Neoliberalism As a State Project: Changing the Political Economy of Israel

In only a few decades, Israel was radically transformed from a developmental political economy to a neoliberal regime. This book asks why and how these transformations were made possible.

Asa Maron, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa,Michael Shalev, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Asa Maron is a Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Haifa. Previously he held postdoctoral positions at Stanford University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is a political sociologist specializing in the sociology of the welfare state, with an emphasis on contemporary social policy and governance reforms, their politics, institutional dynamics, and consequences for state-society relations. He has published in Law & Society Review, Administration & Society, Social Policy & Administration, and Mediterranean Politics.

Michael Shalev is a political sociologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a visiting at the University of California at Berkeley. His primary research interests are in the political economy of Israel and rich democracies generally, focusing on the politics of social and economic policy, social stratification, and the socio-economic underpinnings of political action. He is the author of Labour and the Political Economy in Israel (1992) and editor of The Privatization of Social Policy? (1996). He has published in World Politics, Socio-Economic Review, Social Forces and other journals. His recent research is on the mass protests of 2011 in Israel and Southern Europe.