Previous literature demonstrates that when street‐level bureaucrats believe that the policy
as designed is not desirable, they utilize various strategies to change the situation. This …

This paper explores the factors that influence citizens' attitudes toward the alternative
provision of health care services, leading them to be willing to make extra, informal …

While public administration scholars argue that core values of social equity are exceedingly
important in service provision, less is known of how these values are practised on the …

This study examines Hirschman's model of exit, voice and loyalty with regard to informal
payments in the Israeli healthcare system. Based on a national survey, we investigate the …

How do ministry of Finance (MOF) bureaucrats preserve their dominance in the national
budget process? As we all know, MOF bureaucrats are important in politics and policy, we …

The study explored how understanding people's behaviours and desires can inform policy
design and contribute to policy feedback theory. We focused on uses of time that are …

Should human organs be bought and sold? Is it right that richer people should be able to
pay poorer people to wait in a queue for them? Should objects in museums ever be sold …

Black medicine represents the most problematic configuration of informal payments for
health care. According to the accepted economic explanations, we would not expect to find …

Recent comparative measures rank Israel very high on the innovation scale and note its
preference for informal managerial practices. Based on a principal–agent analysis, this …

This chapter describes and explains the informal influence of Israeli political culture on the
public policy process. I will demonstrate how informal elements are rooted in Israeli society …