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Zeev Rosenhek, Professor

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The Open University of Israel Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication 1 University Road, P. O. Box 808, Raanana 43107, Israel
Office:972 9 778-1624 Fax: 972 9 778-0660 Email: zeevro@openu.ac.il

Areas of Interest
  • Economic sociology
  • Political sociology
  • Political economy

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1985
BA (cum laude) Sociology and anthropology; Education - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1988
MA (cum laude) Sociology - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1996
PhD Sociology - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1995-96
Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, Political Science -- Post-doctoral fellow
1997-98
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Sociology and Anthropology -- Teaching associate
1998-05
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Sociology and Anthropology -- Lecturer
2003-04
Brown University, Providence, USA, Watson Institute for International Studies -- Visiting assistant professor
2005-06
The Open University of Israel, Sociology, Political Science and Communication -- Visiting senior lecturer
2006-13
The Open University of Israel, Sociology, Political Science and Communication -- Senior lecturer
2013-19
The Open University of Israel, Sociology, Political Science and Communication -- Associate professor
2015-16
New York University, NY, USA, Taub Center for Israel Studies -- Visiting scholar
2019-current
The Open University of Israel, Sociology, Political Science and Communication -- Full professor
2007-10
Chair of the Social Sciences Academic Subcommittee, The Open University of Israel.
2007-10
Chair of the Sociology, Political Science and Communication Academic Subcommittee, The Open University of Israel.
2008-11
Member of the Steering Committee of the Research Authority, The Open University of Israel.
2008-15
Head of the Sociology Division, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel.
2010-14
Head of the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel.
2013-15
Member of the Institutional Ethics Committee, The Open University of Israel.
2014-15
Chair of the Departmental Ethics Committee, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel.
2014-17
Head of the Disciplinary Court of Appeal, The Open University of Israel.
2016-19
Head of the Master's Program in Interdisciplinary Democracy Studies, The Open University of Israel.
2017-
Member of the Institutional Ethics Committee, The Open University of Israel.
2017-
Chair of the Departmental Ethics Committee, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel.
2018-
Chair of the Study Programs Approval Committee, The Open University of Israel. 

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MA thesis
Rosenhek, Zeev. 1988. “Origenes y Dinamica del Subdesarrollo Regional: La Region Atlantica de Costa Rica.” Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (under the supervision of Professor Erik Cohen and Professor Yehuda Don).

PhD dissertation
Rosenhek, Zeev. 1996. “The Origins and Development of a Dualistic Welfare State: The Arab Population in the Israeli Welfare State.” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (under the supervision of Dr. Michael Shalev).

Maman, Daniel and Zeev Rosenhek. 2009. The Bank of Israel: Political Economy in the Neo-Liberal Era. Jerusalem: The Van-Leer Jerusalem Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House (in Hebrew).

Maman, Daniel and Zeev Rosenhek. 2011. The Israeli Central Bank: Political Economy, Global Logics and Local Actors. Abingdon: Routledge.

Maman, Daniel, Eyal Ben-Ari and Zeev Rosenhek (Eds.). 2001. The Military, State and Society in Israel: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Rosenhek, Zeev and Michael Shalev. 2000. “The Contradictions of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Israeli Welfare State”, in Nils Butenschon, Uri Davis and Manuel Hassassian (Eds.), Citizenship and the State in the Middle East: Approaches and Applications, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, Pp. 288-315.

Ben-Ari, Eyal, Daniel Maman and Zeev Rosenhek. 2000. “Military Sociological Research in Israel”, in Gerhard Kuemmel and Andreas Prufert (Eds.), Military Sociology: The Richness of a Discipline. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Pp. 91-115.

Ben-Ari, Eyal, Zeev Rosenhek and Daniel Maman. 2001. “The Military, State and Society in Israel: An Introductory Essay”, in Daniel Maman, Eyal Ben-Ari and Zeev Rosenhek (Eds.), The Military, State and Society in Israel: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, Pp. 1-39.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2002. “Migration Regimes and Social Rights: Migrant Workers in the Israeli Welfare State”, in Daniel Levy and Yfaat Weiss (Eds.), Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration. New York: Berghahn, Pp. 137-153.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2003. “Régimes de migration et prospectives pour la création d’associations de migrants: Le cas des travailleurs roumains en Israël”, in Dana Diminescu (Ed.), Visibles mais peu nombreux: Les circulations migratoires roumaines `après 1989. Paris: Éditions De La Maison Des Sciences De L'homme, Pp. 137-147.

