Amos Zehavi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4149505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amos Zehavi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amos |
| FAMILY NAME | Zehavi |
| SIGNATURE | ZEHAVI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4925-7275 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Conservative ethnic minority LGTBQ: Facing the challenge of intersectionality in an inhospitable environment
LGBTQ+ suffer from intolerance everywhere, but in certain conservative minority communities, intolerance is especially high. This study explores how non‐minority organizations—government and nonprofit—might support minority LGBTQ+ individuals on the backdrop of tense majority‐minority relations. While the extension of external support responds to LGBTQ+ plight, it is also likely to provoke community backlash. Research is based on a qualitative ca…
Religious and ethnic identities influence on public views of privatization: The case of Israel
Public attitudes regarding privatization are important for both political and normative reasons. Past studies of public opinion on privatization have shown how socio-economic variables and ideology shape public views. In this study, we focus on a relatively under-researched factor: identity as it relates to actor preference formation. We explore attitudes toward different privatization types in a society, in which the main political fault lines a…
Promoting inclusive innovation for disabled people in four countries: Who does what and why
Disability policy is often characterized as comprising three different components: citizenship rights, labor market integration and social protection. In this study, we present a fourth component – disability-related innovation. Specifically we analyze two critical interrelated questions: what governments do to guide innovation in this area; and do patterns of greater government disability policy involvement in social-democratic welfare states ap…
Delimiting citizen participation: How Israeli mayors get the most out of the process
Citizen Participation (CP) produces instrumental benefits and realises democratic ideals. However, administrators are aware of its administrative and political downsides. This might lead administrators to adopt symbolic forms of CP in which there is little significance to CP's process and outputs. We investigate how mayors think about CP and the ways in which they shape the practice. Based on in-depth interviews with 15 Israeli mayors, this artic…
The balancing act of minority cultural identity expression policy: Palestinian cultural struggles at the Israeli local government level
Minority Cultural Identity Expressions (MCIE), for instance the use of minority language or celebration of minority culture, could be promoted by government at different levels. We focus on local government support for MCIE under circumstances in which central government is unsupportive of, and even suppresses, such expressions. Specifically, we ask how local minority leaders in minority-dominated towns approach the issue of MCIE: do they use the…
The Neoliberal Targeted Social Investment State: The Case of Ethnic Minorities
Neoliberal governance has been associated with rising inequality and economic exclusion. Recent scholarship proposes that the social investment state (SIS) is a turn away from such inequality and exclusion-enhancing neoliberalism. The ideal SIS responds to neoliberalism-generated social ills by investing in the productive capacities of all its citizens. However, commentators ask whether an SIS addresses the plight of weaker elements in society, s…
Religionization from the Bottom up: Religiosity Trends and Institutional Change Mechanisms in Israeli Public Services
This study asks how religious change at the social level (as expressed in increased religiosity) influences the religious behavior of public organizations. The study's empirical foundation is three Israeli case studies that focus on the impact of growing religiosity in Israeli Jewish society on three large public institutions: the military, healthcare, and schools. Based on comparative analysis of the three case studies, it is shown that variatio…
Policy Analysis in Israel
Delegation of Clinical Authority, Administrative Culture and Policy Adoption: A Comparative Analysis
Numerous countries have adopted reforms that allow medical personnel other than physicians to engage in tasks that traditionally were exclusively performed by physicians. This policy is controversial because it challenges the medical profession’s traditional boundaries. This study is an exercise in comparative policy research based on the experience of 18 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. It evaluates the contribut…
Policy Analysis in Israel
Recession as a window of opportunity for public sector recruitment
This article addresses the challenge of attracting high-quality workers to the public sector despite inter-sector pay discrepancies that often favor private sector employment. We argue that economic downturns offer a rare window of opportunity for the public sector to recruit high-quality workers that under normal conditions would prefer the higher monetary rewards of the private to the public sector. In deep economic downturns unemployment rises…
A Public Road to Globalization: Public Services and Customer Internationalization in Israel
Public service leaders increasingly behave as public entrepreneurs in search of new funding sources for cash-strapped institutions. This study focuses attention on customer internationalization—that is the extension of public services to individual foreign clients—as an important emerging form of public sector commercialization. The main objective is to characterize this new phenomenon in terms of motivation, process, and probable outcomes. Speci…
Religious Supply, Welfare State Restructuring and Faith-Based Social Activities
This article explores whether recent social and political developments have transformed religious organisations' involvement in welfare activities. Most developed countries have undergone a process of secularisation in which the religious attachments of major segments of society, and also certain state institutions, have weakened. In recent years, welfare state expansion has stalled and most welfare states have entered an ‘age of austerity’. Chan…
New Governance and Policy Instruments: Are Governments Going “Soft”?
