Asa Maron
Biographic Data
| ID | 316557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asa Maron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asa |
| FAMILY NAME | Maron |
| SIGNATURE | MARON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0673-8340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Limits to the financialisation of the state
Within the financialisation literature, scholars have turned their attention to the state, exploring the adoption of financial activities by state actors, paying less attention to the limits of state financialisation. This paper explores these limits using the case of social impact bonds (SIBs). Pioneered in the UK in 2010 and subsequently trialed in some 35 countries, SIBs use private capital to fund social programs, with governments providing a…
Power and conflict in network governance
Scholars often view conflict management in governance networks as a consensus-seeking practice in which managers attempt to resolve disputes and advance collective network goals. In contrast, this article uses a power-based perspective to explore how different power strategies – adversarial and cooperative – may be applied to manage conflict and disagreements in networks. Using qualitative empirical evidence from two Israeli governance networks, …
Public Service, Private Delivery
Neoliberal restructuring blurs the state/market boundary in introducing the position of 'private state workers': employees of for-profit providers who deliver publicly funded, state-prescribed services. Despite their prevalence, these workers have received scant scholarly attention. Addressing this gap, this article studies Employment Goal Planners (EGPs) employed at private for-profit providers of activation services in Israel. Drawing on extens…
Beyond the Hegemony of Neoliberal Ideas
Sociologists commonly adopt a bifurcated understanding of the neoliberal state, showing how neoliberalism's advance coincides with the growing authority of specific actors and ideas inside the bureaucratic state as others' authority declines. This article complicates this view by probing the dynamics of non-neoliberal action inside the state, demonstrating the ways even demoted state actors can strategically muster power resources to forward dist…
Austerity Beyond Crisis
Austerity is frequently associated with crisis-enabled spending cuts. What happens when the crisis is over? This article's original contribution lies in its in-depth exploration of one mechanism that help explain austerity's endurance post-crisis, when state elites face increased popular resistance and pressure to reinstate social spending. This mechanism calls attention to the role of economists in Central Budgeting Offices as agents of technocr…
Translating social investment ideas in Israel
International organizations play a central role in disseminating social investment ideas, which serve to legitimize forms of public spending by stressing their future contribution to human capital and economic growth. However, the transition from a neoliberal to a social investment state is conditioned on national policymakers’ will to embrace a post-neoliberal macroeconomic philosophy and governance. Although such change lies in the professional…
Episodes of Translation and Network Resilience
The translation perspective explores the travel of policy ideas, programmes and practices across international boundaries, focusing on the process through which interpretative agents introduce and adjust borrowed policy items to a new policy context. Current research emphasises the significance of local networks' support for translation's efficacy. However, we know little about how such networks are maintained and stabilized over time or how chan…
Conclusion
The concluding chapter first discusses the theoretical implications of the studies collected in this volume, distilling theoretical and comparative lessons from the Israeli case. It suggests ways in which the Israeli case challenges existing neoliberal theories, and argues that Israel’s deviations from conventional expectations can be accounted for by adopting a state-centered perspective. The chapter also provides illustrations of the applicabil…
Unravelling the Politics of Activation Reforms
Contemporary active labour market (ALM) reforms are pivotal in the reorganization of the welfare state as they challenge and threaten some of the fundamental achievements of labour in capitalist societies: social programmes and entitlements that compensate for unemployment, and governance arrangements in which the social partners share authority and responsibility with the state. Consequently, ALM reforms may give raise to social unrest and polit…
Infusing Public Law into Privatized Welfare
Along with the trend toward "New Public Management" (NPM) and replacing the legal culture of public bureaucracies with market logic through privatization, we are also witnessing instances of "publicization," the application of public law norms and mechanisms to privatized services. The article explores the role of government lawyers and economists in the dynamics of these administrative reforms. Using a detailed case study of welfare-to-work refo…
Activation via Intensive Intimacies in the Israeli Welfare-to-Work Program
This article uses a constructivist approach to scrutinize embedded actions of situated agents of governance to explore the governing of activation services in Israel. It probes beliefs, discourses, and practices of meso-level regulation administrators and street-level workers to analyze the emergence of a new stringent and disciplinary activation mode. Ultimately, this activation mode reconfigured the “social contract” between the state and its u…
