The Israel National Election Studies

Books and Monographs

Heather Stoll
Changing Societies, Changing Party Systems (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Jacob Shamir and Khalil Shikaki
Palestinian and Israeli Public Opinion: The Public Imperative in the Second Intifada  ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010).

Asher Arian, Nir Atmor, and Yael Hadar
The 2006 Israeli Democracy Index - Changes in Israel's Political Party System:  Dealignment or Realignment (Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2006).

Norman Schofield and Itai Sened
Multiparty Democracy: Parties, Elections and Legislative Politics in Multiparty Systems (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Asher Arian, Shlomit Barnea, Pazit Ben-Nun, Raphael Ventura, and Michal Shamir
The 2005 Israeli Democracy Index: A Decade after the Assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2005).

Asher Arian, David Nachmias, Doron Navot, and Danielle Shani
Auditing Israeli Democracy 2003 (Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2003).

Asher Arian, David Nachmias, and Ruth Amir
Executive Governance in Israel (Bakingstoke: Palgrave, 2002).

Jacob Shamir and Michal Shamir
The Anatomy of Public Opinion (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000).

Asher Arian
The Second Republic: Politics in Israel (Chatham House, 1997)
(Hebrew version, Zmora, 1998)

Asher Arian
Security Threatened: Surveying Israeli Opinion on Peace and War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
(Hebrew version, Papyrus, 1999)

Asher Arian, Ilan Talmud, and Tamar Hermann
National Security and Public Opinion in Israel (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1988).

Zvi Gitelman
Becoming Israeli (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1982)

Asher Arian and Assaf Razin et al. (eds.),
Israel-A developing Society (Tel- Aviv: Pinhas Sapir Center for Development, 1980).

Asher Arian
The Choosing People: Voting Behavior in Israel (Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1973).

Asher Arian
Consensus in Israel (New York : General Learning Press, 1971).

Articles‏

Kelly Matush
"Harnessing Backlash: How Leaders Can Benefit from Antagonizing Foreign Actors" British Journal of Political Science, 2023.

Alon Yakter and Mark Tessler
"The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation: Doubtful doves and the breakdown of Israel’s left–right dichotomy" Journal of Peace Research 60(3), 2023: 504-520.

Anna Getmansky and Chagai M. Weiss
"War-Time Military Service Can Affect Partisan Preferences" Comparative Political Studies, 2023.

Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat
“​Four Elections in Two Years: A Unique Crisis or a Sign of Things to Come?” in The Elections in Israel – 2019-2021,   Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat (eds.). ​Taylor & Francis, Routledge, New York, 3-26, 2022.

Gideon Rahat and ​Michal Shamir 
"The Four Elections 2019–2021: A Chronological Overview" in The Elections in Israel – 2019-2021, Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat (eds.). ​Taylor & Francis, Routledge, New York, 27-50, 2022.‏

Gideon Rahat
"Personalization and Personalism in the 2019–2021 Elections"  in The Elections in Israel – 2019-2021,  Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat (eds.). ​Taylor & Francis, Routledge, New York, 53-76, 2022.

Liron Lavi, Naama Rivlin-Angert, Clareta Treger, Tamir Sheafer, Israel Waismel-Manor, and Michal Shamir
"King Bibi: The Personification of Democratic Values in the 2019–2021 Election Cycle"in The Elections in Israel – 2019-2021, Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat (eds.). ​Taylor & Francis, Routledge, New York, ​77-98, 2022.

Gal ‏Levy, Maoz Rosenthal, and Ishak Saporta
"Ethnic Demons and Class Specters" in The Elections in Israel – 2019-2021, Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat (eds.). ​Taylor & Francis, Routledge, New York, ​190-212, 2022.‏

Gert-Jan Put and Yael Shomer
"Are Citizens More Politically Engaged when Candidate Selection is Democratic? Analysis of Seven Parliamentary Election Cycles in Israel (1996–2015)" Political Research Quarterly, 2022.

Amnon Cavari, Maoz Rosenthal, and Ilana Shpaizman
"Introducing a New Dataset: The Israeli Policy Agendas Project" Israel Studies Review 37(1), 2022: 1-30.

