Alon Peled
Biographic Data
| ID | 143966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alon Peled |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alon |
| FAMILY NAME | Peled |
| SIGNATURE | PELED A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7332-4191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Question of Loyalty: Military Manpower Policy in Multiethnic States
States that use military conscription and whose ethnic minorities have relatives in hostile countries face a'Trojan horse'dilemma: the state demands military service but mistrusts the loyalty of subjugated community members. Some armies brutalize ethnic recruits; others simply reject them. Alon Peled compares the experiences of Malay-Muslim soldiers in Singapore, Arabs in Israel, and blacks in South Africa. Drawing on his interviews with senior o…
Coerce, Consent, and Coax: A Review of U.S. Congressional Efforts to Improve Federal Counterterrorism Information Sharing
Government Accountability Office reports and secondary sources reveal that the U.S. Congress has employed three distinct legislative approaches to address the federal counterterrorism information-sharing impasse: coerce, consent, and coax. One main example illustrates each approach: the Homeland Security Information Network project exemplifies the coerce approach; Intellipedia illustrates the consent approach; the office of the Program Manager of…
Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics
The Electronic Mountain: A Tale of Two Tels
Federal computer projects frequently fail because federal organizations are mandated to follow an erroneous Enterprise Architecture (EA) metaphor. The article promotes an alternative metaphor that highlights the principles of incremental evolution, learning, exploration and slow adaptation, experimentation, and minimal architecture. To advance this approach, the archaeological history of excavating the oldest man-made mountain ( Tel Gezer where 2…
Why Style Matters: A Comparison of Two Administrative Reform Initiatives in the Israelic Public Sector, 1989-1998
How does an administrative reform develop its own unique style, and how important is this style in determining the reform's legacy? This article argues that sometimes the manner in which an administrative reform is implemented is as important as the reform's initial goals or official agenda. To illustrate the argument, the article compares two reform initiatives in the Israeli public sector that took place during the 1990s. The Civil Service Comm…
Do Computers Cut Red Tape
Large public organizations that adopted computers in the early 1960s ever since have been accumulating “electronic mounds” consisting of layers upon layers of computer systems, data cemeteries, and software-inscribed, special case rules. These electronic mounds acquire a life of their own and are responsible for huge amounts of new electronic red tape that, in turn, inhibit flexibility, innovation, and reform. However, these electronic mounds are…
Centralization or Diffusion: Two Tales of Online Government
Can the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet change the power relationships within a bureaucracy? The dominant centralization approach argues that the existing power elite manipulates computers to perpetuate and augment its power. Although not a coherent school of thought, other scholars suggest that technology can decentralize bureaucratic structures and diffuse bureaucratic power. The little-known history o…
A Question of Loyalty: Military Manpower Policy in Multiethnic States
The new sciences, self‐organization and democracy
Social scientists have argued recently that the theory and findings of the new sciences (quantum mechanics, chaos theory, and new evolutionary biology) corroborate the essences of liberal democracy. Specifically, scholars have argued that the new sciences' principle of self‐organization is closely associated with the idea of individual liberty. This article traces the evolution of the new sciences' self‐organization theory. It then argues that th…
The Politics of Language in Multiethnic Militaries: The Case of Oriental Jews in the Israel Defence Forces, 1950-1959
This article argues that effective linguistic policies in multiethnic militaries do not evolve by themselves. Rather, they require both political pressure on the military to reform its language policy and the willingness of the military to learn from the experience of other militaries. It also provides new evidence to explain how a new quality classification system of manpower excluded Oriental conscripts (Jews who emigrated from Arab and Muslim …
Why did social scientists miss the bug
No abstract available
Force, ideology and contract: The history of ethnic conscription
Minority groups in Central Asia, the Baltic republics, Eastern Europe, and Africa find themselves entrapped between their loyalty to their new states and their cultural and blood-ties with kin across the border in a potential enemy country. This ethnic dilemma is complicated by the enactment of conscription in many of these new states (for example, without exception, every one of the seventeen republics of the CIS has adopted the draft). This art…
Why Style Matters: A Comparison of Two Administrative Reform Initiatives in the Israelic Public Sector, 1989-1998
How does an administrative reform develop its own unique style, and how important is this style in determining the reform's legacy? This article argues that sometimes the manner in which an administrative reform is implemented is as important as the reform's initial goals or official agenda. To illustrate the argument, the article compares two reform initiatives in the Israeli public sector that took place during the 1990s. The Civil Service Comm…
Force, ideology and contract: The history of ethnic conscription
Minority groups in Central Asia, the Baltic republics, Eastern Europe, and Africa find themselves entrapped between their loyalty to their new states and their cultural and blood-ties with kin across the border in a potential enemy country. This ethnic dilemma is complicated by the enactment of conscription in many of these new states (for example, without exception, every one of the seventeen republics of the CIS has adopted the draft). This art…
Do Computers Cut Red Tape
Large public organizations that adopted computers in the early 1960s ever since have been accumulating “electronic mounds” consisting of layers upon layers of computer systems, data cemeteries, and software-inscribed, special case rules. These electronic mounds acquire a life of their own and are responsible for huge amounts of new electronic red tape that, in turn, inhibit flexibility, innovation, and reform. However, these electronic mounds are…
