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List of Publications

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Books

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  1. Cohen, Nissim (2021). Policy Entrepreneurship at the Street Level: Understanding the Effect of the Individual (Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Special journal issues

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  1. Cohen, Nissim & Frisch Aviram, Neomi (2021). Symposium on Policy Entrepreneurship among Street-Level Bureaucrats. Public Administration, volume 99, issue 3.
     

  2. Cohen, Nissim, Gwen Arnold and Evangelia Petridou (2023). Special Issue: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Policy Entrepreneurship. European Policy Analysis, volume 9, issue 4.

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Refereed Articles in Scientific Journals​​​
 

  1. Costa Silveira, Mariana, Cohen, Nissim & Lotta, Gabriela (forthcoming). “Are bureaucrats’ interactions with politicians linked to the bureaucrats’ policy entrepreneurship tendencies?”, Policy Studies Journal.
     

  2. Gershgoren, Sagi & Cohen, Nissim (in press). “Does Teaming Street-Level Bureaucrats with Lay Officials Promote Citizen-Friendly Decisions?”, Public Management Review.
     

  3. Lotta, Gabriela, Krieger, Morgana, Cohen, Nissim, & Kirschbaum, Charles (in press). “Not Separate, But Certainly Unequal: The Invisible Burdens and Coping Strategies of Low-Status Frontline Street-Level Bureaucrats” Governance.
     

  4. Cohen, Nissim, Lotta, Gabriela, Alcadipani, Rafael & Lazebnik, Teddy (2024). “Trust and street-level bureaucrats’ willingness to risk their lives for others: The case of Brazilian law enforcement” The American Review of Public Administration 54 (2): 119-134.
     

  5. Mizrahi, Shlomo, Ben-Eliyahu, Adar, Cohen, Nissim, Hertz, Uri, Miller-Mor, Rotem, Mishor, Efrat & Vigoda-Gadot, Eran (2024). “Public Management during a Crisis: When are Citizens Willing to Contribute to Institutional Emergency Preparedness?” Public Management Review 26 (1): 48-72.
     

  6. Alcadipani, Rafael, Lotta, Gabriela & Cohen, Nissim (2024). “Natural born violence? Understanding street-level bureaucrats’ use of violence: Police officers and protests” Public Administration Review 81 (1): 100-114.
     

  7. Davidovitz, Maayan, Cardaun, Sarah, Klenk, Tanja, & Cohen, Nissim (2023). “How do different organizational pressures lead street-level bureaucrats to move towards clients? A comparison of nursing services for the elderly in Germany and Israel” Public Management Review 25 (12): 2451-2468.
     

  8. Cohen, Nissim (2023). “Public Administration Reform and Political Will in Cases of Political Instability: Insights from the Israeli Experience” Public Policy and Administration 38 (4): 405-423.
     

  9. Nouman, Hani & Cohen, Nissim (2023). “When Active Representation is Not Enough: Ethnic Minority Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Divided Society and Policy Entrepreneurship” Policy Sciences 56 (4): 777-795.
     

  10. Edri-Peer, Ofek, Costa Silveira, Mariana, Davidovitz, Maayan, Frisch-Aviram, Neomi, Shehade, Jamal, Diab, Hadeel, Golan-Nadir, Niva & Cohen, Nissim (2023). “Policy Entrepreneurship on the Street-Level: Systematic Literature Review” European Policy Analysis 9 (4): 356-378.
     

  11. Gershgoren, Sagi & Cohen, Nissim (2023). “Street-Level Bias: Examining Factors Related to Street-Level Bureaucrats' State or Citizen Favoritism” The American Review of Public Administration 53 (3-4): 115-133.
     

  12. Uster, Anna & Cohen, Nissim  (2023). “Local Government’s Response To Dissatisfaction With Centralized Policies: The “Do-It-Yourself” Approach” International Review of Administrative Sciences 89 (3): 825-841.
     

  13. Davidovitz, Maayan & Cohen, Nissim (2023). “Politicians’ Involvement in Street-Level Policy Implementation: Implications for Social Equity” Public Policy and Administration, 38 (3): 309-328. 
     

  14. Cohen, Nissim, Gwen Arnold and Evangelia Petridou (2023). “Editorial: Why We Need to Study Street-Level Policy Entrepreneurs”, European Policy Analysis 9: 342-355.
     

  15. Gershgoren, Sagi & Cohen, Nissim (2023). “Does Appealability Foster More Citizen-Friendly Decisions at The Street Level?” Regulation and Governance 17 (4): 1058-1075.
     

