Research

Turnaround Management Strategies and Recovery in Failing Local Authorities, (2009). University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork.

1. Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, Beeri, Itai, Birman-Shemesh, Taly, and Somech, Anit. (2007). Group-Level Organizational Citizenship Behavior in the Education System: A Scale Reconstruction and Validation. Educational Administration Quarterly, 43, 4, 462-493. 

2. Beeri, Itai. (2009). The Measurement of Turnaround Management Strategies in Local Authorities. Public Money & Management Journal, 29, 2, 131-136.  

3. Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, and Beeri Itai. (2012). Change-Oriented Citizenship Behavior in Public Administration: The Power of Leadership and the Cost of Organizational Politics, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 22, 3, 573-596.  

4. Beeri, Itai, (2012). Turnaround Management Strategies in Local Authorities: Not Only for Poor Performers. Local Government Studies, 38, 4, 461-483  (IF: 0.620, 5 years IF: 0.769, ranked: 90/157 in Political Science, number of citations in SSCI: 2, Google Scholar: 4). 

5. Beeri, Itai. (2012). Turnaround Management Strategies in Public Systems: The Impact on Group-Level Organizational Citizenship Behaviour. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 78, 1, 158-179. 

6. Beeri, Itai, Dayan, Rachel, Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, and Werner, Simcha. (2013). Advancing Ethics in Public Organizations: The Impact of an Ethics Program on Employees' Perceptions and Behaviors in a Regional Council. Journal of Business Ethics, 112, 1, 59-78.   

7. Beeri, Itai, and Navot, Doron. (2013). Local Political Corruption: Potential Structural Malfunctions at the Central-Local, Local-Local and Intra-Local Levels. Public Management Review, 15, 5, 712-739. 

8. Beeri, Itai. (2013). Direct Administration, Fiscal Discipline and Organizational Performance Improvement in Non-Complying Local Authorities: Democratic Deficit or Effective Bureaucracy? Public Money & Management Journal, 33, 2, 137-144.  

9. Beeri, Itai, (2013). Governmental Strategies towards Poorly-Performing Municipalities: From Narrow Perceptions to Ineffective Policies. Lex localis –-Journal of Local Self-Government,11, 1, 33-52.  

10. Beeri, Itai, and Saad, Mansur. (2013). Political Participation Unconditioned by Inequality and Discrimination: The Case of Minorities-Within-Minorities in Israeli-Arab Mixed Municipalities. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40, 10, 1526-1549.  

11. Beeri, Itai, and Navot, Doron. (2014). Turnaround Management Strategies in Local Authorities: Managerial, Political and National Obstacles to Recovery, Journal of Management & Organization, 20, 1, 121-138.

12. Beeri, Itai, and Yuval, Fany, (2015). New Localism and Neutralizing Local Government: Has Anyone Bothered Asking the Public for Its Opinion? Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 25(2), 623-653.   

13. Navot, Doron, and Beeri, Itai. (2017). Conceptualization of Political Corruption, Perceptions of Corruption, and Political Participation in Democracies. Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, 15(2), 199- 219.

14. Navot, Doron and Beeri, Itai (2018). The Public's Conception of Political Corruption: A New Measurement Tool and Preliminary Findings, European Political Science, 17, 1, 93-110. 

15. Gal-Arieli, Nivi, Beeri, Itai, Vigoda-Gadot, Eran and Reichman, Amnon, (2017). New Localism or Fuzzy Centralism: Policymakers' Perceptions of Public Education and Involvement in Education, Local Government Studies, 43(4), 598-620.

16. Reingewertz, Yaniv and Beeri, Itai, (2018). How effective is central enforcement? Evidence from convened committees in failing local authorities, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 36(2) 357–380. 

17. Frish Aviram, Neomi, Cohen Nissim and Beeri, Itai, (2018) Low-level bureaucrats, local government regimes and policy entrepreneurship, Policy Sciences, 51(1), 39–57.

18. Gal-Arieli, Nivi, Beeri, Itai, Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, and Reichman, Amnon (2018). Leadership Transforming Education: Leadership Style and Local Authority Involvement in Education, Megamot, 52(2), 223-258. 

19. Beeri, Itai, Uster, Anna, and Vigoda-Gadot, Eran (2018). Does performance management relate to good governance? A study of its relationship with citizens’ satisfaction with and trust in Israeli local government, Public Performance & Management Review . 

