Eran Razin
Biographic Data
| ID | 184845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eran Razin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eran |
| FAMILY NAME | Razin |
| SIGNATURE | RAZIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4374-5104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 282 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Can online shopping and remote work create an opportunity for local property tax reform? The case of Israel
Municipalities’ overreliance on business property taxes distorts urban planning decisions, exacerbates fiscal disparities, and is threatened by online shopping and remote work. Based on fiscal data analysis and interviews, we examine whether a shift of local tax burdens from business to residential uses is inevitable and possible in the Israeli context. We reveal differential vulnerability to decreasing non-residential tax revenues; however, rath…
Térbeli egyenlőtlenségek és szubszidiaritás központosított föderalista rendszerben
Australia is imbalanced geographically and politically: its growth is extremely concentrated in four major city-regions that stand in contrast to sparsely populated, stagnant rural areas. Its political power is exceptionally centralized, consisting of vertical fiscal imbalance between the Commonwealth and the states, and particularly weak local governments. This study focuses on spatial disparities in school achievements and resources, and the ef…
Renaming municipalities
Residential seismic retrofitting
Seismic retrofitting is the most effective way to reduce casualties from earthquakes. Yet, seismic retrofitting of vulnerable residential structures faces many impediments. As no single policy measure can overcome these obstacles, seismic retrofitting requires that multiple policy measures be applied in tandem and therefore policy packages are necessary. As seismic threats are spread over multiple locales, differing in their characteristics, no s…
The rise and fall (?) of public-private partnerships in Israel’s local government
Municipal-private partnerships (MPP), including BOT concessions, joint municipal-private corporations, and leveraging municipally owned land to promote private investment, have become major tools of urban development, but the 2008 global crisis seemed to have changed attitudes towards their application. Based on documents and open-ended interviews, our study examines the apparent retreat from MPP in Israel. Results show that BOT lost appeal in th…
Local government going offside? The gap between planning and implementation of sport development projects
Checks and Balances in Centralized and Decentralized Planning Systems
My study aims to identify checks and balances in planning systems through a detailed examination of three systems, where rapidly growing urban regions are located. Ontario serves as a prime example for vertical checks on decentralized decisions, mainly via an appeal board and binding planning documents. Horizontal checks predominate in decentralized British Columbia (BC), demonstrating the crucial significance of restraint in decision-making with…
Rhetoric in municipal amalgamations
There is a large literature that seeks to evaluate municipal amalgamations ex post, but a relative dearth of scholarly inquiry into the practical political task of persuading the public to accept amalgamations ex ante. We address this important gap in the literature by conducting a rhetorical analysis to ascertain what types of arguments are believed to be efficacious for persuasion on amalgamation. We find evidence to suggest belief in the effic…
Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis
This book undertakes the first systematic, multi-country investigation into how regimes of place equality, consisting of multilevel policies, institutions and governance at multiple scales, influence
Assessing land use plan implementation
Metropolitan dynamics in Israel
This study analyzes metropolitan dynamics in a small country with an "island state" context of closed boundaries, using commuting data and mobile phone tracking data. We examine whether the Israeli context encourages the formation of a monocentric "metropolitan state," characterized by increasing links between localities throughout the country and its principal metropolitan node (Tel Aviv)—rather than with secondary metropolitan areas—and by fuzz…
Attitudes of European Local Councillors towards Local Governance Reforms
The impact of governance attributes on frequently overlooked attitudes of local councillors towards local governance reform agendas is assessed, based on the MAELG survey of approximately 11,000 councillors in 15 European countries and Israel. Eighteen policy statements are grouped into six reform agendas, followed by analyses of their explanatory factors. Europe's north–south divide is found meaningful for the understanding of variations in atti…
Israeli-Palestinian Migrants in Jerusalem
The increased tendency of Israeli-Palestinians to migrate to Jerusalem, despite internal and external barriers for their migration to Israel's large cities, is examined through a survey of 201 migrants. The role of higher education institutions as an initial pull factor explains their highly educated profile, but opportunities as a middleman minority between Israel and East Jerusalem Palestinians, who lack Israeli citizenship, are prime motives f…