This article investigates the nexus between policy instruments and governance, with an emphasis on how questions and research that deal with the former should inform the literature which is dedicated to the latter. It comments on the hard-versus-soft-policy-instrument debate in the governance literature and introduces an alternative policy instrument conceptualization called the Vedung's trichotomy. The article argues that although recent tempora…
From Enlightened Self‐interest to Welfare Coalitions: Overcoming Identity‐based Tensions in the Israeli Welfare State
A common argument in the social policy literature is that ethnic and identity‐based heterogeneity undermines the welfare state. In part, this happens because of difficulties in the generation of broad social solidarity in diverse societies: solidarity which is allegedly necessary for sustaining public support for the welfare state. This study explores this argument's logic in the context of welfare state politics in Israel. Israel would appear to…
A Reform Less Ordinary? Historical Institutionalism, Punctuated Equilibrium, and Mental Health Care Privatization
Theories of policy and institutional reform are of major interest to numerous disciplines in the social sciences. The main question motivating this study is under what circumstances is dramatic reform possible. It is argued that theories of reform formulated within two central heuristic frameworks—historical institutionalism and punctuated equilibrium—fail to satisfactorily explain reform dynamics in small policy domains, which are characterized …
Moving in Opposite Directions? Religious Involvement in Welfare Provision in Israel and the Low Countries
How does religious change in society affect welfare organization practices and the religious aspects of the welfare state? Theories of historical institutionalism suggest that welfare organizations are highly stable, but this study finds that individual-level religious trends provoke corresponding welfare-organizational change. Three mechanisms link individual-level change to changes in organizational religiosity: workforce influence, welfare cli…
Veto Players, Path Dependency, and Reform of Public Aid Policy toward Private Schools: Australia, New Zealand, and the United States
Welfare State Politics in Privatization of Delivery: Linking Program Constituencies to Left and Right
This article asks whether alleged partisan policy convergence has eradicated differences in relation to privatization of delivery of welfare state services. The study utilizes a novel methodological approach—numerous intrastate comparisons set in a consilience research framework—to assess the extent of convergence and its underlying reasons. It explores the partisan politics of school privatization of delivery across five countries that differ in…
Regulating non‐government schools: Explaining success and failure
The challenge faced by governments in the regulation of powerful private actors has allegedly intensified in recent years. This study explores the means at the disposal of governments, and their effectiveness, with respect to the regulation of private actors that demonstrate considerable independence and political efficacy. It is argued that a modified ‘Contextual Interaction Theory’ (CIT), which focuses on the interaction between generic policy …
The Faith-Based Initiative in Comparative Perspective: Making Use of Religious Providers in Britain and the United States
Faith groups are among the main sponsors and innovators of voluntary activi ty in all these areas....Your role in the voluntary sector, working in partnership with central and local government, is legitimate and important. And where you have the desire and ability to play a greater role, with the support of your com munities, we want to see you do so. But again I emphasise, we want you as part ners, not substitutes. Prime Minister Tony Blair, Spe…
Welfare State Politics in Privatization of Delivery: Linking Program Constituencies to Left and Right
This article asks whether alleged partisan policy convergence has eradicated differences in relation to privatization of delivery of welfare state services. The study utilizes a novel methodological approach—numerous intrastate comparisons set in a consilience research framework—to assess the extent of convergence and its underlying reasons. It explores the partisan politics of school privatization of delivery across five countries that differ in…
Veto Players, Path Dependency, and Reform of Public Aid Policy toward Private Schools: Australia, New Zealand, and the United States
Religious Supply, Welfare State Restructuring and Faith-Based Social Activities
This article explores whether recent social and political developments have transformed religious organisations' involvement in welfare activities. Most developed countries have undergone a process of secularisation in which the religious attachments of major segments of society, and also certain state institutions, have weakened. In recent years, welfare state expansion has stalled and most welfare states have entered an ‘age of austerity’. Chan…
Moving in Opposite Directions? Religious Involvement in Welfare Provision in Israel and the Low Countries