  16. Cohen, Nissim & Sabah, Yekoutiel (2023). “How the Permanent Senior Professional Staff Can Enable Policy Capacity in the Face of Political Instability: Insights from the Israeli Experience” Public Performance and Management Review 46 (4): 1001-1025.
     

  17. Mizrahi, Shlomo, Cohen, Nissim, Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, & Natan-Krup, Dana (2023). “Compliance with government policies during emergencies: Trust, participation and protective actions” Governance 36 (4): 1083-1102.
     

  18. Edri, Ofek & Cohen, Nissim (2023). “Procedural Justice and the Unintended Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Prompting Citizens to Act as Vigilantes” The American Review of Public Administration 53 (2): 51-63.
     

  19. Brusaporci, Gianfranco & Cohen, Nissim (2023). “The Role of Individuals in Social Movements: The Rise of Policy Entrepreneurs in Bulgaria during the First Borisov Cabinet” Global Society 37 (3): 444-462.
     

  20. Cohen, Nissim, Klenk, Tanja, Davidovitz, Maayan & Cardaun, Sarah (2023). “Varieties of welfare markets from a street-level bureaucrat’s perspective: Comparing long-term care services in Germany and Israel” Public Administration Review 83 (2): 419-428.
     

  21. Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, Mizrahi, Shlomo, Cohen, Nissim & Efrat Mishor (2023). “Citizens’ reactions to global crises: A longitudinal study during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel” Springer Nature Social Sciences 24 (3).
     

  22. Cohen, Galia & Cohen, Nissim (2023). “Understanding Street‐Level Bureaucrats’ Informal Collaboration: Evidence from Police Officers Across the Jurisdictional Divide” Public Management Review 25 (2): 224-242.
     

  23. Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, Cohen, Nissim & Mizrahi, Shlomo (2023). “Battling COVID-19: How good public management relates with resilience and trust of healthcare employees during a global crisis” Review of Public Personnel Administration 43 (3): 583-613.
     

  24. Davidovitz, Maayan & Cohen, Nissim (2023). “'I Have Learned My Lesson': How clients’ trust betrayals shape the future ways in which street-level bureaucrats cope with their clients" Public Administration 101 (1): 335-351.
     

  25. Golan-Nadir, Niva, Cohen, Nissim & Aviad Rubin (2022). "How citizens’ dissatisfaction with street-level bureaucrats’ exercise of discretion leads to the alternative supply of public services: The case of Israeli marriage registrars" International Review of Administrative Sciences 88 (4): 977-994.
     

  26. Davidovitz, Maayan & Cohen, Nissim (2022). “Which Clients Inspire or Reduce the Trust of Street-Level Bureaucrats?” Administration and Society 54 (8): 1516-1541.
     

  27. Diab, Hadeel & Cohen, Nissim (2022). “Active Representative Bureaucracy, Homogeneous Organizational Context and Deviation from Official Policy among Street-Level Bureaucrats” Australian Journal of Public Administration 81 (2): 303-319.
     

  28. Davidovitz, Maayan & Cohen, Nissim (2022). "Speaking Truth to Power – How Political Rhetoric Leads to a Counter Response of LGBTQ Street-Level Bureaucrats" International Public Management Journal 25 (2): 165-177.
     

  29. Cohen, Nissim (2022). “An Exploratory Examination of the Relationship between Trust and Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Willingness to Risk Their Lives for Others” The American Review of Public Administration 52 (3): 221-234.
     

  30. Davidovitz, Maayan & Cohen, Nissim (2022). “Alone in the Campaign: Distrust in Regulators and the Coping of Front-line Workers” Regulation and Governance 16 (4): 1005-1021.
     

  31. Davidovitz, Maayan & Cohen, Nissim (2022). “Frontline Social Service as a Battlefield: Insights from Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Interactions with Violent Clients” Social Policy & Administration 56 (1): 73-86.
     

  32. Cohen, Nissim, Mizrahi, Shlomo & Vigoda-Gadot, Eran (2022). "Alternative Provision of Public Healthcare: The Role of Citizens' Satisfaction with Public Services and the Social Responsibility of Government" Health Economics, Policy and Law 17 (2): 121-140.
     

  33. Davidovitz, Maayan & Cohen, Nissim (2022). “Playing Defense: The Impact of Trust on The Coping Mechanisms of Street-Level Bureaucrats” Public Management Review 24 (2): 279-300.
     

  34. Adi Binhas & Nissim Cohen (2021). "Policy Entrepreneurs and Anti-Racism Policy" Policy Studies 42 (4): 327-345.
     

  35. Frisch Aviram, Neomi, Beeri, Itai & Cohen, Nissim (2021). "How Policy Entrepreneurship Training Affects Policy Entrepreneurship Behavior Among Street-Level Bureaucrats – A Randomized Field Experiment" Journal of European Public Policy 28 (5): 698-722.
     

  36. Mizrahi, Shlomo, Vigoda-Gadot, Eran & Cohen, Nissim (2021). “How Well They Manage Crisis? Government's Effectiveness during the Covid-19 Pandemic” Public Administration Review 81 (6): 1120-1130.
     

  37. Davidovitz, Maayan, Cohen, Nissim & Gofen, Anat (2021). “Governmental Response to Crises and its Implications for Street-Level Implementation: Policy Ambiguity, Risk, and Discretion during the COVID-19 Pandemic” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 23 (1): 3-15.
     

  38. Mizrahi, Shlomo, Vigoda-Gadot, Eran & Cohen, Nissim (2021). "Antecedents of Trust in the Judiciary: Between Fair Process and High Satisfaction" International Public Management Journal 24 (2): 250-268.
     

  39. Cohen, Nissim & Frisch Aviram, Neomi (2021). “Street-level Bureaucrats and Policy Entrepreneurship: When Implementers Challenge Policy Design” (editors introduction: Symposium on Policy Entrepreneurship among Street-Level Bureaucrats). Public Administration, 99 (3): 427-438.
     

  40. Frisch Aviram, Neomi, Beeri, Itai & Cohen, Nissim (2021). "From the Bottom-Up: Probing the Gap between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Intentions of Engaging in Policy Entrepreneurship and their Behavior" The American Review of Public Administration 51 (8): 636-649.
     

  41. Mizrahi, Shlomo, Vigoda-Gadot, Eran & Cohen, Nissim (2021). "Drivers of Trust in Emergency Organizations Networks: The Role of Readiness, Threat Perceptions and Participation in Decision Making" Public Management Review 23 (2): 233-253.
     

  42. Cohen, Nissim & Golan-Nadir, Niva (2020). "Why Do Street Level Bureaucrats Risk Themselves for Others? The Case of Israeli Police Officers" Australian Journal of Public Administration 79 (4): 480-494.
     

  43. Jabotinsky, Hadar & Cohen, Nissim (2020). "Regulatory policy entrepreneurship and reforms: a comparison of competition and financial regulation" Journal of Public Policy 40 (4): 628-650.
     

  44. Frisch Aviram, Neomi, Cohen, Nissim & Beeri, Itai (2020). "Wind(ow) of Change: A Systematic Review of Policy Entrepreneurship Characteristics and Strategies" Policy Studies Journal 48 (3): 612-644.
     

  45. Cohen, Nissim & Hertz, Uri (2020) "Street-Level Bureaucrats' Social Value Orientation On and Off Duty" Public Administration Review 80 (3): 442-453.
     

  46. Cohen, Nissim, Shami, Labiv & Rubinchik, Anna (2020). "Towards a Cashless Economy? Economic and Socio-Political Implications" European Journal of Political Economy 61: 101820.
     

  47. Frisch Aviram, Neomi, Beeri, Itai & Cohen, Nissim (2020). "Entrepreneurship in the Policy Process: Linking Behavior and Context Using a Systematic Review of Policy Entrepreneurship Literature" Public Administration Review 80 (2): 188-197.
     

  48. Mizrahi, Shlomo, Cohen, Nissim & Vigoda-Gadot, Eran (2020). "Government’s Social Responsibility, Citizen Satisfaction and Trust" Policy & Politics 48 (3): 443-460.
     

  49. Frisch Aviram, Neomi, Cohen, Nissim & Beeri, Itai (2020). "Policy Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review of the Literature" Public Administration and Development 40 (1): 35-48.
     

  50. Lavee, Einat & Cohen, Nissim (2019). "How Street-Level Bureaucrats Become Policy Entrepreneurs: The Case of Urban Renewal" Governance 32 (3): 475-492.
     

  51. Tzur, Ron and Cohen, Nissim (2018). "The Ongoing Israeli Civil Service Reform: Comparing Current Achievements to Past Attempts" French Review of Public Administration (Revue Française d'Administration Publique – published by ENA) No 168: 943-956.
     

  52. Lavee, Einat, Cohen, Nissim & Nouman, Hanni (2018). "Reinforcing Public Responsibility? Influences and Practices in Street-Level Bureaucrats' Engagement in Policy Design" Public Administration 96 (2): 333-348.
     