The Rise of Gated Communities in Israel
This study examines the contemporary development of gated communities in Israel, linking the phenomenon to global trends in privatisation, associated with the rise of neo-liberal landscapes. It is argued that assertions on weakening state intervention and strengthening influence of the market, oversimplify the complex interplay of private developers, public planning institutions and third-sector organisations. Neo-liberal urban governance does no…
Arie Shachar (1935–2006)—Transformations of Israel's Urban Geography
Arie Shachar played a key role in the introduction of modern urban geography in Israel, in the shift from the study of Israeli cities in light of global trends to the study of global influences on Israeli cities, and in linking urban geography with urban planning. He had a major role in the emergence of a new planning doctrine, less preoccupied with population dispersal and preservation of agricultural land, and more with economic growth, sustain…
Enclosed Residential Neighborhoods in Israel
Contemporary studies of gated communities largely associate this phenomenon with global forces, emphasizing recent urban processes that operate across national borders. However, the Israeli experience demonstrates that multiple forces work simultaneously to produce various forms of enclosed residential communities that follow very different evolutionary routes. Older forms of gated spaces such as traditional and frontier enclaves, characterized b…
The College Chase
Local government initiative to attract colleges, in spite of being formally excluded from the higher education system, is shown to represent urban entrepreneurialism, in which strategies undertaken – reactive or proactive, competition or co‐operation, and means of support – are influenced by location. However, such decentralised forms of local governance do not indicate a diminishing role of the central state, but rather reshape regulation – deci…
The Industrial Geography of Israel
Israel's industrial geography is unique. The continuing Arab-Israeli conflict has been a primary force behind government intervention in settlement patterns, and has led to a major effort to disperse industry. The geopolitical situation has also encouraged a policy of attempted self-reliance, especially for defence purposes. These factors, combined with an abundant human capital, have given Israeli high-technology industries a special place in th…
Needs and Impediments for Local Government Reform
I argue that calls for local government reform and prospects for implementation are largely a product of images and external sociopolitical circumstances rather than of particular needs and attributes of the local government system. A discussion of images and facts in the case for local government reform in Israel shows that the need for reform was real, but debates were often based on inaccurate perceptions of extreme fragmentation and centraliz…
Municipal boundary conflicts between jewish and arab local authorities in israel
Municipal boundaries shape the influence of local government on patterns of development and disparities. Based on a largely qualitative assessment of initiatives to change municipal boundaries of Arab localities in Israel between the 1960s and 2001, we aim to demonstrate the tension between geographical‐administrative considerations and political, particularly geopolitical, issues at two levels: Arab claims and central government decisions. We em…
Immigrant entrepreneurs from the former USSR in Israel
Based on data from the 1995 census and on a literature review, we examine whether immigrants from the former USSR in Israel tend to gravitate into self-employment, and whether the characteristics of these immigrant entrepreneurs resemble those in prominent ethnic economies elsewhere. Despite expectations, the propensity of new immigrants from the former USSR to engage in business was found to be low. These immigrants lacked developed ethnic netwo…
Redrawing Israel's local government map
Are Fragmentation and Sprawl Interlinked
The association between municipal fragmentation and suburban sprawl is examined, based on a cross-sectional analysis of all U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with more than 500,000 residents in the 1990s. Results reveal that this association is rather weak but significant and is sustained even when the less fragmented and more compact Canadian metropolitan areas are excluded from the analysis. The impact of residential sprawl on fragmentation …
The impact of decentralisation on fiscal disparities among local authorities in Israel
This study examines fiscal disparities among local authorities in Israel between 1972 and 1995. It argues that political and fiscal decentralisation increase disparities. Analysis is based on regression models and ranking of local authorities according to selected financial measures. Results confirm weakness of small municipalities in a system that lacks strong regional administration or sufficient inter‐municipal co‐operation. Arab municipalitie…
The Income Consequences of Ethnic Entrepreneurial Concentrations
