1. Enduring Gaps between Public Preferences and Institutional Designs -- 2. Conceptualizing Enduring Gaps between Public Preferences and Institutional Designs -- 3. Researching Enduring Gaps in Comparative Research: The Data, the Methods, and the Cases -- 4. The Israeli Case: Israel’s...

This book explores the existence of gaps between public preferences and institutional designs in democracies, specifically in cases in which such gaps are maintained for a long period of time without being challenged by the electorate. Gaps such as these can be seen in the complex relations...