Rosenhek, Zeev, Daniel Maman and Eyal Ben-Ari. 2003. “The Sociology of Research on the Army, the Military and War in Israel: Local Centrality and International Marginality”, in Majid Al-Haj and Uri Ben-Eliezer (Eds.), In the Name of Security: The Sociology of War and Peace in a Changing Era. Haifa: Haifa University Press, Pp. 185-214 (in Hebrew).

Zeev Rosenhek. 2004. “Globalization, Domestic Politics and the Restructuring of the Welfare State: The Unemployment Insurance Program in Israel”, in Eyal Benvenisti and Georg Nolte (Eds.), The Welfare State, Globalization, and International Law. Berlin: Springer, Pp. 79-101.

Zeev Rosenhek. 2004. “The Israeli Welfare State Crisis and the Globalization Process: Points of Comparison”, in Moshe Naor (Ed.), State and Community. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2004, Pp. 46-52 (in Hebrew).

Zeev Rosenhek. 2005. “Israel: The Socio-Political Dimension of Migration”, in Philippe Fargues (Ed.), Mediterranean Migration – 2005 Report. Firenze: European University Institute and The European Commission, Pp. 131-136.

Zeev Rosenhek. 2007. “The Welfare State in Israel”, in Nitza Berkovitz and Uri Ram (Eds.), The Inequality Lexicon. Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press, Pp. 234-241 (in Hebrew).

Zeev Rosenhek. 2007. “Inclusionary and Exclusionary Dynamics in the Israeli Welfare State: State Building and Political Economy”, in Hanna Herzog, Tal Kochavi and Shimshon Selniker (Eds.), Generations, Locations, Identities: Contemporary Perspectives on Society and Culture in Israel. Jerusalem: The Van-Leer Jerusalem Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Pp. 317-349 (in Hebrew).

Zeev Rosenhek. 2007. “Concluding Chapter -- Challenging Exclusionary Migration Regimes: Labor Migration in Israel in Comparative Perspective”, in Sarah Willen (Ed.), Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context. New York: Lexington Books, Pp. 217-232.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2011. “Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Israeli Welfare State: State Building and Political Economy.” In Bryan Turner and Guy Ben-Porat (Eds.), The Contradictions of Israeli Citizenship: Land, Religion and State. London: Routledge, Pp. 63-86.

Maman, Daniel and Zeev Rosenhek. 2014. “The Local Politics of Domesticating Global Models: The Struggle over Central Bank Independence in Israel.” In Pertti Alasuutari and Ali Qadir (Eds.), National Policy-Making: Domestication of Global Trends. Abingdon: Routledge, Pp. 113-128.

Rosenhek, Zeev and Michael Shalev. 2016. “Between Inclusionary Demands and Sociopolitical Divides: The Israeli 2011 Summer of Discontent.” In Inbal Ofer and Tamar Groves (Eds.), Performing Citizenship: Social Movements Across the Globe. Abingdon: Routledge, Pp. 53-70.

Rosenhek, Zeev and Michael Shalev. 2016. “Economic Demands and Sociocultural Identities: The ‘Social Justice’ Protests in Israel.” In Priya Singh, Anita Sengupta and Suchandana Chatterjee (Eds.), Protest and the State in Eurasia and West Asia. New Delhi: KW Publishers Pvt Ltd, Pp. 113-127.

Maman, Daniel and Zeev Rosenhek. 2017. “The Reconfigured Institutional Architecture of the State: The Rise of Fiscal and Monetary Authorities.” In Asa Maron and Michael Shalev (Eds.), Neoliberalism as a State Project: Changing the Political Economy of Israel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Pp. 60-73.

