguished as Conglomerate Blocs, Proportionally Amalgamated Parties and Unitary Amalgamated Parties. An…
The Neglected(I) Carlyle’s Political Philosophy: Towards a Theory of Catch‐ All Extremism
IT IS A TRUISM TO STATE THAT ALL AGES ARE AGES OF TRANsition, and that the clash of tradition and experiment never ceases. Nevertheless, there are periods when history seems to collapse in on itself, and the time-span of change so contracts that revolution, not only political, becomes almost a norm. Since the Industrial Revolution many writers have dealt with the ideological reaction to the predicaments of rapid social change. J. S. Mill describe…
Party Clustering in Multiparty Systems: The Example of Israel 1965-1981
In recent years parties in many multiparty systems have grouped together in clusters. The motives, processes, and consequences are already illustrated by the shifting patterns of Israeli party politics since 1965. This analysis throws doubt on the validity of the Kirchheimer and Epstein hypotheses that parties respond to environmental pressures by changing their position along an ideology-pragmatics continuum. Party clusters arise from willed lea…
Past, Future, and Present Perfect: Three Tenses of the British Idea of Empire
Carlyle, Marx & the ILP: Alternative Routes to Socialism
There are striking similarities as well as differences between how Carlyle and Marx viewed the industrial revolution and capitalism. Jonathan Mendilow argues here that their differences result from their opposite modes of analysis: materialism in the case of Marx and, for Carlyle, an axiological theory which posits that social relations, and our interpretations of them, are determined by ethical values which, in turn, are conditioned by the modes…
Merrie England and the brave new world: Two myths of the idea of empire
(1985). Merrie England and the brave new world: Two myths of the idea of empire. History of European Ideas: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 41-58
Federal Factions and Federated Host Parties in Israel: Some Ideological and Structural Dimensions
A new type of party has emerged in Israel—the federated host party. It consists of political groups and former parties which have the status of factions. Formal agreements set the rules of the game; hence, heavy constraints are placed on the host party in appointments and policy. The article discusses the emergence of federated host parties and federal factions, factors of stability and unrest in the relations of host party and factions, and the …
Israel's Labor Alignment in the 1984 Elections: Catch-All Tactics in a Divided Society
Some two decades have passed since Otto Kirchheimer put forward his seminal thesis concerning transformations within western multiparty systems. Parties, he predicted, would respond to increasing affluence, welfare policies, and reduction of social tensions by jettisoning most of their ideological cargo and turning into catch-all parties. Programs that provided rose-colored glasses would offer previews of happy days for all and sundry among ... p…
Public Party Funding and Party Transformation in Multiparty Systems
This article analyzes the changes in the Israeli party system since the inception of public party funding in 1969 and compares them with party transformations elsewhere with a view to comparing the intended and the actual impacts of such funding on multiparty systems. Although the overall effect is in line with the catch-all thesis of Kirchheimer, Epstein, and others, there are important potential consequences that run counter to it. Chief among …
Waiting for the Axe to Fall: Carlyle's Place in the Study of Crises of Authority
The Swing of the Pendulum: The Israeli Labor Alignment, 1988
Any exploration of the wider implications of the 1988 electoral campaign for the Israeli Knesset invites two questions: first, were the surprising conduct and results aberrations? Or were they the effects of underlying forces slowly changing the patterns of Israeli politics? If the latter, then, second, to what extent are such forces controllable by party leaders and at what cost? My contention is that what happened in 1988 did, in fact, herald c…
Waiting for the Axe to Fall: Carlyle's Place in the Study of Crises of Authority
The aim of this paper is to bring into the comtemporary discussion of crises of authority an ignored pre-Marxist approach best manifested in the writings of Thomas Carlyle and in the related ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville. Both stressed the importance of a nation's "collective unconscious" or value orientations in maintaining political legitimacy. If these erode, a "crisis in incubation" ensues, when authority is passively accepted until a major …
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Conservatism's “Night of Ambiguity
