Public policy in Israel : perspectives and practices / edited by Dani Korn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Korn, Dan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political planning--Israel.

Political planning.

Israel--Politics and government.

Israel.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

x, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2002]

Contents:

Foreword: Policy-Making as Critical Choices / Yehezkel Dror ix

Introduction: Policy-Making in Israel: The Survival Imperative / Dani Korn 1

Part 1 Critical Issues

1 Public Policy and Management of Major Political Cleavages / Eliezer Don-Yehiya 9

2 Policy-Making and Immigrant Absorption / Asher Friedberg, Aharon Kfir 31

3 The Mismanagement of Israel's Water Resources: A Study of Administrative Myopia in Public Policy / Martin Sherman, Dan Zaslavsky 51

Part 2 Players, Rules, and Practice

4 Justices as Policy-Makers / Gad Barzilai 71

5 Policy Change in Government Coalitions and Party Politics / Efraim Torgovnik 79

6 A Recipe for Failure: Public Policy in the Context of Electoral Reform / Gideon Doron 95

7 The Six-Day War and Its Aftermath: A Case for Professionalism in Policy Planning / Arye Naor 109

Part 3 Public and Private Domain

8 Privatization Policy: 50 Years of Low-Intensity Conflicts / Yitzhak Katz, Miri Bitton Zahori 123

9 Unintentional yet Unmistakable: The De Facto Public Policy toward the Third Sector / Benjamin Gidron, Hagai Katz 135

Part 4 Specific Issues

10 State and Nonstate Actors: A Multilayered Analysis of Labor Migration Policy / Rebeca Raijman, Adriana Kemp 155

11 Policy-Making in the Personal Social Services / Joseph Katan 175

12 Archaeological Public Policy / Avi Gopher, Raphael Greenberg, Zeev Herzog 191

13 Cracks in the Mirror of Military Hegemony: The Courts and the Media as Agents of Civil Society / Udi Lebel 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0739103954

OCLC:

50788220