Doron Navot

University of Haifa | haifa · School of Political Sciences

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 po...

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 advan...

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. I...

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. W...

The main argument presented here is that the criminal proceedings against Netanyahu led to an overlap of his personal interest in escaping the clutches of the law and the aspiration of the parties that compose the right- wing- religious bloc— the Likud, the ultra- Orthodox, and national religious parties— to rein in the courts

The chapter seeks to explain the instability of Israeli Arabs’ political participation patterns, including the shifting status of the parties representing them.

External collective political efficacy (PE) is an individual's perception of the extent to which the government is responsive to the needs of his or her group or community or to its collective actions. Does PE play a role in the association between exposure to political violence and posttraumatic stress? The current study aimed to examine whether s...

Analysing Corruption. By Dan Hough. London: Agenda Publishing, 2017. x + 205 pp. Notes, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $85.00; paper $30.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-911116-54-7; paper, 978-1-911116-55-4. - Volume 92 Issue 2 - Doron Navot

אנשים שחושפים שחיתות בארגון ציבורי חיוניים לכלל החברה, אולם כאשר זהותם מתגלה, הם סובלים התעמרות והתעללות מידי מנהליהם וחבריהם לארגון. לעיתים ההתעללות נעשית בעזרת גורמים מחוץ לארגון, ולעיתים גורמים אלה פשוט אינם מעניקים סיוע מספק לחושפי השחיתות, וכך מאפשרים להתעללות להתקיים. פשר הפער המשמעותי בין החיוניות של חשיפת שחיתות לבין ההתנכלות השיטתית שחושפי...

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,...

This study empirically examines relationships between conceptions of political corruption, perceived levels of corruption, and political participation among members of the public. Based on a field study of 298 Israelis, we show that the effects of perceived levels of corruption on participation are significantly influenced by how citizens conceptua...

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 addre...

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 Neta...

The result of the 2015 general election, primarily the sweeping electoral victory of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud, surprised most analysts, especially given the relative failure of the outgoing Netanyahu government and its dissolution after less than two years. Moreover, the campaign period was characterized by growing animosity and distrust among th...

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...

According to recent conceptual proposals, institutional corruption should be understood within the boundaries of the institution and its purpose. Political corruption in democracies , prominent scholars suggest, is characterized by the violation of institutional ideals or behaviors that tend to harm democratic processes and institutions. This paper...

This paper explores some of the challenges generated by recent attempts to relate the concept of political corruption to real politics. I show that the three distinct arguments on 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...

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.

Over recent decades, nations worldwide have been struggling with public finance difficulties and other organizational and functional challenges that, inter alia, led to the EU Fiscal Stability Treaty in 2012. Under various reforms, poor-performing local authorities are subject to continuous pressure to employ turnaround management strategies – stra...

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...

This article suggests a new perspective for analyzing anticorruption poli-cies by emphasizing the important role of policy entrepreneurs. We main-tain 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...

Despite growing preoccupation on the part of both the public and researchers with the concept of political corruption and the ‘corruption eruption’ phenomenon, research studies addressing corruption in local government are few and far between. This exploratory research offers a theoretical conceptualization of institutionalized corruption in local...

How does political efficacy affect well-being amidst terrorism and war? This paper presents a new model of politicization of psychological distress, which draws on psychological and political explanations and conjectures that greater political efficacy results in a weaker effect of exposure to war and terrorism on psychological distress. Political...

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 info...

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