20. Uster, Anna, Beeri, Itai, and Vashdi, Dana (2018). Don’t Push Too Hard: Examining Local Government Managerial Behaviors in Collaborative Networks with Non-profit Organizations, Local Government Studies 45(1), 124-145 .

21. Frish Aviram, Neomi, Cohen Nissim and Beeri, Itai, (2019). Wind(ow) of Change: A Systematic Review of Policy Entrepreneurship Characteristics and Strategies, Policy Studies Journal.

22. Beeri, Itai and Daniel, Dana. (2019). Principals’ Leadership Style, Teachers’ Enforcement of Discipline and Students' Self-Distractive Use of Smartphones in Class. Technology, Pedagogy and Education.

23. Frish Aviram, Neomi, Cohen Nissim and Beeri, Itai, (2019). Policy Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Public Administration and Development.

24. Uster, Anna, Vashdi, Dana and Beeri, Itai, (2019). From Organizational Leadership to Lead-Organizations – The Future of Leadership in Inter-Organizational Networks. Journal of Leadership Studies, 12(4), 79–81. 

25. Frish Aviram, Neomi, Beeri, Itai and Cohen Nissim (2019). Entrepreneurship in the Policy Process: Linking Behavior and Context through a Systematic Review of the Policy Entrepreneurship Literature, Public Administration review. 

26. Itai Beeri & Dana Daniel Horowitz (2020). Reducing students’ ‘absent presenteeism’ and mobile misbehaviour in class: an empirical study of teacher perspectives and practices, Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 29(2), 177-190 .

27. Beeri, Itai., Gottlieb, Dan., Izhaki, Ido., Eshet, Tzipi. and Cohen, Noam, (2020). The Impact of Training on Druze Entrepreneurs' Attitudes and Behaviors towards Local Sustainability Governance: A Field Experiment at the Mount Carmel Biosphere Reserve. Sustainability, 12, 4584.

28. Beeri, Itai (2020). Lack of Reform in Israeli Local Government and Its Impact on Modern Developments in Public Management. Public management review, Special issue on public reforms. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14719037.2020.1823138.

29. Goren, Talia., Vashdi, Dana. and Beeri, Itai. (2021). Apples and Oranges": Examining different social groups' compliance with government health instructions during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Health Policy and Management .

30. Frisch Aviram, N., Beeri, I., and Cohen N. (2021). How Policy Entrepreneurship Training Affects Policy Entrepreneurship Behavior Among Street-Level Bureaucrats – A Randomized Field Experiment. Journal of European Public Policy, special issue on behavioral governance .

31. Beeri, I. and Zidan, A. (2021). Merging, Disaggregating and Clustering Local Authorities: Do Structural Reforms Affect Perceptions about Local Governance and Democracy?, Territory, Politics, Governance .

32. Beeri, I., Zaidan, A., & Zeedan, R. (2021). Willingness to pay taxes through mutual trust: The effect of fairness, governability, tax-enforcement and outsourcing on local tax collection rates. Governance, 1– 24. 

33. Uster, A. Vashdi, D. and Beeri, I. (2022). Enhancing Local Service Effectiveness Through Purpose-Oriented Networks: The Role of Network Leadership and Structure. The American Review of Public Administration.

34. Kimhi, O., Beeri, Itai, and Reingewertz, Y. (2022). The Political Economy of Local Governments’ Requests for Permission to Override Central Fiscal Limitations: Insights from Israel. Publius-The Journal of Federalism.

35. Goren, T. Beeri, I. and Vashdi, D. (2022). Framing policies to mobilize citizens' behavior during a crisis: Examining the effects of positive and negative vaccination incentivizing policies. Governance.

36. Goren, T., Beeri, I. and Vashdi, D. (2022). How to boost the boosters? A survey-experiment on the effectiveness of different policies aimed at enhancing acceptance of a "Seasonal" vaccination against COVID-19, Israel Journal of Health Policy Research.

37. Goren, T., Beeri, I. and Vashdi, D. (2022). The phantom effect of social media: the impact of no “likes” on politicians’ responsiveness to public opinion. Journal of Information Technology & Politics.

38. Goren, T., Vashdi, D. and Beeri, I., (2022). Count on trust: the indirect effect of trust in government on policy compliance with health behavior instruction. Policy Sciences. 

39. Casale-Mashiah, D., Beeri, I., Vigoda-Gadot, Eran & Hartman, A. (2023). Responsible research and innovation in Europe: empirical evidence from regional planning initiatives in Austria, Norway, and Spain. European Planning Studies.

