National Security and Public Opinion in Israel

Arian, Asher

Reference

Routledge

The Elections In Israel1988

Shamir, Michal

The glamour of New York City politics competes in the American consciousness with the scourges of crime, crack and homelessness. The political structure of the city is undoubtedly very complicated, with an extremely diverse mix of ethnic and racial groups and correspondingly complex electoral alignments. This book looks at the motivation behind the election by the voters of NYC of their first African-American mayor, David Dinkins. While race may seem the obvious explanation, the authors show that it is far from the whole story. Dinkins' election was dependent on vast numbers of defections from traditional Democratic voting groups. While New York's blacks did vote overwhelmingly for Dinkins, he could not have won without support from white liberal, Latino and Jewish voters and even a significant fraction of white ethnic Catholics. "Changing New York City Politics" addresses issues central to the political agenda of the United States and of any country with a population of very mixed ethnic origin. This book should be of interest to postgraduates and researchers in American studies, voting behaviour and racial studies.

Changing New York City Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Mollenkopf, John H.

Goldberg, Arthur S.

Rogowsky, E.

Politics & Government

Exploration of New York City politics with numerous figures, notes, appendices, bibliography, index, 247 pages.

History

Americas

Security Threatened: Surveying Israeli Opinion on Peace and War (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)

Public opinion has played a crucial role in the transitions from war to peace in Israel since the 1967 Six Day War. Security Threatened is the first major analysis of the interactions among opinion, politics and policy in that period, based on opinion surveys of thousands of adult Jews conducted between 1962 and 1994. The public divided during those years into militant hardliners and more conciliatory security positions, and power either shifted between, or was shared by, the Likud and Labor parties.

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Cambridge University Press

Politics in Israel: The Second Generation

Chatham House Pub

Changing New York City Politics (Routledge Revivals)

Rogowsky, Edward T.

The Elections in Israel--2006 brings together leading Israeli and North American social scientists and their state-of-the-art, in-depth analysis of the 2006 Israeli national elections. The 2006 elections occurred soon after the unilateral withdrawal of Israeli settlers and the army from the Gaza Strip and the departure of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from active politics due to a massive stroke. Sharon had engineered the withdrawal from Gaza. The policy brought about a split in his ruling Likud party, and Sharon led his group to coalesce with other groups (including Labor's Shimon Peres) to form a new party, Kadima. For the first time in Israeli political history, a party of the ideological center was poised to be the top vote getter. Kadima's victory ensured the accession of Ehud Olmert, who became Israel's new prime minister.Labor, too, had fielded a new leader in the person of Amir Peretz, a former head of the country's Histadruth labor union; he attempted to focus the campaign on social and economic issues, but the campaign reverted back to security and foreign affairs. Ironically, in the post-election government, Peretz was given the post of defense minister. Likud was unable to recover from the departure of Sharon and other leaders. Its leader.The 2006 elections also saw a precipitous drop in voter turnout compared to previous elections. Parties and politicians were plagued by low levels of trust on the part of the electorate and revelations of corruption were rife. The Arabs and the religious Jewish parties each faced challenges in retaining their strength in the electorate and in the governing coalition.This volume also illuminates developments and changes in Israeli society and politics. Many of these developments--multiculturalism, changes in social stratification, sinking turnout, growing mistrust of political institutions, and political reforms--characterize other Western democracies as well, and these are discussed from a comparative global perspective. The Elections in Israel--2006 will also be of particular interest to those concerned with comparative politics and elections in general.

The Elections in Israel 2006

Politics in Israel is an incisive guide to Israel’s rich past, unpredictable present, and promising but undoubtedly turbulent future. 
In his new second edition, Asher Arian again takes a comprehensive look at the country’s history, demography, economy, and sociology―and provides cogent analysis of its ever-changing role in the Middle East. Informed by the latest opinion polls, survey data, and election results, Arian clarifies the major issues facing Israeli culture and politics, and explains the complexities of Israel’s political institutions, political behavior, and public policies. He chronicles the significant events in this dynamic nation′s relatively brief experience of self-governance and introduces readers to the exceptional personalities who have defined its domestic landscape. 
New and expanded coverage in the second edition features: 
<ul>
<li>the impact of immigration from the former Soviet Union</li>
<li>the adoption and cancellation of the direct election of the prime minister</li>
<li>the constitutional revolution occasioned by the expansion of judicial review</li>
<li>the weakening of political parties</li>
<li>the decentralization of the economy and emergence of a stronger capitalist ethic</li>
<li>the political impact of the second intifada</li>
<li>and the dominance of Ariel Sharon</li>
</ul>

Politics in Israel: The Second Republic

Middle East

CQ Press

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