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Israeli state violence during the second intifada: combining new institutionalist and rational choice approaches / Brym, Robert J; Maoz-Shai, Yael   Journal Article
Brym, Robert J Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract In attempting to explain Israel's retaliatory policies toward Palestinian violence, new institutionalist and rational choice theories vie for dominance. This article argues that both approaches can contribute to understanding the severity of Israel's response if they are viewed as nested explanations appropriate to different threat levels. The article makes its case using data from 74 interviews with senior Israeli counterterrorist experts (2006-07), counts of Israeli and Palestinian fatalities due to state and collective violence (1987-2007), and a database of collective violence events during the Second Intifada (2000-05). Institutional effects are evident at low threat levels, as new institutionalists predict, but these effects are overwhelmed at high threat levels, as rational choice theorists assert.
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