"The sixteenth book in The Elections in Israel series, this book covers an extraordinary political event of having four national elections in two years, which were much (but not all) about one person, "King Bibi". Analysing Israel's national elections from 2019-2021, this book argues the four elections became, to a large extent, a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu, the incumbent Prime Minister and head of the Likud party, facing investigations, a hearing, and indictment on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. Thus, the first part of the book is dedicated to political personalization and to Netanyahu himself. The second part of the volume covers the traditional actors in parliamentary elections: voters, parties and the mass media. The book relies on empirical analysis, including extensive use of the Israel National Election Studies data; on theoretical rigor; and on the contextualization of the elections from comparative and long-term perspectives. The book should interest students and researchers of Israeli politics and society, electoral studies and the crisis of democracy more generally. Many chapters will be of interest to political science, communications and sociology students and scholars who study themes that are prominent on the academic and public agenda including political personalization and personalized politics, populism, party decline, and democratic backsliding"--
The sixteenth book in The Elections in Israel series, this book covers an extraordinary political event of having four national elections in two years, which were much (but not all) about one person, "King Bibi".
Introduction.
1. Four Elections in Two Years: A Unique Crisis or a Sign
of Things to Come?.
2. The Four Elections 2019-2021: A Chronological
Overview. Part 1: Personalization in the Israeli parteienstaat.
3.
Personalization and Personalism in the 2019-2021 Elections: Another Climax of
Personal Politics?.
4. King Bibi: The Personification of Democratic Values in
the 2019-2021 Election Cycle.
5. A Populist Leader Under Neoliberal Logic.
6.
Netanyahu and the Very Short History of the Right Wing Bloc.
7. Public and
Legal Responsibility of Senior Elected Representatives in the Executive
Branch: Benjamin Netanyahu as a Case Study. Part 2: Voters, Parties and the
Media.
8. Persistent Optimism Under Political Uncertainty: The Evolution of
Citizens Election Projections During a Protracted Political Crisis.
9.
Ethnic Demons and Class Specters: Ethnic and Class Voting In Israel
Revisited.
10. Joint Lists in Israeli Politics.
11. The Arab Electorate and
Parties, 2019-2021: Towards a non-Zionist Israeli Identity?.
12. Three in a
(Right Wing) Boat: Media, Politicians, and the Public in the Age of Digital
Communication. Index.
Michal Shamir is the Alvin Z. Rubinstein Professor of Political Science at Tel-Aviv University. Her research focuses on democratic politics, including elections, party systems, public opinion, tolerance, and democratic culture.
Gideon Rahat is the chair of Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds the Gersten Family Chair in Political Science. He is also a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. He has been studying the politics of reform, democratic institutions, political parties, candidate and leadership selection, and political personalization.
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