Author : Jonathan Mendilow
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487504
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Book Synopsis Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001 by : Jonathan Mendilow
Download or read book Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001 written by Jonathan Mendilow and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the turbulent changes in Israel party politics since the mid-1960s. The tumultuous and rapid political change experienced by Israel since 1965 has been reflected in the history of its party system. In this book, Jonathan Mendilow examines the party and party system transformations through the lens of the electoral campaigns that defined and reflected them. He shows that the relative stability of the dominant party system bequeathed from the pre-independence era was shattered in the 1960s, and replaced by cluster parties that vied for power in the ideological center, only to decline and be replaced in turn in the 1980s and early 1990s by ideological party blocs locked in centrifugal competition. With the separate direct election of the prime minister since the mid-1990s, there has been yet a third profound realignment in party structures, ideologies, and modes of campaigning, according to Mendilow. Jonathan Mendilow is Professor of Political Science at Rider University. He is the author of The Romantic Tradition in British Political Thought, and the editor of Political Theory From the French Revolution to the Rise of Fascism.