Commissioned Research:
Research commissioned by the Israeli Parliament (all in Hebrew)
1992, Dan Avnon PI and Itzhak Galnoor PI, The Parties Law. Recommendations of the IDI Research Group presented to the Chair of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, February 11, 1992.
1992-1994, Dan Avnon PI and Aliza Bar PI, IDI research papers commissioned by Candidate-Selection Committees of Israel's major political parties: "Candidate Selection to the Knesset"; "Primaries, Membership, and Modes of Organizing Social-Democratic Parties"; "The Tension between Participation and Representation in Candidate-Selection Processes."
1993, Dan Avnon PI and Menachem Hofnung PI, "Financing Political Parties" recommendations of the IDI Research Group; presented to the Chair of the Knesset Finance Committee, October 20, 1993. Published with Menachem Hofnung as "Financing Political Parties" in Menachem Hofnung, Financing Parties and Financing Elections in Israel (Jerusalem: IDI interim report, 1993), pp. 5-7 and 9-13.
1994, Dan Avnon, "The Norwegian Law – Legislating Alternate Membership in Parliament and Government." IDI research paper. Research commissioned jointly by The Government of Israel's legislative committee and The Knesset's Law, Constitution and Justice Committee.
1995, Dan Avnon, "The Age of Reform: Trends, Prospects, and Dangers." IDI research paper. A collaborative analysis by ten Israeli scholars of the precarious state of Israel's parliamentary democracy. Of the document's five chapters, Dan Avnon co-authored two: "Between the Legislative and Executive Branches of Government" (with Yaron Ezrahi), and "Between the Legislative and the Judiciary" (with Mordechai Kremnitzer).
2000, 2007, Dan Avnon, "Alternate Member of Knesset: The Norwegian Law in an era of Regime Revolution."
Research commissioned by Israel Academy of Humanities and Sciences
2012, Dan Avnon, "Combining Content, Values and Skills in Development of Israeli Civics-Curriculum Policy." Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Humanities and Sciences.
2013, Dan Avnon, "The Values of Israel's Educational System and the Place of Values Education Within It." In Ofra Brandes and Reut Yissachar (eds.), Educating For Values in a Changing World. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Humanities & Science, pp.
14-16.
Script for Television documentary:
1995, Dan Avnon, In Search of the Lost Tribes. Script for 13-chapter television documentary, commissioned by Israel's Independent Television (channel 2). Produced by director Aran Patinkin, and screened in thirteen weekly 25-minute segments between April and July 1996. (The script presents the mythical "reality" of thirteen communities throughout the world who relate to their historical existence through the myth of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel).