Ira Sharkansky

Ira Sharansky

Ira Sharkansky is professor emeritus of political science and public administration at Hebrew University.

His books, which are available on Amazon, include:

*Alternative federal solutions to the problem of the administered territories
*Ambiguity, Coping, and Governance: Israeli Experiences in Politics, Religion, and Policymaking
*Ancient and Modern Israel: An Exploration of Political Parallels
*Coping with Terror: An Israeli Perspective
* Governing Israel: Chosen People, Promised Land and Prophetic Tradition
*Governing Jerusalem: Again on the World’s Agenda
* Israel and its Bible: A Political Analysis
* Maligned States: policy accomplishments, problems and opportunities
* Policy Analysis in Political Science
* Policy and Politics in American Governments
* Policy Making in Israel: Routines for Simple Problems and Coping with the Complex
* Politics and Planning in the Holy City
* Politics and Policymaking in Search of Simplicity
* Public Administration: Agencies, Policies, and Politics
* Public Administration Policy Making in Government Agencies
* Public Administration (2nd Edition): Policy Making in Government Agencies
* Regionalism in American Politics
* Rituals of Conflict: Religion, Politics, and Public Policy in Israel
* Spending in the American States
* The Policy Predicament: Making and Implementing Public Policy
* The Political Economy of Israel
* The Politics of Religion and the Religion of Politics
*The Politics of Taxing and Spending
* The Routines of Politics
* The United States: A Study of a Developing Country
* The United States Revisited: A Study of a Still Developing Country
* Urban Politics and Public Policy [Robert Lineberry]
* What Makes Israel Tick: How Domestic Policy-Makers Cope with Restraints
* Wither the State: Politics and Public Enterprise in Three Countries

Time to reassess Trump?

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Rethinking is integral to judgment. When we stop rethinking, it’s time to shut down our Internet connection and everything else. A reasonable assessment of Donald Trump has not gone from terrible to wonderful. Or even from bad to good. He remains a mystery, created by his own incapacity to speak […]

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Old Israeli disputes simmer as new ones boil

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This is an interesting place. Often it’s exciting. Sometimes too exciting. Remember those medieval maps that showed Jerusalem at the center of the world? Now it’s more likely Washington, but Jerusalem can be close. That’s the case with the Trump-Netanyahu coalition with respect to Iran, or maybe it’s the Netanyahu-Trump

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

National anguish following death of Israeli teens

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — After several weekends of coping with massed Gazans on or over the edge of violence, the country has been obsessed with the deaths of teenagers, seemingly caused by the negligence of an upper status pre-army program. The disaster also reflected one of the country’s natural attractions: spectacular desert canyons (wadis)

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israel’s African refugee fiasco

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The latest political farce has deepened this country’s status as a cynic’s paradise. Prime Minister Netanyahu, together with Interior Minister Ariyeh Deri, surprised us Monday afternoon with a dramatic announcement that Israel had signed an agreement with the UN Commission on Refugees that a number of western countries would accept

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