  53. Sperling, Daniel & Cohen, Nissim (2018). "A Neo-Institutional Analysis of the Hidden Interaction between the Israeli Supreme Court and the Ministry of Finance: The Right to Healthcare Services" Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 7: 1-15.
     

  54. Frisch-Aviram, Neomi, Cohen, Nissim & Itai Beeri (2018). "Low-Level Bureaucrats, Local Government Regimes and Policy Entrepreneurship" Policy Sciences 51 (1): 39-57.
     

  55. Cohen, Nissim (2018) “How Culture Affects Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Bending the Rules in the Context of Informal Payments for Health Care: The Israeli Case” The American Review of Public Administration 48 (2): 175-187.
     

  56. Cohen, Nissim & Michael Naor (2017). "Entrepreneurial Failure in the Transition to Electric Vehicles: A Case Study of Support for Sustainability Policy in Israel" Policy and Society 36 (4): 595-610.
     

  57. Cohen, Nissim & Horev, Tuvia (2017). "Policy Entrepreneurship and Policy Networks in Healthcare Systems - The Case of Israel's Pediatric Dentistry Reform" Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 6: 24.
     

  58. Cohen, Nissim & Filc, Dani (2017). “An alternative way of understanding exit, voice and loyalty: the case of informal payments for health care in Israel” The International Journal of Health Planning and Management 32 (1): 72-90.
     

  59. Golan-Nadir, Niva & Cohen, Nissim (2017) “The Role of Individual Agents in Promoting Peace Processes: Business People and Policy Entrepreneurship in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict“ Policy Studies 38 (1): 21-38.
     

  60. Cohen, Nissim, Benish, Avishai & Shamriz-Ilouz, Aya (2016) "When the Clients Can Choose: Dilemmas of Street-Level Workers in Choice-Based Social Services" Social Service Review, 90 (4): 620-646.
     

  61. Cohen, Nissim & Gershgoren, Sagi  (2016) “The Incentives of Street-Level Bureaucrats and Inequality in Tax Assessments” Administration and Society, 48 (3) 267–289.
     

  62. Cohen, Nissim (2016). “Forgoing New Public Management and Adopting Post-New Public Management Principles: The On-Going Civil Service Reform in Israel” Public Administration and Development, 36 (1): 20–34.
     

  63. Navot, Doron, Reingewertz, Yaniv  & Cohen, Nissim (2016). “Speed or Greed? High Wages and Corruption among Public Servants” Administration and Society, 48 (5): 580–601.
     

  64. Zalmanovitch, Yair & Cohen, Nissim (2015) “The Pursuit of Political Will: Politicians’ Motivation and Health Promotion” The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 30 (1): 31-44.
     

  65. Filc, Dani & Cohen, Nissim (2015) “Blurring the Boundaries between Public and Private Health Care Services as an Alternative Explanation for the Emergence Black Medicine: The Israeli Case“ Health Economics, Policy & Law, 10 (3): 293-310.
     

  66. Cohen, Nissim (2015) “Bargaining and Informal Interactions in the National Budget: A Game Theory Analysis of The Israeli Case” International Review of Administrative Sciences, 81 (1): 58-78.
     

  67. Navot, Doron & Cohen, Nissim  (2015) “How Policy Entrepreneurs Reduce Corruption in Israel” Governance, 28 (1): 61-76.
     

  68. Mizrahi, Shlomo, Yuval, Fany & Cohen, Nissim (2014) “Alternative Politics and Attitudes toward the Welfare State: Theory and Empirical Findings from Israel“ Politics & Policy, 42 (6): 850-880.
     

  69. Cohen, Nissim & Naor, Michael (2013) “Reducing Dependence on Oil? How Policy Entrepreneurs Utilize the National Security Agenda to Recruit Government Support: The Case of Electric Transportation in Israel” Energy Policy, 56: 582-590.
     

  70. Cohen, Nissim (2013) “The Self-Provision of Public Healthcare Services: A Threat to Democracy“ Journal of Politics and Law, 6 (1): 128-133.
     

  71. Cohen, Nissim (2013) “The Power of Expertise? Politician-Bureaucrat Interactions, National Budget Transparency and the Israeli Health Care Policy” Policy Studies, 34 (5-6): 638-654.
     

  72. Cohen, Nissim (2013) “‘We Are Talking About Saving Lives’: The Welfare State, Health Policy and Non-Governability – A Case Study of an Israeli Hospital” Social Work in Public Health, 28 (6): 619-636.
     

  73. Arieli, Tamar, & Cohen, Nissim (2013) “Policy Entrepreneurs and Post-Conflict Cross-Border Cooperation: A Conceptual Framework and the Israeli-Jordanian Case” Policy Sciences, 46 (3): 237-256.
     

