Public Management in Israel: Development,

As government management in Israel is gradually replaced by private sector management, it is becoming apparent that the collective-oriented mission of government cannot be fulfilled by the private sector or by the non-profit organizations of civil society. This book provides an analysis of the machinery of government in Israel, highlighting the inadequacy of the private sector as an alternative and how public management will need to cope with the new challenges and pressures of the 21st century.Providing hitherto unpublished data and analysis in English for the first time, this book gives a comprehensive analysis of the issue of public and private-sector management. The author examines the tasks of the civil service; the legal foundation of the public management machinery; and the profile of civil servants, and looks at the unwieldy budget process; the prevalence (and absence) of regulation; and external and internal mechanisms of oversight. This analysis is balanced by a detailed exposition of Israel's political-administrative culture with its excessive centralization, secrecy, turf protection, and legacy of improvisation, and their effect on policymaking and administration.This comprehensive and detailed examination of public management in Israel will be of great interest both to students and scholars of business and management, government and politics, and to policymakers in the region.

List of illustrations	p. xii
Preface	p. xiv
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
Civil service: A comparative perspective	p. 1
Background	p. 1
Politics and public management	p. 3
Functions	p. 4
Changes	p. 8
Blurring the boundaries: public, business, and social sectors	p. 10
The public sector in Israel broadly defined	p. 13
Governmental institutions in the executive branch	p. 13
Nongovernmental public management	p. 19
Other significant public institutions	p. 19
Local authorities	p. 22
Size of the public and government sectors	p. 23
The legal framework of the civil service	p. 27
Inception of the civil service in Israel	p. 27
The legality of public management	p. 30
Laws pertinent to the civil service	p. 31
The Civil Service Commission	p. 34
Laws pertinent to the public sector in general	p. 36
Additional laws setting norms of conduct	p. 38
Administrative tribunals and administrative law courts	p. 39
The Missing Basic Law: Civil Service	p. 41
The functioning of the Israeli civil service	p. 43
What does the civil service do?	p. 44
Patterns of behavior	p. 45
Sector boundaries	p. 48
Service to the public	p. 50
Regulation	p. 55
Definitions, laws, and institutions	p. 55
A comparative look	p. 56
Regulation in Israel	p. 58
Regulation and deregulation	p. 60
Civil servants	p. 61
In the ministries	p. 61
A profile	p. 63
Recruitment and promotion	p. 64
Wages	p. 66
Education and training	p. 69
The senior echelons	p. 72
Senior civil servants	p. 72
Directors general	p. 74
Who's missing?	p. 78
The question of representation	p. 82
The budget process	p. 83
Budgeting as a political tool	p. 84
Principles of budgeting	p. 85
The budgeting process in Israel	p. 88
The Arrangements Law	p. 90
The Budget Division of the Finance Ministry	p. 91
Reforms required in the budgeting process	p. 94
Oversight and control of the civil service	p. 97
Political oversight and control	p. 98
The State Comptroller	p. 99
Judicial review	p. 107
Internal control, scrutiny, and auditing	p. 108
Public accountability	p. 111
The culture of administration in Israel	p. 113
Political appointments	p. 113
A public service ethic	p. 328
Images and the public trust	p. 142
Administrative culture in Israel	p. 144
Public management reforms	p. 149
Privatization	p. 150
Attempts to reform the civil service	p. 158
Restructuring the civil service	p. 159
The civil service	p. 161
Civil society organizations	p. 163
Local government	p. 163
Laying the groundwork for reform	p. 164
Notes	p. 166
Bibliography	p. 174
Index	p. 186
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