01167pab a2200157 454500008004000000100001800040245007000058260000900128300001200137362001100149520074800160650003000908650002100938700002100959773002900980180718b2000   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aPedahzur, Ami  aThe attractiveness of the seemingly unattractive: an Israeli case  c2000  ap.55-70  aAutumn  aThe aim of this article is to analyse what makes local government in Israel, which enjoys only minimal formal power, so attractive to many political parties and other organisations.  The article offers a typology of the contestants in the local government electoral arena: old parties, parties attempting to penetrate local government from parliament and parties using local government to enter parliament.  The primary goal of every type is then identified: party formation, institutionalisation and survival.  From this typology an explanatory model is developed which looks at the local government as a `linkage agent' from which the national parties can mobilise various important resources thus achieving their primary goals. - Reproduced  aLocal government - Israel  aLocal government  aBrichta, Avraham  aLocal Government Studies