Tamir Sorek and Alin M. Ceobanu
"Benjamin Netanyahu as a mobilizing symbol in ethno-class divisions among Jewish Israelis, 2009–2021" Ethnic and Racial Studies 45(10), 2022: 1961-1982.

Micah Russell
"Diverging Identities: The Juxtaposition of Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Territories" Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies 38(1), 2021: 2.

Guy Grossman, Yotam Margalit, and Tamar Mitts
"How the ultrarich use media ownership as a political investment" Journal of Politics 84(4), 2022: 1913-1931.

Alonit Berenson and Nir Atmor
"Testing the social psychology of protest: empirical evidence from the Israeli experience" Israel Affairs 26(3), 2020: 393-412.

Nir Atmor and Chen Friedberg
"Gender gaps in the center versus the periphery: Evidence from the Israeli elections" Israel Studies Review 34(2), 2019: 92-113.

Amnon Cavari and Guy Freedman
"Assessing Group Variation in Issue Priorities"Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data, edited by Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, and Emiliano Grossman, 243-259. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Tamar Mitts
“Terrorism and the Rise of Right-Wing Content in Israeli Books” International Organization 73(1), 2019: 203–24.

Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat
“Introduction” in The Elections in Israel – 2015,  Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat (eds.). Transaction Publ., New Brunswick, 1-17, 2017.

Daniel Zucker
"Joint but Excluded: The Joint List in the 2015 Elections" in The Elections in Israel – 2015,  Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat (eds.). Transaction Publ., New Brunswick, ​103-122, 2017.

Viacheslav Konstantinov and Reut Itzkovitch-Malka
"Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Israeli Politics: at a Crossroads" in The Elections in Israel – 2015, Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat (eds.). Transaction Publ., New Brunswick, ​​115-139, 2017.

Michal Shamir, Shira Dvir-Gvirsman, and Raphael Ventura
"Taken Captive by the Collective Identity Cleavage: Left and Right in the 2015 Elections" in The Elections in Israel – 2015, Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat (eds.). Transaction Publ., New Brunswick, ​​21-46, 2017.

Camil Fuchs
"Surveys and Election Forecasts in a World of Social Media and Party Dealignment" in The Elections in Israel – 2015, Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat (eds.). Transaction Publ., New Brunswick, ​​213-236, 2017.

Asher Cohen and Menachem Lazar
"A Ruling Party versus a Party Aspiring to Leadership: Likud and Jewish Home in the 2015 Elections" in The Elections in Israel – 2015 , Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat (eds.). Transaction Publ., New Brunswick, ​73–94, 2017.

Michal Shamir
"Introduction: The 2013 elections and Israeli democracy" in The Elections in Israel - 2013 , edited by Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2015.

Gal Levy
"Shas, the 'ethnic demon' and Mizrahi politics following the 2013 elections" in The Elections in Israel - 2013 , edited by Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2015.

Michal Shamir and Einat Gedalya-Lavy
"A gender gap in voting? Women and men in the 2013 elections" in The Elections in Israel - 2013 , edited by Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2015.

Michael Freedman, Or Kaner, and Irena Kaplan.
"Voting for extreme right parties in Israel: Evidence from the 2009 elections." Electoral Studies 34, 2014: 68-77.

Bethany Blackstone, Tetsuya Matsubayashi, and Elizabeth A. Oldmixon
"Israeli attitudes on synagogue and state." Politics and Religion 7(1), 2014: 122-147.

Maoz Rosenthal
"Policy Instability in a Comparative Perspective: The Context of Heresthetic" Political Studies, 62, 2014: 172-196.

Maoz Rosenthal and Adam Wolfson
"The Determinants of Budgetary Implementation: A Policy Analysis of the Israeli Case" Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 15, 2013: 432-451.

Avi Ben Bassat, Momi Dahan, Benny Geys, and Esteban F. Klor
"The Impact of the Economic Costs of Conflict on Individuals' Political Attitudes." Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 18(2), 2021: Article 4.

Nadav Shelef
"Politicized Secularism in Israel: Secularists as a Party to Communal Conflict.”  Contemporary Jewry,  30(1), 2010: 87-104.

