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Published in: Quality & Quantity 5/2014

01-09-2014

The inverted Mevorach management pyramid revisited: lessons from the January 2013 19th parliamentary elections in Israel

Author: Baruch Mevorach

Published in: Quality & Quantity | Issue 5/2014

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Over two decades ago (1992), a short paper entitled ‘The Inverted Management Pyramid, or: The Mevorach Principle’ was published in Public Administration. In his acceptance letter, the journal’s editor at the time wrote to the above author that he was willing to publish the paper under the assumption that it was humorous, anecdotal and somewhat cynical, in the spirit of other well-known, less scientific laws/principles formulated by the likes of Parkinson (1955), Peter and Hull (1969) and Murphy (Bloch 1977). Well, not any more. The most recent parliamentary elections in Israel have vindicated the principle, providing striking evidence as to the relevance of its somewhat cynical suggestion. …
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Footnotes
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Former journalists, commentators and TV news hosts.
 
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Metadata
Title
The inverted Mevorach management pyramid revisited: lessons from the January 2013 19th parliamentary elections in Israel
Author
Baruch Mevorach
Publication date
01-09-2014
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Quality & Quantity / Issue 5/2014
Print ISSN: 0033-5177
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7845
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-013-9897-2

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