Israeli politics saw major realignments in 1977 and 1992. The effect of long range economic cycles on the nature and outcome of Israeli electoral politics is examined in these two elections.

This paper proposes a test of racial bias in capital sentencing based upon patterns of judicial errors in lower courts. We model the behavior of the trial court as minimizing a weighted sum of the probability of sentencing an innocent and that of letting a guilty defendant free. We define racial...