Party Switching in Israel POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

Party Switching in Israel POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-ColonialismAnalyzes the history of legislative party switching and its regulation in the Israeli Knesset. This is the first book about the politics of party switching, or floor crossing, better known as "kalanterism" in Israeli politics. The Israeli parliament adopted legislation in 1991 that imposed penalties on parliamentary defectors. However, as the book documents, the effect of this legislation was extremely puzzling: the frequency of party switches has

challenging common trends worldwide

one attuned to the ambivalent and contradictory processes of everyday life

and basic concepts in the metaphysics of the neo-platonists

First published in 2003 and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize in the Caribbean and Canada region

the counter-cathexis of the disgusting in Romantic poetics and its modernist appeal ever since

including established animal and human pathogens

From the 1960s on

survival on the streets and in the prison

each centered around a European monarch

Despite 80% of the worlds barley being used as feed

Although a servant is quickly arrested for the crime

the book focuses on the communities created by the books and television series and how these communities envision themselves as consumers