TY  - JOUR
AB  - Explains the development of Israel’s welfare state, concentrating on the labour exchange system and housing. Links the development of the Zionist welfare state to economic and political conditions, in particular state‐building and the management of the Palestinian community within the state. Refers to literature on policy paradigms. Notes the stable institutional infrastructures developed by the Jewish community in Palestine and the Zionist labour movement, which led to an embryonic welfare state. Recounts the development of the labour exchange process and the public housing policy, describing how the policies reinforced statehood – settling immigrants into areas where Jewish presence needed strengthening and, at first, largely excluding the Palestinian community from access to housing and the labour process. Points out that, over time, the exclusion of Palestinians became unrealistic. Concludes that Israel’s welfare state was determined by political conditions of developing statehood – most importantly the exodus of Palestinians and the influx of Jewish immigrants.
VL  - 18
IS  - 2/3/4
SN  - 0144-333X
DO  - 10.1108/01443339810788371
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/01443339810788371
AU  - Rosenhek Zeev
PY  - 1998
Y1  - 1998/01/01
TI  - Policy paradigms and the dynamics of the welfare state: the Israeli welfare state and the Zionist colonial project
T2  - International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 157
EP  - 202
Y2  - 2024/05/07
ER  -