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Israel's party system has been characterized by the bipolar rivalry between the left-wing and right-wing blocks since the late 1970s. In recent years we could have seen at least two trends that seem to diverge from this model. For the last 9 years, the Likud party has formed three successive governments which have made Benjamin Netanyahu the longest continuously serving prime minister in the history of Israel. Another new occurrence is the preservation of a significant representation of the centre parties for four Knesset terms in the row. The aim of the paper is to verify whether Israel's party system has departed from the two-blocs bipolar model. Based on the empirical data (election results, government formation, party's political platforms) it examines whether the parties' rivalry in the years 2009–2018 differed qualitatively from the previous period. To answer this question the paper investigates three hypotheses. First – Likud has become a dominant party in Israel. Second – a dominant and stable Israeli right-wing parties' bloc has formed. Third – an enduring and relevant centre sector has emerged in Israel's party system.

Bu çalışmada Rusya'da siyasal merkezin çevre üzerindeki ezici görünümü ele alınmış ve sorun tarihsel
bir çözümlemeye tabi tutulmuştur. Çözümlemenin zaman aralığı Çarlık Rusyası'nın tarihi ile sınırlandırılmış,
bununla beraber Sovyet dönemi ve post-Sovyet dönemine de değinilmiştir. Rusya'da siyasal merkezin her şeye
kadir görünümünün çevre seçkinleriyle belirli bir uzlaşı zemininde ve bunların da aktif katılımıyla meydana
getirildiği izah edilmektedir. Rusya'nın özgün coğrafî ve demografik koşullarında merkezkaç eğilimli
toplulukları istikrarlı bir artık değer rejimine yöneltmenin aracı olarak güçlü bir merkezin varlığına duyulan
ihtiyaç vurgulanmaktadır. Aynı şekilde Rusya'da herhangi bir siyasal otoritenin ülkeyi yönetebilmesi ve bir
imparatorluk sistemini kurabilmesi için çevre seçkinlerinin aktif onayı ve katılımına ihtiyaç duyduğu
görülmektedir. Böylece Rus siyasal kültürüne karakterini veren klasik uzlaşı sağlanır. Bu uzlaşının görünen
yüzü ise çevre seçkinlerinin kendi nüfuz alanlarında meşruiyetlerini sağlayan oldukça güçlü bir siyasal
merkezdir. Çevre seçkinlerinin nüfuz alanlarının daralmasıyla ona dayanan merkezin tüm ataerkil görünümü
de paramparça olur. Netice b

This review proposes a comparative research agenda on center-right parties in advanced democracies, bringing together research in American and comparative politics. Political scientists have recently closely examined the decline of the center-left and the rise of the radical right but have paid less attention to the weakening of center-right parties. Yet cohesive center-right parties have facilitated political stability and compromises, while their disintegration has empowered radical challengers. After presenting an overview of right-wing politics in Western democracies and weighing different definitions of the electoral right, we discuss two factors that shape variations in center-right cohesion: organizational robustness of center-right partisan institutions and the (un)bundling of conservative mass attitudes on different policy dimensions. Last, we argue that a full account of the rise of the radical right cannot focus solely on the strategies of the center-left but must incorporate also the choices, opportunities, and constraints of center-right parties.

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This study examines the structure of Turkish party system based on center-periphery and state-religion cleavage analytical categories and it tries to describe how it has changed along Justice and Development Party's ten years government. The paper argues that, despite its avowedly Islamic background, Justice and Development Party has proved to adapt and transform itself and Turkish system by presenting itself to the public as a successful centerright party, which supports democracy, secularism, human rights and economic development. Based on Rokkan's state-religion model it concludes that under AKP Turkish political and social center, once strongly divided on, may finally overlap. Although there are still some challenges in front to deal with, the ongoing dynamics lead by AKP have to be considered as a crucial transformation since they sign the new direction of Turkish politics.

The Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs is an invaluable resource to political and social scientists. Since its opening in September 2003, the Center has housed more than 100 scholars. The center, located in the APSA headquarters near Dupont Circle, provides a great base of operations for scholars researching in the DC metro area. The Center offers visiting scholars furnished work space, telephone, fax, computers, Internet access, conference space, a reference library, and access to George Washington University's Gelman Library. Visiting scholar stays range from a few days to 12 months. Space is limited to APSA members and is available for faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students from the United States and abroad. Scholars are expected to cover their own expenses and a modest facilities fee for the use of the center. Prospective visiting scholars may apply at any time. Positions are awarded on a space-available basis.

Late May, 1979, has been targeted as the release date of data from a pre-presidential pilot study conducted under the supervision of its Board of Overseers by the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan. The pilot study is a direct outgrowth of a number of research conferences—on issue voting, party identification and response to leadership—held by the Board during the academic year of 1977–78. The conferences brought together some 60 scholars from across the nation in several locations for the purpose of advising the Board and the Center in preparation for the 1980 presidential study made possible by a long-term national resource grant from the National Science Foundation (for earlier reports on these conferences, seePS, Spring, 1978, pp. 240–242, andPS, Summer, 1978, pp. 342–343). The pilot study was recommended by a smaller group of scholars assembled in Ann Arbor in August, 1978, for the purpose of integrating the many suggestions for future electoral and related research received from the conference participants and from an equal number of other scholars who, because of limited resources, could not be invited to the conferences (for a report on the August workshop, seePS, Fall, 1978, pp. 504–505).

Report on Workshop Preparing for 1980 Presidential Election: Research and development (R&D) in preparation of the Center's 1980 Presidential Election Study was the theme of a two-day workshop held at the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan, August 14–15, 1978, under the auspices of the NES Board of Overseers. Those invited included John Aldrich, Michigan State; Richard Brody, Stanford; Steven Chaffee, Wisconsin; Jack Dennis, Wisconsin; Lutz Erbring, Michigan; John Kessel, Ohio State; Donald Kinder, Yale; Richard Niemi, Rochester; and Herbert Weisberg, Ohio State. Sitting in were CPS senior scholars Philip Converse and Kent Jennings as well as CPS staffers Arthur Miller, Maria Sanchez and Ann Robinson. Board members participating were Warren Miller, the principal investigator and director of CPS; Heinz Eulau, Stanford; John Jackson, Pennsylvania; David Sears, California (Los Angeles); and Merrill Shanks, California (Berkeley), who served as workshop convener.

You could call it serendipity or a mutually felicitous target of opportunity, but the APSA Congressional Fellowship Program and the Centennial Center for Political Science & Public Affairs—now under my and Veronica Jones' direction—found productive common ground in November 2011 that will continue into the programs' future. In addition to physical proximity—the two programs share the same floor at APSA—the similar content areas and background shared by Centennial Scholars and Congressional Fellows Program has overlapped since the center's founding seven years ago. Centennial Center scholars have been routinely invited to participate in any segment of the fellowship's six-week orientation program that was of interest to them. And, over the years, several of the scholars later became congressional fellows.