Israel at the Polls 2015: A Moment of Transformative Stability

ISBN-13: 9780367143138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str.

Eithan Orkibi; Manfred Gerstenfeld

Opis

This book describes and analyses the political, sociological and cultural dimensions of the 2015 elections for the 20^th Knesset. Covering issues such as voters’ behaviour, coalition formation, figures of leadership, political identities, political communication and persuasion, this rich collection of essays offers a unique, comprehensive perspective on Israeli political culture and society in the midst of the 2015 elections. It also offers theoretical insights to anyone interested in parliamentary politics and party systems in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Israel Affairs.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Israel at the polls 2015: a moment of transformative stability Eithan Orkibi  Part I: Campaign and Results Analysis  2. The run up to Israel’s 2015 elections: a political history Manfred Gerstenfeld  3. Who turned out at the polls? Socioeconomic and geographic perspectives on 2015 voter turnouts in Israel Nir Atmor and Chen Friedberg  4. A new integrated model of the formation of coalitions: perspectives on the Twentieth Knesset Dganit Ofek and Assaf Meydani  Part II: Figures of Leadership and Political Identities  5. Likud’s success in the 2015 elections: Netanyahu’s Hobbesian moment Doron Navot and Aviad Rubin  6. De-militarization as political self-marginalization: Israeli Labor Party and the MISEs (members of Israeli security elite) 1977–2015 Udi Lebel and Guy Hatuka  7. The covert political ethnicity of the Kulanu party Nissim Leon  8. Back to the Knesset? Israeli Arab vote in the 20th Knesset elections Arik Rudnitzky  9. Leadership and identity politics on the eve of the Israeli 2015 elections: children’s perspectives Michal Alon-Tirosh and Dorit Hadar-Shoval  Part III: Media and New-Media  10. Not all about that Facebook: political campaigns and civic engagement in the 2015 elections Sharon Haleva-Amir  11. Trends in public and media agenda-setting during the 2015 Israeli elections Dana Weimann-Saks, Yaron Ariel, Vered Malka and Ruth Avidar  12. The F-campaign: a discourse network analysis of party leaders’ campaign statements on Facebook Nili Steinfeld  Part IV: Political Discourse and Persuasion  13. The enemy within us: emotional politics in the 2015 Israeli elections Mira Moshe  14. Pragmatic and value-based argumentation in the 2015 Israeli elections David Kleczewski and Ruth Amossy  15. The Bibi Sitter and the Hipster: the new comical political discourse Rafi Mann