POLI 437 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aryeh Deri, Tactical Voting, Rebbe

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 437
• Professor: Harold M Waller

Document Summary

October 27th: parties: likud= herut (pre-state revisionist zionists)+ liberals (political incarnation of structure the general zionists) Jewish home nrp, mizrachi: parties had youth groups to integrate children and teens into the party in religious rule. Atid) non? (utj, shas) anti? (joint list) effects the way the parties function: religious as primary goal and identity? (utj, shas) Jewish home is non rabbinical leadership: policy toward the arabs, how to resolve issues and relations. Center parties (limited staying-power: kadima, 1977- democratic movement for change, shinui tommy lapid, yesh atid- yair lapid. Professors came up with different idea: maintain same system of selecting knesset, but change method of electing prime minister to be a direct election (2 vote system, with theory of more control and less pragmatism). Result was that the number of seats held by parties other than the two major parties grew significantly and seats held my major parties declined.