Introduction
Asher Arian and Michal Shamir
Part One
Politics of Identity
1
Elections As a Battleground over Collective Identity
Baruch Kimmerling
2
Collective Identity in the 1996 Election
Michal Shamir and Asher Arian
3
Religion and the Politics of Inclusion: The Success of the Ultra-Orthodox Parties
Gideon Doron and Rebecca Kook
4
The Odd Group Out: The Arab-Palestinian Vote in the 1996 Elections
Ilana Kaufman and Rachel Israeli
5
Determining Factors of the Vote among Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union
Tamar Horowitz
6
"Old" versus "New" Politics in the 1996 Elections
Yael Yishai
Part Two
Political Reform, Parties, Candidates
7
The Electoral Consequences of Political Reform: In Search of the Center of the Israeli Party System
Reuven Y. Hazan
8
The Likud's Double Campaign: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Jonathan Mendilow
9
Peres the Leader, Peres the Politician
Michal Yaniv
10
The Party Primaries and Their Political Consequences
Gideon Rahat and Neta Sher-Hadar
11
The Bias of Pluralism: The Redistributive Effects of the New Electoral Law
David Nachmias and Itai Sened
12
Balance in Election Coverage
Asher Arian, Gabriel Weimann, and Gadi Wolfsfeld
Index