Conflicting Articulations of Citizenship under a Neoliberal State Project
This paper examines the Israeli workfare programme as a neoliberal state project and its contested implications for Israeli citizenship. Israeli workfare attempted to reconfigure the relations between state, market and beneficiaries of Income Support Allowance by redefining their duties of citizenship as independent, self-sufficient providers. Using private case managers and employment coaches, the state urged them to comply with the imperative o…
Translating social investment ideas in Israel
International organizations play a central role in disseminating social investment ideas, which serve to legitimize forms of public spending by stressing their future contribution to human capital and economic growth. However, the transition from a neoliberal to a social investment state is conditioned on national policymakers’ will to embrace a post-neoliberal macroeconomic philosophy and governance. Although such change lies in the professional…
Public Service, Private Delivery
Neoliberal restructuring blurs the state/market boundary in introducing the position of 'private state workers': employees of for-profit providers who deliver publicly funded, state-prescribed services. Despite their prevalence, these workers have received scant scholarly attention. Addressing this gap, this article studies Employment Goal Planners (EGPs) employed at private for-profit providers of activation services in Israel. Drawing on extens…
Activation via Intensive Intimacies in the Israeli Welfare-to-Work Program
This article uses a constructivist approach to scrutinize embedded actions of situated agents of governance to explore the governing of activation services in Israel. It probes beliefs, discourses, and practices of meso-level regulation administrators and street-level workers to analyze the emergence of a new stringent and disciplinary activation mode. Ultimately, this activation mode reconfigured the “social contract” between the state and its u…
Unravelling the Politics of Activation Reforms
Contemporary active labour market (ALM) reforms are pivotal in the reorganization of the welfare state as they challenge and threaten some of the fundamental achievements of labour in capitalist societies: social programmes and entitlements that compensate for unemployment, and governance arrangements in which the social partners share authority and responsibility with the state. Consequently, ALM reforms may give raise to social unrest and polit…
Austerity Beyond Crisis
Austerity is frequently associated with crisis-enabled spending cuts. What happens when the crisis is over? This article's original contribution lies in its in-depth exploration of one mechanism that help explain austerity's endurance post-crisis, when state elites face increased popular resistance and pressure to reinstate social spending. This mechanism calls attention to the role of economists in Central Budgeting Offices as agents of technocr…
Infusing Public Law into Privatized Welfare
Along with the trend toward "New Public Management" (NPM) and replacing the legal culture of public bureaucracies with market logic through privatization, we are also witnessing instances of "publicization," the application of public law norms and mechanisms to privatized services. The article explores the role of government lawyers and economists in the dynamics of these administrative reforms. Using a detailed case study of welfare-to-work refo…
Limits to the financialisation of the state
Within the financialisation literature, scholars have turned their attention to the state, exploring the adoption of financial activities by state actors, paying less attention to the limits of state financialisation. This paper explores these limits using the case of social impact bonds (SIBs). Pioneered in the UK in 2010 and subsequently trialed in some 35 countries, SIBs use private capital to fund social programs, with governments providing a…
Conflicting Articulations of Citizenship under a Neoliberal State Project
This paper examines the Israeli workfare programme as a neoliberal state project and its contested implications for Israeli citizenship. Israeli workfare attempted to reconfigure the relations between state, market and beneficiaries of Income Support Allowance by redefining their duties of citizenship as independent, self-sufficient providers. Using private case managers and employment coaches, the state urged them to comply with the imperative o…
Episodes of Translation and Network Resilience
The translation perspective explores the travel of policy ideas, programmes and practices across international boundaries, focusing on the process through which interpretative agents introduce and adjust borrowed policy items to a new policy context. Current research emphasises the significance of local networks' support for translation's efficacy. However, we know little about how such networks are maintained and stabilized over time or how chan…
Conflicting Articulations of Citizenship under a Neoliberal State Project
This paper examines the Israeli workfare programme as a neoliberal state project and its contested implications for Israeli citizenship. Israeli workfare attempted to reconfigure the relations between state, market and beneficiaries of Income Support Allowance by redefining their duties of citizenship as independent, self-sufficient providers. Using private case managers and employment coaches, the state urged them to comply with the imperative o…
