04772nam 2200721Ia 450 991096864600332120200520144314.0978079148881207914888109780585463995058546399910.1515/9780791488812(CKB)111087027854234(EBL)3407938(SSID)ssj0000144874(PQKBManifestationID)11157667(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000144874(PQKBWorkID)10146523(PQKB)10226556(OCoLC)52774147(MdBmJHUP)muse5860(Au-PeEL)EBL3407938(CaPaEBR)ebr10587136(DE-B1597)681969(DE-B1597)9780791488812(MiAaPQ)EBC3407938(Perlego)2673821(EXLCZ)9911108702785423420020110d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe elections in Israel, 1999 /edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir in conjunction with the Israel Democracy InstituteAlbany State University of New York Pressc20021 online resource (304 p.)SUNY series in Israeli studiesDescription based upon print version of record.9780791453162 0791453162 9780791453155 0791453154 Includes bibliographical references and index.""THE ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL 1999""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Voting Behavior""; ""1. Candidates, Parties, and Blocs by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir""; ""2. Were Voters Strategic? by Paul R. Abramson and John H. Aldrich""; ""3. Split-ticket Voting in the 1996 and 1999 Elections by Dana Arieli-Horowitz""; ""4. Social Cleavages among non-Arab Voters A New Analysis by Michael Shalev with Sigal Kis""; ""Part II: Groups""; ""5. The Continuing Electoral Success of Shas: A Cultural Division of Labor Analysis by Yoav Peled""""6. Israel as an Ethnic State: The Arab Vote by Asâ€?ad Ghanem and Sarah Ozacky-Lazar""""7. The â€œRussianâ€? Revolution in Israeli Politics by Zvi Gitelman and Ken Goldstein""; ""Part III: Political Parties and the Election Campaign""; ""8. The Triumph of Polarization by Daphna Canetti, Howard L. Frant, and Ami Pedahzur""; ""9. Barak, Oneâ€?One Israel, Zero, Or, How Labor Won the Prime Ministerial Race and Lost the Knesset Elections by Gideon Doron""; ""10. The Likudâ€?s Campaign and the Headwaters of Defeat by Jonathan Mendilow""""11. The Appearance of the Center Party in the 1999 Elections by Nathan Yanai""""12. Candidate Selection in a Sea of Changes Unsuccesfully Trying to Adapt? by Gideon Rahat""; ""13. Struggles Over the Electoral Agenda: The Elections of 1996 and 1999 by Gabriel Weimann and Gadi Wolfsfeld""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""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.SUNY Series in Israeli StudiesElectionsIsraelIsraelPolitics and government1993-Elections324.95694/054Arian Alan1801097Shamir Michal1951-1028832Makhon ha-Yisre'li le-demokratyah.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910968646003321The elections in Israel, 19994367685UNINA