I am a lecturer in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the Sapir College.
I study the politics of the market economy and political economy in general. I focus on the legitimation of the market economy, and particularly of policies of economic liberalization.
My research is located at the intersection between political economy, political sociology and public policy. The main contribution of my research is identifying the central role of legitimacy in phenomena and processes related to economic liberalization.
Currently, I am conducting a research project with a colleague on the political economy of populism in which we take the long rule of the Likud in Israel (2009-2021) as a a case study.
המחקרים שלי נמצאים במפגש תחומי הידע של כלכלה פוליטית, סוציולוגיה פוליטית ומדיניות ציבורית. התרומה המרכזית של המחקר שלי הוא בזיהוי התפקיד המרכזי של לגיטימציה בתופעות ותהליכים הקשורים בליברליזציה כלכלית.
בימים אלה, אני משתף פעולה עם עמית בפרויקט מחקר על הכלכלה הפוליטית של הפופוליזם. השלטון ארוך-השנים של הליכוד בישראל (2009-2021) משמש בפרויקט זה כחקר-מקרה.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
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Avigur-Eshel, A. and Filc, D. (forthcoming). Growth models and the question of popular legitimacy. Globalizations. LINK |
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Avigur-Eshel, A.
(forthcoming). Individualized promises in times of pandemic: Green Pass and
the legitimation of covid-19 vaccination policies. Critical Policy Studies. LINK |
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Avigur-Eshel, A.
and Filc, D. (forthcoming). From social bloc to historical bloc: Politics, social
relations, and ideology in political economy". Capital and Class. LINK |
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Avigur-Eshel, A. & Filc, D. (2021). Not merely ideological: The political economy of populism in government. Swiss Political Science Review, 27(1), 506-525. |
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Avigur-Eshel, A. & Mandelkern, R. (2021) Training the public: Advancing neoliberal reforms through model experiences. New Political Economy, 26(3), 344-358. |
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Avigur-Eshel, A. & Berkovich, I. (2019) Introducing managerialism into national educational contexts through pseudo-conflict: A discursive institutionalist analysis. International Journal of Educational Development, 68, special issue: “Intractable conflict in the age of globalization – multidimensional examination of the education system in Israel”. |
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Avigur-Eshel, A. (2019) Speaking to the outraged: Discursive responses of political elites to social unrest over economic issues. Critical Policy Studies, 13(9), 470-487. |
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Avigur-Eshel, A. (2019) Mobilization against liberalization in Latin America: Neoliberal promises and their failure as a source of grievances. Journal of Global South Studies, 36(2), 253-278. |
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Avigur-Eshel, A. & Filc, D. (2018) Military conflict and neo-liberalization in Israel (2001-2006): A Neo-Gramscian approach. Political Studies, 66(2), 503-520. |
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Avigur-Eshel, A. & Berkovich, I. (2018) Who 'Likes' public education: Social media activism, middle class parents and education policy in Israel. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39(6), 844-859. |
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Avigur-Eshel, A. (2018) Synthesizing depoliticization and responsibilization: The case of financial education in Israel. Competition and Change, 22(5), 509-528. |
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Avigur-Eshel, A. (2018) Encouraging action in the private sphere: Demand-side practices in the depoliticization of economic policy. Politics & Policy, 46(1), 84-109. |
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Avigur-Eshel, A. (2018) More of the same: Discursive reactions of members of Knesset to the 2011 ‘Social Protest’ in Israel. Middle East Law and Governance, 10(2), 117-140. |
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Avigur-Eshel, A. & Berkovich, I. (2017) Using Facebook differently in education policy protests. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 11(4), 596-611. |
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Avigur-Eshel, A. (2015). Study to succeed: The neoliberal promise and the 2011 summer protest. Soziologia Israelit, 16(2), 31-55. |
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Avigur-Eshel, A. (2014). The ideological foundations of neoliberalism’s political stability: An Israeli case study. Journal of Political Ideologies, 19(2), 164-186. |
Books
Avigur-Eshel, A. & Berkovich, I. (eds.) (2022). Public Policy in the Information Age. Jerusalem: Academon Press. (in Hebrew)
Berkovich, I. & Avigur-Eshel, A. (2019). Digital Protest and Activism in Public Education: Reactions to Neoliberal Restructuring in Israel. UK: Emerald.
