Chair, The Israeli Political Science Association; Senior Fellow, The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel
Itzhak
Galnoor is Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science (emeritus) at
He has written several books and many articles and his
book, Steering the Polity (Sage, 1982) was prefaced by Karl Deutsch and is
regarded as a milestone on the subject. Following his experience as Head of the
Civil Service Commission, he published: No, Mr. Commissioner - Behind the
Scenes of Israeli Politics and Administration (Hebrew, 2003); Public Management in Israel (Routledge, 2011);
and with Jennifer Oser and Alma Gadot-perez, The Political Environment of
Policy Making in Israel (Magnes, 2012). His new book with Dana Blander The Political System of Israel was
published in Hebrew in 2013 and will be published in English by Cambridge
University Press in 2015.
Research Interests: Comparative politics; privatization; The Israeli Political System; Humor and Politics.