Doron Navot
Biographic Data
| ID | 905158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doron Navot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doron |
| FAMILY NAME | Navot |
| SIGNATURE | NAVOT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0873-1532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The deconstruction of the Israeli state
This paper argues that the core of Israeli crisis of democracy has been an attack of the Israeli government on the state. That is, the current Israeli government has been transforming the regime and undermining its liberal characters by dismantling the state—its functioning, legitimacy, orientation, and philosophy. It has done so through democratic measures and in the name of the people’s will and sovereignty. That is, via populist rhetoric. Such…
Right-Wing Populist Re-Politicization and the “Hollowing Out” of the Neoliberal State
Upturning the turnout voting upside down: The case of the Arab local government in Israel
The political economy of populists in power, between policy and polity: Evidence from the Israeli case
This paper explores the connection between the current wave of populism, economic policies and governance practices. We first review the different ways in which populist political economy has been conceptualised, focusing on the relationship between populism and neoliberalism in terms of both policy and polity. We then briefly discuss right-wing populist governments' recent economic policies and institutional changes. We argue that, while represe…
What do indigenous parties want? The case of Palestinian citizens of Israel
Revisionist Approaches to Corruption: From “Cynical Conservativism” to Radical Realism
This paper considers the genealogy of the “revisionist” approaches to corruption. The core of the approaches is the idea that practices deviating from formal rules or “accepted norms” with the objective of serving private ends may have a positive aggregate-level impact. No less important, the approaches are skeptic about anti-corruption attempts. In interrogating the revisionist approaches, the paper demonstrates that corruption studies have igno…
The political discourse of Arabs in Israel: Moralism, radical realism, and realistic realism
Using the discriminatory character of Israeli politics as our point of departure, this paper argues that for large numbers of Palestinian Israeli citizens, new realistic terms of collective engagement are attractive and possible. Based on analytical Marxism and writings about realist normative political theory, we contend that politicians can advance strategies that establishing foundations for resolving the minority’s trap. Meanwhile, constructi…
The Limits of Right-Wing Populism in Power and the Israeli Political Crisis of 2018–2021
Between 2018 and 2021, Israel experienced an unprecedented political crisis that saw four rounds of elections, as the country's parties failed to form a stable coalition government. This article contends that this crisis was the result of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's shift away from neoliberalism and toward a populist "anti-system" agenda. While Netanyahu's intensification of institutional subversion played a role in his success in the mid…
The 2015 Israeli General Election: The Triumph of Jewish Skepticism, the Emergence of Arab Faith
The results of the 2015 Israeli election, primarily the sweeping victory of Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, surprised most analysts. In this article we employ political scientist Michael Oakeshott’s distinction in arguing that the campaign dynamics and the consequent electoral results reflect the triumph of a “politics of skepticism” among Jews, and the emergence of a “politics of faith” among Israel’s Arab-Palestinian citizens. Both derive fro…
The Public’s Conception of Political Corruption: A New Measurement Tool and Preliminary Findings
The past two decades have witnessed a burgeoning of scholarship on perceptions of political corruption and their determinants. Yet despite recent advances in understanding these perceptions and their importance to political life, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the question of how the public understands political corruption. We address this gap by reconstructing the conventional conception of political corruption and by presenting …
Likud’s success in the 2015 elections: Netanyahu’s Hobbesian moment
The current article develops an explanation for Likud’s success, which goes beyond the existing structural and circumstantial accounts. It argues that Likud’s success should be sought for in the utilization of Hobbesian logic by its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. By revealing the commonalities between Hobbes’s political thinking and Rhetoric, and Netanyahu’s political conduct, this paper sheds new light on Netanyahu’s leadership and sources of legit…
Speed or Greed? High Wages and Corruption Among Public Servants
Scholars maintain that higher wages for public servants would make the public sector more efficient and reduce the abuse of power. This article challenges this idea and suggests that higher wages may actually increase public corruption. We argue that increasing pecuniary incentives for public service might lead public employees to advance their own self-interests and encourage justifications for accepting bribes. We test our theory empirically us…
