I am a political scientist and hold a joint position in the PPE (Political Science, Philosophy, and Economics) program and in the Federmann School for Public Policy and Governance. I am interested in how state's interactions with the market shape how the state operates - its logic, capacities, interests and objectives. My research is focused therefore on the multiple and varied intersections (institutions, actors, and ideas) of the public and private sectors in policymaking, through political and policy sciences lenses. Particularly, the research I accomplished so far focuses on how major processes of state transformation and administrative reforms, shaped by neo-liberal and managerial ideas, redistribute knowledge, authority, and power in policymaking in and outside of the state. In my dissertation research I studies how major NPM (New Public Management) reforms in Canada and Australia reshaped internal state policy capacity, and provided an entryway to private market consultants and consulting firms to take core roles in policy and develop power vis-à-vis the state. My more recent research, in Israel, focuses on how outsourcing and privatization of social services change the power relations and interactions of the state and market actors.
Currently, I am working on how privatizaiton and outsourcing changed the ministerial politics and logics of social ministries in Israel.
I work primarily with small-N (case-study and comparative) research designs, where I apply classic qualitative methods and progressively integrate computational social sciences approaches.
I published in leading political science and public policy journals, such as Policy Studies Journal, Governance, Journal of Public Policy and Critical Policy Studies.
Before I joined the Hebrew University, I completed my PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto.