David Nachmias
Biographic Data
| ID | 122448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Nachmias |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Nachmias |
| SIGNATURE | NACHMIAS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Voting locally abstaining nationally
Do disadvantaged minorities turnout less when they have descriptive yet not substantive representation? When minorities have descriptive representation, their representatives' activities and preferences might not necessarily increase minorities' public goods' access. With substantive representation, minority representatives pursue policies that improve minorities' public goods' provisions. We claim that voters' calculus might decrease turnout in …
Public Policy in Israel
The book is an up-to-date and rigorous analysis of the Israeli social and economic policies Middle East Journal
National party strategies in local elections
Israeli national parties show a high variance in their tendency to compete in local elections for local authorities’ mayoral position and council seats. Indeed national parties can use local electoral competition to garner support for national elections. However, national parties might be also exposed to local losses and commitments which will hurt their performance in national elections. The results of Israeli ballot-box data from the 2006 natio…
The impact of electoral reforms on voting preferences
Electoral institutions and salient ‘issues’ bear significant effects on voting behaviour. One of the most intriguing voting patterns, split voting, is a combination of the two. This article examines the impact of changes in electoral institutions on voting behaviour. Employing the well-known ‘balancing model’ it analyses the impact of multi-issue political context on the generalizability of the model. Israel presents a unique case in which a chan…
The Bias of Pluralism
Inverted First- and Second-Order Elections
While national government elections are perceived as first order institutions that result in relatively high turnout rates, local elections are viewed as second-order institutions and are usually characterized by low turnout rates. We claim that this behavior is conditioned by the stakes that voters associate with elections as well as the voters' relative position in the socio-ethnic stratification structure. In this article we show that such con…
Public Responsibility of Elected Officials in Israel
The Crisis of Governance
The governance capacity of Israeli governments has diminished throughout the years. A variety of large-scale projects have not materialized. Although policy design and long-term planning have progressed fairly well, the same cannot be said for policy implementation. Israel's governments and the civil service continue to face obstacles that hinder the achievement of national goals. The main thesis presented in this article is that government insta…
Executive Governance in Israel
Designing the Executive Branch Executive Governance and Democracy Prime Ministerial Power: Resources and Constraints Powersharing with Nonelected Authorities Elections, Coalitions, and Governance Policymaking: Case Studies in Leadership Transition of Government Power Balancing Executive Power
Public Policy in Israel (Israeli Hist Pol Soc)
Governance and public policy
(2001). Governance and public policy. Israel Affairs: Vol. 7, Public Policy in Israel, pp. 3-20
Governmental Lawyering in the Political Sphere
THE STUDY OF ATTORNEYS GENERAL and public prosecutors as political institutions has long been neglected. It is the judicial elite, courts, and legal culture which have been the main focus for scholarly attention. Attorneys general and public prosecutors have had a notable effect on the work of judiciaries; they have been an important pillar in the co-optation of the administration, the judiciary, and the legislature, and they have significantly p…
The Changing Nature of Sociological Inquiry
The Policy Sciences
This essay reviews some of the recent criticisms of positivist science. It interprets this criticism, more generally, as directed towards the complexity of social science phenomena and the difficulty of dealing with complexity epistemologically and methodologically. Rather than ignoring complexity, changing the subject matter or explaining it away, we argue that complexity may be acknowledged and studied systematically withn the context of post-p…
Israel's Bureaucratic Elite
socially homogeneous bureaucratic elite that is unrepresentative of the country's social structure. Israeli non-Jews and Israeli-Arabs are conspicuously unrepresented in top positions. More surprising, women andJews of Eastern descent (the Sephardim, who make up a majority of the Israeli electorate) are also underrepresented in this important group. Nachmias argues that educational patterns and civil service credentialism
An Evaluation of Community Development Block Grant Decisionmaking
The Quality of Work Life in the Federal Bureaucracy
This paper uses a dimensionalization approach to explore the complex meaning of the quality of work life in the federal bureaucracy. Based on the 1979-80 Federal Employees Attitudes Survey, five distinct dimensions are delineated: supervision, relations with co-workers, job task, relations among work groups and economic well-being. The policy implications of the findings are briefly discussed
Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Research Methods in the Social Sciences (Alternate Second Edition without Statistics)
The preconditions for successful evaluation
United States
Organizational Conflict in Public Bureaus
This study examines the direct, indirect, and common-cause effects of three organizational attributes of public bureaus-size, specialization, and centralization of authority-on lateral and vertical conflict. The model developed is tested separately for ethnically homogeneous and heterogeneous bureaus. Such interactive analysis makes it possible to examine differentials in individuals' adaptations to general organizational arrangements. It was fou…
Governance dilemmas in an age of ambiguous authority
Bureaucratic culture
The 2003 Israeli Democracy Index
