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Israeli Election Study, 1999
Author: The Elections in Israel 1999
Author: Asher ArianPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791488810
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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This volume highlights Israel's 1999 elections, in which the prime-ministerial race between incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak ended with Barak winning by the biggest landslide ever in Israel. Although some observers interpreted these results as a fundamental shift in public opinion, there is little evidence to support this. The book shows how old patterns funneled into a new system of voting produced the 1999 results, where a weak candidate (Barak) bested a wounded prime minister (Netanyahu) abandoned by most of his political allies. Leading social scientists from Israeli and American universities, using a variety of approaches and coming from diverse intellectual traditions, address topics including the emergence of political blocs, strategic voting, and split ticket voting. In addition to major party performance, special interest parties—who did better than ever in 1999—are also discussed, such as the haredi, ultra-orthodox, non-Zionist Shas, the anti-haredi secular Shinui, two parties appealing to former Soviet émigrés and Arab parties.
Israel at the Polls, 1999
Author: Daniel Judah ElazarPublisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780714681801
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Israel's leading political commentators and scientists analyze the revival of the Israeli Left and the increased influence of ethnic Sephards, Russian and Arab electorates in the 1999 elections.
Observations on the Israeli Elections of 1999 and 2001
Author: Ellen Debra GinsbergPublisher:
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Category : Israel
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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The 1999 Israeli Elections : Implications for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Author: Jacoby, Tami AmandaPublisher:
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Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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The Elections In Israel
Author: Alan ArianPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412822381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The Elections in Israel--2003 brings together leading Israeli and North American social scientists and their state-of-the-art, in-depth analysis of the 2003 Israeli national elections. These elections returned Ariel Sharon and the Likud to power amid one of the bloodiest rounds of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and a severe economic downturn in Israel. Contributors analyze the electoral behavior of the voters as a whole and various subgroups, highlighting social cleavages and identity, as well as issues and other strategic considerations. Three chapters analyze in detail the Arab, the national-religious, and the "Russian" vote. The 2003 elections saw Israel's return to the family of parliamentary nations after it experimented with the direct election of the prime minister from 1996 through 2001. The impact of the adoption and repeal of this unique Israeli system of government is another major topic covered in this volume, and several contributions explore the impact of these changes upon the electorate, the party system, and party financing. Other unusual features of the 2003 elections were the low turnout levels among Jewish and Arab voters; political moves to disqualify Arab candidates and lists from running for office, which were overruled by the Supreme Court of Israel; the collapse of the left, the spectacular showing of the centrist Shinui party, and the dominant status of the Likud in the Knesset and in Israeli politics. Through its focus on the 2003 elections, this volume also illuminates developments and changes in Israeli society and politics. Many of these developments--multiculturalism, changes in social stratification, the growing role of the judiciary and of the media, and political reforms--characterize other Western democracies as well, and these are discussed from a comparative perspective. The Elections in Israel--2003 will be of particular interest to those concerned with politics in Israel as well as those concerned with comparative politics and elections in general. Asher Arian is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, and professor of political science at the University of Haifa. Michal Shamir is professor of political science at Tel Aviv University.
The Last Days in Israel
Author: Abraham DiskinPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714654218
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This volume examines the challenges and circumstances Israel has faced during the 1990s and addresses both the public's and leadership's singular goal of "peace and security".
Israeli Election Study, 2001
Author: The Modernization of Israeli Elections, 1996-1999
Author: Ben BrissiThe Elections in Israel, 2001
Author: Michal ShamirPublisher:
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Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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