  74. Cohen, Nissim (2013) “Solving Problems Informally: The Influence of Israel’s Political Culture on the Public Policy Process” The Innovation Journal, 18 (1). article 9.
     

  75. Cohen, Nissim, Mizrahi, Shlomo & Yuval, Fany (2012)  “Black Market Medicine and Public Opinion toward the Welfare State: Evidence from Israel” Social Policy & Administration, 46 (7): 727-747.
     

  76. Cohen, Nissim (2012) “Informal Payments for Healthcare – The Phenomenon and its Context” Health Economics, Policy & Law, 7 (3): 285-308.
     

  77. Mizrahi, Shlomo & Cohen, Nissim (2012) “Privatization through Centralization in the Israeli Healthcare System: The Case of the National Health Insurance Law and its Amendments” Administration & Society, 44 (4): 412-437.
     

  78. Cohen, Nissim & Mizrahi, Shlomo (2012) “Comparative Implications: Public Policy and Alternative Politics in the Case of the Israeli Healthcare System” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research & Practice, 14 (1): 26-44.
     

  79. Cohen, Nissim (2012) “Policy Entrepreneurs and the Design of Public Policy: Conceptual Framework and the Case of the National Health Insurance Law in Israel” Journal of Social Research & Policy, 3 (1): 5-26.
     

  80. Cohen, Nissim & Arieli, Tamar (2011) “Field Research in Conflict Environments: Methodological Challenges and the Snowball Sampling” Journal of Peace Research, 48 (4): 423-436.
     

  81. Cohen, Nissim, Mizrahi, Shlomo & Yuval, Fany (2011) “Public Attitudes towards the Welfare State and Public Policy: the Israeli Experience” Israel Affairs, 17 (4): 621-643.
     

  82. Mizrahi, Shlomo, Vigoda-Gadot, Eran & Cohen, Nissim (2010) “Trust, Participation and Performance: The Case of Social Security Organization in Israel" Public Management Review, 12 (1): 99-126.
     

  83. Mizrahi, Shlomo, Vigoda-Gadot, Eran & Cohen, Nissim (2009) “Trust, Participation, and Performance in Public Administration: An Empirical Examination of Health Services in Israel” Public Performance & Management Review, 33 (1): 7-33.
     

  84. Cohen, Nissim & Ben Porat, Guy (2008) “Business Communities and Peace: The Cost-Benefit Calculations of Political Involvement” Peace & Change, 33 (3): 426-46.

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Chapters in Books

 

  1. Cohen, Nissim (forthcoming). “Moving Beyond Traditional Policy Implementation: Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Policy Entrepreneurship” In Sager, Fritz, Mavrot, Céline and Keiser, Lael (eds.), Handbook on Public Policy Implementation. Edward Elgar.
     

  2. Cohen, Nissim (2022). “Non-Governability and Lack of Reform: Politics and Public Administration in Israel” In Ladner, Andreas & Sager, Fritz (eds.), Handbook on the Politics of Public Administration. Edward Elgar, 362-370.
     

  3. Gilad, Sharon & Cohen, Nissim (2021). "Bureaucratic Politics in Israel" In Hazan, Reuven, Dowty, Alan, Hofnung, Menachem and Rahat, Gideon (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
     

  4. Cohen, Nissim & Gershgoren, Sagi (2019). "Power Dynamics and Power Asymmetries in The Interaction between Street-Level Inspectors and Inspectees" In Van de Walle, Steven & Raaphorst, Nadine (eds.), The Inspectors: Enforcement at the Front Line of Government. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 125-143.
     

  5. Cohen, Nissim & Klenk, Tanja (2019). "Policy Re-Design from the Street-Level" In Hupe, Peter (ed.), Research Handbook on Street-level Bureaucracy: The Ground Floor of Government in Context. Edward Elgar, 209-222.
     

  6. Klenk, Tanja & Cohen, Nissim (2019). "Dealing with Hybridization in Street-Level Bureaucracy Research" In Hupe, Peter (ed.), Research Handbook on Street-level Bureaucracy: The Ground Floor of Government in Context. Edward Elgar, pp. 142-156.
     

  7. Cohen, Nissim (2016) “Policy Entrepreneurs and Agenda Setting”. In Zahariadis, Nikolaos (ed.), Handbook of Public Policy Agenda Setting. Edward Elgar, pp. 180-199.
     