L'A. etudie les conceptions politiques du romancier americain Hawthorne dans la premiere moitie du XIX e siecle. Comparant sa conception de l'egalitarisme, de la democratie et du conservatisme a celle de Tocqueville, l'A. trouve des elements dans ses romans permettant de se representer un conservatisme americain mele de la conscience d'un necessaire changement liberaliste
Public Party Funding and the Schemes of Mice and Men: The 1992 Elections in Israel
A main aim of public party funding was to present parties with opportunities to participate on equal terms in public debate and to finance their ability to represent the general public. However, its impact on party communication and on party-voter contacts is a neglected aspect of research in the field. This paper suggests a disparity between intentions and consequences, mirroring that observed in the effects of public party funding on party expe…
What is conservatism? Some signposts in the wilderness
Attempts to define conservatism have hitherto steered an uncertain, zig‐zag course between over‐specificity and over generalization. The difficulty inheres in the very nature of what thinkers, unquestionably regarded as conservative, have argued. Their emphasis on developmental continuity within particular societies without reference to genesis or telos yields a protean body of ideas which changes according to circumstances. This paper suggests a…
Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001
Uniqueness and Similarities in the Study of Israeli Parties: The Case of the 2003 Elections
A survey of the literature on Israeli parties and elections reveals a gradual shift from a perception of the country as sui generis toward the study of Israeli parties as a seedbed for hypotheses to be tested elsewhere. The dramatic nature of the Israeli party system also renders it a suitable testing ground for dynamic heuristic models, such as one that explains strategic choices that guide party competitiveness under shifting circumtances. The …
David Rebovich
On the morning of the day before he passed away David Rebovich felt under the weather. However, no flu (as he believed it to be) could prevent him from meeting his students to plan the next activity sponsored by the Institute of New Jersey Politics. Nor could it keep him from staying after the meeting to speak with those students who had need for his help or advice. One of the latter was a senior who decided to pursue the sought-after position of…
The Hidden Agenda of the 2009 Elections
Ideology Party Change and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965–2001
Epilogue: A Comparative Perspective
Money, corruption, and political competition in established and emerging democracies
Preface by Michael Pinto-Duchinsky Chapter 1. Introduction: Political Finance, Corruption, and the Future of Democracy by Jonathan Mendilow Chapter 2. Do Parties Spend Too Much? by Manuela S. Kulick and Karl-Heinz Nassmacher Chapter 3. Parties as Competitive Public Utilities?: The Impact of the Regulatory System of Political Financing on the Party System in France by Lou Brenez Chapter 4. Campaign Financing and Politicians' Careers: A Dynamic Per…
Israel's Palestinian Minority: From 'Quietism' to Ethno-nationalism
Hillel Cohen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Palestinian Politics and the City since 1967 (New York: Routledge, 2011), 162 pp. Oded Haklai, Palestinian Ethnonationalism in Israel (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 243 pp. Amal Jamal, Arab Minority Nationalism in Israel: The Politics of Indigeneity (New York: Routledge, 2011), 324 pp. Ilan Pappé, The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel (New Ha…
The Telescoping Effects of Public Campaign Funding: Evaluating the Impact of Clean Elections in Arizona, Maine, and New Jersey
Supporters of public campaign funding say it democratizes the election process; detractors say it fails to meet its intended goals and, in fact, has unexpected negative results. Examining data from Arizona and Maine, which have full public funding, and from New Jersey's “Clean Election” pilot program, has enabled us to determine empirically if critics are correct. We conclude that neither advocates of Clean Elections nor its detractors are comple…
Corrupción y financiación electoral: Una perspectiva burkeana
At the end of 18th century when Britain became a calm and wealthy kingdom, the politician and thinker Edmond Burke was concerned with economic reform and political corruption in his country. Corruption was an increasing problem that threatened the government of any state if all cooperative relationship between political and social actors collapses. It was a time to reaffirm traditional values under new circumstances; therefore a Burkean perspecti…
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