Hillel Frisch / Manfred Gerstenfeld / Shmeul Sandler (Hrsg.)

Israel at the Polls 2009

Herausgeber: Sandler, Shmuel; Frisch, Hillel; Gerstenfeld, Manfred

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes political and sociological developments in Israel before and after the February 2009 elections, alongside an analysis of electoral trends. It provides an effective analysis of contemporary political and sociological Israeli history. Rather than focusing narrowly on electoral politics alone, this book broadens its focus to make it relevant to undergraduate and graduate students in Middle Eastern, Israeli and Jewish studies and the liberal arts. Israel at the Polls has been updated and published annually for thirty years, providing readers with up-to-date analysis and continuity of scholarship; this book offers an expert long-term assessment of Israeli politics. This book was published as a special issue of Israel Affairs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780415560658
• ISBN-10: 0415560659
• Artikelnr.: 29927990

Autorenporträt

Shmuel Sandler is the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Sara and Simha Lainer Chair in Democracy and Civility, at Bar-Ilan University, and is a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Israel. Manfred Gerstenfeld is Chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in Israel, and an editor of the Jewish Political Studies Review. Hillel Frisch is Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Middle Eastern History, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The 2009 Knesset elections: a foreign affairs perspective Shmuel Sandler
and Hillel Frisch 2. The run-up to the elections: a political history of
the 2009 campaign Manfred Gerstenfeld The Parties 3. Kadima goes back: the
limited power of vagueness Giora Goldberg 4. The Likud: the struggle for
the centre Abraham Diskin 5. The decline of the Labour party Efraim Inbar
6. Stability in the Haredi camp and upheavals in nationalist Zionism: an
analysis of the religious parties in the 2009 elections Asher Cohen and
Bernard Susser 7. The Israel Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) party between the
mainstream and 'Russian' community politics Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin 8. Arab
Israeli citizens in the 2009 elections: between Israeli citizenship and
Palestinian Arab identity David Koren The Issues 9. Peace and security in
the 2009 election Jonathan Rynhold 10. Corruption again, and again not
decisive Ira Sharkansky 11. Israel's religious vote in comparative
perspective: an Africanist analysis William F.S. Miles