“Penny for Your Thoughts”: Outsourcing Public Policy Formulation, the Israeli Case (original) (raw)

Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2018

Abstract

This chapter explores the outsourcing of public policy formulation at the strategic level in Israel, using a systematic review of public tenders aimed at procuring consulting services. The chapter demonstrates that the Israeli government is willing to allow external providers to define policy problems and to formulate the public policy to address them. The evidence presented shows that this externalization is performed in various policy areas, at the national, strategic level. The chapter discusses implications of these findings in two aspects: possible democratic deficit stemming from the use of private firms for policy formulation and implications for the status and capacity of the Israeli public service.

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