| The Local Dimension in Israeli Government and Politics (12411 words) |
 | Both reflect that face of territorial democracy which allows people with strong common beliefs to settle together and, through the governance of the territory upon which they are settled, to assure that their beliefs will be sufficiently dominant locally to make it possible to protect a common way of life. |
| Their "natural" territorialism remained within and was substantially compatible with the existing system of ideological democracy as long as the territories were populated exclusively by people with professed ideological commitments who viewed the world in the appropriate ideological categories and were satisfied to function within the overall ideological structure of the society, i.e. |
| The opposition parties lost control of most of the local governments which had been in their hands in the prestate period and were replaced by new coalitions dominated by Mapai, the Israel Labor party that was dominant in the country as a whole. |
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