The Elections in Israel 2015

ISBN-13: 9780367890544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Michal Shamir; Gideon Rahat

Opis

The newest volume in the Elections in Israel series focuses on the twentieth Knesset elections held in March 2015 in the throes of the collapse of the third Netanyahu government. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main opposition party, the Zionist Camp, ran a negative election campaign, assuming that Israelis had grown tired of him.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments  1. Introduction, Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat  Part I The Party System: Comparative Institutional Perspectives  2. The Decline of the Large Mainstream Parties, Ofer Kenig and Or Tuttnauer  3. Apples and Oranges: Putting Electoral Thresholds in Context , Raz A. Eizenberg and Liran Harsgor  Part II Political Parties and Voters  4. A Ruling Party versus a Party Aspiring to Leadership: Likud and Jewish Home in the 2015 Elections, Asher Cohen and Menachem Lazar  5. Joint but Excluded: The Joint List in the 2015 Elections, Daniel Zucker  6. Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Israeli Politics: at a Crossroads,Viacheslav Konstantinov and Reut Itzkovitch-Malka  7. Taken Captive by the Collective Identity Cleavage: Left and Right in the 2015 Elections, Michal Shamir, Shira Dvir-Gvirsman, and Raphael Ventura  Part III Political Communication  8. Political Personalization Online: Parties and Politicians in the 2015 Elections, Shahaf Zamir and Gideon Rahat  9. Attitudes toward Media, Perceived Media Influence, and Changes in Voting Intentions in the 2015 Elections,Yariv Tsfati  10. Surveys and Election Forecasts in a World of Social Media and Party Dealignment, Camil Fuchs

O autorze

Michal Shamir is the Alvin Z. Rubinstein Professor of Political Science at Tel-Aviv University. She has authored and edited several books and numerous articles on elections, public opinion and democratic culture, and directs the Israel National Election Studies (INES).

Gideon Rahat is the Gersten Family Chair in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published numerous studies on the politics of reform, democratic institutions, candidate and leadership selection and political personalization.