Labour and the Political Economy in Israel

Shalev, Michael

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“…95 stabilization plan following the 1984 elections neither the labor Party, which won a narrow victory at the polls, nor the rival likud Party was able to form 94 Ben-Porath 1983;Grinberg 1991. 95 Grinberg 1991 andshalev andGrinberg 1989 provide a comprehensive review and analysis of histadrut-government relations during the first half of the 1980s. Unless otherwise stated, these are also the sources on which the following section on the stabilization plan relies.…”

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Power and the Ascendance of New Economic Policy Ideas: Lessons from the 1980s Crisis in Israel

Mandelkern¹,

Shalev²

2010

World Pol.

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Recent explanations of transformations of macroeconomic policy under crisis conditions spotlight the intrinsic properties of ideas and the persuasiveness with which they are marketed. Bridging the divide between power and discourse approaches, this article reveals the causal role played by the power resources of expert ideational entrepreneurs, conditional on the political conjuncture in which they operate. The authors exploit a fortuitous natural experiment from the early 1980s, when the Israeli economy spiraled into hyperinflation. Two similar proposals for economic stabilization and reform were offered by different teams of economists, less than two years apart. While the government rejected the dollarization plan, its authorization of the stabilization plan inaugurated a new political-economic regime. This case, in which similar programs were advocated by different ideational entrepreneurs in a largely stable institutional and economic context, makes it possible to pinpoint why radically new ideas succeed or fail. Previously underutilized analytical tools are employed to conceptualize the power of idea carriers, at both the individual and the group level.

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Section: Political Contingenciesmentioning

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Power and the Ascendance of New Economic Policy Ideas: Lessons from the 1980s Crisis in Israel

Mandelkern¹,

Shalev²

2010

World Pol.

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“…The national project could take-off only on the basis of labor enclaves and exclusion of Arab laborers, based on the injunction of Jewish capital. The combination of "public" finance and privileged labor made the strategy of the Labor Movement triumphant (Shafir 1996;Shalev 1992). In the early state era, during the 1950s and 1960s, the national project was bequeathed to the state administration, which was manifested in the "mamlachtiyut" etatist (statist) ideology of the era.…”

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Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Bifurcation of Israel

Ram

2007

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are the two large and important cities of Israel. 1 Jerusalem, situated on the crest of the Judea mountains is the religiously sanctified and official capital of the state of Israel. Tel Aviv, situated on the shore of the Mediterranean, is the business and social metropolitan hub of Israeli society. The two cities are perceived in Israeli culture as representing two opposing political-cultural principles: Jerusalem is historical and holy-a probable prescription for cultural intolerance and political violence; Tel Aviv is contemporaneous and profane-a possible recipe for a thriving and hedonistic civil society. Such a perception will inform the first part of the essay. In its second part, a critical look at this perception will be offered. Critics contest the common depiction of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as two antidotal poles and consider it disingenuous if not deceiving. They contend that the two cities are more alike than the common perception would lead one to believe, and that they form in fact a common Israeli system, with just a slight division of labor among them. The third part of the essay will expand beyond Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as such and will consider the larger context of Israeli political culture and especially the bifurcation between post-Zionism and neo-Zionism. The fourth part will offer concluding reflections on the role of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as two perspectives or orientations in contemporary Israel.

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“…67 For more about the causes of the crisis and the stabilization program, see an article written by the chairman of Israel's central bank at the time (Bruno 1989). Also, see Ben-Bassat 2002;Ben-Porath 1986. 68 For more about the history of neo-corporatism in Israel, see Shalev 1992, andGrinberg 1991. collapse of the banking system, both the Elron group and Scitex were faced with their biggest crises to date.…”

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Innovation and the State—Development Strategies for High Technology Industries in a World of Fragmented Production: Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan

Breznitz¹

2006

Enterp. soc.

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One of the most unexpected changes of the 1990s is that firms in a number of emerging economies not previously known for their high-technology industries have leapfrogged to the forefront in new Information Technologies (IT). Surprisingly, from the perspective of comparative political economy theories, the IT industries of these countries use different business models and have carved out different positions in the global IT production networks. Of these emerging economies, the Taiwanese, Israeli, and Irish have successfully nurtured the growth of their IT industries. This dissertation sets out to establish that emerging economies have more than one option for developing their high technology industries. Moreover, it advances a theoretical framework for analyzing how different choices lead to long-term consequences and to the development of successful and radically different industrial systems. Hence, this dissertation strives to give politics -the art and profession of creating alternatives and the social struggles of choosing between, and acting on, them -the importance that it seems to have lost in the social sciences. The research focuses on the role of the state in shaping the structure of the IT industry in Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan. It argues that the developmental path of the IT industry is influenced by four critical decisions by the state. First, decisions about how to acquire the necessary R&D skills influence which organizations -public or private -play a leading role in innovation. Second, state decisions about financing significantly affect both the R&D resources available to the industry and the scope of R&D activity. Third, state efforts to develop local leading companies have long-term consequences for the industry's opportunity structure. Fourth, state decisions regarding foreign firms and investors within and outside national borders affect the resources and the information that the industry receives from its customers, as well as the diffusion and development of specific innovative capabilities. Of particular importance are state decisions that develop specific links between local and foreign companies, investors, and financial markets. Overall, the dissertation utilizes this framework to explain the divergent development of the IT industry in Taiwan, Israel, and Ireland.

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Labour and the Political Economy in Israel

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Power and the Ascendance of New Economic Policy Ideas: Lessons from the 1980s Crisis in Israel

Power and the Ascendance of New Economic Policy Ideas: Lessons from the 1980s Crisis in Israel

Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Bifurcation of Israel

Innovation and the State—Development Strategies for High Technology Industries in a World of Fragmented Production: Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan

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