Activation via Intensive Intimacies in the Israeli Welfare-to-Work Program
This article uses a constructivist approach to scrutinize embedded actions of situated agents of governance to explore the governing of activation services in Israel. It probes beliefs, discourses, and practices of meso-level regulation administrators and street-level workers to analyze the emergence of a new stringent and disciplinary activation mode. Ultimately, this activation mode reconfigured the “social contract” between the state and its u…
Infusing Public Law into Privatized Welfare
Along with the trend toward "New Public Management" (NPM) and replacing the legal culture of public bureaucracies with market logic through privatization, we are also witnessing instances of "publicization," the application of public law norms and mechanisms to privatized services. The article explores the role of government lawyers and economists in the dynamics of these administrative reforms. Using a detailed case study of welfare-to-work refo…
Conclusion
The concluding chapter first discusses the theoretical implications of the studies collected in this volume, distilling theoretical and comparative lessons from the Israeli case. It suggests ways in which the Israeli case challenges existing neoliberal theories, and argues that Israel’s deviations from conventional expectations can be accounted for by adopting a state-centered perspective. The chapter also provides illustrations of the applicabil…
Unravelling the Politics of Activation Reforms
Contemporary active labour market (ALM) reforms are pivotal in the reorganization of the welfare state as they challenge and threaten some of the fundamental achievements of labour in capitalist societies: social programmes and entitlements that compensate for unemployment, and governance arrangements in which the social partners share authority and responsibility with the state. Consequently, ALM reforms may give raise to social unrest and polit…
Translating social investment ideas in Israel
International organizations play a central role in disseminating social investment ideas, which serve to legitimize forms of public spending by stressing their future contribution to human capital and economic growth. However, the transition from a neoliberal to a social investment state is conditioned on national policymakers’ will to embrace a post-neoliberal macroeconomic philosophy and governance. Although such change lies in the professional…
Episodes of Translation and Network Resilience
The translation perspective explores the travel of policy ideas, programmes and practices across international boundaries, focusing on the process through which interpretative agents introduce and adjust borrowed policy items to a new policy context. Current research emphasises the significance of local networks' support for translation's efficacy. However, we know little about how such networks are maintained and stabilized over time or how chan…
Austerity Beyond Crisis
Austerity is frequently associated with crisis-enabled spending cuts. What happens when the crisis is over? This article's original contribution lies in its in-depth exploration of one mechanism that help explain austerity's endurance post-crisis, when state elites face increased popular resistance and pressure to reinstate social spending. This mechanism calls attention to the role of economists in Central Budgeting Offices as agents of technocr…
Power and conflict in network governance
Scholars often view conflict management in governance networks as a consensus-seeking practice in which managers attempt to resolve disputes and advance collective network goals. In contrast, this article uses a power-based perspective to explore how different power strategies – adversarial and cooperative – may be applied to manage conflict and disagreements in networks. Using qualitative empirical evidence from two Israeli governance networks, …
Public Service, Private Delivery
Neoliberal restructuring blurs the state/market boundary in introducing the position of 'private state workers': employees of for-profit providers who deliver publicly funded, state-prescribed services. Despite their prevalence, these workers have received scant scholarly attention. Addressing this gap, this article studies Employment Goal Planners (EGPs) employed at private for-profit providers of activation services in Israel. Drawing on extens…
Beyond the Hegemony of Neoliberal Ideas
Sociologists commonly adopt a bifurcated understanding of the neoliberal state, showing how neoliberalism's advance coincides with the growing authority of specific actors and ideas inside the bureaucratic state as others' authority declines. This article complicates this view by probing the dynamics of non-neoliberal action inside the state, demonstrating the ways even demoted state actors can strategically muster power resources to forward dist…
Limits to the financialisation of the state
Within the financialisation literature, scholars have turned their attention to the state, exploring the adoption of financial activities by state actors, paying less attention to the limits of state financialisation. This paper explores these limits using the case of social impact bonds (SIBs). Pioneered in the UK in 2010 and subsequently trialed in some 35 countries, SIBs use private capital to fund social programs, with governments providing a…
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · State (computer science (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works)