40. Mondey, A. & Beeri, I. (2023). The Competing Impact of Network Politics and Hamula (Clan) Politics on Network Performance: The Case of Minority Networks. Local government studies. 

41. Beeri, I. (2023): The impact of the central government’s intervention on local democracy, Local Government Studies

42. Forman-Rabinovici, A. & Beeri, I. (2023). Descriptive and Symbolic: The Connection Between Political Representation and Citizen Satisfaction with Municipal Public Services. The American Review of Public Administration. 

43. Hindi, T., Gur, A., Beeri, I. and , Krisi-Kadosh, L., (2023). The quasi-devolution of policy design during Covid-19 in Israel – The case of family centers for children with disabilities. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

44. Beeri, Itai, Aharon Gutman, Meirav & Luzer Jonathan (2024). Municipal Territoriality, Land Transfers and Tax Resources: The Impact of Centralized Mechanisms, Political and Structural Factors on Reducing or Preserving Spatial Inequality. Urban Science. Supplementary Materials.

45. Uster, Anna, Beeri, Itai, and Vashdi, Dana (2024). Effective Co-Production in Local Government Networks:  A Story of Structure. International Public Management Journal.

46. Zaychik, Danielle, Beeri, Itai, Rein-Sapir, Yonat, Avni, Nufar, and Altshuler, Alex. (2024). Innovation and adaptation in local governments in the face of COVID-19: Determinants of effective crisis management. Risk Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy. 

1. Beeri, Itai, and Kval, Eytan. (2010). Elections with No Elected Members: Nominated Committees and Democratic Aspects in Local Elections. In Brichta, Abraham, Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, and Pade, Guy (Eds.), City and State in Israel: Local Government toward the Seventh Decade, pp. 50-85.

2. Beeri, Itai. (2014). Local Government: A Managerial System. In Levy, Yagil, and Sarig, Eti (Eds.), Local Government: Between the State, the Community and the Market Economy, pp. 219-301. Raanana: The Open University of Israel. 

3. Gal-Arieli, N., Vigoda-Gadot, R., Beeri, I. and Reichman, A. (2015). Education and structuring of localism, In Beeri, I. and E. Razin (Eds.), Local Democracy in Israel: Decentralization, Localism, Participation and Local Politics. Jerusalem: Floersheimer Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

4. Beeri, Itai and Razin, Eran. (2015). Introduction to local democracy in Israel: Decentralization, Localism and Participation, In Beeri, I. and E. Razin (Eds.), Local Democracy in Israel: Decentralization, Localism, Participation and Local Politics. Jerusalem: Floersheimer Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

5. Gal-Arieli, N., Vigoda-Gadot, R., Beeri, I. and Reichman, A. (2016). Leadership shapes Education: Leadership style and Local authorities' involvement in education, Megamot, Jerusalem: The Open University of Israel.

1. Beeri, Itai, and Kval, Eytan. (2008). Guide for Heads of Nominated Committees in Local Authorities (Hebrew). A managerial handbook prepared for the Israeli Committee for Nominated Committees for Recovering Failing Local Authorities appointed by the Israeli Ministry of the Interior.

2. Beeri, Itai. (2009). Recovery of Poor Performing Municipalities in Israel: A Comparative Perspective in Light of the British Experience. Floersheimer Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

3. Beeri, Itai. (2009). National Assessment Project for Local Government (NAPLG) 2009. Paper Number 1: Citizens’ Opinions and National Evaluation. The Center for Public Management and Policy, University of Haifa

4. Beeri, Itai, Fany, Yuval, and Sarig, Eti. (2011). National Assessment Project for Local Government (NAPLG) 2010. Paper Number 2: Citizens’ Opinions and National Evaluation, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva). 

5. Beeri, Itai. (2010). Managing Comprehensive Recovery Process in Local Authorities Under Crisis. A policy paper prepared for the Israeli Ministry of the Interior.

6. Beeri, Itai, and Fany, Yuval. (2012). National Assessment Project for Local Government (NAPLG) 2012. Paper Number 3: Citizens’ Opinions and National Evaluation, 1-67, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva. 

7. Beeri, Itai, and Ofek, Yval. (2013). Performance Management in the West Galilee Corporation, The Center for Public Management and Policy, University of Haifa.

8. Beeri, Itai, and Berlinshtein, Revital. (2013). Homelessness in Israel: Conceptualization, Definition, Measurement, Modelling, Estimation of the Phenomenon and Policy Recommendation, Part I. A report funded by the National Insurance Institute, Division of Research and Planning, Israel.