Candidate Selection and a Crowded Parliament: The Israeli Knesset, 1988-2006

• Autores: Osnat Akirav
• Localización: The Journal of legislative studies, ISSN 1357-2334, Vol. 16, Nº. 1, 2010, págs. 96-120
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Candidate selection reform has its consequences. This article examines Israel as a case study in order to understand the changes in parliamentary activity (legislation, parliamentary questions and motions for the agenda) that resulted from the adoption of primaries as a candidate selection reform by the Labour Party in 1992 and later by three more parties: Likud, Meretz and Tzomet. The findings show that there has been a significant increase in parliamentary activity since the 13th Knesset (the first Knesset with Members of Knesset elected through primaries). The research hypothesises that posited reasons for the difference in parliamentary activities in the Knesset terms before and after the introduction of primaries were strongly supported.