Based on the 1990 census data for America's 16 largest metropolitan regions, this study assesses the propensities of immigrants and minorities to become self-employed and concentrate in particular niches in different metropolitan regions in relation to earnings. Massive gravitation of nonmainstream groups into self-employment was found to be associated with a low earnings advantage of self-employment, particularly where the self-employed concentr…
Ethnic Entrepreneurs in America's Largest Metropolitan Areas
Using 1990 census data, the authors compare 77 immigrant and ethnic groups in the 16 largest metropolitan regions in the United States. They find that the interaction effect of location and ethnicity on ethnic entrepreneurship is evident not only in self-employment rates but also in niche concentrations and niche competition. Their results reveal a distinction between main-stream groups and nonmainstream groups. Compared to mainstream groups, non…
Are Fragmentation and Sprawl Interlinked
The association between municipal fragmentation and suburban sprawl is examined, based on a cross-sectional analysis of all U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with more than 500,000 residents in the 1990s. Results reveal that this association is rather weak but significant and is sustained even when the less fragmented and more compact Canadian metropolitan areas are excluded from the analysis. The impact of residential sprawl on fragmentation …
The Rise of Gated Communities in Israel
This study examines the contemporary development of gated communities in Israel, linking the phenomenon to global trends in privatisation, associated with the rise of neo-liberal landscapes. It is argued that assertions on weakening state intervention and strengthening influence of the market, oversimplify the complex interplay of private developers, public planning institutions and third-sector organisations. Neo-liberal urban governance does no…
Enclosed Residential Neighborhoods in Israel
Contemporary studies of gated communities largely associate this phenomenon with global forces, emphasizing recent urban processes that operate across national borders. However, the Israeli experience demonstrates that multiple forces work simultaneously to produce various forms of enclosed residential communities that follow very different evolutionary routes. Older forms of gated spaces such as traditional and frontier enclaves, characterized b…
Needs and Impediments for Local Government Reform
I argue that calls for local government reform and prospects for implementation are largely a product of images and external sociopolitical circumstances rather than of particular needs and attributes of the local government system. A discussion of images and facts in the case for local government reform in Israel shows that the need for reform was real, but debates were often based on inaccurate perceptions of extreme fragmentation and centraliz…
Policies to Control Urban Sprawl
Urban sprawl, fuelled by powerful market forces, is unlikely to be controlled by macro-scale regional plans or by comprehensive reforms of the local government map. This paper emphasises two mechanisms that determine the 'rules of the game' of local development and public regulation of urban sprawl: local government finance and the transfer of land from rural to urban local authorities. Sharing local taxes paid by new non-residential property is …
Metropolitan Characteristics and Entrepreneurship among Immigrants and Ethnic Groups in Canada
Assessing land use plan implementation
Metropolitan dynamics in Israel
This study analyzes metropolitan dynamics in a small country with an "island state" context of closed boundaries, using commuting data and mobile phone tracking data. We examine whether the Israeli context encourages the formation of a monocentric "metropolitan state," characterized by increasing links between localities throughout the country and its principal metropolitan node (Tel Aviv)—rather than with secondary metropolitan areas—and by fuzz…
Metropolitan Characteristics and Entrepreneurship among Immigrants and Ethnic Groups in Canada
This study assesses the influence of metropolitan characteristics on self-employment among immigrant groups and ethnic minorities in Canada. It compares self-employment among 65 immigrant and ethnic groups in Canada's 25 metropolitan areas and is based on a special tabulation from the 1991 Census of Canada. Results show that locational variations in self-employment among groups that are clearly distinguished from Canada's mainstream population, a…
Entrepreneurship Among Foreign Immigrants in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Metropolitan Regions
Israeli-Palestinian Migrants in Jerusalem
The increased tendency of Israeli-Palestinians to migrate to Jerusalem, despite internal and external barriers for their migration to Israel's large cities, is examined through a survey of 201 migrants. The role of higher education institutions as an initial pull factor explains their highly educated profile, but opportunities as a middleman minority between Israel and East Jerusalem Palestinians, who lack Israeli citizenship, are prime motives f…
Urban-rural boundary conflicts
Ownership Structure and Linkage Patterns of Industry in Israel's Development Towns
