Abraham Diskin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1534564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abraham Diskin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abraham |
| FAMILY NAME | Diskin |
| SIGNATURE | DISKIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 231 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Formation of Parties and Coalitions in Multiple Referendums
Coalition Formation Decision Support System
Many democratically elected representative governments around the world require the formation of a coalition to create a government that is expected to be durable and stable. Creating such a coalition is far from trivial. This research describes a computerized coalition formation decision support system that attempts to meet this challenging task and formally rank possible coalitions. We use theories from political science and utilize insights fr…
Plus ça Change , Plus C'est La Même Chose: The 2015 Israeli elections
The parliamentary election in Israel, January 2013
The British general election of 2010 under different voting rules
Israel
The Likud: The struggle for the centre
In 1957 Downs claimed that most voters tend to hold centrist views. Hence, political parties should adopt centrist stands in order to attract as many voters as possible. Another aspect of the ‘political centre’ derives from prominent theories on coalition formation: the political party that captures the ‘median’ position in the parliament enjoys a tremendous advantage. The battle over the control of ‘the centre’ played a major role in the strateg…
Israel
Comparing Strategic Voting Under FPTP and PR
Based on recent work that suggests that voters in proportional representation (PR) systems have incentives to cast strategic votes, the authors hypothesize that levels of strategic voting are similar in both first-past-the-post (FPTP) and PR systems. Comparing vote intentions in majoritarian elections in the United States, Mexico, Britain, and Israel to PR elections in Israel and the Netherlands, the authors find that a substantial proportion of …
Israel
The parliamentary election in Israel, February 2009
Israel
Israel
Individual rationality and bargaining
Nonvoting and the Decisiveness of Electoral Outcomes
The authors reexamine the relationship between closeness and turnout by looking at aggregate-level variables and studying fifty-seven elections. They also attempt to estimate how much voter turnout is likely to change as a function of change in the closeness of elections. Specifically, they hypothesize that in first-past-the-post elections, turnout will be affected by the voters' expectation of how close the elections are going to be, by the turn…
Homogeneity, Heterogeneity and Direct Democracy: The Case of Swiss Referenda
The general question addressed in this study is whether voting behaviour in referenda conducted in a pluralistic society tends to reflect more the heterogeneous or the homogeneous characteristics of this society. In order to answer this question we investigated, mainly by means of factor analysis, all 538 federal referenda conducted in Switzerland since the foundation of the Swiss Confederation in 1848 until the end of 2005. Based on the extensiv…
The Knesset election in Israel, March 2006
Political data in 2005
Israel
Why Democracies Collapse: The Reasons for Democratic Failure and Success
Most studies of democratic stability are based within either the socioeconomic or the politico-institutional tradition, but usually not on both. This article combines the two approaches. In all, 11 variables associated with democratic stability are divided into four groups (institutional, societal, mediating, and extraneous) and examined in 30 cases of democratic collapse and 32 cases of stable democracies. Five variables prove to be the most inf…
Israel
Strategic Abandonment or Sincerely Second Best? The 1999 Israeli Prime Ministerial Election
The Israeli election for Prime Minister in 1999 featured five candidates. Three, including a major, centrally located candidate, Yitzhak Mordechai, withdrew from competition during the two days before the voting. Mordechai withdrew in large measure in reaction to the strategic decisions of voters, that is, some voters who favored him deserted his candidacy as his poll standings declined. We use surveys conducted during the 1999 campaign to estima…
Israel
The parliamentary elections in Israel, January 2003
Israel
Comparing Strategic Voting Under FPTP and PR
Based on recent work that suggests that voters in proportional representation (PR) systems have incentives to cast strategic votes, the authors hypothesize that levels of strategic voting are similar in both first-past-the-post (FPTP) and PR systems. Comparing vote intentions in majoritarian elections in the United States, Mexico, Britain, and Israel to PR elections in Israel and the Netherlands, the authors find that a substantial proportion of …
The Politics of Electoral Reform in Israel
This article falls into three main sections. The first outlines the basic features of the Israeli electoral system established in 1949, with minor amendments in the allocation formula (in 1973) and the electoral threshold (in 1992). The second covers unsuccessful proposals to reform Knesset elections in the periods 1949-77, 1977-90, and 1990 to date. The last section explains the causes of the introduction in 1992 of direct elections for the prim…
Why Democracies Collapse: The Reasons for Democratic Failure and Success
Most studies of democratic stability are based within either the socioeconomic or the politico-institutional tradition, but usually not on both. This article combines the two approaches. In all, 11 variables associated with democratic stability are divided into four groups (institutional, societal, mediating, and extraneous) and examined in 30 cases of democratic collapse and 32 cases of stable democracies. Five variables prove to be the most inf…
The New Political System of Israel
During the 1990s the israeli political system faced a number of major upheavals on both the macro- and the micro-political levels. As a result many of its basic features changed considerably. Presently, it is more difficult to predict future political behaviour in Israel than ever before.One may point at the only successful no-confidence vote, which took place on 15 March 1990, as an event that symbolically initiated the new era. Yitzhak Shamir, …
Strategic Abandonment or Sincerely Second Best? The 1999 Israeli Prime Ministerial Election
The Israeli election for Prime Minister in 1999 featured five candidates. Three, including a major, centrally located candidate, Yitzhak Mordechai, withdrew from competition during the two days before the voting. Mordechai withdrew in large measure in reaction to the strategic decisions of voters, that is, some voters who favored him deserted his candidacy as his poll standings declined. We use surveys conducted during the 1999 campaign to estima…
The Bargaining Problem Revisited: Minimum Utility Point, Restricted Monotonicity Axiom, and the Mean as an Estimate of Expected Utility
