Ideology, party change and electoral campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001 / Jonathan Mendilow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendilow, Jonathan.

Series:

SUNY series in Israeli studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Representative government and representation--Israel.

Representative government and representation.

Israel--Politics and government.

Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 300 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The tumultuous and rapid political change experienced by Israel since 1965 has been reflected in the history of its party system. In this book, Jonathan Mendilow examines the party and party system transformations through the lens of the electoral campaigns that defined and reflected them. He shows that the relative stability of the dominant party system bequeathed from the pre-independence era was shattered in the 1960s, and replaced by cluster parties that vied for power in the ideological center, only to decline and be replaced in turn in the 1980s and early 1990s by ideological party blocs locked in centrifugal competition. With the separate direct election of the prime minister since the mid-1990s, there has been yet a third profound realignment in party structures, ideologies, and modes of campaigning, according to Mendilow.

Contents:

The formation of the cluster parties

The logic of the new party system

The transition to the party-bloc system

The campaigns of 1988 and 1992 and the heyday of the party-bloc system

The logic of the new system : candidates in search of centers

Straddling the millennium.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-291) and index.

ISBN:

9780791487501

0791487504

9781417520152

1417520159

OCLC:

61367639