The various and different Middle Eastern countries are addressing new key reform and governance reform processes but also administration and policy issues of enduring importance; decentralization and local government, non-profit organizations, political culture, and reform of the policy process. This book provides assessment of national strategies for reform in public administration and policy, how these strategies have fared in implementation; and what challenges must be overcome to achieve real and sustainable progress. Seven country case studies will explore the overall policy-making process from a critical perspective and consider how it could be strengthened. Four cases will deal with the controversial issues of decentralization of power and decision-making. Two cases will address the role of civil society in the policymaking and reform process. Introductory and concluding chapters will place these discussions in context and draw the primary lessons for policy-makers. The main objectives of the book are to present different examples of specific public policy and administration, as well as governance issues in the Middle East so that policymakers (both in the region and the world who are interested in the Middle East), as well as practitioners, scholars and graduate students can utilize the book as a study guide to better understand various dynamics in governance in the Middle East. This approach will enable the volume to bridge global perspectives on governance development with regional perspectives and experience, bringing shared expertise, intellectual inquisitiveness, and experience in the professional practice of public policy and administration to bear on these common challenges.

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Introduction.- II. Part One: Public Policy and Administration in Iran, Turkey and Egypt.- Chapter 1. Public Administration and Policy in Contemporary Iran.- Chapter 2. State and administrative reforms in Turkey and its implications.- Chapter 3. Challenges to governance reform and accountability in Egypt.- Chapter 4. Egypt.- III. Part Two. Public Policy and Administration in Iraq, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia.- Chapter 5. Iraq: Revolutionary cul-de-sacs.- Chapter 6. Federalism and Iraq's Statehood.- Chapter 7. Iraq's Pressing Need to Obligatory Unified Conceptual and Procedural Models for Public Policy Making, Implementation, and Evaluation Processes.- Chapter 8. Distributive, Redistributive, Regulatory and Constituent Policies in Sudan.- Chapter 9. Local Governance in Saudi Arabia: The Mirage of Decentralization.- IV. Part Three. Public Policy and Administration in Bangladesh, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine.- Chapter 10. Governance Challenges in Bangladesh.- Chapter 11. Dynamic Consistency: The Public Policy Process in the Republic of Lebanon.- Chapter 12. Decentralization in Lebanon.- Chapter 13. Lebanese NGOs: Governance and Management.- Chapter 14. Culture matter: The Influence of Israeli Political Culture on The Public Policy Process.- Chapter 15. Volunteerism in nonprofit sector in Palestine.-V. Conclusion.- VI. Index