RAZIN E. (1988) Ownership structure and linkage patterns of industry in Israel's development towns, Reg. Studies 22, 19–31. Effects of ownership characteristics on input and output linkage patterns of plants in Israel's development towns are examined, and their implications for the advancement of the towns are discussed. The study is based on a survey of 130 plants. Non-local ownership, particularly in conjunction with a non-local head office, wa…
Self-employment among French-Canadians
This article examines the relationship between self-employment among French-Canadians and the regional milieu. Our main argument is that self-employment among French-Canadians depends on the specific regional milieu. The empirical analysis is based on the public use file on individuals of the 1986 Census of Canada. Self-employment is related to mother tongue, region, industry, occupation, income and language spoken at home. Then, the association …
Rhetoric in municipal amalgamations
There is a large literature that seeks to evaluate municipal amalgamations ex post, but a relative dearth of scholarly inquiry into the practical political task of persuading the public to accept amalgamations ex ante. We address this important gap in the literature by conducting a rhetorical analysis to ascertain what types of arguments are believed to be efficacious for persuasion on amalgamation. We find evidence to suggest belief in the effic…
The Income Consequences of Ethnic Entrepreneurial Concentrations
Based on the 1990 census data for America's 16 largest metropolitan regions, this study assesses the propensities of immigrants and minorities to become self-employed and concentrate in particular niches in different metropolitan regions in relation to earnings. Massive gravitation of nonmainstream groups into self-employment was found to be associated with a low earnings advantage of self-employment, particularly where the self-employed concentr…
Redrawing Israel's local government map
The impact of decentralisation on fiscal disparities among local authorities in Israel
This study examines fiscal disparities among local authorities in Israel between 1972 and 1995. It argues that political and fiscal decentralisation increase disparities. Analysis is based on regression models and ranking of local authorities according to selected financial measures. Results confirm weakness of small municipalities in a system that lacks strong regional administration or sufficient inter‐municipal co‐operation. Arab municipalitie…
Urban Economic Development in a Period of Local Initiative
A case-study of six towns in Israel's southern coastal plain demonstrates how a shift from nationally directed industrial dispersal efforts to one in which there is a greater role for locally initiated development strategies leads to the restructuring of the urban system. Semi-peripheral regions attain a growing advantage over the remote periphery, though within the semi-periphery intra-regional competition has intensified. Whereas previously the…
Attitudes of European Local Councillors towards Local Governance Reforms
The impact of governance attributes on frequently overlooked attitudes of local councillors towards local governance reform agendas is assessed, based on the MAELG survey of approximately 11,000 councillors in 15 European countries and Israel. Eighteen policy statements are grouped into six reform agendas, followed by analyses of their explanatory factors. Europe's north–south divide is found meaningful for the understanding of variations in atti…
The College Chase
Local government initiative to attract colleges, in spite of being formally excluded from the higher education system, is shown to represent urban entrepreneurialism, in which strategies undertaken – reactive or proactive, competition or co‐operation, and means of support – are influenced by location. However, such decentralised forms of local governance do not indicate a diminishing role of the central state, but rather reshape regulation – deci…
Municipal boundary conflicts between jewish and arab local authorities in israel
Municipal boundaries shape the influence of local government on patterns of development and disparities. Based on a largely qualitative assessment of initiatives to change municipal boundaries of Arab localities in Israel between the 1960s and 2001, we aim to demonstrate the tension between geographical‐administrative considerations and political, particularly geopolitical, issues at two levels: Arab claims and central government decisions. We em…
The rise and fall (?) of public-private partnerships in Israel’s local government
Municipal-private partnerships (MPP), including BOT concessions, joint municipal-private corporations, and leveraging municipally owned land to promote private investment, have become major tools of urban development, but the 2008 global crisis seemed to have changed attitudes towards their application. Based on documents and open-ended interviews, our study examines the apparent retreat from MPP in Israel. Results show that BOT lost appeal in th…
The Role of Ownership Characteristics in the Industrial Development of Israel's Peripheral Towns
