David Dery
Biographic Data
| ID | 1315578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Dery |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Dery |
| SIGNATURE | DERY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7147-3487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
What if Action Defined Leadership
What if action defined leadership? By pushing the idea of “leadership-as-action” to its logical conclusion, I hope to show that it has the potential of introducing much needed discipline to a field of research that has been built on weak conceptual foundations and as a consequence is hampered by fragmentation and diversity. With action as an organizing idea, a pivot, around which leadership revolves, leadership theory and practice can be advanced…
Fuzzy Control
What happens when rules are inadequate but rule modification is impossible or undesirable? This article poses this question in the context of intergovernmental relations in Israel. For more than twenty years most local authorities consistently have engaged in deficity financing, defying budgetary laws and formal rules of conduct. At the same time, overall deficit conspicuously has remained within the confines of what might be considered tolerable…
Agenda Setting and Problem Definition
What happens after public issues attain agenda status? Exploring this question in the context of one instance of social protest in Israel, the 1990 ‘tents movement’, this paper focuses on government reaction and the way it successfully disintegrated the movement. A movement that proved strong enough to put the housing problem on the national agenda, and to keep it there for a few months, has had no influence on the subsequent treatment of this is…
"Papereality" and Learning in Bureaucratic Organizations
This article argues that organizations create, maintain, and live by "papereality, " defined as a world of symbols, a particular form of representation that takes precedence over the things and events represented. If so, what is written down as official can be an important guide to and constraint on behavior in organizations. This article explores in particular the significance that papereality may have on organizational learning. Its main hypoth…
Elected mayors andde factodecentralisation, Israeli style
This paper advances the conjecture that the shift to a direct election of mayors in Israel, a most significant step towards recognising local authorities as political entities in their own right, has prevented further progress in the same direction. Hirschman's ‘getting stuck syndrome’ is used here to explore this paradox. Since a highly centralised system is not compatible with a ‘strong mayor system’, there developed an ingenious scheme — ’de f…
Policy by the Way
My aim is to explore an important feature of public policy that has been somewhat neglected: many policies are largely made by the way of making other polices. To examine this idea and tentatively explore some of its implications, I shall employ the notion of ‘policy by the way’. What I wish to convey with the help of this concept is the reality of many areas of concern which are touched by public policy entirely or primarily by the way of focusi…
Coping with “latent time bombs” in public policy
Knowing
Knowledge and Organizations
This paper examines two interrelated questions: Knowledge utilization and organizational learning. Whereas most treatments o f these questions have in mind individuals, "decisionmakers," who are supposedly the learning agents, or the potential users of social science knowledge and information, my attempt will be to regard knowledge utilization and learning as organizational phenomena. A s such, the question of knowledge utilization, of learning, …
Computers in Welfare
Evaluation and termination in the policy cycle
Evaluation and Problem Redefinition
Inadequate problem formulation leads to inadequate, alas persistent, solutions (programs). Program evaluation is commonly held as a means to put programs and policies to the test. The best of controlled experimentation, however, cannot serve as the ‘potential falsifier’ of problem formulation, only of the adequacy of means to solve a pre-conceptualized problem. An analysis of disadvantaged youth policy in Israel is provided to illustrate and supp…
Policy by the Way
My aim is to explore an important feature of public policy that has been somewhat neglected: many policies are largely made by the way of making other polices. To examine this idea and tentatively explore some of its implications, I shall employ the notion of ‘policy by the way’. What I wish to convey with the help of this concept is the reality of many areas of concern which are touched by public policy entirely or primarily by the way of focusi…
"Papereality" and Learning in Bureaucratic Organizations
This article argues that organizations create, maintain, and live by "papereality, " defined as a world of symbols, a particular form of representation that takes precedence over the things and events represented. If so, what is written down as official can be an important guide to and constraint on behavior in organizations. This article explores in particular the significance that papereality may have on organizational learning. Its main hypoth…
Agenda Setting and Problem Definition
What happens after public issues attain agenda status? Exploring this question in the context of one instance of social protest in Israel, the 1990 ‘tents movement’, this paper focuses on government reaction and the way it successfully disintegrated the movement. A movement that proved strong enough to put the housing problem on the national agenda, and to keep it there for a few months, has had no influence on the subsequent treatment of this is…
Elected mayors andde factodecentralisation, Israeli style