Rapoport, Tamar and Zeev Rosenhek. 1989. “Complex Role Experiences and Personal Differentiation: a Real Life Experiment”, Journal of Adolescence, 12: 207-219.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 1992. “Desarrollo Controlado: La Economia Politica del Desarrollo en la Region Atlantica de Costa Rica”, Nordic Journal of Latin-American Studies, 23, 2: 21-46.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 1995. “New Developments in the Sociology of Palestinian Citizens of Israel: An Analytical Review”, Megamot, 37, 1-2: 167-190 (in Hebrew).

Rosenhek, Zeev. 1998. “New Developments in the Sociology of Palestinian Citizens of Israel: An Analytical Review”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 21, 3: 558-578.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 1998. “Policy Paradigms and the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Israeli Welfare State and the Zionist Colonial Project”, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 18, 2-3-4: 157-202.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 1999. “The Exclusionary Logic of the Welfare State: Palestinian Citizens in the Israeli Welfare State”, International Sociology, 14, 2: 195-215.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 1999. “The Politics of Claims-making by Labour Migrants in Israel”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 25, 4: 575-595.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 1999. “Labor Migrants in the Israeli Welfare State: Exclusionary and Inclusionary Trends”, Bitachon Soziali, 56: 97-112 (in Hebrew).

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2000. “Migration Regimes, Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Workers in the Israeli Welfare State”, Social Problems, 47, 1: 49-67.
Reprinted in:
- Noah Lewin-Epstein and Moshe Semyonov (Eds.). 2004. Stratification in Israel, New Brunswick: Transaction Books, Pp. 253-278.
- Anthony Messina and Galya Lahav (Eds.). 2005. The Migration Reader: Exploring Politics and Policy, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Pp. 494-523.

Rosenhek, Zeev and Erik Cohen. 2000. “Patterns of Migrant Workers’ Incorporation and the Israeli Migration Regime: A Comparative Analysis”, Soziologia Israelit, 3, 1: 53-77 (in Hebrew).

Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Zeev Rosenhek. 2000. “Privatization and New Modes of State Intervention: The Long-Term Care Program in Israel”, Journal of Social Policy, 29, 2: 247-262.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Zeev Rosenhek. 2001. “Privatization and New Modes of State Intervention: The Long-Term Care Program in Israel”, Bitachon Soziali, 60: 113-128 (in Hebrew).

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2002. “Globalization, Domestic Politics and the Restructuring of the Welfare State: The Unemployment Insurance Program in Israel”, Avoda, Chevra V’Mishpat, 9: 155-174 (in Hebrew).

Joppke, Christian and Zeev Rosenhek. 2002. “Contesting Ethnic Immigration: Germany and Israel Compared”, Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, 43, 3: 301-335.
Abbreviated version reprinted in:
- Takeyuki Tsuda (Ed.). 2009. Diasporic Homecomings: Ethnic Return Migration in Comparative Perspective, Stanford: Stanford University Press, Pp. 73-99.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2002. “Social Policy and State-Building: The Dynamics of the Israeli Welfare State”, Journal of Societal and Social Policy, 1, 1: 15-30.
Reprinted as:
- “The Welfare State in Israel”, in Christian Aspalter (Ed.). 2003. Welfare Capitalism Around the World, Hong Kong: Casa Verde Publishing, Pp. 219-239.

Rosenhek, Zeev, Daniel Maman and Eyal Ben-Ari. 2003. “The Study of War and the Military in Israel: An Empirical Investigation and Reflective Critique”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 35, 3: 461-484.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2003. “The Political Dynamics of a Segmented Labour Market: Palestinian Citizens, Palestinians from the Occupied Territories and Migrant Workers in Israel”, Acta Sociologica, 46, 3: 151-169.

Maman, Daniel and Zeev Rosenhek. 2007. “The Politics of Institutional Reform: The ‘Declaration of Independence’ of the Israeli Central Bank”, Review of International Political Economy, 14, 2: 251-275.

Maman, Daniel and Zeev Rosenhek. 2008. “Making the Global Present: The Bank of Israel and the Politics of Inevitability of Neo-liberalism”, Soziologia Israelit, 10, 1: 107-131 (in Hebrew).

