Public Policy in Israel Perspectives and

In a nation that lacks consensus on the very nature of the state, and where policy making is heavily controlled by partisan politics, improved policy implementation capabilities are crucial for the very survival of Israeli society. Public Policy in Israel presents a framework for understanding this country's fractured decision-making process and a blueprint for the radical reform of its policy-making system.

Foreword to the 2005 Edition: The "Strange Mix": Challenging Policy-Making in Israel"

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Foreword: Policy-Making as Critical Choices

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Yehezkel Dror

Indtroduction: Policy-Making in Israel: The Survival Imperative

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Dani Korn

Part One: Critical Issues

1 Public Policy and Management of Major Political Cleavages

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(22)

Eliezer Don-Yehiya

2 Policy-Making and Immigrant Absorption

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(20)

Asher Friedberg and Aharon Kfir

3 The Mismanagement of Israel's Water Resources: A Study of Administrative Myopia in Public Policy

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Martin Sherman and Dan Zaslavsky

Part Two: Players, Rules, and Practice

4 Justices as Policy-Makers

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Gad Barzilai

5 Policy Change in Government Coalitions and Party Politics

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(30)

Efraim Torgovnik

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

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(14)

Arye Naor

Part Three: Public and Private Domain

8 Privatization Policy: 50 Years of Low-Intensity Conflicts

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Yitzhak Katz and Miri Bitton-Zahori

9 Unintentional yet Unmistakable: The De Facto Public Policy toward the Third Sector

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Benjamin Gidron and Hagai Katz

Part Four: Specific Issues

10 State and Nonstate Actors: A Multilayered Analysis of Labor Migration Policy

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Rebeca Raijman and Adriana Kemp

11 Policy-Making in the Personal Social Services

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Joseph Katan

12 Archaeological Public Policy

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Avi Gopher, Raphael Greenberg, and Zeev Herzog

15 Cracks in the Mirror of Military Hegemony: The Courts and the Media as Agents of Civil Society

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(20)

Udi Lebel

Index

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About the Contributors

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