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2 Mar 2023 • Journal Article • International Migration Review
Judicial Framing and Immigration Policymaking: Israel's Policy toward Self-Claiming Palestinian Informers
AbstractHow does the use of judicial framing, a repeated selection of certain features across a large number of related cases, enable courts to be active participants in national immigration policymaking? Previous legal studies have often underestimated the judicial impact on national immigration policies and focused, instead, on courts’ limited intervention in landmark cases
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Mar 2023 • Journal Article • Comparative Political Studies
The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility
AbstractComparative politics scholars argue that consensual democratic institutions encourage power-sharing that promotes “kinder, gentler” politics. We uncover one reason why this is the case: elite inter-party cooperation in consensual systems is associated with reduced inter-party hostility in the mass public. This is because governing parties’ supporters feel much more
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22 Feb 2023 • Journal Article • Communication Methods and Measures
Leveraging Researcher Domain Expertise to Annotate Concepts Within Imbalanced Data
AbstractAs more computational communication researchers turn to supervised machine learning methods for text classification, we note the challenge in implementing such techniques within an imbalanced dataset. Such issues are critical in our domain, where, in many cases, researchers attempt to identify and study theoretically interesting categories that can be rare in a target
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21 Feb 2023 • Journal Article • Journal of European Public Policy
The regulatory security state as a risk state
AbstractThis paper places the arguments about the rise of the regulatory security state in a broader perspective of regulatory governance and regulatory state literatures. It suggests that the regulatory security state is one morph of the regulatory state. It does not replace any other morph and indeed it is only partly new. I clarify the terminology around the ‘old’ and new’
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21 Feb 2023 • Journal Article • Plos One
ADHD and political participation: An observational study
AbstractBackground and objective Over the past decade, researchers have been seeking to understand the consequences of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for different types of everyday behaviors. In this study, we investigated the associations between ADHD and political participation and attitudes, as ADHD may impede their active participation in the polity
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13 Feb 2023 • Journal Article • Simmel Studies
The Case for the Historical Simmel
AbstractThere is a gap between the particulars ofour scholarly knowledge about Georg Simmel and our image of him as a mind in its totality. The existing paradigmatic interpretations of Simmel's thought as a whole are often outdated and driven by anachronistic motivations. The task of the historian is to update these paradigms on the basis of our better and broader knowledge of
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3 Feb 2023 • Journal Article • Polis
Parliamentary elections in Israel (1 November de 2022)
AbstractIsrael has a unicameral legislature called the Knesset, and is a parliamentary democracy. After independence in 1948, the first Knesset was elected in 1949. Since there have been 24 elections. The 25th Knesset was elected on 1 November 2022. In Israel’s first 70 years there were 20 elections, which means that on average a parliamentary election was held every 3½ years
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Feb 2023 • Journal Article • American Political Science Review
Can’t We All Just Get Along? How Women MPs Can Ameliorate Affective Polarization in Western Publics
AbstractConcern over partisan resentment and hostility has increased across Western democracies. Despite growing attention to affective polarization, existing research fails to ask whether who serves in office affects mass-level interparty hostility. Drawing on scholarship on women’s behavior as elected representatives and citizens’ beliefs about women politicians, we posit
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27 Jan 2023 • Journal Article • Journal of Economic Methodology
The significance of GDP: a new take on a century-old question
AbstractWhat is the significance of GDP per capita to a society? What does it represent conceptually? These questions have been addressed in past decades, engendering extensive explorations of the limitations of the indicator, yet answers have proved problematic or partial. The paper presents the main conclusions so far drawn and builds upon them to present a new reading of
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20 Jan 2023 • Journal Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice
Self-Governance via Intermediaries: Credibility in Three Different Modes of Governance
AbstractThis article analyzes the emergence of new forms of regulatory intermediation in three different modes of governance. It compares the emergence of the European data protection and Facebook’s content moderation regimes and raises three questions: How did self-regulation in the European data protection and Facebook’s content moderation regimes evolve over time? What are
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