Coalition Politics in Israel
srael is a parliamentary democracy with a dominant party system I and a strong emphasis on centralized political operations. The Knesset (parliament) and the Cabinet are the major institutions of formal political authority. However, since independence the Cabinet has tended to lead the Knesset. The Cabinet initiates, prepares and directs legislation through the Knesset, determines the Knesset’s agenda, formulates its internal and external policie…
Voting locally abstaining nationally
Do disadvantaged minorities turnout less when they have descriptive yet not substantive representation? When minorities have descriptive representation, their representatives' activities and preferences might not necessarily increase minorities' public goods' access. With substantive representation, minority representatives pursue policies that improve minorities' public goods' provisions. We claim that voters' calculus might decrease turnout in …
The Role of Evaluation in Public Policy
The Crisis of Governance
The governance capacity of Israeli governments has diminished throughout the years. A variety of large-scale projects have not materialized. Although policy design and long-term planning have progressed fairly well, the same cannot be said for policy implementation. Israel's governments and the civil service continue to face obstacles that hinder the achievement of national goals. The main thesis presented in this article is that government insta…
Governance and public policy
(2001). Governance and public policy. Israel Affairs: Vol. 7, Public Policy in Israel, pp. 3-20
The preconditions for successful evaluation
Modes and Types of Political Alienation
Students of political behaviour have made a considerable effort to describe and explain the behaviour of politically alienated individuals.t This effiort, however, has not culminated in a systematic theoretical framework. The literature is still inconclusive and research findings are often contradictory. The range of activities from svhich the alienated are supposed to choose their course of actioll varies from conscious withdrawal to political v…
National party strategies in local elections
Israeli national parties show a high variance in their tendency to compete in local elections for local authorities’ mayoral position and council seats. Indeed national parties can use local electoral competition to garner support for national elections. However, national parties might be also exposed to local losses and commitments which will hurt their performance in national elections. The results of Israeli ballot-box data from the 2006 natio…
Inverted First- and Second-Order Elections
While national government elections are perceived as first order institutions that result in relatively high turnout rates, local elections are viewed as second-order institutions and are usually characterized by low turnout rates. We claim that this behavior is conditioned by the stakes that voters associate with elections as well as the voters' relative position in the socio-ethnic stratification structure. In this article we show that such con…
The Policy Sciences
This essay reviews some of the recent criticisms of positivist science. It interprets this criticism, more generally, as directed towards the complexity of social science phenomena and the difficulty of dealing with complexity epistemologically and methodologically. Rather than ignoring complexity, changing the subject matter or explaining it away, we argue that complexity may be acknowledged and studied systematically withn the context of post-p…
Utilization in the Policy Cycle
The study of policy utilization has been unnecessarily confined to one policy stage and to one group of policymakers-high ranking civil servants. This article suggests to broaden research concerns by including the various stages of the policy cycle and the various policymakers. Utilization plays different functions in different stages and the incentives of policymakers in each stage are guided by self-interest and political-bureaucratic efficacy
Patterns of Support for Merit Pay and Eeo Performance
A Temporal Sequence of Adolescent Political Participation
Adolescents in Western democracies acquire participatory-related dispositions early in life. They believe that it is the obligation of the good citizen to be informed and to take a participatory role in the affairs of his community and in politics. Some children start to participate in political activities as early as the third grade; through the twelfth grade, there is a gradual increase in the number of pre-adults who engage in such activities.…
A Note on Coalition Payoffs in a Dominant-Party System
The impact of electoral reforms on voting preferences
Electoral institutions and salient ‘issues’ bear significant effects on voting behaviour. One of the most intriguing voting patterns, split voting, is a combination of the two. This article examines the impact of changes in electoral institutions on voting behaviour. Employing the well-known ‘balancing model’ it analyses the impact of multi-issue political context on the generalizability of the model. Israel presents a unique case in which a chan…
Governmental Lawyering in the Political Sphere
THE STUDY OF ATTORNEYS GENERAL and public prosecutors as political institutions has long been neglected. It is the judicial elite, courts, and legal culture which have been the main focus for scholarly attention. Attorneys general and public prosecutors have had a notable effect on the work of judiciaries; they have been an important pillar in the co-optation of the administration, the judiciary, and the legislature, and they have significantly p…
An Evaluation of Community Development Block Grant Decisionmaking
The Quality of Work Life in the Federal Bureaucracy
This paper uses a dimensionalization approach to explore the complex meaning of the quality of work life in the federal bureaucracy. Based on the 1979-80 Federal Employees Attitudes Survey, five distinct dimensions are delineated: supervision, relations with co-workers, job task, relations among work groups and economic well-being. The policy implications of the findings are briefly discussed
