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1 online resource (xix, 219 pages) |
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Cover; Neoliberalism as a State Project: Changing the Political Economy of Israel; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Israel, Neoliberalism, and Comparative Political Economy; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Theoretical Inspirations; State Theories Revisited; Explaining Transitions to Neoliberalism; How and When is Transformative Change Possible?; The Change Agents of State-led Liberalization; The Israeli Case; Who (or What) Promoted Neoliberalism in Israel?; Continuity and Change in Israelś Welfare State; Overview of the Book |
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Part 1: Transformations of the Key ActorsChapter 2: Paving the Way to Neoliberalism: The Self-Destruction of the Zionist Labor Movement; The Labor Zionist Political Economy; The Dual State Institutionalized after 1967; Liberalization and Inflation; The Successful Implementation of a Structural Adjustment Plan in 1985; Peacemaking and Economic Neoliberalization; The Grand Finale: Health and Pension Reforms; Discussion; Chapter 3: Big Business and the State in the Neoliberal Era: What Changed, What Didnt́?; Big Business in Israel; State Agencies and Big Business in the Neoliberal Era |
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PrivatizationDismantling Bank Dominance of Big Business; Liberalization of the Financial System; Direct and Indirect State Support of Big Business; Conclusions; Chapter 4: The Reconfigured Institutional Architecture of the State: The Rise of Fiscal and Monetary Authorities; Changes in the Institutional Architecture of the State; Constructing Agency Power and Autonomy in the Neoliberal Era; Conclusions; Chapter 5: Institutionalizing the Liberal Creed: Economists in Israelś Long Journey Towards Political-Economic Liberalization; Economists, Economics, and the Second ̀̀Great Transformatioń́ |
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Patinkinś Economics in Israel: A Premature Birth of the ̀̀Liberal Creed?́́The Erosion of Embedded Illiberalism and the Rise of the Liberal Creed; Institutionalizing the Liberal Creed: Political Entrepreneurship in a Context of Crisis; Conclusions; Part 2: Neoliberalism and Social Policy Reform; Chapter 6: Pathways to Neoliberalism: The Institutional Logic of a Welfare State Reform; From a Trilateral System to Treasury Domination; Dilemmas of Social Insurance Financing; From Compatible to Conflicting Interests; Corroborating Evidence of Intent |
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Alternative Explanations of the Social Insurance ReformConclusions; Chapter 7: ̀̀Wisconsin Works ́́in Israel? Imported Ideas, Domestic Coalitions, and the Institutional Politics of Recommodification; The Development of Intra-state Conflict over the Decommodification of Unemployment and its Governance; Assembling a Coalition for Change against the Backdrop of the Stalemate; Ways Out of a Stalemate: The Role of Coalitions and (Imported) Ideas; Implementation and the Dialectics of Institutional Layering; Conclusions |
| Summary |
This book explores the politics, institutional dynamics, and outcomes of neoliberal restructuring in Israel. It puts forward a bold proposition: that the very creation of a neoliberal political economy may be largely a state project. Correspondingly, it argues that key political conflicts surrounding the realization of this project may occur within the state. Neoliberal restructuring and the institutionalization of permanent austerity are dependent on reconfigured power relations between state actors and are manifested in a new institutional architecture of the state. This architecture, in turn, is the context in which efforts to change social and employment policies play themselves out. The volume frames the coming of neoliberalism in Israel as a set of concrete and far-reaching changes in the power and modes of operation of the key players in the political economy. These changes undermined and neutralized veto players and enabled the ascendance of two state agencies - the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank - which gained greatly augmented authority and autonomy. These reconfigurations were set in motion by state initiatives that combined punctuated and incremental change. The volume comprises case studies of changes in specific social and labor market policies, revealing a close elective affinity between programmatic neoliberal changes on the one hand, and on the other the proactive drive of the Ministry of Finance to enhance its control over public spending and policy design |
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In only a few decades, Israel was radically transformed from a developmental political economy to a neoliberal regime. This book asks why and how these transformations were made possible |
| Notes |
" ... April 2015 at a workshop in Beersheva, Israel ..."--Page v |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 15, 2017) |
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Neoliberalism -- Congresses
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Neoliberalism -- Israel -- Congresses
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Neoliberalism
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Israel
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Maron, Asa, 1980- editor.
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Shalev, Michael, editor.
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| ISBN |
0192511459 |
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9780192511454 |
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9780198793021 |
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0198793022 |
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9780191834769 |
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0191834769 |
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