1. The President’s Conference Israeli Democracy 2003
Hosted by JSkyway with permission of the
Israel Democracy Institute

2. Auditing Israeli Democracy 2003

3. Democracy Indicators Institutions Rights Stability Repre- sentation
Accountability
Partici-
pation
Checks and
Balances
Corruption
Economic
Political
Gender
Civilian
Minority
Social
Government
Stability
Political
Conflict
Social
Cleavages

4. Chart 2 Relative Ranking of Israel on 24 Variables
Stability
Rights
Institu-tions
Israel and other countries with same ranking
The height of the bar indicates the number of countries compared

5. Graph 3 Representation in Israel Party Domination: 1992-2003
More Repres.
Less
Domin.
Less Repres.
More
Domin

6. Graph 4 Representation Compared Party Domination
More Repres.
Less
Domin.
Less Repres.
More
Domin.

7. Graph 5 Voting in Israel 1992-2003

8. Graph 6 Voting Rates Compared

9. Graph 7 Political Rights Compared Freedom of the Press

10. Graph 8 Equality for Minorities Compared Political Discrimination
More Discrim.
Less
Discrim.

11. Graph 9 Stability Compared Government Turnover 1992-2002
Less Stable
More Stable

12. Graph 10 Stability 1992-2003 Completion of Terms

13. Democracy Survey
April 2003

14. Graph Support for Democracy “Democracy the best form of government” Strongly “agree” and “agree”; Jewish samples only

15. Graph Democratic Values “Equality before the law regardless of political opinion” Strongly “agree” and “agree”; Jewish samples only

16. Graph 13 Equality for the Arab Minority Strongly disagree and disagree to “Jewish majority for major decisions such as returning territories” Jewish samples only

17. Graph 14 Support for Democracy Compared “Democratic Regime Desirable” Strongly “agree” and “agree”; Jewish and Arab samples

18. Graph 15 “Strong Leader” Compared “A few strong leaders would do more good than all the discussions and the laws” Strongly “agree” and “agree”; Jewish and Arab samples

19. Graph 16 The institution that best protects Israeli democracy Jewish sample only; by religious observance

20. Much trust Little trust
Graph 17 Relative Ranking of Israel on Trust in Institutions and Trust in People Jewish and Arab samples
Much trust
Little trust

21. Graph 18 Inter-group Relations in Israel Not good and not good at all
Arabs and Jews in samples for Arabs-Jews and rich-poor.
Jews only for religious-secular, mizrachim-ashkenazim, and immigrants-veterans.

22. Graph 19 To be a “real Israeli” Agree that the element is important or very important

23. Graph 20 Ranking of Israeli on Corruption Index compared to perception of corruption Jewish and Arab samples