This appendix presents information about the Sephardi and Russian sectarian parties that have contested elections in Israel. It also provides further detail about the methodology used to measure the success of these parties.

Chapters 5, 6, and 8 all make use of this data.

SEPHARDI PARTIES

Tables C.1, C.2, and C.3 list the Sephardi sectarian parties competing in Israeli elections from 1949 to 2009; their vote shares; and their Knesset seats obtained. New parties are shown in italics for each election. A new party is defined as one that does not show substantial continuity from the preceding election (t − 1) to the current one (t): it is either completely new at t; has split off from a previously existing (t − 1) party; or is a merger of previously existing parties (t − 1) that does not exactly recreate a party that existed at t − 2.

RUSSIAN PARTIES

Table C.4 lists the Russian sectarian parties competing in Israeli elections from 1981 to 2009; their vote shares; and their Knesset seats obtained. New parties are shown in italics for each election, where new parties are defined as before.

MEASURING PARTY SUCCESS I: ASSUMPTIONS FOR COMPARING ELECTORATE SHARES TO VOTE SHARES

Measuring party success by comparing a party's vote share to the targeted group's share of the electorate requires me to make a single assumption: that only members of the group that a sectarian party seeks to represent voted for that party. In other words, I assume that a sectarian party's votes do not come from members of other groups.