  8. Cohen, Nissim (2015) “Solving Problems Informally: The Influence of Israel’s Political Culture on the Public Policy Process“. in: Dawoody, Alexander R. (ed.), Public Administration and Policy in the Middle East. New York: Springer, pp. 231-245.

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Entries in Encyclopedias

 

  1. Cohen, Nissim (forthcoming). “Street Level Bureaucrats in Public Policy”. In: Encyclopedia of Public Policy. Editors: Minna van Gerven, Christine Rothmayr Allison & Klaus Schubert. Springer.
     

  2. Cohen, Nissim (forthcoming). “Policy Entrepreneur”. In: Encyclopedia of Public Policy. Editors: Minna van Gerven, Christine Rothmayr Allison & Klaus Schubert. Springer.
     

  3. Cohen, Nissim & Yekoutiel Sabah. “Public Policy in Israel”. In: Encyclopedia of Public Policy. Editors: Minna van Gerven, Christine Rothmayr Allison & Klaus Schubert. Springer.
     

  4.  Frisch-Aviram, Neomi & Cohen, Nissim. “Rationality in Public Policy”. In: Encyclopedia of Public Policy. Editors: Minna van Gerven, Christine Rothmayr Allison & Klaus Schubert. Springer.
     

  5. Cohen, Nissim & Edri-Peer, Ofek. “Bounded Rationality in Public Policy”. In: Encyclopedia of Public Policy. Editors: Minna van Gerven, Christine Rothmayr Allison & Klaus Schubert. Springer.

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Other Scientific Publications

 

  1. Cohen, Nissim, Mizrahi, Shlomo & Vigoda-Gadot, Eran (2021). “The Israeli Healthcare System during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Citizen’s Perspective” (A short article for a special forum), Israel Studies Review 36 (3): 57-63.
     

  2. Cohen, Nissim (2019). Public Administration in Israel: Development, Structure, Legal Authority and Function. ENA working papers (Papiers de recherche de l’Ena): PR ENA AGP 2019-07. ENA, France.
     

  3. Filc, Dani & Cohen, Nissim (2016). “If It Looks Like a Duck, Swims Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck, It Probably is a Duck: Black Market Medicine and Privatization in Israel” (Correspondence), Health Economics, Policy and Law, 11 (2): 223-225.
     

 

Book Reviews​
 

  1. Edri-Peer, Ofek & Cohen, Nissim (2023). “When Social Workers Impact Policy and Don’t Just Implement It: A Framework for Understanding Policy Engagement" Public Administration Review 83 (5): 1427-1429.
     

  2. Cohen, Nissim (2019). "When the State Meets the Street – Public Service and Moral Agency" Public Administration Review 79 (1): 140-141.
     

  3. Cohen, Nissim (2017). “Gendering Israel's Outsourcing: The Erasure of Employees' Caring Skills” Public Administration 95 (4): 1114-1116.
     

  4. Cohen, Nissim and Navot, Doron (2016). “Paying Bribes for Public Services: A Global Guide to Grass-Roots Corruption” Public Administration, 94 (2): 564-568.
     

  5. Cohen, Nissim (2011) “Public Administration in Israel: Between Governability and Collapse” Public Administration Review, 71 (6): 942-945.

 
 
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IN HEBREW:
 

Books

 

  1. Cohen, Nissim & Mizrahi, Shlomo (2017). Introduction to Public Administration and Management (volume 1). Ra’anana: The Open University of Israel.
     

  2. Cohen, Nissim & Mizrahi, Shlomo (2017). Introduction to Public Administration and Management (volume 2). Ra’anana: The Open University of Israel.

 

Refereed Articles in Scientific Journals

 

  1. Davidovitz, Maayan & Cohen, Nissim. (2021). “Violence against social service providers and coping mechanisms at the frontline - The case of teachers and social workers in Israel” Social Security 115: 41-65.
     

  2. Cohen, Nissim & Gershgoren, Sagi  (2015). “Inequality in the Israeli tax assessments” Megamot, 50 (2):355-380.
     

  3. Cohen, Nissim & Arieli, Tamar (2015). “Policy Entrepreneurs and Normalization in Post-Conflict Cross-Border Cooperation: A Conceptual framework and the Israeli-Jordanian Case“, Politica, 24: 33-63.
     

  4. Cohen, Nissim & Filc, Dani (2013). “Black Medicine in Israel: Assessment, Explanations and Recommendations“, Social Security, 92: 97-128.
     

  5. Cohen, Nissim (2013). “The finance ministry and the healthcare policy in Israel” Social Security, 91: 59-88.
     

  6. Arieli, Tamar, & Cohen, Nissim, (2013). “Conflict as a research environment: Challenges and snowball sampling” Politica, 22: 2-26.
     

