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163286
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The article examines the impact of the 1977 political upheaval in Israel on the political direction of the Mafdal, the National Religious Party. The main argument is that, contrary to the widely held view, the party did not adopt more extreme national and social positions following the upheaval. As matter of fact, it was during the premiership of Prime Minister Menachem Begin that the Mafdal positioned itself as a moderate political party on foreign and defence issues. This was demonstrated in its stance in the face of several political and national events: its support of the peace agreement with Egypt, opposition to the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor and reservations regarding deployment of the army during the Lebanon War. As a vital partner in Begin’s government after the upheaval, the Mafdal underwent a process of ‘co-optation’, one of the most powerful strategies for containing and subsuming opposing forces in contending with disagreement.
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120587
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2013.
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A commonly proffered theory to explain the use of elections in authoritarian regimes is that they help identify talented young leaders who can be groomed for leadership positions. Unfortunately, due to the difficulties of obtaining data in authoritarian settings, this hypothesis has not been tested satisfactorily. We examine candidate-level data from the 2007 Vietnamese National Assembly (VNA) election and subsequent selection of candidates for top positions within the VNA and for top ministry positions. We find no evidence that vote share is associated with promotion to leadership positions in the VNA and only limited evidence for vote share association with ministerial posts. Instead, the results indicate that leadership selection takes place within the party rather than through elections. Furthermore, behavior within the assembly suggests that those who were chosen may have been selected based on their loyalty or at least pliancy to the party elites.
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