Publications
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14 Aug 2024 • Journal Article • Studies in Higher Education
Reference universe and competition in higher education: Israeli higher education organizations constituting excellence
AbstractSeeing that the culture and governance of competition determines relations among social actors, we turn to the concept of referentiality to investigate the institutional order of competition in higher education. Defining referentiality as the description of a model standard for comparison, this study explores how higher education organizations (HEOs), specifically
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23 Feb 2024 • Journal Article • Comparative European Politics
Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum
AbstractPopulist politics in Southern Europe displays several distinctive patterns related to a shared history, geography, culture, and economy, while being subject to similar geopolitical pressures. In the last decade, moreover, the Euro-Mediterranean region has been struck by destabilizing shocks: the Eurozone crisis and the refugee crisis, which led to a realignment of party
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24 Jan 2024 • Journal Article • West European Politics
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters
AbstractPopulist parties are held to be the drivers of unprecedented emotionalisation in electoral politics. Advancing theories of realignment and detachment, this article studies the temporal development in the affective alignments between voters and parties. In particular, it analyses the relationship between social structure, voters’ affective orientations towards political
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9 Jan 2024 • Journal Article • Journal of Global Security Studies
Contested Legitimating Agents: The Regional “Battle” for Legitimacy in Venezuela
AbstractPractitioners, pundits, and scholars increasingly recognize the role that international organizations play in conflicts. Regional organizations (ROs), as brokers of collective security, welfare, and identity, have become particularly active agents during violent crises by granting legitimacy to certain protagonists and discrediting the legitimacy of others, thus affecting
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5 Jan 2024 • Preprint • Research Square
Associations between the Urban Environment and Outdoor Walking Mobility by Cognitive Functioning in a Group of Older Adults in Singapore
AbstractObjectives: This study aims to examine the relationship between the outdoor mobility of older adults with and without cognitive impairment and the built environment in three urban neighbourhoods in Singapore. Methods: Outdoor walking mobility in daily life gait speed (DGS) was collected continuously for one week using a previously validated hybrid mobility tracker
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2 Jan 2024 • Journal Article • European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
The rise of the social state as a global model: A comparative and historical study, 1870–2000
AbstractBeyond its variable organizational structures, the nation-state is an idea or model – a now-global institution. Since the late nineteenth century, and at an accelerated rate after World War II, the core ideological model of the state has expanded to incorporate authority over, and responsibility for, more aspects of society. We track the worldwide impact of this process
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Jan 2024 • Journal Article • Routledge Handbook on Israel's Foreign Relations
Israel and Germany
AbstractIsraeli–German relations have come a long way: from the time when Israeli passports were ‘valid for all countries, except Germany’, to today’s close partnership, with cooperation on a myriad of levels that extends virtually to all areas. Today, Germany is considered Israel’s second-closest ally after the United States. It is also Israel’s most important economic partner
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2024 • Journal Article • European Political Science Review
When do voters perceive intra-party conflict? A democratic life cycle perspective
AbstractPolitical parties commonly experience internal disagreements. Recently, evidence is accumulating that outright internal discord makes a party much less attractive to voters. However, we do not understand well when citizens perceive a party to be internally conflicted in the first place. We here explain citizens’ perceptions from a democratic life cycle perspective:
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Jan 2024 • Book Chapter • The COVID-19 Pandemic and Memory
#DigitalMemorial(s): How COVID-19 Reinforced Holocaust Memorials and Museums’ Shift Toward Social Media Memory
AbstractThe severe restrictions on public life following the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic affected Holocaust memorials and museums worldwide, especially in Europe, Israel, and the United States. These measures posed significant challenges to contemporary forms of Holocaust commemoration, which were based on collaborative practices of remembering, particularly related to the
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Jan 2024 • Book Chapter • Internationalization in Higher Education and Research
Internationalization Between Strategy and Ethos: Multilingualism as a Sphere of Glocal Paradox
AbstractThe analytic distinction between internationalization and globalization parallels the distinction between organizational strategy and organizational ethos. In higher education, internationalization revolves around the increasing mobility of students, faculty, and research funding, whereas globalization refers to the long-standing translocal ethos of science, academia
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