Jonathan Mendilow 
Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001 [PDF ebook] 

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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 Game II. 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

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.