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January 3, 2020

Why Israel’s Constitution Is to Blame for Its Current Political Crisis

Proportional representation encourages instability and unaccountability.

Following the elections last April, Israeli politicians were unable to form a governing coalition for the first time in the country’s history; nor were they able to do so after the after the do-over election held in September. Even if the third elections, scheduled for the coming March, have a conclusive result, the country will have gone for more than a year with only a caretaker government. Neil Rogachevsky argues that the impasse results from a flawed political system based on proportional representation (PR), whereby seats in the Knesset are assigned in direct proportion to the number of votes each party receives, and individual Knesset members do not have their own constituencies:

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January 3, 2020

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    Proportional representation encourages instability and unaccountability.

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