On the basis of the results obtained by different experiments testing two-person bargaining situations, it is reasonable to assume that under certain circumstances bargainers are more likely to refer to a “minimum utility point” in forming their strategies, and hence reach different agreements than as hitherto suggested in the literature, e.g., the Nash or the Kalai-Smorodinsky solution. The employment of such a minimum utility point is not merel…
The Knesset election in Israel, March 2006
Political data in 2005
The parliamentary elections in Israel, January 2003
The 1999 Knesset and prime ministerial elections in Israel
Plus ça Change , Plus C'est La Même Chose: The 2015 Israeli elections
Nonvoting and the Decisiveness of Electoral Outcomes
The authors reexamine the relationship between closeness and turnout by looking at aggregate-level variables and studying fifty-seven elections. They also attempt to estimate how much voter turnout is likely to change as a function of change in the closeness of elections. Specifically, they hypothesize that in first-past-the-post elections, turnout will be affected by the voters' expectation of how close the elections are going to be, by the turn…
The Israeli general election of 1992
Do They Lie
Attempts to ascertain respondents' attitudes and behavior in respect to sensitive subject matters through classical interviewing methods carry a significant risk of obtaining insincere responses. By employing three alternative types of interviewing methods, that is, regular interview, ballot-box, and the randomized response technique, one finds that past voting behavior, future voting intentions and attitudes toward issues which determine party a…
The parliamentary election in Israel, February 2009
The parliamentary election in Israel, January 2013
The British general election of 2010 under different voting rules
Israel
The 2001 Prime Ministerial election in Israel
Coalition Formation Decision Support System
Many democratically elected representative governments around the world require the formation of a coalition to create a government that is expected to be durable and stable. Creating such a coalition is far from trivial. This research describes a computerized coalition formation decision support system that attempts to meet this challenging task and formally rank possible coalitions. We use theories from political science and utilize insights fr…
The Likud: The struggle for the centre
In 1957 Downs claimed that most voters tend to hold centrist views. Hence, political parties should adopt centrist stands in order to attract as many voters as possible. Another aspect of the ‘political centre’ derives from prominent theories on coalition formation: the political party that captures the ‘median’ position in the parliament enjoys a tremendous advantage. The battle over the control of ‘the centre’ played a major role in the strateg…
Israel
Israel
The Israeli general election of 1988
Israel
Decision‐making in mixed situations: An application to Israeli‐egyptian relations, 1956–1979
The model of “two‐dimensional mixed competitive situation” is suggested as a framework for the analysis of the Israeli‐Egyptian relations during the period 1956–1979. In mixed situations it can often happen that rivals having conflicting interests and no dominant course of action, will choose the same alternative if they employ the same decision criterion for selecting among the alternatives. The above period is divided into two sub‐periods. In t…
An Experimental Examination of Samson's Dilemma
Do They Lie
Attempts to ascertain respondents' attitudes and behavior in respect to sensitive subject matters through classical interviewing methods carry a significant risk of obtaining insincere responses. By employing three alternative types of interviewing methods, that is, regular interview, ballot-box, and the randomized response technique, one finds that past voting behavior, future voting intentions and attitudes toward issues which determine party a…
Palestinian Voting in the West Bank: Electoral Behavior in a Traditional Community without Sovereignty
The Bargaining Problem Revisited: Minimum Utility Point, Restricted Monotonicity Axiom, and the Mean as an Estimate of Expected Utility
On the basis of the results obtained by different experiments testing two-person bargaining situations, it is reasonable to assume that under certain circumstances bargainers are more likely to refer to a “minimum utility point” in forming their strategies, and hence reach different agreements than as hitherto suggested in the literature, e.g., the Nash or the Kalai-Smorodinsky solution. The employment of such a minimum utility point is not merel…
Trends in Intensity Variation of Palestinian Military Activity: 1967–1978
This note reports the results of an attempt to detect a systematic pattern in the development of terrorist activity of the Palestine Liberation Organization during the period 1967-1978. Since its establishment in 1964 the PLO has seen the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as insoluble by political, as distinct from, military means. A quantitative analysis of Palestinian military activities explores a downward trend in the annual frequency of activity …
Coalition formation in the Arab world: An analytical perspective
The purpose of the article is to examine the applicability of several well‐known theoretical concepts from the theory of coalition formation. The attempt to apply the term winning coalition to the system of inter‐Arab relations raises problems which derive from the fuzzy boundaries of the system, from the sovereign status of the states involved, and from difficulties in measuring the states’ respective weights. The attempt to apply coalition theo…
The Israeli general election of 1988
Political Distances between Knesset Members and Coalition Behaviour: The Peace Agreements with Egypt
Israel
The Israeli general election of 1992
Israel
Israel
Israel
The Politics of Electoral Reform in Israel
This article falls into three main sections. The first outlines the basic features of the Israeli electoral system established in 1949, with minor amendments in the allocation formula (in 1973) and the electoral threshold (in 1992). The second covers unsuccessful proposals to reform Knesset elections in the periods 1949-77, 1977-90, and 1990 to date. The last section explains the causes of the introduction in 1992 of direct elections for the prim…
Israel
Israel
Israel
Rethinking De Swaan (1973): A note on closed coalitions, uni‐dimensionality and the role of sectarian political parties
Israel
The New Political System of Israel
During the 1990s the israeli political system faced a number of major upheavals on both the macro- and the micro-political levels. As a result many of its basic features changed considerably. Presently, it is more difficult to predict future political behaviour in Israel than ever before.One may point at the only successful no-confidence vote, which took place on 15 March 1990, as an event that symbolically initiated the new era. Yitzhak Shamir, …
Israel
The 1999 Knesset and prime ministerial elections in Israel
Israel
Israel
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