Collaborative Governance: Theory and Lessons from Israel

by Neta Sher-Hadar (Editor), Lihi Lahat (Editor), Itzhak Galnoor (Editor)

Overview

This book is the first to explore collaborative governance arrangements in Israel. It offers a new, modular definition of collaborative governance, focusing on its contributions toward public values and democracy. The book discusses different kinds of collaborations, their scope, implications and impact on governability in Israel, a country which provides an interesting setting for learning about collaborative governance, given its heterogenous population and the nature of the relationship between the state’s civil service, the business sector and the civil society. The book presents examples derived from local, and central government levels, and from policy areas such as education, regulation and local government.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030458096
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2020
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Neta Sher-Hadar is Lecturer in Administration and Public Policy at the Mandel School for Educational Leadership, Israel. Her areas of teaching and research include policy implementation, policy failures, policy analysis, public administration reforms, and public auditing. She is the academic co-director of a research study on collaborative governance at the Yaakov Chazan Center for Social Justice and Democracy at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel, and is a faculty member in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Sapir Academic College, Israel.

Lihi Lahat is Lecturer in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Sapir Academic College, Israel, and the academic co-director of the research group studying collaborative governance at the Chazan Center in the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel. Her research focuses on the regulation of personal welfare services, trust and the emotional wellbeing of public-sector workers, the relationship between time and policy, and policy makers’ perceptions of poverty.

Itzhak Galnoor is Senior Fellow at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Academic Director of the Privatization Policy, Regulation and the Issue of Collaborative Governance project at the Chazan Center for Social Justice, Israel. He is a former Chair of the Israeli Political Science Association and Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science (emeritus), Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Participatory Democracy and Collaborative Governance: Can They Go Together (against the State)?.- 3. Collaborative Governance through the Prism of Deliberative Democracy.- 4. A Threefold Perspective: Conditions for Collaborative Governance.- 5. Local Collaborative Governance—A Way to Circumvent an Outmoded Legal Framework?.- 6. Local Collaborative Governance: Creating Workplaces for Women in Minority Societies in Southern Israel.- 7. Example: A local collaborative initiative in Kiryat Malachi.- 8. Collaborative Regulation: Collaborative Governance in the Field of Regulation.- 9. Reducing Aspects of Collaborative Governance in Standardization Processes in Israel.- 10. Civil Society Organizations in Collaborative Governance: Cross-Sector Partnerships as a Test Case.- 11. The 5x2 Initiative for Expanding STEM Excellence in Israel: Collective Impact as a Model of Collaborative Governance.- 12. Example: The Regional Sustainability Partnership as a Collaborative Governance Arrangement.- 13. Conclusion: Collaborative Governance as an Arrangement for Shaping and Implementing Policy.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This edited volume brings a fresh set of eyes to the question of whether collaborative governance is a useful policy tool. Investigating a rich set of Israeli examples, the authors critically probe both the potential and the limits of collaborative governance as a strategy for creating public value and enhancing democracy. The findings are edifying.”

—Christopher Ansell, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA

“Collaborative Governance: Theory and Lessons from Israel makes valuable contributions, both conceptually and empirically, to investigating the conditions under which collaborative governance is more or less effective. It insightfully uses an in-depth examination of Israeli cases to explore collaborative governance arrangements.”

—Yael Aronoff, Associate Professor, Michigan State University, USA