Elections in Israel 1999

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 Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University.

• Introduction Part I. Voting Behavior 1. Candidates, Parties, and BlocsAsher Arian and Michal Shamir 2. Were Voters Strategic?Paul R. Abramson and John H. Aldrich 3. Split-ticket Voting in the 1996 and 1999 ElectionsDana Arieli-Horowitz 4. Social Cleavages among non-Arab Voters: A New AnalysisMichael Shalev with Sigal Kis Part II. Groups 5. The Continuing Electoral Success of Shas: A Cultural Division of Labor AnalysisYoav Peled 6. Israel as an Ethnic State: The Arab VoteAs'ad Ghanem and Sarah Ozacky-Lazar 7. The "Russian" Revolution in Israeli PoliticsZvi Gitelman and Ken Goldstein Part III. Political Parties and the Election Campaign 8. The Triumph of PolarizationDaphna Canetti, Howard L. Frant, and Ami Pedahzur 9. Barak, One—One Israel, Zero, Or, How Labor Won the Prime Ministerial Race and Lost the Knesset ElectionsGideon Doron10. The Likud's Campaign and the Headwaters of DefeatJonathan Mendilow 11. The Appearance of the Center Party in the 1999 ElectionsNathan Yanai 12. Candidate Selection in a Sea of Changes: Unsuccessfully Trying to Adapt?Gideon Rahat 13. Struggles Over the Electoral Agenda: The Elections of 1996 and 1999 269Gabriel Weimann and Gadi Wolfsfeld ContributorsIndex

"This book covers the elections from a number of different standpoints, and does it well. There are many surprising elements, including the reasons for the death of the major parties, the failure of the Center Party when only weeks before the election it was thought that it would be a major force, the reemergence of class as a variable, and more." — Joel S. Migdal, author of Through the Lens of Israel: Explorations in State and Society"In a single illuminating volume that deals with one of Israel's most critical election campaigns, Arian and Shamir have brought together the best researchers engaged in studying Israeli politics. All the important issues deriving from the 1999 election are discussed in depth and from a comparative perspective. Anyone desirous of learning about Israeli politics will be highly rewarded by this collection." — Hanna Herzog, Tel Aviv University