The elections in Israel, 1992 /
As the momentum toward peace in the Middle East surges and wanes, the intensity of politics in Israel takes on added relevance. There can be little doubt that the historic Israel-PLO peace accord could not have occurred were it not for the turnabout elections of 1992. This volume, the seventh in a s...
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1995.
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| Series: | SUNY series in Israeli studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- Notes
- Content
- PART I: Political Turnover
- Two Reversals: Why 1992 Was Not 1977
- I. Introduction
- II. The Arithmetic of Reversal
- III. Issues and Demography
- IV. Who Went Where?
- V. Wedge Issues
- VI. More on the 1992 Election
- VII. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Modelling Victory in the 1992 Election
- I. Introduction
- II. Elements of the Model: Factors in the 1992 ElectionCandidates
- Perfarmance Evaluations
- Party Attachment
- The Social Basis of the Vote
- III. The Model
- IV. Empirical Results
- Utility Parameters-Importance for the Individual Voter
- Vote Probabilities: Party Blocs' Sources of Advantage
- Dispersion of Vote Probabilities
- The Sources of Electoral Turnover: 1992 versus 1988
- V. Summary and Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- PART II: Group Influences
- Penetrating the System: The Politics of Collective Identities
- I. Religious PartiesII. Jewish Ethnic Parties
- III. Arab Parties
- IV. Women's Parties
- V. Conclusion
- References
- Equal But Different? The Gender Gap in Israel's 1992 Elections
- I. Political Activity
- Political Efficacy
- Discussion of Political Affairs
- Voting
- Partisan Affiliation
- II. Opinions and Attitudes
- Views on Peace and Security
- Policy Preferences
- Voting Preferences
- III. Some Explanations
- The Development Model
- The Generational Model
- The Autonomy Model
- The Diffusion Model
- IV. Conclusions
- NotesReferences
- Shas-The Sephardic Torah Guardians: Religious Movement and Political Power
- I. The Campaign: Imagining the Movement
- II. Teshuva: Spiritual/Moral Movement
- III. Blessings, Prayers, and a Charm
- IV. Competition with Other Parties
- V. The Elections to the 1992 Knesset
- VI. Joining the Labor-led coalition
- VII. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- The Political Behavior of the Arabs in Israel in the 1992 Elections: Integration versus Segregation
- I. Parliamentary Elections and Political Marginalization
- II. From Passive to Active ParticipationIII. The 1992 Elections
- Political and Social Divisions
- Religious Divisions
- From Arab-Jewish to Arab Structure
- Citizenship Issues
- Voting Behavior
- In the Aftermath of the Elections
- IV. Concluding Remarks
- Note
- References
- Voting Trends of Recent Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union
- I. Introduction
- II. The Electoral Power of the Immigrants
- III. Determination of Political Positions
- IV. Issues and Party Preferences
- V. Trends in Party Preferences