315 Pages
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Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
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The elections to the 18th Knesset (legislature of Israel) were held on February 10, 2009, almost three years after the elections to the 17th Knesset and approximately twenty months before the original date set for them to be held. The elections are best understood in the context of the wars that were at each end of Ehud Olmert's government tenure, corruption scandals involving the prime minister,... Read more
Introduction; 1: Shifts in the Political Map: Who Won, Who Lost?; The Price of Fear: Israel Beiteinu in 2009; ‘All That Is Left’: The Demise of the Zionist Left Parties, 1992–2009; The Splintered Camp: Religious Zionist Parties in the 2009 Elections; Turning Points in Palestinian Politics in Israel: The 2009 Elections; The Losers: Who Didn’t Make It into the Knesset?; 2: Candidates; Chronicles of the Comeback that Was and the One that Almost Was; Tzip(p)ing through the Elections: Gender in the 2009 Elections; The Political Consequences of Candidate Selection to the 18th Knesset; 3: Political Communication; War on the Agenda: The Gaza Conflict and Communication in the 2009 Elections; Just Like in America: New Media in the 18th Knesset Election Campaign 1; The Election Compass: Party Profiling and Voter Attitudes
Biography
Michal Shamir
