01218pab a2200181 454500 180718b2000 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Pedahzur, Ami The attractiveness of the seemingly unattractive: an Israeli case 2000 p.55-70 Autumn The 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 Local government - Israel Local government Brichta, Avraham Local Government Studies 46942 46942 46942 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 26, Issue no: 3 AR47370 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR