Policy Making in Israel : Routines for Simple Problems and Coping with the Complex (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)

Sharkansky, Ira

ISBN 10: 0822956330 / ISBN 13: 9780822956334

Published by Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A., 1997

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Paperback. VG+. 216pp. Index, Notes, Biblio. Wear extremities.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Policy Making in Israel : Routines for Simple Problems and Coping with the Complex (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)
• Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822956330
• ISBN 13: 9780822956334
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: VG+

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Synopsis

All governments face problems and are judged by their ability to solve them and the policies they develop in doing so.  Compared with other Western democracies, Israel has faced a devastating number of problems of unusual severity in a relatively short time: war, terrorism, heavy immigration, unsettled boundaries, economic stresses, internal disputes about ethnicity and religion, and the lingering scars of the Holocaust and other persecutions.  Sharkansky’s analysis of the Israeli government’s routines and methods for coping with such an array of difficulties, from simple to complex to intractable, offers general insights into how governments make policy in a democracy.

About the Author

Ira Sharkansky is professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.