Published Papers

• Dvir-Gvirsman, S. (2020). Understanding News Engagement on Social Media: A Media Repertoires Approach. New Media and Society. 

• Tsfati, Y., Cohen, J., Dvir-Gvirsman, S., Tsuriel, K., Waismel-Manor, I., and Holbert, R. L. (2021). Political Para-Social Relationship as a Predictor of Voting Preferences in the Israeli 2019 Elections. Communication Research.

• Lavi, L., Rivlin-Angert, N., Treger, C., Sheafer, T., Waismel-Manor, I., and Shamir, M. (2022). King Bibi: The Personification of Democratic Values in the 2019-2021 Election Cycle. In Shamir M. & Rahat G. (Eds.), The Elections in Israel 2019-2021. Routledge.

• Dvir-Gvirsman, S., Tsuriel, K., Sheafer, T., Shenhav, S.R., Zoizner, A., Lavi, L., Shamir, M., Waismel-Manor, I. (2022). Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study. Political Communication.

• Zoizner, A., Tsuriel, K., Markus, D., Porzycki, V., Mor, G., Green, A., Levi, E., Tsfati, Y., Waismel-Manor, I., Sheafer, T., and Shenhav, S.R. (2022). Three in a (Right-Wing) Boat: Media, Politicians, and the Public in the Age of Digital Communication. In Shamir M. & Rahat G. (Eds.), The Elections in Israel 2019-2021. Routledge.

 

Papers Under Review

• Kaplan, Y.R., Sheafer, T., Waismel-Manor, I., and Shenhav, S.R. (2022). Stories Speak Volumes: The Effect of National Story Similarity on People’s Sense of Representation.

• Lavi, L., Treger, C., Rivlin-Angert, N., Sheafer, T., Waismel-Manor, I., Shenhav, S., Harsgor, L., and Shamir, M. (2022). The Pitkinian Public: Representation in the Eyes of Citizens.

• Lavi, L., Treger, C., Rivlin-Angert, N., Waismel-Manor, I., and Shamir, M. (2022). Democracy on the Ballot: Representation and Support for Democracy.

• Markus, D.K., Mor, G., Sheafer, T., & Shenhav, S.R. (2022). Leveraging Researcher Domain Expertise to Annotate Concepts within Imbalanced Data.

• Rivlin-Angert, N., Yakter, A., and Sheffer, L.‎ (2022). Do Personality Traits Predict Voter Attitudes When Politics Is Structured Around Conflict? Lessons From Israel.

• Waismel-Manor, I., Kaplan, Y.R., Zlotnik, Y., Dvir Gvirsman, S. Shenhav, S.R. and Ifergane, G. (2022). ADHD and Political Participation: An Observational Study. Plos One. R&R.

 

Papers Presented at Conferences

• Markus, D.K., Mor, G., Porzycki, V., Zoizner, A., Levi, E., Green, A., Sheafer, T., and Shenhav, S.R. Identifying Symbolic Political Representation in Media Discourse. Paper presented at the APSA Political Communication Section Annual Preconference, September 2020.

• Markus, D.K. and Mor, G. A Semi-supervised Method for Annotating Multidimensional Concepts in Political Science. Paper presented at the Young Scholars in Computational Social Science Workshop by the Computational Methods Working Group at the University of Zurich, November 2020.

• Kaplan, Y.R., Sheafer, T., Waismel-Manor, I., and Shenhav, S.R. The Effect of National Story Similarity on People’s Sense of Representation. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting and Exhibition of American Political Science Association, September 2021.

• Markus, D.K., Mor, G., Porzycki, V., Zoizner, A., Levi, E., Green, A., Sheafer, T., and Shenhav, S.R. Mitigating Bias in Text Classification – Utilizing Semi-supervised Machine Learning and a Shared Semantic Space to Extract Political Identities. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting and Exhibition of American Political Science Association, September 2021.

• Markus, D.K., Mor, G., Porzycki, V., Zoizner, A., Levi, E., Green, A., Sheafer, T., and Shenhav, S.R. Utilizing Semi-supervised Machine Learning and a Shared Semantic Space to Annotate Multidimensional Concepts in Political Science. Poster presented at 1st PolMeth Europe Conference by the Society for Political Methodology, March 2021.