Research Methods in the Social Sciences (Alternate Second Edition without Statistics)
Values, Truth, and Administration
Bureaucracy and Ethnicity
A theoretical controversy has developed over the impact of social background on the attitudes, values, and behavior of public bureaucrats. Empirical analysis of the attitudes of Israeli citizens and public bureaucrats toward their national bureaucracy indicates that becoming a bureaucrat and even achieving high rank within the bureaucracy does not overcome the effect of ethnicity upon attitudes in areas of high salience to specific groups
The Right-Wing Opposition in Israel
A Note on Coalition Payoffs in a Dominant-Party System
Measuring Bureaucratic Representation and Integration
Coalition Politics in Israel
srael is a parliamentary democracy with a dominant party system I and a strong emphasis on centralized political operations. The Knesset (parliament) and the Cabinet are the major institutions of formal political authority. However, since independence the Cabinet has tended to lead the Knesset. The Cabinet initiates, prepares and directs legislation through the Knesset, determines the Knesset’s agenda, formulates its internal and external policie…
Modes and Types of Political Alienation
Students of political behaviour have made a considerable effort to describe and explain the behaviour of politically alienated individuals.t This effiort, however, has not culminated in a systematic theoretical framework. The literature is still inconclusive and research findings are often contradictory. The range of activities from svhich the alienated are supposed to choose their course of actioll varies from conscious withdrawal to political v…
The Right-Wing Opposition in Israel
Antecedents of Public Bureaucracy
A theoretical framework for studying patterns of voluntary departure from public bureaucracies is developed and tested It was found that self-image, a sense of bureaucratic efficacy, and perceived politicization of the public bureaucracy determine the propensity to exit not independently of organizational attributes and social backgrounds
Research Methods in Social Sciences
A Temporal Sequence of Adolescent Political Participation
Adolescents in Western democracies acquire participatory-related dispositions early in life. They believe that it is the obligation of the good citizen to be informed and to take a participatory role in the affairs of his community and in politics. Some children start to participate in political activities as early as the third grade; through the twelfth grade, there is a gradual increase in the number of pre-adults who engage in such activities.…
Bureaucracy and Ethnicity
A theoretical controversy has developed over the impact of social background on the attitudes, values, and behavior of public bureaucrats. Empirical analysis of the attitudes of Israeli citizens and public bureaucrats toward their national bureaucracy indicates that becoming a bureaucrat and even achieving high rank within the bureaucracy does not overcome the effect of ethnicity upon attitudes in areas of high salience to specific groups
Public Policy Evaluation
Values, Truth, and Administration
The Role of Evaluation in Public Policy
Using Evaluations
United States
Organizational Conflict in Public Bureaus
This study examines the direct, indirect, and common-cause effects of three organizational attributes of public bureaus-size, specialization, and centralization of authority-on lateral and vertical conflict. The model developed is tested separately for ethnically homogeneous and heterogeneous bureaus. Such interactive analysis makes it possible to examine differentials in individuals' adaptations to general organizational arrangements. It was fou…
Governance dilemmas in an age of ambiguous authority
Patterns of Support for Merit Pay and Eeo Performance
Utilization in the Policy Cycle
The study of policy utilization has been unnecessarily confined to one policy stage and to one group of policymakers-high ranking civil servants. This article suggests to broaden research concerns by including the various stages of the policy cycle and the various policymakers. Utilization plays different functions in different stages and the incentives of policymakers in each stage are guided by self-interest and political-bureaucratic efficacy
The preconditions for successful evaluation
Research Methods in the Social Sciences (Alternate Second Edition without Statistics)
The Quality of Work Life in the Federal Bureaucracy
This paper uses a dimensionalization approach to explore the complex meaning of the quality of work life in the federal bureaucracy. Based on the 1979-80 Federal Employees Attitudes Survey, five distinct dimensions are delineated: supervision, relations with co-workers, job task, relations among work groups and economic well-being. The policy implications of the findings are briefly discussed
Research Methods in the Social Sciences
An Evaluation of Community Development Block Grant Decisionmaking
Israel's Bureaucratic Elite
socially homogeneous bureaucratic elite that is unrepresentative of the country's social structure. Israeli non-Jews and Israeli-Arabs are conspicuously unrepresented in top positions. More surprising, women andJews of Eastern descent (the Sephardim, who make up a majority of the Israeli electorate) are also underrepresented in this important group. Nachmias argues that educational patterns and civil service credentialism
The Policy Sciences
This essay reviews some of the recent criticisms of positivist science. It interprets this criticism, more generally, as directed towards the complexity of social science phenomena and the difficulty of dealing with complexity epistemologically and methodologically. Rather than ignoring complexity, changing the subject matter or explaining it away, we argue that complexity may be acknowledged and studied systematically withn the context of post-p…
Political science (36 works) · Law (25 works) · Politics (23 works) · Law (21 works) · Public Administration (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Public Administration (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (10 works)