Maman, Daniel and Zeev Rosenhek. 2009. “The Contested Institutionalization of Policy Paradigms Shift: The Adoption of Inflation Targeting in Israel”, Socio-Economic Review, 7, 2: 217-243.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2009. “L’Etat-Providence, Agent D’Integration ou D’Exclusion?”, Les Temps Modernes, 64, 652-653: 246-272.

Maman, Daniel and Zeev Rosenhek. 2012. “Mobilizing Globalization in Local Political Fields: The Strengthening of the Central Bank in Israel.” Review of International Political Economy, 19, 2:317-340.

Maman, Daniel and Zeev Rosenhek. 2012. “The Institutional Dynamics of a Developmental State: Change and Continuity in State–Economy Relations in Israel.” Studies in Comparative International Development, 47, 3:342-363.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2013. “Diagnosing and Explaining the Global Financial Crisis: Central Banks, Epistemic Authority and Sense-Making.” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 26, 3:255-272.

Rosenhek, Zeev and Michael Shalev. 2013. “The Political Economy of the 2011 Protests: A Class and Generational Analysis.” Theory and Critique, 41:45-68 (in Hebrew).

Rosenhek, Zeev and Michael Shalev. 2014. “The Political Economy of Israel’s ‘Social Justice’ Protests: A Class and Generational Analysis.” Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, 9, 1:31-48.
Reprinted in:
- Giovanni Travaglino (Ed.), 2016. Protest, Movements, and Dissent in the Social Sciences. Abingdon: Routledge.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2016. “State-Building and Welfare Policy in Contexts of Colonization: The Israeli Case.” Storia Urbana, 150:51-66.

Hutten, Moritz, Daniel Maman, Zeev Rosenhek and Matthias Thiemann, 2018. “Critical Financial Literacy: An Agenda.” International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 9, 3:274-291.

Maman, Daniel and Zeev Rosenhek. 2019. “The Making of Homo Financius: Conventions, Emotions and Morality in Financial Education.” Soziologia Israelit, 20, 1:23-49 (in Hebrew).

Maman, Daniel and Zeev Rosenhek. 2019. “Responsibility, Planning and Risk Management: Moralizing Everyday Finance through Financial Education.” The British Journal of Sociology, 70, 5:1996-2019.

Maman, Daniel and Zeev Rosenhek. 2020. “Facing Future Uncertainties and Risks through Personal Finance: Conventions in Financial Education.” Journal of Cultural Economy, 13, 3:303-317.

Mandelkern, Ronen and Zeev Rosenhek. 2021. “The Politics of Welfare State Financialisation: The Case of Israel’s ‘Saving for Every Child’ Programme.” Critical Policy Studies, DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2021.1902361. 

Rosenhek, Zeev. 1998. Review of: “Old Age Benefits in the 1950s and 1960s”, by Abraham Doron, Jerusalem: The National Insurance Institute, 1997. Bitachon Soziali, 51: 143-145 (in Hebrew).

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2000. Review of: “Global Social Policy – International Organizations and the Future of Welfare”, by Bob Deacon with Michelle Hulse and Paul Stubbs, London: Sage Publications, 1997. Bitachon Soziali, 57: 204-206 (in Hebrew)

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2000. Review of: “Disposable People – New Slavery in the Global Economy”, by Kevin Bales, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Soziologia Israelit, 2, 2: 698-300 (in Hebrew).

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2001. Review of: “Constructing Boundaries – Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine”, by Deborah Bernstein, Albany: SUNY Press, 2000. Contemporary Sociology, 30, 3: 251-253.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2002. Review of: “The Israeli Economy, 1985-1998: From Government Intervention to Market Economy”, by Avi Ben Bassat (Ed.), Tel-Aviv: Am Oved, 2001. Soziologia Israelit, 4, 2: 503-505 (in Hebrew).

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2007. Review of: “Populism and Hegemony in Israel”, by Dani Filk, Tel-Aviv: Resling, 2006. Soziologia Israelit, 9, 1: 183-186 (in Hebrew).

