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28 Jun 2024 • Book Chapter • Routledge Handbook on Zionism
“We Are a Traditional People”: The Zionist (Counter-) Revolution of National Conservative Populism
AbstractIn the aftermath of the 1967 war, the left–right distinction was based on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict – dovish versus hawkish positions. However, over the last decade there has been a gradual transformation resulting in a new classification: liberal versus conservative. The conservative side, representing the national camp, narrates itself as a Zionist counter-revolution
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3 Jun 2024 • Journal Article • European Political Science
The Pitkinian public: representation in the eyes of citizens
AbstractDemocracy is backsliding in Europe and around the world as citizens’ trust in elected representatives and institutions wanes. Representation theories and studies have mostly centred on the representatives, rather than the represented. But how do citizens perceive political representation? Are their perceptions of any consequence at all? In this paper, we set forth a
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28 May 2024 • Journal Article • European Journal of Political Research
Urban identity versus national identity in the global city: Evidence from six European cities
AbstractThis study explores the prioritization of urban identity over national identity in the context of the global city. Scholars have extensively discussed the fragmentation of national identity among individuals in the globalized world, and the relative proliferation of other communal identities, whether more cosmopolitan or place-based. As globalization gradually erodes
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23 May 2024 • Journal Article • Scottish Journal of Theology
Gabriel Vázquez and the moral rehabilitation of hatred
AbstractThomas Aquinas and most Christian theologians after him asserted that it is improper to attribute hatred to God. In 1598 the Jesuit theologian Gabriel Vázquez intrepidly argued that God can hate – not only with hatred of abomination but also with inimical hatred. Vázquez's surprising innovation is best explained in the context of the theological disputes between Jesuits
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16 May 2024 • Journal Article
Guns and Democracy: Anti-System Attitudes, Protest, and Support for Violence Among Pandemic Gun-Buyers
AbstractThe last decade has given rise to substantial concern about democratic backsliding in the U.S. Manifestations include decreased trust in government, conspiratorial beliefs, contentious protests, and support for political violence. Surprisingly, prior work has not explored how these attitudes and behaviors relate to gun-buying, an action that provides people with the
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14 May 2024 • Journal Article • Plos One
How warm are political interactions? A new measure of affective fractionalization
AbstractAffective polarization measures account for partisans’ feelings towards their own party versus its opponent(s), but not for how likely partisans are to encounter co-partisans versus out-partisans. However, the intensity of out-party dislike and the probability with which this comes into play both determine the social impact of cross-party hostility. We develop an
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8 May 2024 • Book Chapter • From the 1919 Revolution to the 2011 Arab Spring
The Burden of History
AbstractDuring the 1882 attempt under Ahmed Orabi to resist British control of Egypt, a European observer writing from London made the following skeptical assessment: “We know little about Orabi, but I am prepared to wager ten to one that he is an ordinary pasha who does not want to let the financiers collect the taxes because in good Oriental fashion he prefers to put the
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4 May 2024 • Journal Article • Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
Citizens’ Communication Styles in Written Public Encounters
AbstractCurrent studies of citizens’ coping behaviors in public encounters lack a direct examination of what citizens say and how they say it. Moreover, despite the ubiquity of citizens’ written communications with the state, such interactions are seldom studied. This article contributes a relational approach to studies of citizens’ coping behaviors by developing a taxonomy
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May 2024 • Journal Article • Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
Protests by political activists around friction points may backfire: Evidence from checkpoints in the West Bank
AbstractHow do political activists’ protest strategies affect intergroup violence around friction points? Activists presume that their presence around checkpoints will protect the controlled population from humiliation and prevent the dominant force from engaging in violent or abusive behavior. However, depending on the protest strategy chosen, their presence may backfire and
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14 Apr 2024 • Preprint • arXiv
Reap the Wild Wind: Detecting Media Storms in Large-Scale News Corpora
AbstractMedia Storms, dramatic outbursts of attention to a story, are central components of media dynamics and the attention landscape. Despite their significance, there has been little systematic and empirical research on this concept due to issues of measurement and operationalization. We introduce an iterative human-in-the-loop method to identify media storms in a large-scale
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