How does religious change in society affect welfare organization practices and the religious aspects of the welfare state? Theories of historical institutionalism suggest that welfare organizations are highly stable, but this study finds that individual-level religious trends provoke corresponding welfare-organizational change. Three mechanisms link individual-level change to changes in organizational religiosity: workforce influence, welfare cli…
The Faith-Based Initiative in Comparative Perspective: Making Use of Religious Providers in Britain and the United States
Faith groups are among the main sponsors and innovators of voluntary activi ty in all these areas....Your role in the voluntary sector, working in partnership with central and local government, is legitimate and important. And where you have the desire and ability to play a greater role, with the support of your com munities, we want to see you do so. But again I emphasise, we want you as part ners, not substitutes. Prime Minister Tony Blair, Spe…
Delimiting citizen participation: How Israeli mayors get the most out of the process
Citizen Participation (CP) produces instrumental benefits and realises democratic ideals. However, administrators are aware of its administrative and political downsides. This might lead administrators to adopt symbolic forms of CP in which there is little significance to CP's process and outputs. We investigate how mayors think about CP and the ways in which they shape the practice. Based on in-depth interviews with 15 Israeli mayors, this artic…
A Reform Less Ordinary? Historical Institutionalism, Punctuated Equilibrium, and Mental Health Care Privatization
Theories of policy and institutional reform are of major interest to numerous disciplines in the social sciences. The main question motivating this study is under what circumstances is dramatic reform possible. It is argued that theories of reform formulated within two central heuristic frameworks—historical institutionalism and punctuated equilibrium—fail to satisfactorily explain reform dynamics in small policy domains, which are characterized …
Regulating non‐government schools: Explaining success and failure
The challenge faced by governments in the regulation of powerful private actors has allegedly intensified in recent years. This study explores the means at the disposal of governments, and their effectiveness, with respect to the regulation of private actors that demonstrate considerable independence and political efficacy. It is argued that a modified ‘Contextual Interaction Theory’ (CIT), which focuses on the interaction between generic policy …
Religionization from the Bottom up: Religiosity Trends and Institutional Change Mechanisms in Israeli Public Services
This study asks how religious change at the social level (as expressed in increased religiosity) influences the religious behavior of public organizations. The study's empirical foundation is three Israeli case studies that focus on the impact of growing religiosity in Israeli Jewish society on three large public institutions: the military, healthcare, and schools. Based on comparative analysis of the three case studies, it is shown that variatio…
Conservative ethnic minority LGTBQ: Facing the challenge of intersectionality in an inhospitable environment
LGBTQ+ suffer from intolerance everywhere, but in certain conservative minority communities, intolerance is especially high. This study explores how non‐minority organizations—government and nonprofit—might support minority LGBTQ+ individuals on the backdrop of tense majority‐minority relations. While the extension of external support responds to LGBTQ+ plight, it is also likely to provoke community backlash. Research is based on a qualitative ca…
Promoting inclusive innovation for disabled people in four countries: Who does what and why
Disability policy is often characterized as comprising three different components: citizenship rights, labor market integration and social protection. In this study, we present a fourth component – disability-related innovation. Specifically we analyze two critical interrelated questions: what governments do to guide innovation in this area; and do patterns of greater government disability policy involvement in social-democratic welfare states ap…
The Neoliberal Targeted Social Investment State: The Case of Ethnic Minorities
Neoliberal governance has been associated with rising inequality and economic exclusion. Recent scholarship proposes that the social investment state (SIS) is a turn away from such inequality and exclusion-enhancing neoliberalism. The ideal SIS responds to neoliberalism-generated social ills by investing in the productive capacities of all its citizens. However, commentators ask whether an SIS addresses the plight of weaker elements in society, s…
From Enlightened Self‐interest to Welfare Coalitions: Overcoming Identity‐based Tensions in the Israeli Welfare State
