Emanuele Ottolenghi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4380792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emanuele Ottolenghi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emanuele |
| FAMILY NAME | Ottolenghi |
| SIGNATURE | OTTOLENGHI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The War Within
Making sense of European anti-semitism
The 2006 Election and the Legacy of the Direct Election System
The Isaiah Berlin Public Lectures in Middle East Dialogue
The Isaiah Berlin Public Lectures in Middle East Dialogue:An Introductory Note Emanuele Ottolenghi (bio) Early in 2002, an anonymous donor decided to support Israel studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. It was then a difficult time for Israel in the world of academe: the funding of a post in Israeli Society, Politics and Law coincided with the launch of an academic boycott against Israeli universities that soon turned agains…
Why Palestinians and Israelis are not ready for peace
Choosing a prime minister
The article discusses changes in executive–legislative relations in Israel during the early 1990s, in particular the introduction of the so-called direct election system for the prime minister. The reform was an effort to strengthen the executive and empower the prime minister, since it hoped to achieve a drastic reduction in the number of parties, hence facilitating the job of coalition making and maintenance. The reform, however, failed to achi…
Paradise Lost
POST-ZIONISM HAS BEEN A growing focus of public as well as academic debate in Israel and abroad for much of the past decade. Though the term loosely relates to a composite community of scholars, essayists, writers, artists and intellectuals, who by no means share the same views, methodological approaches or even fields of inquiry, the term somehow stuck and by and large has become accepted. Given the growing relevance of the phenomenon and the am…
Explaining systemic failure
Sopravvivere Senza Governare
IntroduzioneA seguito di un prolungato periodo di paralisi politica e frammentazione partitica durante gli anni ottanta, nel marzo 1992 il parlamento israeliano – la Knesset – adottò un nuovo e originale sistema consistente nell'elezione diretta del Premier –in contemporanea con l'elezione del parlamento – e nel mantenimento del legame fiduciario tra legislatore e governo. Scopo principale della riforma era di rafforzare l'esecutivo e garantire u…
Carl Schmitt and the Jewish Leviathan
C ONFLICTS BETWEEN COURTS AND DEMOCRATICALLY elected institutions are common to many western countries, especially when judicial bodies perform review of statutes.' Although contested as undemocratic, judicial review is justified as being the enforcement of a supra-legal norm,2 usually a constitution, whose binding force is higher than primary legislation and whose function is to create limits for the use of popular sovereignty.3 Israel lacks a w…
Why Direct Election Failed in Israel
Less than a decade ago, Israel became the world's first parliamentary democracy to adopt direct popular election as the method of choosing its prime minister. The passage of this controversial reform was spurred by a three-month-long government crisis in the spring of 1990, during which Israelis looked on in shock and dismay as members of their parliament (the 120-seat Knesset) indulged in an unprecedented public orgy of floor-crossing and unseem…
Religion and Democracy in Israel
Immobility, stability and ineffectiveness
The Israeli parliamentary system has recently undergone radical structural changes due to the introduction of direct election of the Prime Minister. This paper sets out, first, to describe briefly the reform as a consequence of particular political developments of the Israeli system. Then a definition will be suggested within the framework of the on‐going theoretical debate about the classification of the system, either as a new form of governmen…
Why Direct Election Failed in Israel
Less than a decade ago, Israel became the world's first parliamentary democracy to adopt direct popular election as the method of choosing its prime minister. The passage of this controversial reform was spurred by a three-month-long government crisis in the spring of 1990, during which Israelis looked on in shock and dismay as members of their parliament (the 120-seat Knesset) indulged in an unprecedented public orgy of floor-crossing and unseem…
Religion and Democracy in Israel
Choosing a prime minister
The article discusses changes in executive–legislative relations in Israel during the early 1990s, in particular the introduction of the so-called direct election system for the prime minister. The reform was an effort to strengthen the executive and empower the prime minister, since it hoped to achieve a drastic reduction in the number of parties, hence facilitating the job of coalition making and maintenance. The reform, however, failed to achi…
Immobility, stability and ineffectiveness