Asher Arian and Michal Shamir
"Introduction" in The Elections in Israel - 2009, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2010.

Olena Bagno
"The Price of Fear: Israel Beiteinu in 2009" in The Elections in Israel - 2009, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2010.

Ofir Abu, Fany Yuval, and Guy Ben-Porat
"All That Is Left': The Demise of the Zionist Left Parties, 1992-2009" in The Elections in Israel - 2009, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2010.

Einat Gedalya, Hanna Herzog, Michal Shamir
"Tzip(p)ing through the Elections: Gender in the 2009 Elections" in The Elections in Israel - 2009, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2010.

Asher Arian, Andre Krouwel, Mark Pol, Raphael Ventura
"The Election Compass: Party Profiling and Voter Attitudes" in The Elections in Israel - 2009, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2010.

Matias A. Bargsted and Orit Kedar
"Coalition-Targeted Duvergerian Voting: How Expectations Affect Voter Choice under Proportional Representation" American Journal of Political Science, 53, 2009: 307-323.

Gideon Rahat and Reuven Y. Hazan
"One Winner, Two Winners, No Winners: The 2009 Elections in Israel" Representation, 45, 2009: 405-420.

Asher Arian and Michal Shamir
“A Decade Later, The World Had Changed, The Cleavage Structure Remained: Israel 1996–2006.” Party Politics, 14(6), 2008: 685–705.

Tamir Sheafer, Gabriel Weimann and Yariv Tsfati
"Campaign in the Holy Land: The content and effects of election news coverage in Israel" in The handbook of election news coverage around the world, edited by Jesper Stromback and Lynda Lee Kaid, New York: Routledge, 2008.

Tamir Sheafer
"The media and economic voting in Israel" International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 20, 2008: 33-51.

Asher Arian and Michal Shamir
"Introduction" in The Elections in Israel - 2006, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2008.

Michal Shamir, Raphael Ventura, Asher Arian, and Orit Kedar
"Kadima - Forward in a Dealigned Party System" in The Elections in Israel - 2006, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2008.

Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich, Andre Blais, Daniel Lee, and Renan Levine
"Coalition Considerations and the Vote" in The Elections in Israel - 2006, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2008.

Michael Philippov
"1990s Immigrants from the FSU in Israeli Elections 2006: The Fulfillment of the Political Dreams of Post-Soviet Man?" in The Elections in Israel - 2006, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2008.

Michal Shamir, Jacob Shamir, and Tamir Sheafer
"The Political Communication of Mandate Elections" Political Communication, 25, 2008, 47-66.

Michal Shamir and Jacob Shamir
"What Were the Elections About and Why We Should Ask About it in Election Surveys" International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 20, 2008, 211-223.

Michal Shamir and Jacob Shamir
"The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Israeli Elections" International Political Science Review, 28, 2007, 469-491.

Tamir Sheafer
"How to evaluate it: The role of story evaluative tone in agenda setting and priming" Journal of Communication, 57, 2007: 21-39.

Andre Blais, John H. Aldrich, Indridi H. Indridason, and Renan Levine
"Do Voters Vote for Government Coalitions? Testing Downs' Pessimistic Conclusion" Party Politics, 12,  2006, 691-705.

Tamir Sheafer and Gabriel Weimann
"Agenda-Building, Agenda-Setting, Priming, Individual Voting Intentions and the Aggregate Results: An Analysis of Four Israeli Elections" Journal of Communication, 55, 2005: 347-365.

Michal Shamir and Asher Arian
"Introduction" in The Elections in Israel - 2003, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2005.

Asher Arian and Michal Shamir
"On Mistaking a Dominant Party in a Dealigning System" in The Elections in Israel - 2003, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2005.

John H. Aldrich, Andre Blais, Indridi H. Indridason, and Renan Levine
"Coalition Considerations and the Vote" in The Elections in Israel - 2003, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2005.

Michael Shalev and Gal Levy
"the Winners and Losers of 2003: Ideology, Social Structure and Political Change" in The Elections in Israel - 2003, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2005.

Ken Goldstein and Zvi Gitelman
"From 'Russians' to Israelis?" in The Elections in Israel - 2003, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, New Brunswick: Transaction Publ., 2005.