• Tsuriel, K. Are Nonvoters an Abnormal Creature? New Insights About Voters’ and Nonvoters’ Typologies. Paper presented at the International society of political psychology (ISPP) conference, July 2021.

• Tsuriel, K. “I Don’t Vote and I’m Fine With It”: The New Proud (Activists) Nonvoters. Paper presented at the International Society of Political Psychology 2021 Annual Meeting, July 2021.

• Markus, D.K., Mor, G., Porzycki, V., Zoizner, A., Levi, E., Green, A., Sheafer, T., and Shenhav, S.R. Identifying Symbolic Political Representation in Media Discourse. Paper presented at the Israel Communication Association Annual Conference, April 2022.

• ‎Rivlin-Angert, N. Deconstruction of Political Identity: The Case of the Repudiating Left in Israel. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, June 2022.‎

• Rivlin-Angert, N. ‎Who is the Enemy Here? Political Delegitimization: Definition, ‎Sources, and Analysis. Paper to be presented at ‎2023 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Meeting. April 2023.‎

• Kaplan, Y.R., Porzycki, V. and Rivlin-Angert, N. The Representation of Gender-Related Issues in Politicians’ Discourse Over Social Media. Paper to be presented at ‎2023 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual ‎Meeting. April 2023.‎

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List of Datasets

1.  Israel National Election Studies 2019-2022. Public opinion survey data on the five elections held in 2019-2022. The data concentrates on citizens' preferences and perceptions of representation, their disaffection with politics and democracy, their political opinions, electoral and political behavior, as well as socio-demographics. During the grant period we published for public use the datasets of the April 2019, September 2019, March 2020, March 2021 elections. We finished the data collection of the November 2022 pre and post-election study on November 27. These data will be available for public use soon after we finish its cleaning and check-ups.

2. CSES Module 5. The current module of the CSES (2016-2021) focuses on the crisis of representation, citizen discontent, populism, and political behavior. We conducted this survey in the summer 2020, having postponed it to (what we thought was) the end of this cycle of elections, in consultation with the CSES secretariat. This module is run in dozens of countries, and the data are merged and made available internationally as part of a public cross-national multilevel dataset. The data has been released for public use.

3. 52 In-Depth Semi-structured Interviews. This database contains the transcripts of over 80 hours of in-depth interviews, conducted at the early stages of our research. In these in-depth interviews, the interviewees talk about their feelings of representation, how they understand political representation, the multiple dimensions of representation, and how they perceive the manner in which they are represented.

4. Israeli Elections Online Panel Study 2019-2021. This longitudinal dataset contains 14 waves of data, collected pre and post each of the four elections held in Israel between 2019-2021. In addition to capturing the four dimensions of representation, it includes an extensive list of covariates, such as media consumption and social media usage, connection with politicians, political interest, expressiveness and attitudes, and various demographics. 

5. Israeli News Media During 2019-2022 (URLs). This dataset contains 1.5 million online news articles in Israel, collected from the beginning of 2019 until today. This collection includes mainstream news outlets (e.g., Ynet, Israel Hayom, Walla), as well as other sectorial outlets (e.g., Kikar Hashabat).

6. Politicians’ Facebook Data. This dataset consists of 50,000 posts from 240 public pages of various political actors: politicians, candidates, and parties.

7. Political and Media Twitter Data. This dataset contains 450,000 tweets by politicians, candidates, and parties, as well as 1.2 million tweets published by journalists and news outlets.

8. Israeli Knesset Plenary Protocols (IsraSpeech). This in-progress dataset contains 20+ ‎years of floor speeches given by Members of the Knesset during the Knesset’s ‎plenary sessions. The dataset is heavily processed from raw files provided by the ‎Knesset to produce high-quality, consistent data enriched with metadata and ‎suitable for use with quantitative text analysis tools and methods.  

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Ph.D. Dissertations
Kaplan, Y.R. National Metanarratives as a Measurement Tool of Identities in the Political Arena.
Tsuriel, K. The Israeli Nonvoters: Who Are the People Who Don’t Vote to the Knesset and How Could They Be Encouraged to Vote Again. (Awaiting outside reviewer).