ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the question in the hope that what happened in the United States may help reduce the obscurities surrounding it. It offers a brief summary of the problematics of PCF so glaringly manifested in the United States. Public funding is liable to bring about the reduction of party responsiveness and consequent party decline. To better understand the Israeli situation the people must amplify the discussion of the structural changes undergone by the parties and the shift in campaign organization and strategy following the adoption of public funding with a closer consideration of the break with established patterns of party-grassroots relations which accompanied these changes. It was that primaries affected the issue, while leaving unchanged the other consequences of public funding.
