TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Israeli State Violence during the Second Intifada: Combining New Institutionalist and Rational Choice Approaches
JO  - Studies in conflict and terrorism
A1  - Maoz-Shai, Yael
A1  - Brym, Robert J.
SP  - 611
EP  - 626
VL  - 32
IS  - 7
N2  - 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.<p /> 
LA  - en
SN  - 1057-610X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10576100902961797
ID  - ref1
ER  -