Publications
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, 1-1
Cohen-Blankshtain, G. and Gofen, A. 2021. The Trouble Makers as City Makers? Serial Participation in Urban Planning. Journal of the American Planning Association. 88(2):149-162.
Gofen, A. , Meza, O. , and Pérez Chiqués, E. 2022. When street-level implementation meets systemic corruption. Public Administration and Development, 42(1):72-84.
*** In Top-10 most cited papers for 2022 in PAD
Gofen, A. , Wellstead, A.M. and Tal, N. , 2023. Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers. Policy Sciences, 56(2):301-323.
Gofen, A., Meza, O., & Moreno-Jaimes, C. 2023. Frontline organizations as experimental settings for policy change: why public management matters even more. Public Management Review, 1-22.
Steklov, O ., Gofen, A. and Reingewertz, Y., 2023. The influence of women’s representation on social spending in local government. Journal of Urban Affairs, pp.1-17.
Wellstead, A., Ottenhof, N., Evans, B., & Gofen, A. 2023. What's going on in there? Canadian government policy labs and the public value management. Canadian Public Administration, DOI: 10.1111/capa.12548.
Wellstead, A., Schmidt, R , Carter, A., & Gofen, A. (2024). New Avenues for Public Value Management and the Role of Nonprofit Policy Innovation Labs: Co-Experience and Social Mediavation Labs, and Twitter. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 15(1), 26-pp.
Hoss-Golan, E., Gofen, A., & Wellstead, A. 2024. Meeting expectations? Response of policy innovation labs to sustainable development goals. Policy and Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puae023.
Ege, J., Gofen, A., Hadorn, S., Hakman, I., Malandrino, A., Ramseier, L., & Sager, F. 2024. Understanding street-level managers’ compliance: a comparative study of policy implementation in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Israel. Policy and Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puae024.
Gofen, A. 2024. In the Eye of the Storm: Street-level organizations in circumstances of democratic backsliding. Governance. https://doi:10.1111/gove.12890.
Gofen, A., Rønning, R., & Sønderskov, M. 2024. Street-level bureaucracy and Co-creation: towards theory synthesis and cross-fertilization. Public Management Review, 1-26.
Cohen-Blankshtain, G. and Gofen, A. 2025. Voluntary carless lifestyle: Why outliers matter for policy decisions. Journal of transport geography.
Wellstead, A., Carter, A., & Gofen, A.. 2025. Artificial Intelligence Possibilities to Improve Analytical Policy Capacity: The Case of Environmental Policy Innovation Labs and Sustainable Development Goals Policy Design and Practice.
Wellstead, A., Giest, S., Mukherjee, I., Gofen, A., & Evans, B. 2025. Peak policy lab or chasing windmills? The overlooked issue of misaligned policy design. Policy Sciences, 1-20.
Steklov, O., & Gofen, A. 2025. Covid-19, Local Authorities in Israel, and Women Leaders. https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/1221067
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Special Issue Introductionary articles
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, 4(2), 193-211.
Gofen, A., Moseley, A., Thomann, E., and Weaver, K. 2021. Behavioural governance in the policy process: introduction to the special issue. Journal of European Public Policy, 28(5), 633-657.
Gofen, A. and Lotta, G. 2021. Street-level bureaucrats at the forefront of pandemic response: a comparative perspective. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 23(1), 3-15.
*** Most widely read paper for 2021 in JCPA
Sager, F. and Gofen, A. 2022. The polity of implementation: Organizational and institutional arrangements in policy implementation. Governance, 35(2), 347-364.
*** One of Top-10 most cited and Top-10 most read papers for 2022 in GOVERNANCE
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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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Wellstead, A. M., Schmidt, K., and Gofen, A.C 2023. The Science-Policy Interface and Evidence-Based Policymaking in (Eds) Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy. Routledge.
Meza, O. Pérez-Chiqués, E. and Gofen, A. Street-Level Bureaucrats in Environments of Systemic Corruption: Sources of Influence in Rik Peeters, Gabriela Lotta, and Fernando Nieto-Morales (Eds) Street-Level Bureaucracy in Weak Institutions: The Everyday Experience of the State From a Global Perspective. The Bristol University Press, University of Bristol.
Gofen, A., Lotta, G. , Meza, O. , and Pérez Chiqués, E . forthcoming. Street-level Implementation Scenery: Frontstage, Backstage and the Prompter, in Fritz Sager, Lael and Celine Mavrot, Policy Implementation Handbook, Edgar Elgar.
