This book provides an effective analysis of political and sociological developments as well as electoral trends in Israel before and after the February 2009 elections.

1. The 2009 Knesset elections: a foreign affairs perspective Shmuel Sandler and Hillel Frisch 2. The run-up to the elections: a political history of the 2009 campaign Manfred Gerstenfeld The Parties 3. Kadima goes back: the limited power of vagueness Giora Goldberg 4. The Likud: the struggle for the centre Abraham Diskin 5. The decline of the Labour party Efraim Inbar 6. Stability in the Haredi camp and upheavals in nationalist Zionism: an analysis of the religious parties in the 2009 elections Asher Cohen and Bernard Susser 7. The Israel Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) party between the mainstream and 'Russian' community politics Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin 8. Arab Israeli citizens in the 2009 elections: between Israeli citizenship and Palestinian Arab identity David Koren The Issues 9. Peace and security in the 2009 election Jonathan Rynhold 10. Corruption again, and again not decisive Ira Sharkansky 11. Israel's religious vote in comparative perspective: an Africanist analysis William F.S. Miles