Israel: Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israels, 1965-2001
In: The Middle East journal, Band 57, Heft 3, S. 510
ISSN: 0026-3141
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In: The Middle East journal, Band 57, Heft 3, S. 510
ISSN: 0026-3141
In: International politics, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 601-602
ISSN: 1384-5748
In: Representation, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 39-47
ISSN: 1749-4001
In: Journal of peace research, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 363-378
ISSN: 1460-3578
The `linkage' between domestic politics and foreign policy is often discussed in the international relations literature. Yet, we know relatively little about the relationship between domestic politics and peacemaking. Moreover, we know next to nothing about what kind of impact internal party conflicts have on foreign policy. While the literature has attempted to address how the relationship between parties influences peacemaking, it has basically ignored how the internal divisions within parties can affect this process as well. Can intraparty factors encourage or deter a governing party from initiating a peace process? Can peacemaking produce intraparty divisions that will endanger or even foil the peace process? If, in democratic systems, foreign policy is influenced by domestic politics, then it is important to know which domestic actors can exert this influence. This article shows that the government's ability to implement its foreign policy and to elicit popular legitimacy is influenced by the extent of partisan cohesion. This article also points out that intrapartisan politics is an important aspect that must be brought into both international relations and political science research concerning domestic influences on foreign policy in general, and peacemaking in particular. Without this element, even an intermediate range theory on this relationship would be, at best, sanguine, if not incomplete. That is, the analysis of the relationship between domestic politics and foreign policy should not treat political parties as unitary actors. Using the case of the Israeli Labor Party and the Middle East peace process between 1992 and 1996, this article suggests that the peace process had a strong impact on the internal cohesion of the party, and that the internal partisan divisions influenced the peace process. This article, therefore, provides evidence that party cohesion is a necessary variable for successfully promoting a dramatically new foreign policy.
In: Journal of peace research, Band 37, S. 363-378
ISSN: 0022-3433
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In: Journal of peace research, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 363-378
ISSN: 0022-3433
Examines interdependence of domestic politics, internal cohesion of political parties, and foreign policy; influence of public opinion on partisan politics, and vice versa. Events between Labor's rise to power in 1992 and assassination of Prime Minister Rabin in 1995; and between the assassination and the 1996 elections.
In: Journal of peace research, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 363-378
ISSN: 0022-3433
In: Israel affairs, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 109-137
ISSN: 1743-9086
In: The journal of legislative studies, Band 5, Heft 3-4, S. 303-326
ISSN: 1743-9337
In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 18, Heft 7, S. 791-811
ISSN: 0962-6298
In: Israel affairs, Band 6, Heft 2: Parties, S. 109-137
ISSN: 1353-7121
Auch wenn die von A. Lijphart eingeführte Typisierung europäischer Demokratien - Konkordanz-, Konsens-, und Mehrheitsdemokratie - auf Israel nicht eins zu eins anwendbar ist, ist diese Begrifflichkeit dennoch am besten geeignet, um das dynamische Zusammenspiel zwischen den dominanten politischen Subkulturen in Israel zu analysieren und sowohl die Bewältigung religiöser Konflikte wie auch den Erfolg und die Stabilität des politischen Systems zu erklären. Vor und kurz nach der Staatsgründung herrschte das Konkordanzprinzip vor, es wurde im Zuge der politischen Institutionalisierung durch Konsenspolitik abgelöst, und seit 1967 setzen sich immer stärker Züge einer Mehrheitsdemokratie durch. Der Beitrag zeichnet diese Entwicklung unter Fokussierung auf die Rolle der Parteien und des Parteiensystems nach. (DÜI-Hns)
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In: Italian Political Science Review: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 319
ISSN: 0048-8402
In: Political geography, Band 18, Heft 7, S. 791-812
ISSN: 0962-6298
In: Italian Political Science Review: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 319-344
ISSN: 0048-8402
In: Israel affairs, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 109-140
ISSN: 1353-7121