1 Candidates, Parties, and Blocs

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Voting Behavior
5. Candidates, Parties, and Blocs 11
6. Were Voters Strategic? 33
7. Split-Ticket Voting in the 1996 and 1999 Elections 45
8. Social Cleavages Among Non-Arab Voters a New Analysis 67
9. Groups
10. The Continuing Electoral Success of Shas 99
11. Israel as an Ethnic State 121
12. The “Russian” Revolution in Israeli Politics 141
13. Political Parties and the Election Campaign
14. The Triumph of Polarization 165
15. Barak, One—One Israel, Zero, Or, How Labor Won the Prime Ministerial Race and Lost the Knesset Elections 179
16. The Likud’s Campaign and the Headwaters of Defeat 197
17. The Appearance of the Center Party in the 1999 Elections 221
18. Candidate Selection in a Sea of Changes 245
19. Struggles Over the Electoral Agenda 269
20. Contributors 289
21. Index 293