Norman Schofield and Itai Sened.
"Multiparty competition in Israel: 1988-1996" British Journal of Political Science, 35, 2005, 635-663.

Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich, Matthew Diamond, Abraham Diskin, Renan Levine, and Thomas J. Scotto
"Strategic Abandonment or Sincerely Second Best? The 1999 Israeli Prime Ministerial Election" The Journal of Politics 66, 2004, 706-728.

Peter Nannestad, Martin Paldam, and Michael Rosholm
"System Change and Economic Evaluations: A Study of Immigrants and Natives in Israel" Electoral Studies 22, 2003, 485-501.

Jody Nachtwey and Mark Tessler
"The Political Economy of Attitudes toward Peace among Palestinians and Israelis" Journal of Conflict Resolution, 46, 2002, 260-285.

Asher Arian and Michal Shamir
"Introduction" in The Elections in Israel - 2003, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2002.

Michal Shamir and Asher Arian
"Abstaining and Voting in 2001" in The Elections in Israel - 2001, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2002.

Paul R. Abramson and John H. Aldrich
"Were Voters Strategic?" in The Elections in Israel - 1999, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Michael Shalev and Sigal Kis
"Social Cleavages among Non-Arab Voters: A New Analysis" in The Elections in Israel - 1999, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Asher Arian and Michal Shamir
"Candidates, Parties and Blocs: Evidence from Israel in the 1990s" Party Politics 7, 2001, 689-710.
Reprinted in The Elections in Israel - 1999.

Yariv Tsfati
"Why Do People Trust Media Pre-Election Polls? Evidence from the Israeli 1996 Elections" The International Journal of Public Opinion Research 13, 2001,433-441.

Raphael Ventura
"Family Political Socialization in Multi-Party Systems" Comparative Political Studies,34, 2001, 666-691.

Asher Arian and Michal Shamir
"Context and Comparison in Election Research: The Israel National Election Study" in Election Studies: What's Their Use? edited by Elihu Katz and Yael Warshel, Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.

Michal Shamir and Asher Arian
"Collective Identity and Electoral Competition in Israel" American Political Science Review 93, 1999,
265-277.

Asher Arian and Michal Shamir
"Introduction" in The Elections in Israel - 1996, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Michal Shamir and Asher Arian
"Collective Identity in the 1996 Election" in The Elections in Israel - 1996, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Asher Arian
"Political Parties and the Emergence of Israel's Second Republic" in Political Parties and the Collapse of Old Orders, edited by John Kenneth White and Philip John Davies, Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.

Asher Arian
"The Israeli Election for Prime Minister and the Knesset, 1996" Electoral Studies 15, 1996, 570-5.

Roni Shachar and Michal Shamir
"Estimating Vote Persistence Sources Without Panel Data" Political Analysis 6, 1996, 107-124.

Michal Shamir and Jacob Shamir
"Value Preferences in Israeli Public Opinion" Megamot 37, 1996, 371-393 (in Hebrew).

Itai Sened
"A Model of Coalition Formation: Theory and Evidence" The Journal of Politics 58, 1996, 350-372.

Roni Shachar and Michal Shamir
"Modelling Victory in the 1992 Election" in The Elections in Israel - 1992, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Michal Shamir and Jacob Shamir
"Competing Values in Public Opinion: A Conjoint Analysis" Political Behavior 17, 1995, 107-133.

Michal Shamir and Asher Arian
"Competing Values and Policy Choices: Israeli Public Opinion on Foreign and Security Affairs" British Journal of Political Science 24,1994, 249-271.

Asher Arian and Michal Shamir
"Two Reversals in Israeli Politics: Why 1992 was not 1977" Electoral Studies 12, 1993, 313-339.
Hebrew version , Megamot 36, 1994/5.
Reprinted in The Elections in Israel - 1992.

Raphael Ventura and Michal Shamir
"Left and Right in Israeli Politics" Medina Umimshal, 35, 1992, 21-50 (in Hebrew).

Asher Arian, Michal Shamir, and Raphael Ventura
"Public Opinion and Political Change: Israel and the Intifada" Comparative Politics 24, 1992, 317-334.