A framework for studying the ownership structure of industry in Israel's development towns is outlined, putting special emphasis on defining factors influencing entrepreneurship among residents of these towns, and relating these factors to theories of entrepreneurship in space, and to those of entrepreneurship among immigrant groups. Factors affecting external ownership of single-plant firms and location decisions of multiplant firms are consider…
Ownership of Industry and Plant Stability in Israel's Development Towns
The ownership structure of industry in Israel's development towns during the period 1966-83 is examined, as well as its effects on the stability of the plants. Multi-variate logit models, used to identify the factors affecting closure propensity, show that the most stable plants are owned by the rural-cooperative sector. Due mostly to their large size, the plants of non-local multi-plant firms are relatively stable, as are also those of local ent…
Entrepreneurship Among Foreign Immigrants in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Metropolitan Regions
The Geography of Telecommunications Systems
Ownership Structure and Linkage Patterns of Industry in Israel's Development Towns
RAZIN E. (1988) Ownership structure and linkage patterns of industry in Israel's development towns, Reg. Studies 22, 19–31. Effects of ownership characteristics on input and output linkage patterns of plants in Israel's development towns are examined, and their implications for the advancement of the towns are discussed. The study is based on a survey of 130 plants. Non-local ownership, particularly in conjunction with a non-local head office, wa…
The Role of Ownership Characteristics in the Industrial Development of Israel's Peripheral Towns
A framework for studying the ownership structure of industry in Israel's development towns is outlined, putting special emphasis on defining factors influencing entrepreneurship among residents of these towns, and relating these factors to theories of entrepreneurship in space, and to those of entrepreneurship among immigrant groups. Factors affecting external ownership of single-plant firms and location decisions of multiplant firms are consider…
Relating Theories of Entrepreneurship Among Ethnic Groups and Entrepreneurship in Space -The Case of the Jewish Population in Israel
(1989). Relating Theories of Entrepreneurship Among Ethnic Groups and Entrepreneurship in Space -The Case of the Jewish Population in Israel. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 167-181
Urban Economic Development in a Period of Local Initiative
A case-study of six towns in Israel's southern coastal plain demonstrates how a shift from nationally directed industrial dispersal efforts to one in which there is a greater role for locally initiated development strategies leads to the restructuring of the urban system. Semi-peripheral regions attain a growing advantage over the remote periphery, though within the semi-periphery intra-regional competition has intensified. Whereas previously the…
Spatial Variations in the Israeli Small-Business Sector
RAZIN E. (1990) Spatial variations in the Israeli small-business sector: implications for regional development policies, Reg. Studies 24, 149–162. An analysis of evolving spatial variations in self-employment in Israel is presented as an initial step in assessing opportunities for small-business oriented local development policies. The analysis includes the Jewish urban population and is based on data of the 1961, 1972 and 1983 censuses of popula…
The Industrial Geography of Israel
Israel's industrial geography is unique. The continuing Arab-Israeli conflict has been a primary force behind government intervention in settlement patterns, and has led to a major effort to disperse industry. The geopolitical situation has also encouraged a policy of attempted self-reliance, especially for defence purposes. These factors, combined with an abundant human capital, have given Israeli high-technology industries a special place in th…
Urban-rural boundary conflicts
Self-employment among French-Canadians
This article examines the relationship between self-employment among French-Canadians and the regional milieu. Our main argument is that self-employment among French-Canadians depends on the specific regional milieu. The empirical analysis is based on the public use file on individuals of the 1986 Census of Canada. Self-employment is related to mother tongue, region, industry, occupation, income and language spoken at home. Then, the association …
Metropolitan Characteristics and Entrepreneurship among Immigrants and Ethnic Groups in Canada
This study assesses the influence of metropolitan characteristics on self-employment among immigrant groups and ethnic minorities in Canada. It compares self-employment among 65 immigrant and ethnic groups in Canada's 25 metropolitan areas and is based on a special tabulation from the 1991 Census of Canada. Results show that locational variations in self-employment among groups that are clearly distinguished from Canada's mainstream population, a…
Metropolitan Characteristics and Entrepreneurship among Immigrants and Ethnic Groups in Canada
The impact of decentralisation on fiscal disparities among local authorities in Israel
This study examines fiscal disparities among local authorities in Israel between 1972 and 1995. It argues that political and fiscal decentralisation increase disparities. Analysis is based on regression models and ranking of local authorities according to selected financial measures. Results confirm weakness of small municipalities in a system that lacks strong regional administration or sufficient inter‐municipal co‐operation. Arab municipalitie…
