Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents viii
3. Introduction 1
4. PART ONE Politics of Identity
5. CHAPTER 1 Elections as a Battleground over Collective Identity 27
6. CHAPTER 2 Collective Identity in the 1996 Election 45
7. CHAPTER 3 Religion and the Politics of Inclusion The Success of the Ultra-Orthodox Parties 67
8. CHAPTER 4 The Odd Group Out The Arab-Palestinian Vote in the 1996 Elections 85
9. CHAPTER 5 Determining Factors of the Vote among Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union 117
10. CHAPTER 6 "Old" versus "New" Politics in the 1996 Elections 137
11. PART TWO Political Reform, Parties, Candidates
12. CHAPTER 7 The Electoral Consequences of Political Reform 163
13. CHAPTER 8 The Likud's Double Campaign 187
14. CHAPTER 9 Peres the Leader, Peres the Politician 211
15. CHAPTER 10 The 1996 Party Primaries and Their Political Consequences 241
16. CHAPTER 11 The Bias of Pluralism 269
17. CHAPTER 12 Balance in Election Coverage 295
18. Index 313