Assaf Shapira
Biographic Data
| ID | 4384276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Assaf Shapira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Assaf |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapira |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPIRA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Israel Democracy Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3634-8458 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Employing the parliamentary committee of inquiry as an oversight tool: Israel as a case study
A parliamentary committee of inquiry (PCI) is one of the tools with which a parliament carries out its oversight function. It enables the parliament to conduct in-depth investigations of particular issues, uncover failures and corruption, and increase accountability and transparency of the government. Surprisingly, despite its value, the PCI has received little scholarly attention. This research focuses on PCIs in Israel’s parliament (the Knesset…
The shift to defence in Israel’s hybrid military strategy
This paper traces the significant change that has occurred in the balance between offense and defence in Israel’s ‘hybrid’ military strategy in recent decades. Relying on fresh materials concerning the organizational, doctrinal, and procurement processes of Israel’s military, we identify a shift from offense towards defence as the preferred way to protect Israel in the face of new security threats. We also show that due to rapidly changing securi…
Israel’s Politics of Citizenship
Israel has absorbed considerable numbers of non-olim immigrants since the 1990s. This phenomenon has posed new challenges to the state’s highly restrictive and ethnic citizenship policy, resulting in the emergence of a new phase in its politics of citizenship, which this article seeks to describe and analyze. By employing the methodology of political claims analysis—based on newspaper articles reporting attempts to expand immigrants’ access to Is…
Israel’s citizenship policy since the 1990s—new challenges, (mostly) old solutions
Israel’s highly restrictive citizenship policy constitutes the clearest indicator of its dominant ethnic model of citizenship. However, this policy has faced new challenges since the early 1990s, following the mass migration of non-Jewish immigrants. This paper examines and characterizes changes in immigrants’ entitlement to Israeli citizenship since the 1990s. It indicates that while Israel’s traditional citizenship policy has not undergone any …
Israel’s Citizenship Policy towards Family Immigrants: Developments and Implications
This paper examines changes that have occurred in Israel’s citizenship policy towards family immigrants since the early 1990s, when it became a country of immigration. Its findings indicate that Israel now has a much more restrictive policy towards Palestinian family immigrants, and a somewhat more inclusive policy concerning the naturalization of various other groups of family immigrants. In a broader perspective, while there is evidence that th…
An Intra-Party Democracy Index: Theory, Design and A Demonstration
This article presents a new index for a comprehensive and systematic measurement of the level of intra-party democracy (IPD). The proposed index is designed on the basis of a comparison with state-level democracy and previous attempts to measure IPD. It examines five dimensions: participation, representation, competition, responsiveness and transparency. The way each dimension is measured is explained and justified on the basis of the procedure o…
How The Mouse Got His Roar’: The Shift to an ‘Offensive–Defensive’ Military Strategy in Israel in 1953 and its Implications
In 1953 Israel abandoned the 'defensive–offensive' military strategy that it had adopted four years earlier, in the wake of the First Arab–Israeli War, in favor of an 'offensive–defensive' military strategy that, to a large extent, persists until this day. This paper, which employs previously untapped Israeli official documents, personal interviews, memoirs, biographies, and secondary sources, casts new light on this critical juncture in the hist…
The Socio-Legal Construction of Otherness Under * a Neo-Liberal Regime: The Case of Foreign Workers in the Israeli Criminal Courts
This paper attempts to reveal the ways in which criminal courts in Israel constructed foreign workers brought to trial as ‘others’. Individual foreign workers were framed as being irrelevant as bearers of rights while, in a parallel process, foreign workers as a group were constructed as symbolically relevant to discussions regarding the state governance of social risk. The study spans the years 1994–2011, when Israel adopted a new neo-liberal re…
Zionism in the Age of Revolution
Journal Article ZIONISM IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION Get access Anita Shapira Anita Shapira TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 18, Issue 3, October 1998, Pages 217–226, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/18.3.217 Published: 01 October 1998
An Intra-Party Democracy Index: Theory, Design and A Demonstration
This article presents a new index for a comprehensive and systematic measurement of the level of intra-party democracy (IPD). The proposed index is designed on the basis of a comparison with state-level democracy and previous attempts to measure IPD. It examines five dimensions: participation, representation, competition, responsiveness and transparency. The way each dimension is measured is explained and justified on the basis of the procedure o…
The Socio-Legal Construction of Otherness Under * a Neo-Liberal Regime: The Case of Foreign Workers in the Israeli Criminal Courts
This paper attempts to reveal the ways in which criminal courts in Israel constructed foreign workers brought to trial as ‘others’. Individual foreign workers were framed as being irrelevant as bearers of rights while, in a parallel process, foreign workers as a group were constructed as symbolically relevant to discussions regarding the state governance of social risk. The study spans the years 1994–2011, when Israel adopted a new neo-liberal re…
Israel’s citizenship policy since the 1990s—new challenges, (mostly) old solutions
Israel’s highly restrictive citizenship policy constitutes the clearest indicator of its dominant ethnic model of citizenship. However, this policy has faced new challenges since the early 1990s, following the mass migration of non-Jewish immigrants. This paper examines and characterizes changes in immigrants’ entitlement to Israeli citizenship since the 1990s. It indicates that while Israel’s traditional citizenship policy has not undergone any …
