Peace and Security in the 2006 Election

Rynhold, Jonathan

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“…Another fruitful line of inquiry may be how leaders’ traits correspond with public opinion and social trends. In the case of Israel, Rynhold (2007: 430) argues that the prominence of post-materialism in the country was important for the peace process. He elaborates how “low threat perception and lower levels of support for ethno-nationalism … strongly correlated with dovishness in Israel.” These changes, then, would point to lower distrust of others and in-group bias scores; would Israeli leaders exhibit a similar change before, after, or in sync with Israeli society?…”

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Features of foreign policy birds: Israeli prime ministers as hawks and doves

Kesgin¹

2019

Cooperation and Conflict

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Scholars and policymakers have long used the shorthand of hawks and doves to characterize leader personalities that correspond to a particular political inclination, whereby hawks are considered right-wing and more aggressive in foreign policy, and doves are left-wing and more peaceful. This article posits that a sound discussion of who hawks and doves in foreign policy are requires an engagement with research on political leadership. It promises a less superficial understanding of the dichotomy of hawks and doves, and uses leadership trait analysis to explore hawkish and dovish leaders’ qualities. The article profiles Israel’s prime ministers since the end of the Cold War, where in a high security environment, these words are most often used to describe its domestic and foreign matters and its cooperative and conflictual actions. This article’s findings encourage an unpacking of these commonly used shorthand labels with political leadership approaches. They are also useful to highlight, most notably, the significance of complexity and distrust in understanding hawkish and dovish leaders. Hawks think simpler and are more doubtful of others than doves, this article finds. Future research, the article suggests, will benefit from looking deeper than simple, dichotomous use of this analogy, and exploring ways to operationalize individual-level measurements of hawks and doves in foreign policy.

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Features of foreign policy birds: Israeli prime ministers as hawks and doves

Kesgin¹

2019

Cooperation and Conflict

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“…An examination of Figure 3 shows that Sharon moved to his electoral opponent's position (Labor) on security issues.The Labor Party, with its policy being implemented by Likud, joined the coalition.The Labor Party's support replaced the support of the National Unity Party, whose ministers were fired by Sharon in June 2004 since they risked his majority around the government's table.The National Religious Party (NRP) gradually left the government, starting in June and finally leaving in October 2004 (NRG, 2005). Moreover, during the process of implementation, the split between Sharon and the 'rebel' Likud Members of the Knesset (MKs) became fierce, with his Finance Minister (and contender for Likud's leadership) Benjamin Netanyahu resigning his office and supporting the rebels (Rynhold, 2007).…”

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“…Sharon decided to seek that mandate from the Likud rank-and-file members who elected him to be Likud's leader.Yet that support was not given and Sharon finally decided to lean on the government's majority decisions and a continuous plea to general public opinion while circumventing his party as a basis for legitimacy. During the implementation of the disengagement Sharon was able to maintain both a coalition and a high standing in public opinion surveys (Rynhold, 2007).…”

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“…Clearly, that coalition could not have supported the new pro-withdrawal position. Moreover, soon after Sharon made his declaration he saw a faction within Likud forming against that new policy (Rynhold, 2007). Yet Israel's institutional structure allows prime ministers to initiate and lead policies quite flexibly as long as they control their coalition (Arian, 2005, pp.…”

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“…The National Religious Party (NRP) gradually left the government, starting in June and finally leaving in October 2004 (NRG, 2005). Moreover, during the process of implementation, the split between Sharon and the ‘rebel’ Likud Members of the Knesset (MKs) became fierce, with his Finance Minister (and contender for Likud's leadership) Benjamin Netanyahu resigning his office and supporting the rebels (Rynhold, 2007).…”

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This article studies the factors that affect the likelihood of radical policy changes. Radical policy changes are defined here as acts in which political leaders choose a policy that is contradictory to policies they have committed to during elections and on whose basis they have formed coalitions.The reason for such changes is that quandaries change the policy space that shapes elections and initial coalitions.This change creates incentives for political players to re-bargain over existing coalitions. As the bargaining process decreases the leaders' survival prospects, the likelihood of leaders to opt for the 'wrong side' of the policy space will increase. I validate this claim using a case study and a large-N quantitative analysis of 51 cases from 34 countries.

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