Developments in Israeli Public Administration

Moshe Maor

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781135316891
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Public Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Index

accommodation, 56, 57, 62

Accountant General’s Division, 72

accountability, 3, 6–7, 70, 80, 82, 108, 116–118, 137–138; programme accountability, 74

administration, 1, 2, 6, 29, 58, 82; administrative action, 28, 88–89, 102; advanced administration techniques, 9; agency, 90, 109; authority, 96; culture, 4, 76, 135; elite 5, 25–28, 37, 136; innovation, 10; institution, 88, 137; politicization, 5, 50; position, 50, 52; power, 5, 25–28, 36–39, 42–43, 136; reforms, 1, 25, 67; regulation, 16; requirement, 19; rule, 52; system, 122, 125, 132–133, 135; unit, 72

ageing, 75

agenda, 6, 46, 59–60, 82, 94, 97, 99, 100, 137

agreement, 68; disagreement, 59

agriculture quotas, 90

allocation, 66

ambiguity, 56–57, 58–59, 62, 121–122; ambiguity of politics, 57

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 74–75

American National Performance Review, 71

analysis, 73; cost-benefit analysis, 73; analysis techniques, 73

appointment, 11, 27–28, 29, 32, 38–39, 50, 51, 109, 127; personnel, 54; political, 1, 5, 14, 27–29, 31–32, 37–38, 40, 42, 50, 82, 123–127, 130, 132, 136; procedures, 32

Arafat, Y., 58–59

Arian, A., 77

Aron, R., 25

Asia, 59

Assembly of Representation, 11

assignment of position, 19

association, 56, 70

Arab association, 56

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• The Development of the Israeli Government Offices
• Administrative Power in Israel
• The Functioning of Whatever Is the Israeli State
• Controlling Government: Budgeting, Evaluation and Auditing in Israel
• Judicial Accountability in Israel: The High Court of Justice and the Phenomenon of Judicial Hyperactivism
• Choosing a Regulatory Regime: The Experience of the Israeli Electricity Market
• The Role of State and Public Audit in Safeguarding Ethics in the Public Service: Whose Ethics? What Ethics?
• Abstracts
• Index