Book chapters
Avigur-Eshel, A. & Berkovich, I. (2022). Using facebook for a policy-oriented protest: The relations between patterns of use and life experiences. In: Avigur-Eshel and Berkovich (eds.) Public Policy in the Information Age. Jerusalem: Academon Press, pp. 170-191. (in Hebrew)
Other Publications
Avigur-Eshel, A. & Filc, D. (2021). A class
perspective on the hegemonic struggle in Israel. HaZman HaZe. LINK
Avigur-Eshel, A. (2018). Book review of Maron A. & Shalev, M. (eds.) (2017). Neoliberalism as a State Project: Changing the Political Economy of Israel, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Bitachon Soziali, 105.
Recent Conference Presentations
Israeli Political Science Association – Annual Conference, "Economic growth and legitimation: The case of Israel 2002-2015", with Dani Filc, Tel-Aviv, February 2023.
Israeli Political Science Association – Annual Conference, "The effect of values, trust, and risk perceptions on support for policy tools in the area of immunization against covid-19: A comparative study", with Lihi Lahat, Chen Sharony, Ori Lev and Villy Abraham, Tel-Aviv, February 2023.
ESPAnet Israel – Annual Conference, "The effect of values, trust, and risk perceptions on support for policy tools in the area of immunization against covid-19: A comparative study", with Lihi Lahat, Chen Sharony, Ori Lev and Villy Abraham, Haifa, February 2023.
Sapir Staff Conference, "The effect of values, trust, and risk perceptions on support for policy tools in the area of immunization against covid-19: A comparative study", with Lihi Lahat, Chen Sharony, Ori Lev and Villy Abraham, Sderot, October 2022.
Association for Israel Studies – Annual Conference, "Not exactly left and right: the struggle over hegemony in Israel", with Dani Filc, Ramat-Gan, June 2022.
Israeli Sociological Society – Annual Conference, “The subordination of society to the market as a political project”, Jerusalem (virtual conference), February 2022.
Inter-university Workshop for Political Theory in Israel, "What Polanyi missed: capitalism, legitimacy and promises", Jerusalem, October 2021.
International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy - Annual Conference, "Individualized promises in times of pandemic: The covid-19 green pass as a legitimating device", a virtual conference, September 2021.
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics – Annual Conference, "Individualised promises in times of pandemic: The case of the green pass", a virtual conference, July 2021.
Israeli Sociological Society – Annual Conference, “What has neo-liberalism done for us: Neo-liberal policy and interests of subaltern groups”, with Dani Filc, Sderot (virtual conference), February 2021.
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics – Annual Conference, "Profit-led growth and the question of political legitimacy: Israel 2009-2015", with Dani Filc, a virtual conference, July 2020.
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics – Annual Conference, "Not merely ideological: The political economy of populism in government", with Dani Filc, a virtual conference, July 2020.
Research Workshop on ‘Materiality, Imaginaries and Subjectivities: Bringing Economy and Culture Together in Sociological Research, “Financial Market Liberalization and the Construction of Shared Practical Experiences: The Case of Israel’s ‘Child Trust Fund’”, with Ronen Mandelkern, Ra’anana, February 2019.
Israeli Political Science Association – Annual Conference, “Practical experiences and the legitimization of the neo-liberal political economy: The case of the Israeli Child Trust Fund”, with Ronen Mandelkern, Sderot, May 2018.
Israeli Sociological Society – Annual Conference, “It’s not political at all: Transferring responsibility to the individual as a new type of depoliticization of economic policy”, Beer Sheva, January 2018.
Conference on ‘In the Spaces of Big Data and Like: Public Policy and Politics in the Era of Media and Information’, “Who likes public education? Using Facebook differently in education policy protests”, with Izhak Berkovich, Open University, Ra’anana, December 2017.
European Sociological Association – Annual Conference, “It is on you now: Depoliticizing economic policy through financial education”, Athens, August 2017.
Israeli Political Science Association – Annual Conference, “It’s not the problem, it’s the solution: The re-legitimization of economic liberalization policy in Israel”, Tel-Aviv, May 2017.