A common argument in the social policy literature is that ethnic and identity‐based heterogeneity undermines the welfare state. In part, this happens because of difficulties in the generation of broad social solidarity in diverse societies: solidarity which is allegedly necessary for sustaining public support for the welfare state. This study explores this argument's logic in the context of welfare state politics in Israel. Israel would appear to…
The Faith-Based Initiative in Comparative Perspective: Making Use of Religious Providers in Britain and the United States
Faith groups are among the main sponsors and innovators of voluntary activi ty in all these areas....Your role in the voluntary sector, working in partnership with central and local government, is legitimate and important. And where you have the desire and ability to play a greater role, with the support of your com munities, we want to see you do so. But again I emphasise, we want you as part ners, not substitutes. Prime Minister Tony Blair, Spe…
Regulating non‐government schools: Explaining success and failure
The challenge faced by governments in the regulation of powerful private actors has allegedly intensified in recent years. This study explores the means at the disposal of governments, and their effectiveness, with respect to the regulation of private actors that demonstrate considerable independence and political efficacy. It is argued that a modified ‘Contextual Interaction Theory’ (CIT), which focuses on the interaction between generic policy …
New Governance and Policy Instruments: Are Governments Going “Soft”?
This article investigates the nexus between policy instruments and governance, with an emphasis on how questions and research that deal with the former should inform the literature which is dedicated to the latter. It comments on the hard-versus-soft-policy-instrument debate in the governance literature and introduces an alternative policy instrument conceptualization called the Vedung's trichotomy. The article argues that although recent tempora…
From Enlightened Self‐interest to Welfare Coalitions: Overcoming Identity‐based Tensions in the Israeli Welfare State
A common argument in the social policy literature is that ethnic and identity‐based heterogeneity undermines the welfare state. In part, this happens because of difficulties in the generation of broad social solidarity in diverse societies: solidarity which is allegedly necessary for sustaining public support for the welfare state. This study explores this argument's logic in the context of welfare state politics in Israel. Israel would appear to…
A Reform Less Ordinary? Historical Institutionalism, Punctuated Equilibrium, and Mental Health Care Privatization
Theories of policy and institutional reform are of major interest to numerous disciplines in the social sciences. The main question motivating this study is under what circumstances is dramatic reform possible. It is argued that theories of reform formulated within two central heuristic frameworks—historical institutionalism and punctuated equilibrium—fail to satisfactorily explain reform dynamics in small policy domains, which are characterized …
Moving in Opposite Directions? Religious Involvement in Welfare Provision in Israel and the Low Countries
How does religious change in society affect welfare organization practices and the religious aspects of the welfare state? Theories of historical institutionalism suggest that welfare organizations are highly stable, but this study finds that individual-level religious trends provoke corresponding welfare-organizational change. Three mechanisms link individual-level change to changes in organizational religiosity: workforce influence, welfare cli…
Veto Players, Path Dependency, and Reform of Public Aid Policy toward Private Schools: Australia, New Zealand, and the United States
Welfare State Politics in Privatization of Delivery: Linking Program Constituencies to Left and Right
This article asks whether alleged partisan policy convergence has eradicated differences in relation to privatization of delivery of welfare state services. The study utilizes a novel methodological approach—numerous intrastate comparisons set in a consilience research framework—to assess the extent of convergence and its underlying reasons. It explores the partisan politics of school privatization of delivery across five countries that differ in…
A Public Road to Globalization: Public Services and Customer Internationalization in Israel
Public service leaders increasingly behave as public entrepreneurs in search of new funding sources for cash-strapped institutions. This study focuses attention on customer internationalization—that is the extension of public services to individual foreign clients—as an important emerging form of public sector commercialization. The main objective is to characterize this new phenomenon in terms of motivation, process, and probable outcomes. Speci…
Religious Supply, Welfare State Restructuring and Faith-Based Social Activities
This article explores whether recent social and political developments have transformed religious organisations' involvement in welfare activities. Most developed countries have undergone a process of secularisation in which the religious attachments of major segments of society, and also certain state institutions, have weakened. In recent years, welfare state expansion has stalled and most welfare states have entered an ‘age of austerity’. Chan…
