Media Politics and Democracy in Palestine: Political Culture, Pluralism, and the Palestinian Authority

Jamal (political science, Tel Aviv U.) examines the institutional regime of the Palestinian Authority and the structure of power within it, the effect of the patterns of regime institutionalization on the emerging public sphere in its areas of jurisprudence, and the relationship between the political elite that dominates the Palestinian Authority and the social movements that seek to undermine the hegemony of the elite over society. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR