¡°It¡¯s the National Ethos, Stupid¡±! ¨C Understanding the Political Psychology of the Israeli 2015 Elections Using Data from the National Resilience Survey

Eyal Lewin

International Journal of Social Science Studies, 2016, vol. 4, issue 7, 63-74

Abstract: From a socio-political point of view, the results of the Israeli 2015 elections reflect an ongoing stagnation that is described in detail in this research. This stagnation is often explained by theories of social collective identities. However, none of the theories examines how group identities are created. Consequently, this study explains how different forms of national ethos shape political identities and interweave with them. Relying on a wide set of data from the National Resilience Survey launched by the National Security Studies Center at Haifa University, this research examines the way Israeli political parties differ according to voters' attitudes on matters of national ethos. The findings show how opposing parties correspond with the two distinct forms of national ethos. However, the data also reveals that the ethos clash is not necessarily a dichotomy, but rather a continuum where various parties are located along a spectrum between the poles.

Keywords: group identity; national ethos; voter behavior; political stagnation; republicanism; liberalism. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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