Paying Bribes for Public Services: A Global Guide to Grass‐roots Corruption
Real Politics and the Concept of Political Corruption
This article explores some of the challenges generated by recent attempts to relate the concept of political corruption to real politics. It shows that the three distinct arguments upon which scholars who conceptualize political corruption through the lens of real politics often rely are ambiguous, and posit standards for the use of power on the basis of naive or conservative assumptions about politics. The article then contends that we do need t…
How Policy Entrepreneurs Reduce Corruption in Israel
This article suggests a new perspective for analyzing anticorruption policies by emphasizing the important role of policy entrepreneurs. We maintain that these entrepreneurs combat corruption in three ways: (1) by initiating attempts to reduce corrupt practices, whether through legislation or judicial decisions; (2) by being recognized as honest brokers for informants and insiders; and (3) by providing reliable information from these sources to p…
The 2013 Israeli General Election: Travails of the Former King
Despite resulting in a different party configuration, the results of the 2013 Israeli general election support a similar agenda to the one set by the previous government. A year following its establishment, all indicators suggest that the current government continues to deepen neoliberal policies. Nevertheless, this election reflects two important trends: first, an ever growing discontent in Israeli public that probably would not find a solution …
The Concept of Political Corruption: Lessons from a Lost Epoch
This article revises the concept of political corruption by bringing a fresh perspective to prebehavioral scholarship. It acknowledges prior scholarship but also recognizes its limitations. By refuting the assertion that early twentieth-century conceptions are irrelevant, understanding of political corruption and public integrity can be enhanced
Private Incarceration – Towards a Philosophical Critique
Towards a Constitutional Counter‐Revolution in Israel
Ethnic Democracy Revisited: On the State of Democracy in the Jewish State
The current state of the debate over Israeli democracy and the state of Israeli democracy itself are analyzed through the citizenship status of Israel's Palestinian citizens. The two main theoretical models featured in this debate—Smooha's "ethnic democracy" and Yiftachel's "ethnocracy"—are discussed, focusing on the 'framework decisions' that inform their arguments. After demonstrating that the question of Israeli democracy should be viewed dyna…
How Policy Entrepreneurs Reduce Corruption in Israel
This article suggests a new perspective for analyzing anticorruption policies by emphasizing the important role of policy entrepreneurs. We maintain that these entrepreneurs combat corruption in three ways: (1) by initiating attempts to reduce corrupt practices, whether through legislation or judicial decisions; (2) by being recognized as honest brokers for informants and insiders; and (3) by providing reliable information from these sources to p…
The 2015 Israeli General Election: The Triumph of Jewish Skepticism, the Emergence of Arab Faith
The results of the 2015 Israeli election, primarily the sweeping victory of Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, surprised most analysts. In this article we employ political scientist Michael Oakeshott’s distinction in arguing that the campaign dynamics and the consequent electoral results reflect the triumph of a “politics of skepticism” among Jews, and the emergence of a “politics of faith” among Israel’s Arab-Palestinian citizens. Both derive fro…
The Concept of Political Corruption: Lessons from a Lost Epoch
This article revises the concept of political corruption by bringing a fresh perspective to prebehavioral scholarship. It acknowledges prior scholarship but also recognizes its limitations. By refuting the assertion that early twentieth-century conceptions are irrelevant, understanding of political corruption and public integrity can be enhanced
The Limits of Right-Wing Populism in Power and the Israeli Political Crisis of 2018–2021
Between 2018 and 2021, Israel experienced an unprecedented political crisis that saw four rounds of elections, as the country's parties failed to form a stable coalition government. This article contends that this crisis was the result of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's shift away from neoliberalism and toward a populist "anti-system" agenda. While Netanyahu's intensification of institutional subversion played a role in his success in the mid…
Real Politics and the Concept of Political Corruption
This article explores some of the challenges generated by recent attempts to relate the concept of political corruption to real politics. It shows that the three distinct arguments upon which scholars who conceptualize political corruption through the lens of real politics often rely are ambiguous, and posit standards for the use of power on the basis of naive or conservative assumptions about politics. The article then contends that we do need t…
Ethnic Democracy Revisited: On the State of Democracy in the Jewish State
