Introduction: Elections 1999 -- The Interplay between Character, Political Culture and Centrism/Daniel J. Elazar and M. Ben Mollov -- PART 1: THE PARTIES -- The Israeli Left in the 1999 Elections/Giora Goldberg -- The Downfall of the National Camp?/Ami Pedahzur -- The Shas Phenomenon and Religious Parties in the 1999 Elections/Etta Bick -- Israeli 'Russian' Parties and the New Immigrant Vote/Vladimir Khanin -- The Centre Party/Efraim Torgovnik -- The Arab Vote in the Israeli Elections: The Bid for Leadership/Hillel Frisch -- PART 2: FACTORYS AND PROCESS -- Foreign Policy in the 1999 Israeli Elections/Gerald M. Steinberg -- External Factors in Israel's 1999 Elections/Barry Rubin -- The Media Campaign: The Shift to Alternative Media/Eytan Gilboa and Yaron Katz -- La BeIl(e) Epoque? A Comparison of Party Platform and Television Propaganda Ideology in the 1999 Israeli Elections and/Atara Frenkel-Faran and Sam Lehman-WiIzig -- Polls, Opinions and Political Decisions -- An Information Theory View of Nachshon Margaliot the 1999 Elections/Dov Tc'eni and YaacovJ. Katz -- Economics and the 1999 Elections/Manfred Gerstenfeld -- Women in the 1999 Elections, Still a Glass Ceiling?/Yael Yishai -- Abstracts -- Index.