Non-governability and lack of reform: politics and public administration in Israel

The objective of this chapter is to provide a descriptive, developmental review of public administration in Israel, while focusing on both the formal and informal aspects of public administration politics. While the crucial need to reform the Israeli public administration was the focus of other committees, the state seems to have much difficulty improving its public administration. My findings show that combined with political centralization, the environment of non-governability (meaning the inability of decision-makers, politicians and bureaucrats to devise a long-term public policy and implement it effectively) is a major factor in the inability to enact public administration reform in Israel.