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2008. Review of: “Fading Corporatism: Israel’s Labor Law and Industrial Relations in Israel”, by Guy Mundlak, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. Labour/Le Travail, 62: 297-299.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2009. Review of: “Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine”, by Oren Yiftachel, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Israel Studies Forum, 24, 1: 133-135.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2009. Review of: “We’re Not Here to Stay: African Migrant Workers in Israel and Back in Africa”, by Galia Sabar, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 2008. Chevra V’Revacha, 29, 3-2: 361-364 (in Hebrew).

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2012. Review of: “The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can’t Coexist”, by Dani Rodrik, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Bitachon Soziali, 90:305-308 (in Hebrew).

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2014. Review of: “Central Bank Independence: Cultural Codes and Symbolic Performance”. By Carlo Tognato, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Acta Sociologica, 57, 1:93-94.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 1996. “The Housing Policy Toward the Arabs in Israel in the 1950s – 1970s”, Papers in the Research Project on Arabs in Israel No. 17. The Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies (in Hebrew).

Rosenhek, Zeev. 1999. “Migration, the Welfare State and the Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion: Labor Migrants in Israel”, Working Paper Series #99-S5, Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis, Vancouver Centre of Excellence, Simon Fraser University.

Silver, Ilana and Zeev Rosenhek. 1999. “The Historical Development of the Israeli Third Sector”, Occasional Papers, The Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project and The Israeli Center for Third Sector Research.

Joppke, Christian and Zeev Rosenhek. 2001. “Ethnic-Priority Immigration in Israel and Germany: Resilience versus Demise”, EUI Working Papers, SPS 2001/06.

Maman, Daniel and Zeev Rosenhek. 2011. “The Institutional Dynamics of a Developmental State: Change and Continuity in State-Economy Relations in Israel”, Working Paper Series No. 5-2011, Research Institute for Policy, Political Economy and Society, The Open University of Israel.

Rosenhek, Zeev. 2012. “Diagnosing and Explaining the Global Financial Crisis: Central Banks, Epistemic Authority and Crisis Sense-Making”, Working Paper Series No. 19-2012, Research Institute for Policy, Political Economy and Society, The Open University of Israel.

Fields of Research


State-society relations

Welfare state

Financialization

Institutional change and neoliberalism


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1996-97
The Harvey L. Silbert Center for Israel Studies, Foreign Labor in Israel: Politico-Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions (with Erik Cohen), 10,000$
1997-98
The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Foreign Labor in Israel: Politico-Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions (with Erik Cohen), 10,000$
1997-99
Israel Foundations Trustees, Foreign Labor in Israel: Politico-Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions (with Erik Cohen), 25,000$
1999-2000
Israel Foundations Trustees, Globalization and the Restructuring of the Welfare State: The Israeli Case, 6,050$
2002-03
The Levi Eshkol Institute for Economic, Social and Political Research, The Institutional and Political Sources of Central Bank Independence: The Israeli Case in Comparative Perspective (with Daniel Maman), 3,000$
2002-03
The Harvey L. Silbert Center for Israel Studies, The Institutional and Political Sources of Central Bank Independence: The Israeli Case in Comparative Perspective (with Daniel Maman), 7,500$
2002-04
Israel Foundations Trustees, The Institutional and Political Sources of Central Bank Independence: The Israeli Case in Comparative Perspective (with Daniel Maman), 25,000$
2010
The Schnitzer Foundation for Research on the Israeli Economy and Society, The Israeli Central Bank: Political Economy, Global Logics and Local Actors (with Daniel Maman), 1,500$
2012-13
The Open University Research Authority, Diagnosing and Explaining the Global Financial Crisis: Central Banks, Epistemic Authority and Institutional Change, 5,500$
2013-15
The Israel Science Foundation, Diagnosing and Explaining the Global Financial Crisis: Central Banks, Epistemic Authority and Institutional Change, 60,000$
2013-15
The Open University Research Authority, The Making of “Homo financius”: The Emergence and Development of Financial Literacy in Israel (with Daniel Maman), 10,000$
2017-19
The Israel Science Foundation, The Making of “Homo financius”: The Emergence and Development of Financial Literacy in Israel (with Daniel Maman), 75,000$