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Publications

Books

Gofen, A. Sager, F. and Weaver K. Forthcoming. Compliance with Policy. Cambridge Elements 

Papers

Cowen, J., Fleming, D. and Gofen, A. 2008. Measuring the Motivation to Charter: An Examination of School Sponsors in Texas. Journal of School Choice, 2(2):128-154.

 

Gofen, A. 2009. Family Capital: How First-Generation Students Break the Intergenerational Cycle. Family Relations, 58(1):104-120

 

Gofen, A. 2012. Entrepreneurial Exit Response to Dissatisfaction with Public Services. Public Administration, 90(4): 1088-1106.

 

Gofen, A. 2014. Mind the Gap: Dimensions and Influence of Street-Level Divergence. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 24(2):473-493

(selected to a collection “Public Administration” edited by B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre, as part of SAGE Library of the Public Sector and translated to Spanish, as a part of CIDE series, Mexico)

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Gofen, A., Bresler-Gonen, R. and Golan-Hoss, E. 2014. ’Hey, Mayors, Leave Them Kids Alone’: Entrepreneurial Citizens, Policy Noncompliance, and Local Government Response. Urban Affairs Review, 50(3):391-416.

 

Gofen, A. and Blomquist, P. 2014. Parental Entrepreneurship in Public Education: A Social Force or a Policy problem? Journal of Educational Policy, 29(4):546-569.

 

Gofen, A. and Needham, C. 2015. Service Personalization as a response to Noncompliance with Routine Childhood Vaccination. Governance, 28(3):269-283.

 

Gofen, A. 2015. Citizens’ Entrepreneurial Role in Public Service Provision. Public Management Review, 17(3):404-424.

 

Gofen, A. 2015. Reconciling Policy Dissonance: Patterns of Governmental Response to Noncompliance. Policy Sciences, 48(1):3-24.

 

Gassner, D. and Gofen, A. 2018. Street-level Management: A Clientele-Agent Perspective on Implementation. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 28(4):551-568.

 

Gofen, A., Blomqvist, P., Needham, C., Warren, K., and Winblad, U. 2019. Negotiated compliance at the street level: Personalizing immunization in England, Israel and Sweden. Public Administration, 97(1):195-209.

 

Gassner, D. and Gofen, A. 2019. Coproduction investments: Street-level management perspective on coproduction. Cogent Business & Management, 6:1.

 

Peeters, R., Gofen, A., and Meza, O. 2020. Gaming the System: Responses to Dissatisfaction with Public Services Beyond Exit and Voice. Public Administration, 98(4):824-839.

 

Gassner, D., Gofen, A., and Raaphorst, N. 2020. Performance Management From The Bottom Up. Public Management Review, 1-18.

 

Gofen, A., Cohen-Blankshtain, G., and Ibraheem, M. 2020. It Takes a Village to Build Illegality: Minorities’ Noncompliance as Manifestation of Distrust. Governance, 1-18

 

Davidovitz M., Cohen, N. and Gofen, A. 2021. Governmental Response to Crises and its Implications for Street-Level Implementation: Policy Ambiguity, Risk, and Discretion during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 23(1):120-130.

 

Gofen, A. and Gassner, D. 2021. Delegating Power? Performance Management From a Processual Perspective. Governance.

 

Gofen, A., Lotta, G., and Marchesini da Costa, M. 2021. Working Through the Fog of a Pandemic: Street-Level Policy Entrepreneurship in Times of Crises. Public Administration, 1-16.

 

Cohen-Blankshtain, G. and Gofen, A. Forthcoming. The Trouble Makers as City Makers? Serial Participation in Urban Planning. Journal of the American Planning Association.

Special Issues

Gofen, A. and Lotta, G. 2021. Street-level bureaucrats at the forefront of pandemic response: A comparative perspective. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 23(1):3-15.

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Gofen, A., Moseley, A., Thomann, E., and Weaver, K. R. 2021. Behavioural governance in the policy process: introduction to the special issue. Journal of European Public Policy, 28(5):633-657.

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Wellstead, A. M., Gofen, A. and Carter, A. 2021. Policy innovation lab scholarship: past, present, and the future Introduction to the special issue on policy innovation labs. Policy Design and Practice. 1-16.

Book Chapters

Geva-May, I. and Gofen, A. 2016. Policy Analysis Education in Graduate Programs in Israel, in Gila Menachem and Amos Zehavi (Eds), Policy Analysis in Israel, International Policy Series, Policy Press.

 

Gofen, A., Sella S., and Gassner, D. 2019. Levels of Analysis in Street-Level Bureaucracy Research. In Peter Hupe (Ed), Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Ground Floor of Government in Context, Edward Elgar Publishing.

 

Gofen, A., and Weimer, D.L. 2019. Finding Gold in the Dross: Outlierism as a Resource for Policy Analysis. in Eran Vigoda-Gadot and Dana Vashdi (Eds), Research Methods in Public Administration, Management and Policy: Breaking New Frontiers, Edward Elgar Publishing. 

 

Gofen, A. 2021. Out of the Governance Capacity Comfort Zone: Noncompliant Community-Based Initiatives, in Jurian Edelenbos, Ingmar van Meerkerk, and Astrid Molenveld (Eds), Civic Engagement, Community-Based Initiatives and Governance Capacity: An International Perspective, Routledge.

 

Edelenbos, J., Molenveld, A. van Meerkerk, I., Healey, P. and Gofen, A. Positioning and Conceptualising Community-Based Initiatives in Waves of Civic Engagement. 2021. in Jurian Edelenbos, Ingmar van Meerkerk, and Astrid Molenveld (Eds), Civic Engagement, Community-Based Initiatives and Governance Capacity: An International Perspective, Routledge.

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