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Cleavages and political party system in Israel: Applying Lipset and Rokkan's model to a non Western case

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  • Sharon Weinblum

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Drawing on the classic theories of cleavages developed by Lipset and Rokkan, the article offers a new approach to understand the existing party system in Israel and a new typology of the Israeli cleavages. Through a socio-historical methodology, the analysis leads to theidentification of three cleavages, namely a religious-secular, a centre-periphery and a Weltanschauung cleavage, and offers an explanation for the non-crystallisation of the socioeconomic lines of opposition. The article finally tests the political alternative freezing hypothesis presented by Lipset and Rokkan. It reveals that the Israeli political system has known a crucial moment of political opening and democratisation in the late 1970s, after which the political structures and political families crystallised and remained unchanged.

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  • Sharon Weinblum, 2008. "Cleavages and political party system in Israel: Applying Lipset and Rokkan's model to a non Western case," Cahiers du CEVIPOL/Brussels Working papers 131714, Centre d'étude de la vie politique (CEVIPOL) of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
    • Handle: RePEc:erp:cevipo:p0035
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