Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor in the  Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University.

My research examines how partisan identities, ideology, and institutions shape citizens' attitudes toward government and public policy. I am particularly interested in the public and elite attitudes toward government intervention, the relationship between political identities and policy preferences in opinion formation and political behavior, and the ways institutional design influences political behavior and regulatory governance. Much of my work uses evidence from Israel to address broader comparative questions.

I am the recipient of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) “Beresheet”  program award, for absorbing outstanding young researchers. My project, The Politics and Governance of Moral Issues (2026-2031), develops an integrated, comprehensive theoretical framework for explaining why moral policies evolve differently across countries and across issues. Combining survey, experimental, and computational methods, the project examines how public values, institutions, and political elites shape trajectories of moral policy change. 

I am recruiting graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to join my team. Interested? Please get in touch!

Methodologically, I specialize in quantitative methods, especially surveys and experiments. I also contribute to political methodology through my work on conjoint experimental designs. I am happy to advise applied researchers in this area. 

I co-organize the Political Behavior Forum, a bi-weekly series for Israeli scholars that showcases work in progress in political behavior. The 2026/27 schedule will be published shortly. 

Previously, I was a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellow and a researcher with the RegTrust ERC project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Policy, Elections, and Representation Lab (PEARL) in the Department of Political Science and The Munk School 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 has been published or is forthcoming in Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly,  Regulation & Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications,  Research & Politics, and other academic outlets.

I'm always happy to discuss research and potential collaborations. Please feel free to get in touch!