Jonathan Mendilow is Professor of Political Science at Rider University. He is the author of The Romantic Tradition in British Political Thought, and the editor of Political Theory From the French Revolution to the Rise of Fascism.

• Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction I. Four Variants of the Israeli Party System, 1965–2001II. The Literature on Party System Change and the Case of IsraelIII. Some Methodological Considerations Part I. The Cluster Party System 2. The Formation of the Cluster Parties I. Introduction: The First Israeli Party SystemII. Party Clustering on the Right, 1955–1965III. Party Clustering on the Left, 1959–1965 3. The Logic of the New Party System I. Cluster Parties: Organizational and Ideological DimensionsII. Ideological DepolarizationIII. Structural PolarizationIV. Changes in Party Competition, Membership, and FinanceV. The Yom Kippur War and its EffectsVI. Summary and Conclusions Part II. The Party-Bloc System 4. The Transition to the Party-Bloc System I. Introduction: The Twilight of the Cluster Party SystemII. Party Cluster Stability and the Elections of 1981III. Campaign 1984: The Turning Point 5. The Campaigns of 1988 and 1992 and the Heyday of the Party-Bloc System I. 1988, 1992, and the New Rules of the GameII. The Campaign of 1988 and Labor's Forced ConversionIII. 1992—The Coercion of the Labor and Likud Campaigns IV. Summary and Conclusions Part III. The Parlia-Presidential System 6. The Logic of the New System: Candidates in Search of Centers I. Introduction: On Feeble Parties, Weak-Strong Prime Ministers, and Other Schemes of Mice and MenII. From Oslo to the Opening of the 1996 Campaign: The Likud in Crisis III. Campaign 1996 and the Strategy of Contrived Bipolarity 7. Straddling the Millennium I. The Center That Could Not HoldII. Barak, Mordechai, and Netanyahu: Alternative Routes to the CenterIII. Again the Center Cannot HoldIV. Parlia-Presidentialism's Last HurrahV. Summary 8. Epilogue: A Comparative Perspective I. The Cases of India and FranceII. A Note on the Future of Change Notes Bibliography Index

Jonathan Mendilow is Professor of Political Science at Rider University. He is the author of The Romantic Tradition in British Political Thought, and the editor of Political Theory From the French Revolution to the Rise of Fascism.

• Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction I. Four Variants of the Israeli Party System, 1965–2001II. The Literature on Party System Change and the Case of IsraelIII. Some Methodological Considerations Part I. The Cluster Party System 2. The Formation of the Cluster Parties I. Introduction: The First Israeli Party SystemII. Party Clustering on the Right, 1955–1965III. Party Clustering on the Left, 1959–1965 3. The Logic of the New Party System I. Cluster Parties: Organizational and Ideological DimensionsII. Ideological DepolarizationIII. Structural PolarizationIV. Changes in Party Competition, Membership, and FinanceV. The Yom Kippur War and its EffectsVI. Summary and Conclusions Part II. The Party-Bloc System 4. The Transition to the Party-Bloc System I. Introduction: The Twilight of the Cluster Party SystemII. Party Cluster Stability and the Elections of 1981III. Campaign 1984: The Turning Point 5. The Campaigns of 1988 and 1992 and the Heyday of the Party-Bloc System I. 1988, 1992, and the New Rules of the GameII. The Campaign of 1988 and Labor's Forced ConversionIII. 1992—The Coercion of the Labor and Likud Campaigns IV. Summary and Conclusions Part III. The Parlia-Presidential System 6. The Logic of the New System: Candidates in Search of Centers I. Introduction: On Feeble Parties, Weak-Strong Prime Ministers, and Other Schemes of Mice and MenII. From Oslo to the Opening of the 1996 Campaign: The Likud in Crisis III. Campaign 1996 and the Strategy of Contrived Bipolarity 7. Straddling the Millennium I. The Center That Could Not HoldII. Barak, Mordechai, and Netanyahu: Alternative Routes to the CenterIII. Again the Center Cannot HoldIV. Parlia-Presidentialism's Last HurrahV. Summary 8. Epilogue: A Comparative Perspective I. The Cases of India and FranceII. A Note on the Future of Change Notes Bibliography Index

Jonathan Mendilow is Professor of Political Science at Rider University. He is the author of The Romantic Tradition in British Political Thought, and the editor of Political Theory From the French Revolution to the Rise of Fascism.

• Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction I. Four Variants of the Israeli Party System, 1965–2001II. The Literature on Party System Change and the Case of IsraelIII. Some Methodological Considerations Part I. The Cluster Party System 2. The Formation of the Cluster Parties I. Introduction: The First Israeli Party SystemII. Party Clustering on the Right, 1955–1965III. Party Clustering on the Left, 1959–1965 3. The Logic of the New Party System I. Cluster Parties: Organizational and Ideological DimensionsII. Ideological DepolarizationIII. Structural PolarizationIV. Changes in Party Competition, Membership, and FinanceV. The Yom Kippur War and its EffectsVI. Summary and Conclusions Part II. The Party-Bloc System 4. The Transition to the Party-Bloc System I. Introduction: The Twilight of the Cluster Party SystemII. Party Cluster Stability and the Elections of 1981III. Campaign 1984: The Turning Point 5. The Campaigns of 1988 and 1992 and the Heyday of the Party-Bloc System I. 1988, 1992, and the New Rules of the GameII. The Campaign of 1988 and Labor's Forced ConversionIII. 1992—The Coercion of the Labor and Likud Campaigns IV. Summary and Conclusions Part III. The Parlia-Presidential System 6. The Logic of the New System: Candidates in Search of Centers I. Introduction: On Feeble Parties, Weak-Strong Prime Ministers, and Other Schemes of Mice and MenII. From Oslo to the Opening of the 1996 Campaign: The Likud in Crisis III. Campaign 1996 and the Strategy of Contrived Bipolarity 7. Straddling the Millennium I. The Center That Could Not HoldII. Barak, Mordechai, and Netanyahu: Alternative Routes to the CenterIII. Again the Center Cannot HoldIV. Parlia-Presidentialism's Last HurrahV. Summary 8. Epilogue: A Comparative Perspective I. The Cases of India and FranceII. A Note on the Future of Change Notes Bibliography Index