The Israeli parliamentary system has recently undergone radical structural changes due to the introduction of direct election of the Prime Minister. This paper sets out, first, to describe briefly the reform as a consequence of particular political developments of the Israeli system. Then a definition will be suggested within the framework of the on‐going theoretical debate about the classification of the system, either as a new form of governmen…
Carl Schmitt and the Jewish Leviathan
C ONFLICTS BETWEEN COURTS AND DEMOCRATICALLY elected institutions are common to many western countries, especially when judicial bodies perform review of statutes.' Although contested as undemocratic, judicial review is justified as being the enforcement of a supra-legal norm,2 usually a constitution, whose binding force is higher than primary legislation and whose function is to create limits for the use of popular sovereignty.3 Israel lacks a w…
Explaining systemic failure
Sopravvivere Senza Governare
IntroduzioneA seguito di un prolungato periodo di paralisi politica e frammentazione partitica durante gli anni ottanta, nel marzo 1992 il parlamento israeliano – la Knesset – adottò un nuovo e originale sistema consistente nell'elezione diretta del Premier –in contemporanea con l'elezione del parlamento – e nel mantenimento del legame fiduciario tra legislatore e governo. Scopo principale della riforma era di rafforzare l'esecutivo e garantire u…
Immobility, stability and ineffectiveness
The Israeli parliamentary system has recently undergone radical structural changes due to the introduction of direct election of the Prime Minister. This paper sets out, first, to describe briefly the reform as a consequence of particular political developments of the Israeli system. Then a definition will be suggested within the framework of the on‐going theoretical debate about the classification of the system, either as a new form of governmen…
Religion and Democracy in Israel
Carl Schmitt and the Jewish Leviathan
C ONFLICTS BETWEEN COURTS AND DEMOCRATICALLY elected institutions are common to many western countries, especially when judicial bodies perform review of statutes.' Although contested as undemocratic, judicial review is justified as being the enforcement of a supra-legal norm,2 usually a constitution, whose binding force is higher than primary legislation and whose function is to create limits for the use of popular sovereignty.3 Israel lacks a w…
Why Direct Election Failed in Israel
Less than a decade ago, Israel became the world's first parliamentary democracy to adopt direct popular election as the method of choosing its prime minister. The passage of this controversial reform was spurred by a three-month-long government crisis in the spring of 1990, during which Israelis looked on in shock and dismay as members of their parliament (the 120-seat Knesset) indulged in an unprecedented public orgy of floor-crossing and unseem…
Explaining systemic failure
Sopravvivere Senza Governare
IntroduzioneA seguito di un prolungato periodo di paralisi politica e frammentazione partitica durante gli anni ottanta, nel marzo 1992 il parlamento israeliano – la Knesset – adottò un nuovo e originale sistema consistente nell'elezione diretta del Premier –in contemporanea con l'elezione del parlamento – e nel mantenimento del legame fiduciario tra legislatore e governo. Scopo principale della riforma era di rafforzare l'esecutivo e garantire u…
Paradise Lost
POST-ZIONISM HAS BEEN A growing focus of public as well as academic debate in Israel and abroad for much of the past decade. Though the term loosely relates to a composite community of scholars, essayists, writers, artists and intellectuals, who by no means share the same views, methodological approaches or even fields of inquiry, the term somehow stuck and by and large has become accepted. Given the growing relevance of the phenomenon and the am…
Why Palestinians and Israelis are not ready for peace
Choosing a prime minister
The article discusses changes in executive–legislative relations in Israel during the early 1990s, in particular the introduction of the so-called direct election system for the prime minister. The reform was an effort to strengthen the executive and empower the prime minister, since it hoped to achieve a drastic reduction in the number of parties, hence facilitating the job of coalition making and maintenance. The reform, however, failed to achi…
The Isaiah Berlin Public Lectures in Middle East Dialogue
The Isaiah Berlin Public Lectures in Middle East Dialogue:An Introductory Note Emanuele Ottolenghi (bio) Early in 2002, an anonymous donor decided to support Israel studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. It was then a difficult time for Israel in the world of academe: the funding of a post in Israeli Society, Politics and Law coincided with the launch of an academic boycott against Israeli universities that soon turned agains…
The War Within
Making sense of European anti-semitism
The 2006 Election and the Legacy of the Direct Election System
Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Judaism (3 works)