When COVID-19, constitutional crisis, and political deadlock meet: the Israeli case from a disproportionate policy perspective
This article describes the efforts made by the Israeli government to contain the spread of COVID-19, which were implemented amidst a constitutional crisis and a yearlong electoral impasse, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was awaiting a trial for charges of fraud, bribe...
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| description | This article describes the efforts made by the Israeli government to contain the spread of COVID-19, which were implemented amidst a constitutional crisis and a yearlong electoral impasse, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was awaiting a trial for charges of fraud, bribery, and breach of trust. It thereafter draws on the disproportionate policy perspective to ascertain the ideas and sensitivities that placed key policy responses on trajectories which prioritized differential policy responses over general, nation-wide solutions (and vice versa), even though data in the public domain supported the selection of opposing policy solutions on epidemiological or social welfare grounds. The article also gauges the consequences and implications of the policy choices made in the fight against COVID-19 for the disproportionate policy perspective. It argues that Prime Minister Netanyahu employed disproportionate policy responses both at the rhetorical level and on the ground in the fight against COVID-19; that during the crisis, Netanyahu enjoyed wide political leeway to employ disproportionate policy responses, and the general public exhibited a willingness to tolerate this; and (iii) that ascertaining the occurrence of disproportionate policy responses is not solely a matter of perception. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-85002ab8ce544d9d80f6be3d0fe757202022-12-22T00:24:27ZengOxford University PressPolicy & Society1449-40351839-33732020-07-010011610.1080/14494035.2020.17837921783792When COVID-19, constitutional crisis, and political deadlock meet: the Israeli case from a disproportionate policy perspectiveMoshe Maor0Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan1David Chinitz2The Hebrew University of JerusalemThe Hebrew University of JerusalemThe Hebrew University of JerusalemThis article describes the efforts made by the Israeli government to contain the spread of COVID-19, which were implemented amidst a constitutional crisis and a yearlong electoral impasse, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was awaiting a trial for charges of fraud, bribery, and breach of trust. It thereafter draws on the disproportionate policy perspective to ascertain the ideas and sensitivities that placed key policy responses on trajectories which prioritized differential policy responses over general, nation-wide solutions (and vice versa), even though data in the public domain supported the selection of opposing policy solutions on epidemiological or social welfare grounds. The article also gauges the consequences and implications of the policy choices made in the fight against COVID-19 for the disproportionate policy perspective. It argues that Prime Minister Netanyahu employed disproportionate policy responses both at the rhetorical level and on the ground in the fight against COVID-19; that during the crisis, Netanyahu enjoyed wide political leeway to employ disproportionate policy responses, and the general public exhibited a willingness to tolerate this; and (iii) that ascertaining the occurrence of disproportionate policy responses is not solely a matter of perception.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2020.1783792disproportionate responseoverreactionunderreactionrhetoriccovid-19israelnetanyahu |
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| title | When COVID-19, constitutional crisis, and political deadlock meet: the Israeli case from a disproportionate policy perspective |
| title_full | When COVID-19, constitutional crisis, and political deadlock meet: the Israeli case from a disproportionate policy perspective |
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| title_short | When COVID-19, constitutional crisis, and political deadlock meet: the Israeli case from a disproportionate policy perspective |
| title_sort | when covid 19 constitutional crisis and political deadlock meet the israeli case from a disproportionate policy perspective |
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