An examination of policy-making, implementation and evaluation of public policies in Israel. The volume covers the institutional as well as the political and the bureaucratic framework within which public policies have been made and implemented. Contributors to the volume critically examine public policies in the areas of housing, health, education, social welfare, citizen participation, water and transporation. The changing roles of the supreme court, the state controller, and of think-tanks in the policy processes are also systematically examined.

With its clear presentation and integration of detailed real-world examples, this acclaimed core textbook accessibly illustrates the relevance of social sciences research without sacrificing key content. The eighth edition includes engaging new studies and examples that explore the use of Twitter feeds in social sciences research, the effect of climate change on human conflict, the use of rational intuition in explaining the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion, and much more. The eighth edition also includes new and expanded coverage of the use of the Internet and various computer software packages for retrieving, cleaning, coding, and analysing "big data". This textbook is core reading for undergraduate Social Science students taking modules in Research Methods.