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1 Jul 2025 • Journal Article • Comparative Migration Studies
What happens when forced migrants and transit state actors meet? Encounters at decision nodal points during the migration journey
AbstractThis study investigates the interactions of forced migrants with state actors in transit countries at critical decision nodal points (DNPs) along their journey—defined as turning points where migrants make decisions about resuming mobility or altering the course of their journey. Granted official legal power by the state, transit state actors operate on the ground in
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26 Jun 2025 • Journal Article • Perspectives on Politics
Career Civil Servants’ Socially Embedded Responses to Democratic Backsliding
AbstractRecent studies portray civil servants as potential guardians against populist attempts to undermine liberal democracy. However in polarized societies, bureaucrats, like citizens, tend to hold divergent perceptions of the threat that politicians’ actions pose to democracy. This, in turn, likely shapes bureaucrats’ responses. We examine this in the context of the attempt
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9 Jun 2025 • Journal Article • Policy & Politics
A new measurement model and database of the democratic qualities of regulatory bodies
AbstractTransparency, accountability, participation and inclusiveness are central concepts in the literature on public administration. They are considered qualities that enable administrative bodies to share power with social and political actors and strengthen their democratic nature. These qualities have also been recognized as crucial for regulatory bodies, especially because
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22 May 2025 • Journal Article • European Union Politics
What you see is not what you get: The incorporation of women in radical right parties
AbstractIn recent years, an increasing number of women have been elected as candidates by radical-right parties. Does this trend toward feminization of the radical right improve the substantive representation of women's interest? Our investigation reveals that instead of moderating their positions on gender roles in response to increased female visibility, radical-right parties
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15 May 2025 • Journal Article • Conflict Resolution Quarterly
Spontaneous Contact and Social Resilience Following Eruption of Interethnic Violence in Ethnically Mixed Settings
AbstractDoes spontaneous contact between individuals from different ethnonational groups affect their social resilience, specifically their ability to avoid escalation and radicalization following eruptions of ethnic violence? To address this question, we conducted a series of studies in mixed Jewish–Palestinian cities and academic settings. Study 1, based on data collected
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13 May 2025 • Book
The Future of Equality
AbstractPhilosophers have been preoccupied with the future from time immemorial. But for egalitarians, the future of humanity constitutes a relatively new frontier. The premise of this book is that a complaint-based ideal of egalitarianism faces problems when applied to the future. For one thing, if we suppose that future people are destined to fare better than us (say, in
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9 May 2025 • Edited Volume
Cities and Identities
AbstractThis book illustrates how cities possess unique normative identities, referred to as 'ethoses', and how the residents shape and perceive them. The question of identity and which social relations constitute it has been a central topic in philosophy and social science for centuries. While the state played a key role in shaping identity during the 20th century, its influence
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1 May 2025 • Journal Article • Political Geography
Toponyms and political control in divided cities: The case of Jerusalem's neighborhood names
AbstractThis paper examines how dominant communities (ethnic or national groups) in divided cities use toponyms (place names) as part of their efforts to establish and maintain various types of political control over urban spaces. To this end, it analyzes an original dataset that includes all the names that the State of Israel, which has been dominated by the Jewish community
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13 Apr 2025 • Journal Article • Policy Sciences
Towards a theory of policy bubbles
AbstractEarlier conceptual studies suggest that policy bubbles differ from the more common pattern of policy overreaction due to their sustained, self-reinforcing nature, which results in prolonged overinvestment. Although the best way to analyze this phenomenon is through rigorous empirical investigation, such future endeavors require a guiding theory. This article lays the
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11 Apr 2025 • Journal Article • Policy and Society
Environmental impact assessments as a mechanism of regulatory intermediation: the case of Israeli wind energy
AbstractThe environmental impacts of infrastructure projects are widely assessed through a procedure known as environmental impact assessments (EIAs). In many regulatory systems, EIAs are carried out by third-party intermediaries. However, their roles and effectiveness within public policy and regulatory governance remain understudied. This study addresses this gap by examining
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