A Question of Loyalty: Military Manpower Policy in Multiethnic States
The Politics of Language in Multiethnic Militaries: The Case of Oriental Jews in the Israel Defence Forces, 1950-1959
This article argues that effective linguistic policies in multiethnic militaries do not evolve by themselves. Rather, they require both political pressure on the military to reform its language policy and the willingness of the military to learn from the experience of other militaries. It also provides new evidence to explain how a new quality classification system of manpower excluded Oriental conscripts (Jews who emigrated from Arab and Muslim …
Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics
Centralization or Diffusion: Two Tales of Online Government
Can the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet change the power relationships within a bureaucracy? The dominant centralization approach argues that the existing power elite manipulates computers to perpetuate and augment its power. Although not a coherent school of thought, other scholars suggest that technology can decentralize bureaucratic structures and diffuse bureaucratic power. The little-known history o…
The new sciences, self‐organization and democracy
Social scientists have argued recently that the theory and findings of the new sciences (quantum mechanics, chaos theory, and new evolutionary biology) corroborate the essences of liberal democracy. Specifically, scholars have argued that the new sciences' principle of self‐organization is closely associated with the idea of individual liberty. This article traces the evolution of the new sciences' self‐organization theory. It then argues that th…
Force, ideology and contract: The history of ethnic conscription
Minority groups in Central Asia, the Baltic republics, Eastern Europe, and Africa find themselves entrapped between their loyalty to their new states and their cultural and blood-ties with kin across the border in a potential enemy country. This ethnic dilemma is complicated by the enactment of conscription in many of these new states (for example, without exception, every one of the seventeen republics of the CIS has adopted the draft). This art…
Why did social scientists miss the bug
No abstract available
A Question of Loyalty: Military Manpower Policy in Multiethnic States
The new sciences, self‐organization and democracy
Social scientists have argued recently that the theory and findings of the new sciences (quantum mechanics, chaos theory, and new evolutionary biology) corroborate the essences of liberal democracy. Specifically, scholars have argued that the new sciences' principle of self‐organization is closely associated with the idea of individual liberty. This article traces the evolution of the new sciences' self‐organization theory. It then argues that th…
The Politics of Language in Multiethnic Militaries: The Case of Oriental Jews in the Israel Defence Forces, 1950-1959
This article argues that effective linguistic policies in multiethnic militaries do not evolve by themselves. Rather, they require both political pressure on the military to reform its language policy and the willingness of the military to learn from the experience of other militaries. It also provides new evidence to explain how a new quality classification system of manpower excluded Oriental conscripts (Jews who emigrated from Arab and Muslim …
Do Computers Cut Red Tape
Large public organizations that adopted computers in the early 1960s ever since have been accumulating “electronic mounds” consisting of layers upon layers of computer systems, data cemeteries, and software-inscribed, special case rules. These electronic mounds acquire a life of their own and are responsible for huge amounts of new electronic red tape that, in turn, inhibit flexibility, innovation, and reform. However, these electronic mounds are…
Centralization or Diffusion: Two Tales of Online Government
Can the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet change the power relationships within a bureaucracy? The dominant centralization approach argues that the existing power elite manipulates computers to perpetuate and augment its power. Although not a coherent school of thought, other scholars suggest that technology can decentralize bureaucratic structures and diffuse bureaucratic power. The little-known history o…
Why Style Matters: A Comparison of Two Administrative Reform Initiatives in the Israelic Public Sector, 1989-1998
How does an administrative reform develop its own unique style, and how important is this style in determining the reform's legacy? This article argues that sometimes the manner in which an administrative reform is implemented is as important as the reform's initial goals or official agenda. To illustrate the argument, the article compares two reform initiatives in the Israeli public sector that took place during the 1990s. The Civil Service Comm…
The Electronic Mountain: A Tale of Two Tels
Federal computer projects frequently fail because federal organizations are mandated to follow an erroneous Enterprise Architecture (EA) metaphor. The article promotes an alternative metaphor that highlights the principles of incremental evolution, learning, exploration and slow adaptation, experimentation, and minimal architecture. To advance this approach, the archaeological history of excavating the oldest man-made mountain ( Tel Gezer where 2…
Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics
Coerce, Consent, and Coax: A Review of U.S. Congressional Efforts to Improve Federal Counterterrorism Information Sharing
Government Accountability Office reports and secondary sources reveal that the U.S. Congress has employed three distinct legislative approaches to address the federal counterterrorism information-sharing impasse: coerce, consent, and coax. One main example illustrates each approach: the Homeland Security Information Network project exemplifies the coerce approach; Intellipedia illustrates the consent approach; the office of the Program Manager of…
A Question of Loyalty: Military Manpower Policy in Multiethnic States
States that use military conscription and whose ethnic minorities have relatives in hostile countries face a'Trojan horse'dilemma: the state demands military service but mistrusts the loyalty of subjugated community members. Some armies brutalize ethnic recruits; others simply reject them. Alon Peled compares the experiences of Malay-Muslim soldiers in Singapore, Arabs in Israel, and blacks in South Africa. Drawing on his interviews with senior o…
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