Developments in Israeli Public Administration.
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 se...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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Colección: | Cass series--Israeli history, politics, and society.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Notes; Introduction; Historical Background; The Options for Reforms; An Overview of the Volume; Notes; The Development of the Israeli Government Offices; Introduction; Formation of the Government Office Structure; Planning of the Government Administration: Structure and Operation; Preliminary Proposals; Government Structure
- Proposal by the Va'adat Matzav
- April 1948; The Interim Government; The Characteristics of the Government Offices' Structure in Israel; Conclusion; Notes; Administrative Power in Israel.
- Administrative Power as Elite PowerThe Power of the Administrative Elite in Israel; Administrative Power
- A Democratic Dilemma; Two Types of Administrative Power; The Connection Between Administrative and Political Power in Israel; The Roots of the System; The Beginning of the State Era; The Perpetuation of the System; The Flow of Funds through Local Authorities; The Flow of 'Special' Funds; Recent Developments; Administrative Power and the Parties' Electoral Bodies; From 'Special' Funding to 'Special' Criteria; The Machinations of the System; Conclusion; Notes.
- The Functioning of Whatever Is the Israeli StateA Metropolitan City-State; A Strong Central Government?; Politics in Administration: Technocrats in Politics; How Government Functions: Formal Structures and Rules Need Not Indicate What Really Occurs; Coping in the Face of Vexatious Problems; Accommodation; Ambiguity; Illustrations and Discussion; Jerusalem: Israeli and/or Palestinian; Judaism in the Jewish State; High Aspirations and Flawed Accomplishments; The Stressful Nature of Coping; Notes; Controlling Government: Budgeting, Evaluation and Auditing in Israel; Budgeting; Allocation.
- SpendingFinancial Control of the Margins; Evaluation; Evaluation and Programme Budgeting; Evaluation for Accountability and Management; Signs of Change; Auditing; The State Comptroller's Office; State Audit and Administrative Control; Internal Audit; Discussion; Notes; Judicial Accountability in Israel: The High Court of Justice and the Phenomenon of Judicial Hyperactivism; Introduction; Judicial Review in Israel: An Overview; Historical Background; The Structure of the Judicial System; Judicial Independence; The Judicial Activism of the HCJ; The 'Old Court'
- from Establishment to 1980.
- The 'New Court'
- Judicial Activism since 1980The Model of Judicial Hyperactivism; Conclusion: Hyperactivism and the Judicialization of the Israeli Society; Notes; Choosing a Regulatory Regime: The Experience of the Israeli Electricity Market; Introduction; Theoretical Background; The Institutional Context; The Democratic Deficit of the Public Utility Authority
- Electricity; Single- vs. Multiple-Industry Regulators; Notes; The Role of State and Public Audit in Safeguarding Ethics in the Public Service: Whose Ethics? What Ethics?