Introduction
Asher Arian and Michal Shamir
Part 1: Voting Behavior
Kadima – Forward in a Dealigned Party System
Michal Shamir, Raphael Ventura, Asher Arian, and Orit Kedar
Coalition Considerations and the Vote
Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich, André Blais, Daniel Lee, and Renan Levine
Part 2: Parties and Groups
Shas’ Transformation to “Likud with Kippa?”: A Comparative Assessment of the Moderation of Religious Parties
Sultan Tepe and Roni Baum
The Immigration from the Former Soviet Union and the Elections in Israel, 1992–2006 - Is a “Third Israel” Being Created?
Viacheslav Konstantinov
1990s Immigrants from the FSU in Israeli Elections 2006: The Fulfillment of the Political Dreams of Post-Soviet Man?
Michael Philippov
Israel’s Arab Minority and the Elections for the Seventeenth Knesset: The Beginning of a New Era?
Elie Rekhess
Part 3: The Politics of the Elections
Candidate Selection in Israel: Between the One, the Few, and the Many
Gideon Rahat
Party Strategy in the 2006 Elections: Kadima, Likud, and Labor
Jonathan Mendilow
Patronage and the 2006 Elections
Doron Navot
Part 4: Political Communication
Media Coverage of the 2006 Campaign: The Needs and Attitudes of the Public vis-à-vis the Functioning of the News Media
Gabriel Weimann, Yariv Tsfati, and Tamir Sheafer
The Internet Race: Parties and the Online Campaign in the 2006 Elections
Nir Atmor