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Who's the boss in Israel : Israel at the polls, 1988-89

Title: Who's the boss in Israel : Israel at the polls, 1988-89 / edited by Daniel J. Elazar and Shmuel Sandler.
Publication: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©1992.

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313 pages; 24 cm

Summary

On November 1, 1988, more than 2.5 million Israeli voters went to the polls to elect the country's twelfth Knesset. The election came after four years of a national unity government that many thought would collapse soon after its installation in September 1984. Because the two major parties around whom the grand coalition was built - Labor and Likud - had nowhere to go, the government survived the full term. In both major parties, the 1988 elections were hotly contested and many new faces appeared. The big news of the election was the gain in strength of the religious right, the ultra-Orthodox parties, a trend not predicted by a single election analyst. In many ways, the 1988 Knesset elections indicated a transformed Israeli polity, but not a revolutionized one. Who's the Boss in Israel is the first book on Israeli politics to cover an entire cycle of Israeli elections - for the Knesset, local authorities, and the Histadrut - which occurred over a fifteen-month span beginning in November 1988. Thirteen world-class scholars present a consistent, clear, and convincing picture of one of Israel's more puzzling elections. Their essays focus on the major political parties; campaign issues, such as foreign policy, war and peace, and party financing; and municipal and labor union elections. Included is first-hand data not easily found elsewhere, and the chapters on the local and Histadrut elections add a dimension that is not well known but helps in understanding electoral behavior. This authoritative volume provides a comprehensive discussion of the Israeli electoral scene as it existed prior to the 1988 elections and the present state and course of Israeli politics.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Forging a new political center / Daniel J. Elazar and Shmuel Sandler -- The Likud : moving toward the center / Giora Goldberg -- The labor party and electorial stalemate / Efraim Torgovnik -- Religion, social cleavages, and political behavior : the religious parties in the elections / Eliezer Don-Yehiya -- If things are so much better, how come they are worse : the policital fragmentation of the Arab community and the marginalization of Arab national politics / Hillel Frisch -- To influence and to be influenced : the election campaign to the 12th Knesset / Dan Caspi and Hanna Levinsohn -- Israel among the nations : foreign policy and the peace process / Gerald Steinberg -- War and peace, hopes and fears in the 1988 elections / Efraim Inbar -- The financing of elections and parties / Chaim Kalchheim and Shimon Rosevitch.
The 1989 local elections / Chaim Kalchheim and Shimon Rosevitch -- The 1989 Histadrut elections : thunder before the storm? / Giora Goldberg and Shmuel Tzabag -- Who is the boss today? Coalition government in Israel and the need for electoral reform / Daniel J. Elazar and Shmuel Sandler.

ISBN

0814323979
9780814323977

LCCN

92009029

OCLC

ocm25509035
25509035
SCSB-1971205

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Princeton University Library