Abstract
From a European point of view, the Israeli political system considers the Fourth Republic in France the worst period. It was unable to resolve the Algerian insurrection because of the change of the government and the recent setbacks suffered in the attempts to build a viable coalition government in Belgium. The decision of the Knesset Constitution Committee, to start discussing a shift from straight proportional representation to a mixed system, in which a quarter of the Knesset is elected regionally, could imply a gradual move from the consensual democracy to the majority democracy. A consensus democracy may then be considered an ineffective way of governing Israel. While on one hand, a consensus democracy does not mean systematically political instability, on the other, we may wonder if this political system negatively affects the public policy making.
