Moshe Maor – Författare

This comprehensive textbook outlines and illuminates the main theories of political parties and party systems. Applying these theoretical approaches to British party politics, Moshe Maor covers all the key subjects of study including:* classification of party definitions* party systems change* party institutionalization* cohesion and dissent* intraparty conflicts and ligislative bargaining* multiparty electoral competitionMaor's study highlights the importance of the intraparty arena and actors in understanding the shape and behaviour of political parties, providing essential reading to students of party systems and of British politics.

This book explores the impact intraparty conflicts have on a party's coalition bargaining. Focusing on Denmark, Norway, UK, Italy and France, it investigates whether organizational imperatives of political parties play a role in interparty competition.

A favorable reputation is an asset of importance that no public sector entity can afford to neglect because it gives power, autonomy, and access to critical resources. However, reputations must be built, maintained, and protected. As a result, public sector organizations in most OECD countries have increased their capacity for managing reputation. This edited volume seeks to describe, explain, and critically analyze the significance of organizational reputation and reputation management activities in the public sector. This book provides a comprehensive first look at how reputation management and branding efforts in public organizations play out, focusing on public agencies as formal organizations with their own hierarchies, identities, and cultures – existing in a network of other public organizations with similar or different functions, power, and reputation. From this unique organizational perspective, the chapters in this volume examine issues such as organizational identity, power, conflict, politics, culture, and symbolism within the public sector. Paying specific attention to strategies and processes, and illustrating with examples from the countries of Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Ireland, Israel, Italy, and Sweden, the book deepens our understanding of reputation management efforts at various levels of government.

The "Israeli History, Politics and Society" series comprises multidisciplinary studies that range from elections and the Yom Kippur war to the search for a true Israeli identity and the various initiatives to foment or prevent the peace process. This volume brings together a set of articles that try to estimate the direction of developments in Israeli public administration: whether ministries will remain under the ambit of the Weberian model, follow the New Public Management model, or move towards a mix of the two. Each essay focuses on a specific factor which may inhibit reforms, such as the weakness of mechanisms for policy control, monitoring and evaluation; lack of co-ordination between the different ministries; lack of effective accountability mechanisms; an administrative culture that is characterized by frequent infringements of moral integrity; a high level of politicization; and a Supreme Court which plays a paramount role by routinely intervening in the practices of public administration as well as in the business of other governmental and non-governmental institutions. Each article probes how these distinctive features of Israeli public administration reflect underlying traits of the nation's history, culture and geography, and gauges the extent to which formal structures provide an indication of how policy-making and programme implementation really operate.

This book presents 12 pioneering essays and a novel introduction on policy over- and underreaction by Moshe Maor, a leading authority on disproportionate policy responses. Maor construes disproportion in an empirical rather than normative manner to improve our understanding of when, why, and how electorally vulnerable political executives and those operating in contexts of declining trust in government and rising negativity and populism resort to disproportionate policy measures.Covering topics such as policy over- and underreaction, intentional disproportionate policy, and policy bubbles, Maor argues that from a political executive’s perspective, proportionate policy is not and should not be considered the ultimate policy aim under all circumstances. He sheds light on the alternative concept of deliberate disproportionate policy, along with the conditions under which such policy response is most likely to occur, and the political and policy benefits this policy offers to its initiators. In developing the disproportionate policy perspective, Maor offers a new way of ‘seeing’ that does not align with any of the dominant policy process theories.This book is invaluable for students and scholars of political science, public policy, democracy and populism. It will also be of great interest to sociologists researching moral panic and economists studying financial bubbles, alongside government officials and policymakers worldwide.