{"id":9352,"date":"2016-03-15T12:09:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T12:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohelet.org.il\/article\/governance-and-appointments-in-israel\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T12:09:57","slug":"governance-and-appointments-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/governance-and-appointments-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Governance and Appointments in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"This paper initiated a debate in Israel regarding the role of civil servants, especially legal advisers, in thwarting the attempts of elected leaders to implement the policies they were elected to pursue. It includes a comparative study showing the growth of political appointments (\u2018governance appointments\u201d in the paper\u2019s terminology) in leading democracies, including Britain, supposedly the home of an entirely neutral and professional civil service. 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