Party Switching in Israel A Historical and Comparative Analysis.

Analyzes the history of legislative party switching and its regulation in the Israeli Knesset.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Nikolenyi, Csaba
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : State University of New York Press, 2023.
Series:SUNY Series in Comparative Politics Series.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Argument -- An Overview of the Chapters Ahead -- A Note on Terminology -- Chapter 1 Conceptual and Comparative Considerations -- Party Cohesion and Party Switching -- Anti-Defection Laws and The Regulation of Political Parties: The Scholarly Context -- Anti-Defection Laws in National Constitutions: A Global Overview -- Defections in Israel: Kalanterism, Trustees, and Delegates -- A Rational Choice Approach to Anti-Defection Laws -- Conclusion 
505 8 |a Chapter 2 Kalanterism, the "Stinking Trick," and the Evolution of Israel's Anti-Defection Law -- Early Attempts at Regulating Defections in Knesset -- The "Stinking Trick" and the Adoption of the Anti-Defection Law of 1991 -- The Anti-Defection Law as a Redistributive Institution: Changes and Amendments after 1991 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Growing Incidence of Party Switching in Israel -- Party Switching in Numbers -- The Anti-Defection Law in the Context of a Changing Israeli Party System 
505 8 |a A Case Study: The Disintegration of Likud in the Knesset and the Effects of the Anti-Defection Law in the Fourteenth Knesset (19 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 "Acquire a Friend for Yourself!" The Rise of Collective Defections in the Knesset -- Case 1: The Rise and Fall of Yi'ud -- Case 2: The Disintegration of Gil (Pensioners' Party) -- Case 3: The Labor Party Split of 2011 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Preponderance of Pre-Electoral Party Switching -- The Temporal Dimension of Party Exits in the Knesset -- Strategic Delay of Party Exits -- The Effect of the Mofaz Law on the Kadima Split in 2012 
505 8 |a Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Between Government and Opposition: The Directionality of Exit -- The Directionality of Party Switching in Numbers -- Party Switching and Ariel Sharon's First Coalition Government in the Sixteenth Knesset -- Party Switching and the National Unity Government -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Does Defection Pay? The Electoral Consequences of Party Switching -- An Empirical Assessment of the Electoral Consequences of Party Switching -- Understanding the Electoral Success of New Parties and Switching MKs -- Conclusion 
505 8 |a Chapter 8 Comparative Cases: Anti-Defections Laws and Their Consequences in India, New Zealand, and South Africa -- The Growing Severity of the Anti-Defection Law in India, 1985-2003 -- Electoral Integrity Legislation in New Zealand -- Anti-Defection Law in a New Democracy: South Africa -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Party Switching, Anti-Defection Laws, and the Political Instability of 2019-2021 -- In Closing . . . -- Appendix -- The List of Party Switches in the Knesset, 1949-2019 -- First Knesset -- Second Knesset -- Fifth Knesset -- Sixth Knesset -- Seventh Knesset -- Eighth Knesset 
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