  7. Cohen, Nissim (2012) “Policy entrepreneurs and the design of public policy: The case of the national health insurance law in Israel” Social Security, 89: 5-42.
     

  8. Sperling, Daniel & Cohen, Nissim (2012) “The influence of the Israeli state economy arrangement law and supreme court decisions on health policy and the right to health in Israel – Neo-institutional analysis” Hukim-The Israeli Journal on Legislation, 4: 153-236. [hukim-04-153]
     

  9. Cohen, Nissim & Mizrahi, Shlomo (2011) “Fifteen years of healthcare policy in Israel: Institutional analysis of national health insurance law (NHIL) and its amendments (1994-2009)” Social Security, 87: 65-103.
     

  10. Cohen, Nissim (2010) “Informal payments for healthcare – The phenomenon and its context” Social Security, 84: 79-104.
     

  11. Cohen, Nissim, Mizrahi, Shlomo & Yuval, Fany (2010) “The welfare state, public policy and public opinion: Israel 2008“, Social Security, 82: 47-77.
     

  12. Cohen, Nissim (2008) “Business communities in the peace process and globalization: A cost-benefit calculation of political participation in Jordan and the Palestinian Authority” Politica, 18: 57-86.
     

 

Chapters in Books

 

  1. Cohen, Nissim (in press). “Public Policy Evaluation”. In Littor, Lilach, Karasin, Or & Levi, Yagil (eds.), Public Policy. Raanana: The Open University of Israel (Hebrew).
     

  2. Cohen, Nissim (2019). "Regulation in the Israeli healthcare system: Controlling the activities of the health funds". In Galnoor, Itzhak (ed.), Regulation in Israel. Jerusalem: Van Leer Institute, pp. 225-260.
     

  3. Cohen, Nissim (2011) “The welfare state, public policy and “Non-Governability”: The case of the hospital in Ashdod” in: Zobida, Hani & Mekelberg, David (eds.), Dynamics of change: Israeli politics in transition, The Israeli Political Science Association, pp. 93-123. [Cohen_governability]
     

  4. Cohen, Nissim, & Mizrahi, Shlomo (2010) “Health policy, alternative politics and institutions: A conceptual framework and the Israeli case”, in: Katz, Hana & Zfadia, Erez (eds.), States ‘Abandonment and Surveillance’: New Perspective of the Welfare State in Neo-Liberal Economy, Resling, pp. 363-386. [Alternative Politics in Healthcare]
     

  5. Mizrahi, Shlomo, Eran Vigoda-Gadot & Cohen, Nissim (2009) “The new public management: Trust, participation and performance in welfare supply organizations”, in: Zobida, Hani & Mekelberg, David (eds.), Sixty Years of Israeli Democracy: Reality and Vision, The Israeli Political Science Association, pp. 133-161. [NPM – Trust, Participation and performance]

 

 

 

Book Reviews

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  1. Cohen, Nissim (forthcoming). "When Social Workers Impact Policy and Don’t Just Implement It: A Framework for Understanding Policy Engagement", Social Security.
     

  2. Cohen, Nissim (2019). "When the state meets the street – Public service and moral agency", Social Security, 107.
     

  3. Cohen, Nissim (2015) “Policy Practice in Social Work” by Idit Weiss-Gal and John Gal. Megamot, 49 (3): 617-614.
     

  4. Cohen, Nissim (2012). "Public policy: basic concepts and theories" by David Nachmias, Ori Arbel Ganz and Assaf Meydani. Politica, 21: 238-238.
     

  5. Cohen, Nissim (2011) “Price Tag for Life – The Political Economy of the National Health Insurance Act in Israel” by Sharon Asiskovitch. Social Security.
     

  6. Cohen, Nissim (2010) “The Health Care System: Where To? From an Egalitarian Health Insurance Law to Health Inequality – A Book Review on Haim Doron’s (ed.) Book” Social Security, 82: 174-9.
     

  7. Cohen, Nissim (2008) “Public Administration in Israel: Developments, Structure, Function and Reforms” by Itzhak Galnoor. Politica, 19: 141-144.
     

Other Scientific Publications

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  1. Davidovitz, Maayan & Cohen, Nissim (2022). “Politicians’ involvement in street-level policy implementation: implications for social equity”. Research Paper no. 18 of the Center for Public Management and Policy (CPMP), The University of Haifa (Hebrew).
     

