Welcome!

I am a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellow and a researcher with the RegTrust ERC project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Policy, Elections, and Representation Lab (PEARL) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. I earned my PhD in Political Science from Tel Aviv University in 2023. My dissertation, Mind Our Own Business: Public Attitudes toward Government Paternalism, received the Best Dissertation Award from the Israeli Political Science Association.

My research centers on the mechanisms that shape attitudes toward policies and the government’s role comparatively, top-down and bottom-up, as well as the sources and consequences of different institutional designs.  Much of my work uses Israel as a case study. 

Substantively, I work in three main areas. The first is the determinants of public and elite attitudes toward public policy and government intervention. Much of my work focuses on the drivers of support for government paternalism and government coercion among both voters and policymakers, across countries and contexts.

The second theme lies within the debate over "Party vs. Policy" in shaping political behavior. I study the conditions that attenuate or amplify the role of partisan identification as compared to policy preferences in political behavior. My work in this area extends beyond the well-studied U.S. case, exploring multi-party systems such as Canada and Israel.

Finally, I am also interested in how institutional design relates to cross-country differences in the regulatory state. As a researcher with the RegTrust ERC project, I study comparatively the relationships between different types of trust (institutional, social, financial) and different configurations of the regulatory state.

Methodologically, I specialize in quantitative methods, especially surveys and experiments. I also contribute to political methodology through my work on conjoint experimental designs. I have also developed and taught a graduate-level course on Survey Methodology at the University of Toronto.

My research has been published or is forthcoming in Public Opinion Quarterly,  Regulation & Governance, Research & Politics, European Political Science, Politika, and The Elections in Israel 2019-2021 edited volume.