The World Economic Forum’s 2009-2010 Global Competitiveness Index published this week ranks Israel as 27th in the world, a decrease of 4 places since last year.
Posts Tagged ‘Effective Governance’
A Further Deterioration in Israel’s Competitiveness
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Competitiveness, Effective Governance, socio-economic leapfrogging on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Israel’s Problem of Governance Represents a Strategic Threat
Posted in About Reut, tagged Effective Governance, socio-economic leapfrogging on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Testifying before a state commission of inquiry, former head of the National Security Council Maj. Gen (res.) Giora Eiland lamented the problem of governance in Israel arguing that the cabinet is not capable of implementing large, national projects. Israel’s lack of ability to design and implement policy may be one of (if not the) greatest [...]
RAHS – the Future is Here
Posted in Effective Governance, Methodology & Theory, National Security, tagged Effective Governance, Methodology & Theory, National Security on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In his recent and remarkable book, Political-Security Statecraft for Israel, Prof. Yehezkel Dror mentions the Singaporean RAHS – Risk Assessment of Horizon Scanning. RAHS’ aims and structure are actually quite similar to Reut.
Adjusting Organizational Structure of Intelligence Units
Posted in Effective Governance, tagged Effective Governance, ISRAEL 15 Vision, organizational structure, Strategy on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In an article in Ha’aretz, Amos Harel calls for fundamental changes in the structure of Israel’s intelligence community, arguing that the increase in threats requiring simultaneous action by all intelligence branches (such as the Iranian nuclear plan and terrorism) make these changes critical.
Recent Elections Epitomize Israel’s Crisis of Governance
Posted in Effective Governance, tagged Effective Governance, Israeli Elections on February 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The recent elections in Israel are an obvious new low point in its prolonged crisis of governance and leadership. This crisis is rooted in an electoral system, which generates constant instability, a fragmented government and Knesset and weak capacity to govern effectively. Its reform should be a top priority of the next government.
Israel Elections 2009: Strengthening Israel’s System of Governance
Posted in Effective Governance, tagged Effective Governance, Israeli Elections on February 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Improving the Government’s ability to govern is the most important challenge facing Israel. We need to prolong average tenures of Knesset, Governments and Ministers, as well as to increase cohesion. This can be achieved by ‘direct nomination’ of the head of the largest party to Prime Minister.
Prospective Future Analysis
Posted in Methodology & Theory, tagged Effective Governance on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week Reut hosted Yehuda Mor, an expert of ex-ante evaluation, who discussed the need for proper planning in Israel and the significance of anticipatory evaluation as part of the planning process. Several of the tools used to avoid inefficient projects are similar to Reut’s own standard methods of reframing issues and imagining prospective future [...]
Israel’s System of Governance: The Root of the Problem
Posted in Effective Governance, tagged Effective Governance on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two recent articles in Ma’ariv by Gil Melamed and Ido Efrati on Israel’s transportation system and system of governance deal with the problems of long term planning in the country.
A ‘Culture of Preparedness’ for Israel’s Local Governments
Posted in Effective Governance, National Security, tagged Civil Defence, civilian front, Effective Governance, Home Front, National Security on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Israel’s recent municipal elections failed to raise awareness of the ‘home front’ issue and instead reflect the mindset that it should be handled by the government and security establishment. However, in order to enhance the population’s resilience during emergencies, Israeli communities should develop a new ‘Culture of Preparedness’ at the local level.
Policy Units: an Instrument for Navigation
Posted in Effective Governance, tagged Effective Governance, Policy Units on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In response to the Prime Minister’s Office initiative to establish policy units in government ministries, the Reut Institute’s Effective Governance team published a document discussing the conceptual framework for their implementation. The proposal integrates the unique Israeli context with the findings of a comparative study of different policy units in a number of leading countries.
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