The Elections in Israel 1996

Leading social scientists from Israeli and American universities, using different methods and representing diverse intellectual traditions, address the precedent-setting events of Israel's 1996 elections. The contributors discuss the meaning of collective identity, the role of religion and nationalism in modern Israel, the political behavior of Israeli Arabs, the secrets of success of the immigrant party. Also discussed are issues such as the impact of the direct election law on party organization, primaries and coalition-formation calculations, the repeated electoral failure of Shimon Peres, and the role of the media in the election campaign.

The 1996 elections in Israel represented a "first" in Israeli politics in many ways. For the first time Israelis directly elected their prime minister and, in simultaneous but separate elections, they elected their 120-member Knesset (parliament). Also, it was first time that elections were held after the mutual recognition of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization following the Oslo accords and it was the fir

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 Associate Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. Both edited The Elections in Israel 1992, also published by SUNY Press.

Introduction	p. 1
Politics of Identity
Elections as a Battleground over Collective Identity	p. 27
Collective Identity in the 1996 Election	p. 45
Religion and the Politics of Inclusion: The Success of the Ultra-Orthodox Parties	p. 67
The Odd Group Out: The Arab-Palestinian Vote in the 1996 Elections	p. 85
Determining Factors of the Vote among Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union	p. 117
"Old" versus "New" Politics in the 1996 Elections	p. 137
Political Reform, Parties, Candidates
The Electoral Consequences of Political Reform: In Search of the Center of the Israeli Party System	p. 163
The Likud's Double Campaign: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea	p. 187
Peres the Leader, Peres the Politician	p. 211
The Party Primaries and Their Political Consequences	p. 241
The Bias of Pluralism: The Redistributive Effects of the New Electoral Law	p. 269
Balance in Election Coverage	p. 295
Index	p. 313
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