Neoliberalism as a State Project Changing the Political Economy of Israel

by Maron, Asa; Shalev, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780198793021
• ISBN10: 0198793022
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-06-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Asa Maron, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa,Michael Shalev, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Asa Maron is a Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Haifa. Previously he held postdoctoral positions at Stanford University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is a political sociologist specializing in the sociology of the welfare state, with an emphasis on contemporary social policy and governance reforms, their politics, institutional dynamics, and consequences for state-society relations. He has published in Law & Society Review, Administration & Society, Social Policy & Administration, and Mediterranean Politics.

Michael Shalev is a political sociologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a visiting at the University of California at Berkeley. His primary research interests are in the political economy of Israel and rich democracies generally, focusing on the politics of social and economic policy, social stratification, and the socio-economic underpinnings of political action. He is the author of Labour and the Political Economy in Israel (1992) and editor of The Privatization of Social Policy? (1996). He has published in World Politics, Socio-Economic Review, Social Forces and other journals. His recent research is on the mass protests of 2011 in Israel and Southern Europe.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Israel, Neoliberalism and Comparative Political Economy, John L. Campbell
1. Introduction, Asa Maron and Michael Shalev
Part 1. Transformations of the Key Actors
2. Paving the Way to Neoliberalism: The Self-Destruction of the Zionist Labor Movement, Lev Grinberg
3. Big Business and the State in the Neoliberal Era: What Changed, What Didn't?, Daniel Maman
4. The Reconfigured Institutional Architecture of the State: The Rise of Fiscal and Monetary Authorities, Daniel Maman and Zeev Rosenhek
5. Institutionalizing the Liberal Creed: Economists in Israel's Long Journey towards Political-Economic Liberalization, Ronen Mandelkern
Part 2. Neoliberalism and Social Policy Reform
6. Pathways to Neoliberalism: The Institutional Logic of a Welfare State Reform, Michal Koreh and Michael Shalev
7. Wisconsin Works' In Israel? Imported Ideas, Domestic Coalitions, And The Institutional Politics Of Re-Commodification, Sara Helman and Asa Maron
8. Bureaucrats, Politicians, and the Politics of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reforming Child Allowances and Healthcare, Sharon Asiskovitch
Part 3. Neoliberalism and the Casualization of Employment
9. Precarious Employment in the Public Sector: How Neoliberal Practices Preceded Ideology, Michal Tabibian-Mizrahi and Michael Shalev
10. Contradictions in Neoliberal Reforms: The Regulation of Labor Subcontracting, Guy Mundlak
11. Conclusion, Asa Maron and Michael Shalev