Dr. Reut Marciano is a political scientist and holds a joint position in the PPE (Political Science, Philosophy, and Economics) program and in the Federmann School for Public Policy and Governance. She published in leading political science and public policy journals, such as Policy Studies Journal, Governance, Journal of Public Policy and Critical Policy Studies.
Her research interests are focused 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, she studies 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. Her recent work considered 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.
Before joining the Hebrew University, she completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto.