The elections in Israel, 1999 / edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir ; in conjunction with the Israel Democracy Institute.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arian, Alan.

Shamir, Michal, 1951-

Makhon ha-Yiśreʼeli le-demoḳraṭyah.

Series:

SUNY series in Israeli studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israel. Keneset.

Elections--Israel.

Elections.

Israel.

Israel. Keneset--Elections, 1999.

Israel--Politics and government--1993-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Contents:

Part I. Voting Behavior

1. Candidates, Parties, and Blocs / Asher Arian, Michal Shamir 11

2. Were Voters Strategic? / Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich 33

3. Split-ticket Voting in the 1996 and 1999 Elections / Dana Arieli-Horowitz 45

4. Social Cleavages among non-Arab Voters: A New Analysis / Michael Shalev, Sigal Kis 67

Part II. Groups

5. The Continuing Electoral Success of Shas: A Cultural Division of Labor Analysis / Yoav Peled 99

6. Israel as an Ethnic State: The Arab Vote / As'ad Ghanem, Sarah Ozacky-Lazar 121

7. The "Russian" Revolution in Israeli Politics / Zvi Gitelman, Ken Goldstein 141

Part III. Political Parties and the Election Campaign

8. The Triumph of Polarization / Daphna Canetti, Howard L. Frant, Ami Pedahzur 165

9. Barak, One

One Israel, Zero, Or, How Labor Won the Prime Ministerial Race and Lost the Knesset Elections / Gideon Doron 179

10. The Likud's Campaign and the Headwaters of Defeat / Jonathan Mendilow 197

11. The Appearance of the Center Party in the 1999 Elections / Nathan Yanai 221

12. Candidate Selection in a Sea of Changes: Unsuccessfully Trying to Adapt? / Gideon Rahat 245

13. Struggles Over the Electoral Agenda: The Elections of 1996 and 1999 / Gabriel Weimann, Gadi Wolfsfeld 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791453154

0791453162

OCLC:

48773987