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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780310503321

Autore

Mendilow Jonathan

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

0-7914-8750-4

1-4175-2015-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 300 pages)

Collana

SUNY series in Israeli studies

Disciplina

324.25694

Soggetti

Representative government and representation - Israel

Israel Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.