Recession as a window of opportunity for public sector recruitment
This article addresses the challenge of attracting high-quality workers to the public sector despite inter-sector pay discrepancies that often favor private sector employment. We argue that economic downturns offer a rare window of opportunity for the public sector to recruit high-quality workers that under normal conditions would prefer the higher monetary rewards of the private to the public sector. In deep economic downturns unemployment rises…
Policy Analysis in Israel
Delegation of Clinical Authority, Administrative Culture and Policy Adoption: A Comparative Analysis
Numerous countries have adopted reforms that allow medical personnel other than physicians to engage in tasks that traditionally were exclusively performed by physicians. This policy is controversial because it challenges the medical profession’s traditional boundaries. This study is an exercise in comparative policy research based on the experience of 18 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. It evaluates the contribut…
Policy Analysis in Israel
Religionization from the Bottom up: Religiosity Trends and Institutional Change Mechanisms in Israeli Public Services
This study asks how religious change at the social level (as expressed in increased religiosity) influences the religious behavior of public organizations. The study's empirical foundation is three Israeli case studies that focus on the impact of growing religiosity in Israeli Jewish society on three large public institutions: the military, healthcare, and schools. Based on comparative analysis of the three case studies, it is shown that variatio…
The Neoliberal Targeted Social Investment State: The Case of Ethnic Minorities
Neoliberal governance has been associated with rising inequality and economic exclusion. Recent scholarship proposes that the social investment state (SIS) is a turn away from such inequality and exclusion-enhancing neoliberalism. The ideal SIS responds to neoliberalism-generated social ills by investing in the productive capacities of all its citizens. However, commentators ask whether an SIS addresses the plight of weaker elements in society, s…
The balancing act of minority cultural identity expression policy: Palestinian cultural struggles at the Israeli local government level
Minority Cultural Identity Expressions (MCIE), for instance the use of minority language or celebration of minority culture, could be promoted by government at different levels. We focus on local government support for MCIE under circumstances in which central government is unsupportive of, and even suppresses, such expressions. Specifically, we ask how local minority leaders in minority-dominated towns approach the issue of MCIE: do they use the…
Promoting inclusive innovation for disabled people in four countries: Who does what and why
Disability policy is often characterized as comprising three different components: citizenship rights, labor market integration and social protection. In this study, we present a fourth component – disability-related innovation. Specifically we analyze two critical interrelated questions: what governments do to guide innovation in this area; and do patterns of greater government disability policy involvement in social-democratic welfare states ap…
Delimiting citizen participation: How Israeli mayors get the most out of the process
Citizen Participation (CP) produces instrumental benefits and realises democratic ideals. However, administrators are aware of its administrative and political downsides. This might lead administrators to adopt symbolic forms of CP in which there is little significance to CP's process and outputs. We investigate how mayors think about CP and the ways in which they shape the practice. Based on in-depth interviews with 15 Israeli mayors, this artic…
Religious and ethnic identities influence on public views of privatization: The case of Israel
Public attitudes regarding privatization are important for both political and normative reasons. Past studies of public opinion on privatization have shown how socio-economic variables and ideology shape public views. In this study, we focus on a relatively under-researched factor: identity as it relates to actor preference formation. We explore attitudes toward different privatization types in a society, in which the main political fault lines a…
Conservative ethnic minority LGTBQ: Facing the challenge of intersectionality in an inhospitable environment
LGBTQ+ suffer from intolerance everywhere, but in certain conservative minority communities, intolerance is especially high. This study explores how non‐minority organizations—government and nonprofit—might support minority LGBTQ+ individuals on the backdrop of tense majority‐minority relations. While the extension of external support responds to LGBTQ+ plight, it is also likely to provoke community backlash. Research is based on a qualitative ca…
Political science (18 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (10 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Public relations (6 works)