Eran Vigoda-Gadot, Professor and Head of the Center for Public Management and Policy (CPMP), University of Haifa, Israel, is the author and co-author of more than 170 articles and book chapters, 10 books and symposiums as well as many other scholarly presentations and working papers in the field of public administration, public management and organizational behavior. He received his Ph.D. ... Read morefrom the University of Haifa in 1998 and spent time as a visiting professor in Britain, Ireland, Canada (McGill) and the USA (Harvard Kennedy School, UMASS and UGA). Vigoda-Gadot is the former Dean of the School of Political Science at Haifa University, a member of the editorial board of PAR, JPART and ARPA and an active member of European and American associations of Public Administration and Management such as the European group of Public Administration, the American Association of Public Administration, and the Academy of Management. Shlomo Mizrahi is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Administration, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management at Ben-Gurion University. He received his Ph.D from London School of Economics in 1995. His research focuses on public policy, public sector and NPM, political behavior, the welfare state, regulation and privatization, public choice and game theory, collective action and interest groups, institutional change, bargaining and conflict resolution. His work has been published in leading journals of public policy, public administration and political economy. Show Less