<p>New York: Harper &amp; Row, 1978. ISBN 0060440295. Octavo, wraps, 421 pp.  Very Good Plus to Near Fine; previous owner's name inked on half-title page, micro-edgwear, else nothing to call out. See scan. L-T6</p>

Urban Politics and Public Policy

Politics & Social Sciences

Lineberry, Robert L.

Sharkansky, Ira

Politics & Government

HarperCollins, Publishers

Very good in very good dust jacket. 357 p. Audience: General/trade.

Policy and Politics in American Governments

McGraw=Hill

Sharkansky asserts that the use of ambiguity and other forms of coping are more suitable than problem solving in dealing with certain kinds of public problems. However, there are costs as well as benefits associated with these less than perfect ways of policy making. Sharkansky's approach conveys both optimism and pessimism. The bright side is that ambiguity works; the dark side is not so much its disadvantages as the realization that many commentators and practitioners of the craft seem unwilling to recognize its advantages and appear unwilling to promote its use for problems where it might be most useful.Ambiguities surrounding the name of Jerusalem lead to insights and possibilities with respect to the city's future, as well as with respect to other disputes involved in the peace process between Israel and its neighbors. Ambiguities also appear in sophisticated modes of social science, and they raise the question, if research is unclear, can policy making be substantially different? As Sharkansky makes clear, there are negative as well as positive aspects to coping and ambiguity, and he suggests ways of dealing with the disadvantages. This frontal attack on widely advocated, conventional modes of thinking about public problems and policy making will be stimulating to students, researchers, and policy makers dealing with Israeli-Arab issues specifically and policy issues generally.

Ambiguity, Coping, and Governance: Israeli Experiences in Politics, Religion, and Policymaking

History

World

Praeger

Public administration: Policy-making in government agencies

Rand McNally College Pub. Co

Public administration: Policy-making in Government agencies (Rand McNally political science series)

United States: Study of a Developing Country

Prentice-Hall Press

The United States: A Study of a Developing Country

Business & Money

Economics

David McKay Company, Inc.

Public Administration: Agencies, Policies, and Politics

W.H.Freeman & Co.

Prominent political theorist Ira Sharkansky looks at the intersection of religion and politics, using the case of Israel―where a chief rabbi officiates along with a prime minister―to examine how the two inform each other.Focusing more on similarities than differences, Sharkansky demonstrates that both religion and politics can justify their position on the moral high ground. Both are involved in shaping our values and standard of living; however, neither religion nor politics can claim a monopoly of virtue: Political demagogues have their religious equivalents in self-serving prophets and false messiahs, and politicians and religious leaders both may violate the morality that they preach. Sharkansky examines the place of intellectual certainty, doubt, charisma, and passion in both realms. He argues that Israel, among other Western democracies where politics and religion intersect, supports a successful fusion of the two.

The Politics of Religion and the Religion of Politics

Sociology

Lexington Books

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