Asher Arian and Ilan Talmud
"Electoral Politics and Economic Control in Israel" in Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies, edited by Frances Fox Piven, Polity Press, 1991.

Asher Arian
"Toward the 1990s in Israeli Politics" in Israel Politics in the 1990s, edited by Bernard Reich and Gershon R. Kieval, Greenwood Press, 1991.

Michal Shamir and Asher Arian
"The Intifada and Israeli Voters: Policy Preferences and Performance Evaluations" in The Elections in Israel - 1988, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, Boulder: Westview, 1990.

Alan S. Zuckerman
"The Flow of the Vote in Israel: A Reconsideration of Stability and Change" in The Elections in Israel - 1988, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, Boulder: Westview, 1990.

Paul R. Abramson
"Generational Replacement, Ethnic Change, and Partisan Support in Israel" The Journal of Politics, 51, 1989, 545-574
Reprinted as "Demographic Change and Partisan Support", in The Elections in Israel - 1988.

Asher Arian
"Les transformations du systeme politique" in Droit, institutions et systemes politiques: Melanges en hommage a Maurice Duverger, edited by Dominique Colas and Claude Emeri, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1987.

Efraim Torgovnik
"Ethnicity and Organizational Catchall Politics" in The Elections in Israel - 1984, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, Tel Aviv: Ramot Publ., 1986.

Michal Shamir
"Realignment in the Israeli Party System" in The Elections in Israel - 1984, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, Tel Aviv: Ramot Publ., 1986.

Asher Arian
"Israel Democracy 1984" Journal of International Affairs, 38, 1985, 259-276.Asher Arian and Michal Shamir
"The Primarily Political Functions of the Left-Right Continuum," Comparative Politics 15, 1983, 139-158.
Reprinted in The Elections in Israel - 1981.

Asher Arian
"Introduction" in The Elections in Israel - 1981, edited by Asher Arian, Tel Aviv: Ramot Publ., 1983.Zeev Ben-Sira
"Instrumental and Affective Legitimization of Party Support", " in The Elections in Israel - 1981, edited by Asher Arian, Tel Aviv: Ramot Publ., 1983.

Michal Shamir and Asher Arian
"Ethnicity in the 1981 Elections in Israel" Electoral Studies 1, 1982, 315-331.
Reprinted in The Elections in Israel - 1981.

Efraim Torgovnik
"A Movement for Change in a Stable System" in The Elections in Israel - 1977, edited by Asher Arian, Jerusalem: Academic Press, 1980.

Zeev Ben-Sira
"The Image of Political Parties and Structure of a Political Map" in The Elections in Israel - 1977, edited by Asher Arian, Jerusalem: Academic Press, 1980.

Asher Arian
"The Israeli Electorate, 1977" in The Elections in Israel - 1977, edited by Asher Arian, Jerusalem: Academic Press, 1980.

Asher Arian
"Were the 1973 Elections Critical?" Comparative Politics, 8, 1975, 152-165.
Reprinted in The Elections in Israel - 1973.

Efraim Torgovnik
"The Election Campaign: Party Needs and Voter Concerns" in The Elections in Israel - 1973, edited by Asher Arian, Jerusalem: Academic Press, 1975.

Rachel Tokatli
"Image Modification and Voters' Behavior" in The Elections in Israel - 1973, edited by Asher Arian, Jerusalem: Academic Press, 1975.

Asher Arian and Samuel H. Barnes
"The Dominant Party System: A Neglected Model of Democratic Stability" Journal of Politics, 36, 1974, 592-614.

Alan Arian
"Electoral Choice in a Dominant Party System" in The Elections in Israel - 1969, edited by Alan Arian, Jerusalem: Academic Press, 1972.

Alan Arian
"Stability and Change in Public Opinion and Politics" in The Elections in Israel - 1969, edited by Alan Arian, Jerusalem: Academic Press, 1972.

Michael Gurevitch
"Television in the Election Campaign: Its Audience and Functions" in The Elections in Israel - 1969, edited by Alan Arian, Jerusalem: Academic Press, 1972.