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

View from abroad: The tightening U.S. presidential race

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The incidence of Americans who can’t stand one or both presidential candidates allows an outsider to ask how such a duo got to the finals. It was one of the founders who wrote that men were not angels, and required controls over their passions. Neither Donald nor Hillary is an angel. Indeed,

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Assigning blame in Syria

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The verbal brickbats being hurled by Russians, Americans, and various other interested parties at one another over the morass in Syria testify to the cynicism, hypocrisy, and impotence of major actors in international politics. It’s hard to praise any of the parties, none of whom are doing much to stop

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U.S. – Israel arms deal criticized in both countries

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Even before the formal signing of what was described as a record-making agreement for US financial aid, shrill critics here and there were claiming that Bibi had messed the opportunity to get more and better terms. Prominent in the agreement, which came after months or years (depending on whenever conversations

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Mideast political theater is a fig leaf for the status quo

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The status quo usually works. It derives from years of experience, and the learned accommodation of different interests to one another. Not all are happy. Those feeling deprived, and those feeling that features of the status quo are not appropriate demand change, but usually it’s not easy to change things

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Netanyahu and Katz rail at each other

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Three Ha’aretz cartoons summarize a recent commotion in Israeli politics. One depicts a horrendous traffic jam associated with a major construction project, with Bibi smiling and claiming to have “screwed Katz.’ Another shows two wounded politicians, Bibi and Transportation Minister Israel Katz, reflecting several days of media commentary about a

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Only thing that links P.A., Gaza is hatred of Israelis

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Palestinians are darlings of the world, receiving disproportionate amounts of financial aid and supportive resolutions in the UN General Assembly and other international forums. Yet progress is dismal toward the avowed goal of a Palestinian State. Israeli intransigence is the favorite explanation, but Palestinian disinterest does a better job. Notions of a

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