The current state of the debate over Israeli democracy and the state of Israeli democracy itself are analyzed through the citizenship status of Israel's Palestinian citizens. The two main theoretical models featured in this debate—Smooha's "ethnic democracy" and Yiftachel's "ethnocracy"—are discussed, focusing on the 'framework decisions' that inform their arguments. After demonstrating that the question of Israeli democracy should be viewed dyna…
The Public’s Conception of Political Corruption: A New Measurement Tool and Preliminary Findings
The past two decades have witnessed a burgeoning of scholarship on perceptions of political corruption and their determinants. Yet despite recent advances in understanding these perceptions and their importance to political life, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the question of how the public understands political corruption. We address this gap by reconstructing the conventional conception of political corruption and by presenting …
The 2013 Israeli General Election: Travails of the Former King
Despite resulting in a different party configuration, the results of the 2013 Israeli general election support a similar agenda to the one set by the previous government. A year following its establishment, all indicators suggest that the current government continues to deepen neoliberal policies. Nevertheless, this election reflects two important trends: first, an ever growing discontent in Israeli public that probably would not find a solution …
Speed or Greed? High Wages and Corruption Among Public Servants
Scholars maintain that higher wages for public servants would make the public sector more efficient and reduce the abuse of power. This article challenges this idea and suggests that higher wages may actually increase public corruption. We argue that increasing pecuniary incentives for public service might lead public employees to advance their own self-interests and encourage justifications for accepting bribes. We test our theory empirically us…
Towards a Constitutional Counter‐Revolution in Israel
The deconstruction of the Israeli state
This paper argues that the core of Israeli crisis of democracy has been an attack of the Israeli government on the state. That is, the current Israeli government has been transforming the regime and undermining its liberal characters by dismantling the state—its functioning, legitimacy, orientation, and philosophy. It has done so through democratic measures and in the name of the people’s will and sovereignty. That is, via populist rhetoric. Such…
Right-Wing Populist Re-Politicization and the “Hollowing Out” of the Neoliberal State
Paying Bribes for Public Services: A Global Guide to Grass‐roots Corruption
Private Incarceration – Towards a Philosophical Critique
Ethnic Democracy Revisited: On the State of Democracy in the Jewish State
The current state of the debate over Israeli democracy and the state of Israeli democracy itself are analyzed through the citizenship status of Israel's Palestinian citizens. The two main theoretical models featured in this debate—Smooha's "ethnic democracy" and Yiftachel's "ethnocracy"—are discussed, focusing on the 'framework decisions' that inform their arguments. After demonstrating that the question of Israeli democracy should be viewed dyna…
Towards a Constitutional Counter‐Revolution in Israel
Private Incarceration – Towards a Philosophical Critique
The 2013 Israeli General Election: Travails of the Former King
Despite resulting in a different party configuration, the results of the 2013 Israeli general election support a similar agenda to the one set by the previous government. A year following its establishment, all indicators suggest that the current government continues to deepen neoliberal policies. Nevertheless, this election reflects two important trends: first, an ever growing discontent in Israeli public that probably would not find a solution …
The Concept of Political Corruption: Lessons from a Lost Epoch
This article revises the concept of political corruption by bringing a fresh perspective to prebehavioral scholarship. It acknowledges prior scholarship but also recognizes its limitations. By refuting the assertion that early twentieth-century conceptions are irrelevant, understanding of political corruption and public integrity can be enhanced
How Policy Entrepreneurs Reduce Corruption in Israel
This article suggests a new perspective for analyzing anticorruption policies by emphasizing the important role of policy entrepreneurs. We maintain that these entrepreneurs combat corruption in three ways: (1) by initiating attempts to reduce corrupt practices, whether through legislation or judicial decisions; (2) by being recognized as honest brokers for informants and insiders; and (3) by providing reliable information from these sources to p…
The Public’s Conception of Political Corruption: A New Measurement Tool and Preliminary Findings
The past two decades have witnessed a burgeoning of scholarship on perceptions of political corruption and their determinants. Yet despite recent advances in understanding these perceptions and their importance to political life, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the question of how the public understands political corruption. We address this gap by reconstructing the conventional conception of political corruption and by presenting …
