Israel: Policy Making in Israel: Routines for Simple Problems and Coping with the Complex

From: The Middle East Journal | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Policy Making in Israel: Routines for Simple Problems and Coping with the Complex, by Ira Sharkansky. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. viii + 216 pages. Notes to p. 183. Bibl. to p. 201. Index to p. 213. $45 cloth; $19.95 paper.

Reviewed by Yair Zalmanovitch

Policy Making in Israel argues the thesis that the activities of policy makers are shaped in large measure by the difficulty of the problems they face (p. 14). Positing that many problems faced by policy makers are not solvable, Ira Sharkansky develops a continuum between simple problems that have a solution and ...

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