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Introduction / Asher Arian and Michal Shamir -- Voting behavior -- Kadima - forward in a dealigned party system / Michal Shamir, Raphael Ventura, Asher Arian, and Orit Kedar -- Coalition considerations and the vote / Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich, Andre Blais, Daniel Lee, and Renan Levine -- Parties and groups -- Shas' transformation to "Likud with kippa?": a comparative assessment of the moderation of religious parties / Sultan Tepe and Roni Baum -- The immigration from the Former Soviet Union and the elections in Israel, 1992-2006: is a "third Israel" being created? / Viacheslav Konstantinov -- 1990s immigrants from the FSU in Israeli elections 2006: the fulfillment of the political dreams of post-Soviet man? / Michael Philippov -- The Arab minority in Israel and the seventeenth Knesset elections: the beginning of a new era? / Elie Rekhess -- The politics of the elections -- Candidate selection in Israel: between the one, the few, and the many / Gideon Rahat -- Party strategy in the 2006 elections: Kadima, Likud, and Labor / Jonathan Mendilow -- Patronage and the 2006 elections / Doron Navot -- Political communication -- Media coverage of the 2006 campaign: the needs and attitudes of the public vis-a-vis the functioning of the news media / Gabriel Weimann, Yariv Tsfati, Tamir Sheafer -- The Internet race: parties and the online campaign in the 2006 elections / Nir Atmor -- List of contributors -- Index.
edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir.
"Published in cooperation with the Israel Democracy Institute"--P. facing title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.