The "Israeli History, Politics and Society" series comprises multidisciplinary studies that range from elections and the Yom Kippur war to the search for a true Israeli identity and the various initiatives to foment or prevent the peace process. This volume brings together a set of articles that try to estimate the direction of developments in Israeli public administration: whether ministries will remain under the ambit of the Weberian model, follow the New Public Management model, or move towards a mix of the two. Each essay focuses on a specific factor which may inhibit reforms, such as the weakness of mechanisms for policy control, monitoring and evaluation; lack of co-ordination between the different ministries; lack of effective accountability mechanisms; an administrative culture that is characterized by frequent infringements of moral integrity; a high level of politicization; and a Supreme Court which plays a paramount role by routinely intervening in the practices of public administration as well as in the business of other governmental and non-governmental institutions. Each article probes how these distinctive features of Israeli public administration reflect underlying traits of the nation's history, culture and geography, and gauges the extent to which formal structures provide an indication of how policy-making and programme implementation really operate.
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For much of the time since the Israeli bureaucracy was created, it was a classic example of centralized organization in which politicians at the apex sought to control the behaviour of the staff at the periphery through a combination of central planning and national directives. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electricity market law, safeguarding ethics, state audit institution, state comptroller, new public management reforms, public administration system, audit society, public service ethics, audit bodies, local government sector, judicial review cases, procedural compliance, audit institutions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
State Comptroller's Office, Supreme Court, Ministry of Finance, New York, Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency, Public Utilities Authority, Va'adat Matzav, Ira Sharkansky, United States, Ministry of the Interior, Va'ad Leumi, Budget Unit, State Comptroller Law, Internal Audit Law, Labour Party, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Basic Law, Asher Friedberg, Minister of Defence, Robert Schwartz, Aharon Kfir, Budget Division, East Jerusalem, Eva Etzioni-Halevy New!
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For much of the time since the Israeli bureaucracy was created, it was a classic example of centralized organization in which politicians at the apex sought to control the behaviour of the staff at the periphery through a combination of central planning and national directives. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electricity market law, safeguarding ethics, state audit institution, state comptroller, new public management reforms, public administration system, audit society, public service ethics, audit bodies, local government sector, judicial review cases, procedural compliance, audit institutions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
State Comptroller's Office, Supreme Court, Ministry of Finance, New York, Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency, Public Utilities Authority, Va'adat Matzav, Ira Sharkansky, United States, Ministry of the Interior, Va'ad Leumi, Budget Unit, State Comptroller Law, Internal Audit Law, Labour Party, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Basic Law, Asher Friedberg, Minister of Defence, Robert Schwartz, Aharon Kfir, Budget Division, East Jerusalem, Eva Etzioni-Halevy New!
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- State Audit by B. Geist on page 63, page 85, and Back Matter
- Public Administration in Developed Democracies (Public Administration and Public Policy) by Donald Cameron Rowat on page 7, and page 86
- God Knows by Joseph Heller on page 48, and page 63
- Public Policy in Israel (Israeli History, Politics and Society) by David Nachmias in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History by David Biale on page 64
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- Ben-Gurion's Political Struggles, 1963-1967: A Lion in Winter (Israeli History, Politics, and Society) by Zaki Shalom in Front Matter
- The Israeli Palestinians: An Arab Minority in the Jewish State (Israeli History, Politics and Society) by Alexander Bligh in Front Matter
- Israel at the Polls 2003 (Israeli History, Politics and Society) by M. Ben Mollov in Front Matter
- Israel, the Hashemites and the Palestinians: The Fateful Triangle (Israeli History, Politics and Society) by Efraim Karsh in Front Matter
- Rethinking the Middle East (Israeli History, Politics and Society) by Efraim Karsh in Front Matter
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