Likud’s success in the 2015 elections: Netanyahu’s Hobbesian moment
The current article develops an explanation for Likud’s success, which goes beyond the existing structural and circumstantial accounts. It argues that Likud’s success should be sought for in the utilization of Hobbesian logic by its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. By revealing the commonalities between Hobbes’s political thinking and Rhetoric, and Netanyahu’s political conduct, this paper sheds new light on Netanyahu’s leadership and sources of legit…
Speed or Greed? High Wages and Corruption Among Public Servants
Scholars maintain that higher wages for public servants would make the public sector more efficient and reduce the abuse of power. This article challenges this idea and suggests that higher wages may actually increase public corruption. We argue that increasing pecuniary incentives for public service might lead public employees to advance their own self-interests and encourage justifications for accepting bribes. We test our theory empirically us…
Paying Bribes for Public Services: A Global Guide to Grass‐roots Corruption
Real Politics and the Concept of Political Corruption
This article explores some of the challenges generated by recent attempts to relate the concept of political corruption to real politics. It shows that the three distinct arguments upon which scholars who conceptualize political corruption through the lens of real politics often rely are ambiguous, and posit standards for the use of power on the basis of naive or conservative assumptions about politics. The article then contends that we do need t…
The 2015 Israeli General Election: The Triumph of Jewish Skepticism, the Emergence of Arab Faith
The results of the 2015 Israeli election, primarily the sweeping victory of Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, surprised most analysts. In this article we employ political scientist Michael Oakeshott’s distinction in arguing that the campaign dynamics and the consequent electoral results reflect the triumph of a “politics of skepticism” among Jews, and the emergence of a “politics of faith” among Israel’s Arab-Palestinian citizens. Both derive fro…
The Limits of Right-Wing Populism in Power and the Israeli Political Crisis of 2018–2021
Between 2018 and 2021, Israel experienced an unprecedented political crisis that saw four rounds of elections, as the country's parties failed to form a stable coalition government. This article contends that this crisis was the result of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's shift away from neoliberalism and toward a populist "anti-system" agenda. While Netanyahu's intensification of institutional subversion played a role in his success in the mid…
The political discourse of Arabs in Israel: Moralism, radical realism, and realistic realism
Using the discriminatory character of Israeli politics as our point of departure, this paper argues that for large numbers of Palestinian Israeli citizens, new realistic terms of collective engagement are attractive and possible. Based on analytical Marxism and writings about realist normative political theory, we contend that politicians can advance strategies that establishing foundations for resolving the minority’s trap. Meanwhile, constructi…
Revisionist Approaches to Corruption: From “Cynical Conservativism” to Radical Realism
This paper considers the genealogy of the “revisionist” approaches to corruption. The core of the approaches is the idea that practices deviating from formal rules or “accepted norms” with the objective of serving private ends may have a positive aggregate-level impact. No less important, the approaches are skeptic about anti-corruption attempts. In interrogating the revisionist approaches, the paper demonstrates that corruption studies have igno…
The deconstruction of the Israeli state
This paper argues that the core of Israeli crisis of democracy has been an attack of the Israeli government on the state. That is, the current Israeli government has been transforming the regime and undermining its liberal characters by dismantling the state—its functioning, legitimacy, orientation, and philosophy. It has done so through democratic measures and in the name of the people’s will and sovereignty. That is, via populist rhetoric. Such…
Right-Wing Populist Re-Politicization and the “Hollowing Out” of the Neoliberal State
Upturning the turnout voting upside down: The case of the Arab local government in Israel
The political economy of populists in power, between policy and polity: Evidence from the Israeli case
This paper explores the connection between the current wave of populism, economic policies and governance practices. We first review the different ways in which populist political economy has been conceptualised, focusing on the relationship between populism and neoliberalism in terms of both policy and polity. We then briefly discuss right-wing populist governments' recent economic policies and institutional changes. We argue that, while represe…
What do indigenous parties want? The case of Palestinian citizens of Israel
Political science (18 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Language change (7 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (6 works)