Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

I. Four Variants of the Israeli Party System, 1965–2001
II. The Literature on Party System Change and the Case of Israel
III. Some Methodological Considerations

Part I. The Cluster Party System

2. The Formation of the Cluster Parties

I. Introduction: The First Israeli Party System
II. Party Clustering on the Right, 1955–1965
III. Party Clustering on the Left, 1959–1965

3. The Logic of the New Party System

I. Cluster Parties: Organizational and Ideological Dimensions
II. Ideological Depolarization
III. Structural Polarization
IV. Changes in Party Competition, Membership, and Finance
V. The Yom Kippur War and its Effects
VI. Summary and Conclusions

Part II. The Party-Bloc System

4. The Transition to the Party-Bloc System

I. Introduction: The Twilight of the Cluster Party System
II. Party Cluster Stability and the Elections of 1981
III. Campaign 1984: The Turning Point

5. The Campaigns of 1988 and 1992 and the Heyday of the Party-Bloc System

I. 1988, 1992, and the New Rules of the GameII. The Campaign of 1988 and Labor's Forced Conversion
III. 1992—The Coercion of the Labor and Likud Campaigns
IV. Summary and Conclusions

Part III. The Parlia-Presidential System

6. The Logic of the New System: Candidates in Search of Centers

I. Introduction: On Feeble Parties, Weak-Strong Prime Ministers, and Other Schemes of Mice and Men
II. From Oslo to the Opening of the 1996 Campaign: The Likud in Crisis

III. Campaign 1996 and the Strategy of Contrived Bipolarity

7. Straddling the Millennium

I. The Center That Could Not Hold
II. Barak, Mordechai, and Netanyahu: Alternative Routes to the Center
III. Again the Center Cannot Hold
IV. Parlia-Presidentialism's Last Hurrah
V. Summary

8. Epilogue: A Comparative Perspective

I. The Cases of India and France
II. A Note on the Future of Change

Notes

Bibliography

Index