Hi there!
I am an academic researcher of Public Administration and Public Policy. I am an assistant professor at at the school of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa.
My main research interest is in the interrelations between modern government bureaucratic organizations and their external audiences, and their implications for democracy. I am currently conducting a research project where I study citizens’ undervaluation of government services and its link to stereotypical negative associations of public sector organizations (ISF grant 1855/22). In addition, I am interested the use of AI algorithms in the public sector, and its implications on the dynamics of bureaucratic decision making and discretion as well as the nature of citizen-government relations.
I received my Ph.D. in Public Administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2019. Thereafter, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Public Administration at Leiden University.
I am a methodological pluralist. I also employ in my studies a variety of additional empirical approaches, including experimental designs, observational analyses of administrative data, qualitative case studies, and quantitative and qualitative analyses of interviews.
E-mail: s.alon.barkat@poli.haifa.ac.il
orcid.org/0000-0002-3342-0568