How The Mouse Got His Roar’: The Shift to an ‘Offensive–Defensive’ Military Strategy in Israel in 1953 and its Implications
In 1953 Israel abandoned the 'defensive–offensive' military strategy that it had adopted four years earlier, in the wake of the First Arab–Israeli War, in favor of an 'offensive–defensive' military strategy that, to a large extent, persists until this day. This paper, which employs previously untapped Israeli official documents, personal interviews, memoirs, biographies, and secondary sources, casts new light on this critical juncture in the hist…
Employing the parliamentary committee of inquiry as an oversight tool: Israel as a case study
A parliamentary committee of inquiry (PCI) is one of the tools with which a parliament carries out its oversight function. It enables the parliament to conduct in-depth investigations of particular issues, uncover failures and corruption, and increase accountability and transparency of the government. Surprisingly, despite its value, the PCI has received little scholarly attention. This research focuses on PCIs in Israel’s parliament (the Knesset…
The shift to defence in Israel’s hybrid military strategy
This paper traces the significant change that has occurred in the balance between offense and defence in Israel’s ‘hybrid’ military strategy in recent decades. Relying on fresh materials concerning the organizational, doctrinal, and procurement processes of Israel’s military, we identify a shift from offense towards defence as the preferred way to protect Israel in the face of new security threats. We also show that due to rapidly changing securi…
Zionism in the Age of Revolution
Journal Article ZIONISM IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION Get access Anita Shapira Anita Shapira TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 18, Issue 3, October 1998, Pages 217–226, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/18.3.217 Published: 01 October 1998
Zionism in the Age of Revolution
Journal Article ZIONISM IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION Get access Anita Shapira Anita Shapira TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 18, Issue 3, October 1998, Pages 217–226, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/18.3.217 Published: 01 October 1998
The Socio-Legal Construction of Otherness Under * a Neo-Liberal Regime: The Case of Foreign Workers in the Israeli Criminal Courts
This paper attempts to reveal the ways in which criminal courts in Israel constructed foreign workers brought to trial as ‘others’. Individual foreign workers were framed as being irrelevant as bearers of rights while, in a parallel process, foreign workers as a group were constructed as symbolically relevant to discussions regarding the state governance of social risk. The study spans the years 1994–2011, when Israel adopted a new neo-liberal re…
How The Mouse Got His Roar’: The Shift to an ‘Offensive–Defensive’ Military Strategy in Israel in 1953 and its Implications
In 1953 Israel abandoned the 'defensive–offensive' military strategy that it had adopted four years earlier, in the wake of the First Arab–Israeli War, in favor of an 'offensive–defensive' military strategy that, to a large extent, persists until this day. This paper, which employs previously untapped Israeli official documents, personal interviews, memoirs, biographies, and secondary sources, casts new light on this critical juncture in the hist…
Israel’s Citizenship Policy towards Family Immigrants: Developments and Implications
This paper examines changes that have occurred in Israel’s citizenship policy towards family immigrants since the early 1990s, when it became a country of immigration. Its findings indicate that Israel now has a much more restrictive policy towards Palestinian family immigrants, and a somewhat more inclusive policy concerning the naturalization of various other groups of family immigrants. In a broader perspective, while there is evidence that th…
An Intra-Party Democracy Index: Theory, Design and A Demonstration
This article presents a new index for a comprehensive and systematic measurement of the level of intra-party democracy (IPD). The proposed index is designed on the basis of a comparison with state-level democracy and previous attempts to measure IPD. It examines five dimensions: participation, representation, competition, responsiveness and transparency. The way each dimension is measured is explained and justified on the basis of the procedure o…
Israel’s Politics of Citizenship
Israel has absorbed considerable numbers of non-olim immigrants since the 1990s. This phenomenon has posed new challenges to the state’s highly restrictive and ethnic citizenship policy, resulting in the emergence of a new phase in its politics of citizenship, which this article seeks to describe and analyze. By employing the methodology of political claims analysis—based on newspaper articles reporting attempts to expand immigrants’ access to Is…
Israel’s citizenship policy since the 1990s—new challenges, (mostly) old solutions
Israel’s highly restrictive citizenship policy constitutes the clearest indicator of its dominant ethnic model of citizenship. However, this policy has faced new challenges since the early 1990s, following the mass migration of non-Jewish immigrants. This paper examines and characterizes changes in immigrants’ entitlement to Israeli citizenship since the 1990s. It indicates that while Israel’s traditional citizenship policy has not undergone any …
The shift to defence in Israel’s hybrid military strategy
This paper traces the significant change that has occurred in the balance between offense and defence in Israel’s ‘hybrid’ military strategy in recent decades. Relying on fresh materials concerning the organizational, doctrinal, and procurement processes of Israel’s military, we identify a shift from offense towards defence as the preferred way to protect Israel in the face of new security threats. We also show that due to rapidly changing securi…
Employing the parliamentary committee of inquiry as an oversight tool: Israel as a case study
A parliamentary committee of inquiry (PCI) is one of the tools with which a parliament carries out its oversight function. It enables the parliament to conduct in-depth investigations of particular issues, uncover failures and corruption, and increase accountability and transparency of the government. Surprisingly, despite its value, the PCI has received little scholarly attention. This research focuses on PCIs in Israel’s parliament (the Knesset…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Citizenship (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)