  2. Cohen, Nissim (2022). “Public administration reform and political will in cases of political instability: The Israeli experience”. Research Paper no. 17 of the Center for Public Management and Policy (CPMP), The University of Haifa (Hebrew).
     

  3. Tzur, Ron & Cohen, Nissim (2021). "How the Lack of Public Policy Evaluation Affects Israel Response to the COVID-19 (a commentary), Social Security 115: 11-18.
     

  4. Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, Mizrahi, Shlomo & Cohen, Nissim (2021). The performance of the Israeli public administration: A citizens’ survey and national assessment. Haifa; The University of Haifa. Working paper of the Center for Public Management and Policy (CPMP), no 18, The University of Haifa.
     

  5. Binhas, Adi & Cohen, Nissim (2020). Policy Entrepreneurs and Anti-Racism Policy – the case of Ethiopian Jews in Israel. Research Paper no. 9 of the Center for Public Management and Policy (CPMP), The University of Haifa.
     

  6. Tzur, Ron & Cohen, Nissim (2020). "Governability in An Ongoing Crisis: National Policy Evaluation Model for Crises". Tel Aviv: The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI).
     

  7. Davidovitz, Maayan & Cohen, Nissim (2020). The Impact of Trust on The Coping Mechanisms of Street-Level Bureaucrats. Research Paper no. 10 of the Center for Public Management and Policy (CPMP), The University of Haifa.
     

  8. Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, Mizrahi, Shlomo & Cohen, Nissim (2019). The performance of the Israeli public administration: A citizens’ survey and national assessment. Haifa; The University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University. Working paper.
     

  9. Lavee, Einat & Cohen, Nissim (2019). Street-level bureaucrats policy entrepreneurs: The case of urban renewal in Israel. Research Paper no. 8 of the Center for Public Management and Policy (CPMP), The University of Haifa.
     

  10. Lavee, Einat, Cohen, Nissim & Nouman, Hanni (2018). Reinforcing public responsibility?  Influences and practices in SLBs’ engagement in policy design. Research Paper no. 6 of the Center for Public Management and Policy (CPMP), The University of Haifa.
     

  11. Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, Mizrahi, Shlomo & Cohen, Nissim (2018). The performance of the Israeli public healthcare system or: A citizens’ survey and national assessment. Working paper, no 16, Haifa; The University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University.
     

  12. Frisch Aviram, Neomi, Cohen, Nissim & Itai Beeri (2017). Low-Level Bureaucrats, Local Government Regimes and Policy Entrepreneurship. Research Paper no. 5 of the Center for Public Management and Policy (CPMP), The University of Haifa.
     

  13. Golan-Nadir, Niva & Cohen, Nissim (2017). Business People and Policy Entrepreneurship in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Research Paper no. 2 of the Center for Public Management and Policy (CPMP), The University of Haifa.
     

  14. Cohen, Nissim (2016). Street-Level Bureaucrats and Black Medicine in Israel. Research Paper no. 1 of the Center for Public Management and Policy (CPMP), The University of Haifa.
     

  15. Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, Cohen, Nissim, Mizrahi, Shlomo & Miler-More-Attias, Rotem (2016). The Performance of the Israeli Public Healthcare System or: A Citizens Survey and National Assessment. Haifa; The University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University. Working paper.
     

  16. Cohen, Nissim (2012) Public Policy – Learning Guide for MA students (Part A), Tel-Aviv: The Open University.
     

  17. Mizrahi, Shlomo, Yuval, Fany & Cohen, Nissim (2011) The Welfare State, Alternative Politics and Public Opinion: Israel 2011. Beer-Sheva: Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University. Working Paper no. 4.
     

  18. Cohen, Nissim (2009) Public Policy – Learning Guide for MBA students, Tel-Aviv: The Open University.
     

  19. Cohen, Nissim (2009)Public Policy – Learning Guide for BA students, Tel-Aviv: The Open University.
     

  20. Cohen, Nissim, Mizrahi, Shlomo & Yuval, Fany (2008) The Welfare State, Public Policy and Public Opinion: Israel 2008. Beer-Sheva: Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University. Working Paper no. 3.
     

  21. Mizrahi, Shlomo, Vigoda-Gadot, Eran & Cohen, Nissim (2007) The New Public Management: Trust, Participation and Performance in Israeli Healthcare System and Sick Funds. Beer-Sheva: Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-GurionUniversity. Working Paper no. 2.
     

  22. Mizrahi, Shlomo, Vigoda-Gadot, Eran & Cohen, Nissim (2007) The New Public Management: The Case of the National Insurance Institute in Israel, Report submitted to the Israeli National Insurance Institute.

 

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