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Why do leaders change their policies from initially declared policies? As new policy challenges increase political survival uncertainty, leaders change their positions to gain new grounds in terms of political support. I support this claim using a case-study from Israel and a statistical analysis of a variety of cases from diverse settings.

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The paper's academic relevance is that it supports claims made by William H. Riker, Iain McLean and Norman Schofield regarding the relevance of political maneuvering to policy outcomes, regardless of political institutions and social contexts. The policy relevance is its statement regarding politicians' policy maneuvers and their willing to change policies so as to politically survive.

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This page is a summary of: Policy Instability in a Comparative Perspective: The Context of Heresthetic, Political Studies, March 2013, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.12026.
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