This paper advances the conjecture that the shift to a direct election of mayors in Israel, a most significant step towards recognising local authorities as political entities in their own right, has prevented further progress in the same direction. Hirschman's ‘getting stuck syndrome’ is used here to explore this paradox. Since a highly centralised system is not compatible with a ‘strong mayor system’, there developed an ingenious scheme — ’de f…
Fuzzy Control
What happens when rules are inadequate but rule modification is impossible or undesirable? This article poses this question in the context of intergovernmental relations in Israel. For more than twenty years most local authorities consistently have engaged in deficity financing, defying budgetary laws and formal rules of conduct. At the same time, overall deficit conspicuously has remained within the confines of what might be considered tolerable…
Evaluation and termination in the policy cycle
Knowledge and Organizations
This paper examines two interrelated questions: Knowledge utilization and organizational learning. Whereas most treatments o f these questions have in mind individuals, "decisionmakers," who are supposedly the learning agents, or the potential users of social science knowledge and information, my attempt will be to regard knowledge utilization and learning as organizational phenomena. A s such, the question of knowledge utilization, of learning, …
Knowing
Evaluation and Problem Redefinition
Inadequate problem formulation leads to inadequate, alas persistent, solutions (programs). Program evaluation is commonly held as a means to put programs and policies to the test. The best of controlled experimentation, however, cannot serve as the ‘potential falsifier’ of problem formulation, only of the adequacy of means to solve a pre-conceptualized problem. An analysis of disadvantaged youth policy in Israel is provided to illustrate and supp…
Evaluation and Problem Redefinition
Inadequate problem formulation leads to inadequate, alas persistent, solutions (programs). Program evaluation is commonly held as a means to put programs and policies to the test. The best of controlled experimentation, however, cannot serve as the ‘potential falsifier’ of problem formulation, only of the adequacy of means to solve a pre-conceptualized problem. An analysis of disadvantaged youth policy in Israel is provided to illustrate and supp…
Evaluation and termination in the policy cycle
Computers in Welfare
Knowledge and Organizations
This paper examines two interrelated questions: Knowledge utilization and organizational learning. Whereas most treatments o f these questions have in mind individuals, "decisionmakers," who are supposedly the learning agents, or the potential users of social science knowledge and information, my attempt will be to regard knowledge utilization and learning as organizational phenomena. A s such, the question of knowledge utilization, of learning, …
Knowing
Coping with “latent time bombs” in public policy
"Papereality" and Learning in Bureaucratic Organizations
This article argues that organizations create, maintain, and live by "papereality, " defined as a world of symbols, a particular form of representation that takes precedence over the things and events represented. If so, what is written down as official can be an important guide to and constraint on behavior in organizations. This article explores in particular the significance that papereality may have on organizational learning. Its main hypoth…
Elected mayors andde factodecentralisation, Israeli style
This paper advances the conjecture that the shift to a direct election of mayors in Israel, a most significant step towards recognising local authorities as political entities in their own right, has prevented further progress in the same direction. Hirschman's ‘getting stuck syndrome’ is used here to explore this paradox. Since a highly centralised system is not compatible with a ‘strong mayor system’, there developed an ingenious scheme — ’de f…
Policy by the Way
My aim is to explore an important feature of public policy that has been somewhat neglected: many policies are largely made by the way of making other polices. To examine this idea and tentatively explore some of its implications, I shall employ the notion of ‘policy by the way’. What I wish to convey with the help of this concept is the reality of many areas of concern which are touched by public policy entirely or primarily by the way of focusi…
Agenda Setting and Problem Definition
What happens after public issues attain agenda status? Exploring this question in the context of one instance of social protest in Israel, the 1990 ‘tents movement’, this paper focuses on government reaction and the way it successfully disintegrated the movement. A movement that proved strong enough to put the housing problem on the national agenda, and to keep it there for a few months, has had no influence on the subsequent treatment of this is…
Fuzzy Control
What happens when rules are inadequate but rule modification is impossible or undesirable? This article poses this question in the context of intergovernmental relations in Israel. For more than twenty years most local authorities consistently have engaged in deficity financing, defying budgetary laws and formal rules of conduct. At the same time, overall deficit conspicuously has remained within the confines of what might be considered tolerable…
What if Action Defined Leadership
What if action defined leadership? By pushing the idea of “leadership-as-action” to its logical conclusion, I hope to show that it has the potential of introducing much needed discipline to a field of research that has been built on weak conceptual foundations and as a consequence is hampered by fragmentation and diversity. With action as an organizing idea, a pivot, around which leadership revolves, leadership theory and practice can be advanced…
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