The program consists of 36 weekly semestrial hours of study including a final project (Practicum – Writing a position paper & Management executive workshop). A student must obtain a grade of at least 76 in the final project and at least an average of 60 in all courses. The program is structured; all the courses will be given one day a week.
International MPA Program |
Core Courses |
Policy analysis |
Public administration and management |
Political economy in international perspective |
Global Public Leaders: Organizations, leadership and innovation |
Research workshop |
Elected Specialized Courses |
Organizational Behavior & teamwork - seminar |
Entrepreneurship and strategy |
Local Government |
Democracy and Capitalism: Critical Aspects |
Ethics and Corruption |
Integrative Education |
Practicum – Writing a position paper |
Management executive workshop |
Grading
The grades of the different courses will count for 80% of the final grade.
The final project (Practicum – Writing a position paper & Management executive workshop) will count for 20% of the final grade.
Academic Staff
Dr. Saar Alon-Barkat
Fields of interest: Public administration and policy, citizens' attitudes regarding public organizations and citizens' trust, organizations' responsiveness and responses to public and political pressures, the use of algorithms and AI in public sector organizations, experimental designs in public administration research.
Division: Public Administration and Policy
Tel:
Email: s.alon.barkat@poli.haifa.ac.il
Room: 4019 a
Link to personal website
Senior Teacher Dr. Valerie Isaak
Fields of interest: organizational climate, quality process in organizational, organizational performance, health organization.
Division: Public Administration and Policy
Tel.: 048288243
E-mail: visaak@poli.haifa.ac.il
Room: 4001b
Dr. Rotem Miller-Mor Atias
Fields of interest: Public Administration, Public Managemant, Public service motivation, organizational behavior
Division: Public Administration and Policy
Tel.: 048288682
E-mail: rotem.miller@poli.co.il
Room: 4037b
Prof. Shlomo Mizrahi
Fields of interest: Public Policy, Public Management, Political Economy, Descision Making and Conflict Resolution, Public Trust in the Public Sector, Work Relations
Division: Public Administration and Policy
Email: shlomom@poli.haifa.ac.il
Room: 4033
Tel.: 04-8240709
Dr. Yaniv Reingewertz
Fields of interest: Public and Political Economics, Local Governments, Environmental Economics and Policy
Division: Public Administration and Policy
Tel: 04-8240082
Email: yanivrein@poli.haifa.ac.il
Room: 4034 a
Link to personal website
Prof. Nissim Cohen
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Fields of interest: political economy, public policy, public administration, welfare state, social policy and health policy. Division: Public Administration and Policy Tel: 04-8240514 Email:nissimcohen@poli.haifa.ac.il Room: 4024 Link to personal website |
Prof. Dana Vashdi
Head of The School of Political Sciences
Fields of interest: teamwork and the management of teams, team learning, health policy and management of health care organizations, quality and excellence programs in organizations, employee's well being and organizational behavior.
Division: Head of the division of Public Administration and Policy
Email: dvashdi@poli.haifa.ac.il
Prof. Eran Vigoda-Gadot
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Fields of interest: Public administration and policy, citizen-state relations, government, bureaucracy and democracy, organizational behavior and public administration. |
Prof. Itai Beeri
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Fields of interest: Local governance, local democracy, regional collaborations, central-local relations, new-localism and new-regionalism, OCB, public turnaround management strategies and public recovery. Division: Public Administration and Policy Tel: 04-8288681 Email: itaibeeri@poli.haifa.ac.il Room: 4027 Link to personal website |