The Elections in Israel 1996

Contents

Contents Introduction Asher Arian and Michal Shamir PART ONE POLITICS OF IDENTITY 1 Elections as a Battleground over Collective Identity Baruch Kimmerling 2 Collective Identity in the 1996 Election Michal Shamir and Asher Arian 3 Religion and the Politics of Inclusion: The Success of the Ultra-Orthodox Parties Gideon Doran and Rebecca Kook 4 The Odd Group Out: The Arab-Palestinian Vote in the 1996 Elections Ilana Kaufman and Rachel Israeli 5 Determining Factors of the Vote among Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union Tamar Horowitz 6 "Old" versus "New" Politics in the 1996 Elections Yael Yishai PART TWO POLITICAL REFORM, PARTIES, CANDIDATES 7 The Electoral Consequences of Political Reform: 1 27 45 67 85 117 137 In Search of the Center of the Israeli Party System 163 Reuven Y. Hazan 8 The Likud's Double Campaign: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 187 Jonathan Mendilow 9 Peres the Leader, Peres the Politician 211 Michal Yaniv 10 The Party Primaries and Their Political Consequences 241 Gideon Rahat and Neta Sher-Hadar vii viii Contents 11 The Bias of Pluralism: The Redistributive Effects of the New Electoral Law 269 David Nachmias and Itai Sened 12 Balance in Election Coverage 295 Asher Arian, Gabriel Weimann, and Gadi Wolfsfeld Index 313 ...