Articles by Niva Golan-Nadir

January 9, 2023

The ‘co-production’ of public transport services on the Shabbat in Israel

Niva Golan-Nadir

Niva Golan-Nadir examines the origins of alternative politics in the form of co-production of essential services. As an example, she looks at the provision of public transport services in Israel on the Sabbath. She models the way this comes about, how it works, and considers its implications for democracy

How Israel manages its democratic deficit

Niva Golan-Nadir

Niva Golan-Nadir examines the diverse strategies state institutions use to manage unpopular policies while keeping the core of those policies intact. In Israel, citizens are only partially content with government measures to meet their demands. Crucially, however, Israelis are satisfied enough to prevent civil pressure on state institutions Citizens in modern democratic states enjoy civil […]

Niva Golan-Nadir

Research Associate, Institute for Liberty and Responsibility, Reichman University (IDC Herzliya)  / Center for Policy Research, SUNY Albany

Niva's research interests are in the areas of comparative politics, public administration and state-religion relations.

With Tom Christensen, she is the co-author of Collective action and co-production of public services as alternative politics: The case of public transportation in Israel, forthcoming in the Australian Journal of Public Administration.

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