caa a22 4500 388081287 CHVBK 20180307125216.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585395 doi S0003055400217322 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585395 Collective Identity and Electoral Competition in Israel [Elektronische Daten] Comparative electoral research suggests that issue voting has increased and that the ability of social cleavages to account for voting patterns in most advanced industrial democracies has declined. In Israel, only the first of these generalizations holds. The capacity of social cleavages to structure the vote has been maintained along with our overall ability to explain the vote. Based on longitudinal analysis of electoral cleavages between 1969 and 1996 and on an analysis of the 1996 election, we argue that this pattern is driven by issues involving identity dilemmas that have become increasingly important in structuring the vote. Such dilemmas amalgamate policy issues and social allegiances, while reinforcing existing cleavage structures. Focusing on the 1996 election we probe the meanings of internal and external collective identity concerns in Israeli politics, their considerable overlap, and their translation into political choices. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 Shamir Michal Tel Aviv University Arian Asher City University of New York and, University of Haifa American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/2(1999-06), 265-277 0003-0554 93:2<265 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585395 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585395 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shamir Michal Tel Aviv University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Arian Asher City University of New York and, University of Haifa NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/2(1999-06), 265-277 0003-0554 93:2<265 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge