The 1981 Elections and the Changing Fortunes of the Israeli Labour Party

In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 432-446

Abstract

A distinction is made among three political bargaining patterns observed in Israel. (1) "Sectorial arrangement" is the sharing of influence among the large parties by dividing the population into sectors; the parties agree to leave each other's sector alone, but each exercises its influence in a multiplicity of spheres within its population segment. (2) In "functional arrangement," each party, through control of certain ministries, has specific zones of influence assigned to it, although every party addresses itself to the whole population. (3) In a third pattern, the characteristic trend is toward breaking up comprehensive deals & creating more open bargaining. Shifts in time perspective are the essence of changes in bargaining patterns, which brought about the political changes so dramatically manifested in both the 1977 & 1981 elections in Israel. Modified AA.