OFEK EDRI-PEER
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa, a fellow in the IDIT Fellowship of the Herta & Paul Amir Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Haifa and a fellow in ISEF doctoral program.
I am passionate about exploring the influence of frontline public servants on citizens' lives and how the former may shape the prospects and opportunities of the latter.
My research interests include street-level bureaucracy, procedural justice, policy implementation, law enforcement policy, and social policy. My latest work has been published in Public Management Review, Public Administration, The American Review of Public Administration and European Policy Analysis.
MY RESEARCH INTERESTS
PROMOTING SOCIAL EQUITY IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
February 2025
What factors encourage or deter street-level bureaucrats’ (SLBs) practices aimed at promoting social equity? What strategies do they use to promote social equity? Social equity is one of the four pillars of public administration. While it has become a leading goal in the agenda of public organizations, it has still not been achieved. This project explores the role of SLBs in the attempt of public administrative systems to achieve social equity, and the factors influencing their decision-making and behavior in this context.
PUBLICATIONS
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS:
1. Edri-Peer, Ofek, & Cohen, Nissim. (2023). Procedural Justice and the Unintended Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Prompting Citizens to Act as Vigilantes. The American Review of Public Administration, 53(2), 51-63. [Article]
2. Edri-Peer, Ofek, Silveira, Mariana Costa, Davidovitz, Maayan, Frisch-Aviram, Neomi, Shehade, Jamal, Diab, Hadeel, Golan-Nadir, Niva & Cohen, Nissim. (2023). Policy Entrepreneurship on the Street-Level: A Systematic Literature Review, European Policy Analysis. [Article]
3. Edri-Peer, Ofek and Cohen, Nissim. (2024). Citizens' Illegal Behaviour as a Response to Unsatisfactory Street-level Encounters: The Causal Relationship between Procedural Justice and Vigilantism. Public Management Review. [Article]
4.Gershgoren, Sagi, Edri-Peer, Ofek & Cohen, Nissim (2024). Cognitive Bias in Street-Level Resolutions: The Case of Multiple Claims in Tax Disputes. Public Administration. [Article]
OTHER SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS:
1. Edri-Peer, Ofek & Cohen, Nissim (2023). “When Social Workers Impact Policy and Don’t Just Implement It: A Framework for Understanding Policy Engagement - a book review of John Gal and Idit Weiss-Gal’s book, Public Administration Review. [Article]
2. Cohen, Nissim & Edri-Peer, Ofek. Bounded Rationality in Public Policy. In: van Gerven, Minna, Rothmayr Allison, Christine & Schubert, Klaus (eds.), Encyclopedia of Public Policy. [Article]
AWARDS AND HONORS
2025. Founders' Fellows Class of 2025, the American Society for Public Administration.
2025. Arnon Soffer Fellowship, the Chaikin Institute for Geostrategy.
2024. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities’ Alix de Rothschild Fellowship Program for Doctoral Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
2023. ISEF Fellowship for Doctoral Students.
2022. Idit Fellowship for Excellent Graduate Students, University of Haifa, Israel.
2020. Award for Excellence for Graduate Students, ISEF.
2019. ISEF Fellowship for Graduate Students.
2019. Scholarship for Excellence for Graduate Students, School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel.
2019. Award for Excellence for Undergraduate Students, ISEF.
2017. ISEF Fellowship for Undergraduate Students.
2017. Scholarship for Excellence for Undergraduate Students, School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
February 2025. The 55th Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association: Border Spaces and Contact Zones in Social Reality and Research, Raanana, Israel – Presenter (“Social Equity in Public Administration: Lessons from the Street Level”)
February 2025. ISPSA Conference: Politics and Policy in Times of War, Beer-Sheva, Israel – Presenter (“Social Equity in Public Administration: Lessons from the Street Level”)
July 2024. ISPSA Conference for Junior Researchers. Herzliya, Israel – Presenter & Discussant (“Social Equity in Public Administration: Lessons from the Street Level”)
April 2024. ISEF Annual Conference: That's Leadership. Jerusalem, Israel – Presenter (“Which People Break the Law? A Decision Tree Analysis for Profiling Deviant Citizens”)
September 2023. EGPA 2023: Steering the European Union through poly-crises storms: The Role of Public Administration. Zagreb, Croatia – Presenter & Discussant.
June 2023. International Conference on Public Policy 6, Toronto, Canada – Presenter.
June 2023. Haifa Social Science Conference 5: Creating a Better World: Incorporating the Sustainable Development Goals in Social Sciences, Haifa, Israel - Organizer & Moderator.
May 2023. International Workshop on Street-Level Bureaucracy and Inequality, Haifa, Israel - Organizer & Presenter.
March 2023. ASPA 2023 Annual Conference: Protecting Democracy, Online Conference – Presenter.
February 2023. ISPSA Conference: Politics and Democracy in an Era of Fateful Changes, Tel Aviv, Israel – Presenter.
June 2022. IWPP3 2022 Workshop: International Workshop on Public Policy, Budapest, Hungary – Presenter.
June 2022. SLB 2022 Conference: Street-Level Bureaucracy Conference 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark – Presenter.
May 2022. ISPSA Conference: Government Crisis Challenges, Haifa, Israel – Presenter.
April 2022. IRSPM 2022 Conference: Facing the Future: Evolving Social-political-administrative Relations and the Future of Administrative Systems, Virtual Conference – Presenter.
March 2022. ASPA 2022 Conference: American Society for Public Administration Highlights Week, Jacksonville, Florida, USA – Presenter.
September 2021. EGPA 2021 Conference: Resilience and Agility of Public Institutions in Times of Crisis, Brussels, Belgium – Presenter.
July 2021. IASIA-IIAS 2021 Conference: Public Administration and Industry, Bela-Bela, South Africa – Presenter.
July 2021. International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP5), Barcelona, Spain – Presenter & Discussant.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020-2022. Teaching assistant for a special seminar for excellent students (B.A.), School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel
2020-until today. Teaching assistant for the course “Setting Public Policy” (M.A.), School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel.
2020-2021. Teaching assistant for the course “Public Design, Analysis and Evaluation” (M.A. in English), Tiomkin School of Economics, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel.
2019- until today. Teaching assistant for the course “Research Methods and Academic Writing in Political Sciences” (B.A.), School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel.
2019-until today. Teaching assistant for the course “Governance and Politics” (B.A), School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel.
EDUCATION
2019-2022. M.A. in Public Policy and Administration with Thesis (Summa Cum Laude), School of Political Science, University of Haifa, Israel.
Thesis topic: “Procedural Justice and the Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Prompting Citizens to Act as Vigilantes.”
Thesis Grade: 98. Advisor: Nissim Cohen
2017-2019. B.A in Political Sciences (Magna Cum Laude), University of Haifa, Israel.