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  • POLICY ANALYSIS IN ISRAEL; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Notes on the contributors; Foreword. Lessons from Israel's experience; Thought experiment; Personal knowledge based; Select episodes; Overall assessment; Comparative comment; Barriers; Mission impossible; The ultimate challenge: fuzzy grand-policy gambling; What is to be done?; Introduction. Policy analysis in Israel: a late developer's story; Analysing Israeli policy analysis; The chapters; Part One . The styles and methods of public policy analysis in Israel; 1. Policy analysis under intense pressures1
  • ConstraintsA problematic country; Israel's cultural roots; The State Comptroller and policy analysis; An economy that is wealthy but far from the wealthiest; Coalition governments, with ultra-orthodox parties permanent fixtures or looming possibilities, and other problematic populations; Coping; Where does this leave policy analysis?; Israel is different, but not in all ways; 2. Policy analysis evolution in Israel: building administrative capabilities; Introduction; An overview of public administration in Israel1; The development of the civil service in Israel
  • Contraction of the Israeli civil service and the state: changing sector boundariesPrivatisation: examples of changing boundaries and policy implications ; Conclusion; Part Two. Policy analysis by the executive and the legislature ; 3. Policy analysis in Israel's central government: latest developments and challenges ahead; Abstract; Introduction; 4. Local government and the challenge of policy analysis; Local government in Israel: a brief contextual introduction; Policy analysis of local government: analysis from within; The urban water reform; The 2003 amalgamation reform
  • Policy analysis of local government: analysis at the border of governmentPolicy analysis of local government: analysis from outside; Policy analysis in local government; Frames; Conclusion ; 5. Policy analysis and the legislature; Literature review; The Research and Information Center: role and origins ; The centre: structure, manpower, working procedure, aims and products; Discussion; 6. The making of disability policy in Israel: ad hoc advisory expert panels; Introduction; The use of committees in public policy; Expert panels ; The case of the sub-minimum wage committee
  • The case of deinstitutionalisation and community living policies committeeDiscussion: lessons from Israel ; Part Three. Policy analysis in specific government units; 7. Policy analysis in the treasury: how does the Israeli Ministry of Finance arrive at a policy decision?1; Introduction; The centrality of the Ministry of Finance in policy analysis; Conducting policy analysis in the Ministry of Finance ; Analysis of the Ministry of Finance's policy from the perspective of a standard model of policy analysis; Explaining modes of policy analysis; 8. Policy analysis at the Bank of Israel