The Elections in Israel 1999

Contributors

Contributors Paul R. Abramson is Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. He is author of Generational Change in American Politics, The Political Socialization of Black Americans, Political Attitudes in America, co-author of Value Change in Global Perspective, and Change and Continuity in the 2000 Elections. John H. Aldrich is Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He is the author of Before the Convention and Why Parties, and the coauthor of Change and Continuity in the 2000 Elections, among other books and articles. Asher Arian is Distinguished Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Political Science at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, Professor of Political Science at the University of Haifa, Israel, and a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. His books include The Second Republic: Politics in Israel; Security Threatened: Surveying Israeli Opinion on Peace and War, and the co-authored Executive Governance in Israel. He has been editing the Elections in Israel series since 1969. Dana Arieli-Horowitz is a lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on the interrelations between art and politics in totalitarian regimes and on political behavior in Israel. She is the author of Romanticism of Steel: Art and Politics in Nazi Germany. Daphna Canetti is a Ph.D. candidate and a lecturer of political science and political psychology in the Political Science Department, The University of Haifa, Israel. Her research interests are in political science, political psychology and Israeli politics and especially in mass beliefs and behavior in the socio-political arena. Gideon Doron teaches political science at Tel Aviv University. Amongst his recent publications are Political Bargaining with Itai Sened (2001) and Public Policy and Electoral Reform with Michael Harris (2000). Howard L. Frant is senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa. His work on the interaction between political institutions and public administration has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and the International Public Management Journal. 290 Contributors As’ad Ghanem is a lecturer and researcher at the political science department at the University of Haifa. He is the author of The Palestinian Regime: A Partial Democracy (Sussex Academic Press, 2001) and The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel: A Political Study (SUNY Press, 2001). Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science, Preston Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, and Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author, most recently, of A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union (Indiana University Press, 2001) and editor of Modern Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: Bundism and Zionism (University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming 2001) and of Jewish Life after the USSR: A Community in Transition (Indiana University Press, forthcoming, 2002). Gitelman is currently engaged in a study of Jewish identities in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine. Ken Goldstein isassistantprofessorofpoliticalscienceattheUniversityofWisconsinMadison . He is the author of Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Participation in America, published by Cambridge University Press. His research on political advertising, turnout, campaign finance, survey methodology, and presidential elections has also appeared in The American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, andPolitical Communication as well as in a series of book chapters. Sigal Kis is a graduate student in Political Science at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests are in political behavior, political sophistication, and information. Jonathan Mendilow is a professor of political science at Rider University, Lawrenceville, N.J. He has published extensively in the fields of political theory and comparative politics. His latest book, Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001 will be published by the State University of New York press. Sarah Ozacky-Lazar has a Ph.D. from Haifa University in Middle Eastern Studies. She is the co-directory of the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace and the director of “The Institute for Peace Research’’ at Givat Haviva, Israel. She writes extensively on the Palestinian-Arab community in Israel and its relations with the State. She co-edited the book “7 Roads: Theoretical Options for the Status of the Arabs in Israel” (Givat Haviva 1999) and edits and writes two series: Surveys on the Arabs in Israel (since 1990) and Palestinian Studies (since 1994). Ami Pedahzur is a lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Haifa, Israel. He recently published a book...