The Income Consequences of Ethnic Entrepreneurial Concentrations
Based on the 1990 census data for America's 16 largest metropolitan regions, this study assesses the propensities of immigrants and minorities to become self-employed and concentrate in particular niches in different metropolitan regions in relation to earnings. Massive gravitation of nonmainstream groups into self-employment was found to be associated with a low earnings advantage of self-employment, particularly where the self-employed concentr…
Policies to Control Urban Sprawl
Urban sprawl, fuelled by powerful market forces, is unlikely to be controlled by macro-scale regional plans or by comprehensive reforms of the local government map. This paper emphasises two mechanisms that determine the 'rules of the game' of local development and public regulation of urban sprawl: local government finance and the transfer of land from rural to urban local authorities. Sharing local taxes paid by new non-residential property is …
Location of Entrepreneurship Assistance Centres in Israel
The establishment of entrepreneurship assistance centres in Israel in the 1990s, triggered by the need to absorb mass‐immigration, serves as an example for the geographic implications of the break from top‐down approaches to regional development towards a pluralist model that involves a variety of national networks and local partnerships. A balance between cost effectiveness and social needs was achieved through the establishment of assistance ce…
Ethnic Entrepreneurs in America's Largest Metropolitan Areas
Using 1990 census data, the authors compare 77 immigrant and ethnic groups in the 16 largest metropolitan regions in the United States. They find that the interaction effect of location and ethnicity on ethnic entrepreneurship is evident not only in self-employment rates but also in niche concentrations and niche competition. Their results reveal a distinction between main-stream groups and nonmainstream groups. Compared to mainstream groups, non…
Are Fragmentation and Sprawl Interlinked
The association between municipal fragmentation and suburban sprawl is examined, based on a cross-sectional analysis of all U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with more than 500,000 residents in the 1990s. Results reveal that this association is rather weak but significant and is sustained even when the less fragmented and more compact Canadian metropolitan areas are excluded from the analysis. The impact of residential sprawl on fragmentation …
Immigrant entrepreneurs from the former USSR in Israel
Based on data from the 1995 census and on a literature review, we examine whether immigrants from the former USSR in Israel tend to gravitate into self-employment, and whether the characteristics of these immigrant entrepreneurs resemble those in prominent ethnic economies elsewhere. Despite expectations, the propensity of new immigrants from the former USSR to engage in business was found to be low. These immigrants lacked developed ethnic netwo…
Redrawing Israel's local government map
Needs and Impediments for Local Government Reform
I argue that calls for local government reform and prospects for implementation are largely a product of images and external sociopolitical circumstances rather than of particular needs and attributes of the local government system. A discussion of images and facts in the case for local government reform in Israel shows that the need for reform was real, but debates were often based on inaccurate perceptions of extreme fragmentation and centraliz…
Municipal boundary conflicts between jewish and arab local authorities in israel
Municipal boundaries shape the influence of local government on patterns of development and disparities. Based on a largely qualitative assessment of initiatives to change municipal boundaries of Arab localities in Israel between the 1960s and 2001, we aim to demonstrate the tension between geographical‐administrative considerations and political, particularly geopolitical, issues at two levels: Arab claims and central government decisions. We em…
The Industrial Geography of Israel
Israel's industrial geography is unique. The continuing Arab-Israeli conflict has been a primary force behind government intervention in settlement patterns, and has led to a major effort to disperse industry. The geopolitical situation has also encouraged a policy of attempted self-reliance, especially for defence purposes. These factors, combined with an abundant human capital, have given Israeli high-technology industries a special place in th…
The College Chase
Local government initiative to attract colleges, in spite of being formally excluded from the higher education system, is shown to represent urban entrepreneurialism, in which strategies undertaken – reactive or proactive, competition or co‐operation, and means of support – are influenced by location. However, such decentralised forms of local governance do not indicate a diminishing role of the central state, but rather reshape regulation – deci…
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