ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationships between state organizations, big business corporations, nongovernmental interest groups, and institutional elites in a relatively unexamined site: the Israeli political-economic system. It examines the relationships between the numerous participants in state policymaking through research on policy forums in the economic domain. To study the structure of policy forum networks in the economic domain in Israel, the chapter describes the factors influencing the construction of this structure; analyzes the structure of policy networks over time and the factors responsible for stability or instability; and studies the roles played by elite position holders in the formation and maintenance of this structure. The main actors in the political-economic structure of Israel are state organizations, big business groups, and various interest group organizations. Along with state organizations and big business corporations, interest group organizations form a key part of the political-economic structure.
