In 1981, he was awarded his Ph.D., also from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, under the direction of Ira Sharkansky with the thesis "Political and economic predictors of policy outcomes: U.S. social welfare expenditures, 1947-1977".
Ira Sharkansky, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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