Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Treger, Clareta. (2022). Before the Party Hijacks: The Limited Role of Party Cues in Appraisal of Low-Salience Policies. Experimental Evidence. Public Opinion Quarterly, 86(4), 955-967. 

*Winner of the Best Paper in Social Science Award, The Center for the Study of the United States (CSUS) in Partnership with the Fulbright Program at Tel Aviv University.   

• Treger, Clareta. (2023). When Do People Accept Government Paternalism? Theory and Experimental Evidence. Regulation & Governance,  17(1), 195-214. [Replication materials] [Video abstract]

*Winner of the Best Paper by Young Researcher Award, ESPAnet - Israel. 

*Winner of Junior Paper Award (Quantitative), ComplianceNet.   

• Lavi Liron, Naama Rivlin-Angert, Clareta Treger, Tamir Sheafer, Israel Waismel-Manor, and Michal Shamir. (2022). King Bibi: The Personification of Democratic Values in the 2019-2021 Election Cycle. In Shamir, Michal, and Rahat, Gideon. (eds.) The Elections in Israel 2019-2021. Routledge, pp. 77-98.  [Hebrew version].

Under Review

• Changing the Lens: Enhancing analysis of conjoint experiments through marginal means and the rating outcome. SSRN pre-print is available here. 

• Democracy on the Ballot: Representation and Support for Democracy. with Liron Lavi, Naama Rivlin-Angert, Israel Waismel-Manor, and Michal Shamir. Revise & Resubmit. 

• The Pitkinian Public: Representation in the Eyes of the Citizens. with Liron Lavi, Naama Rivlin-Angert, Tamir Sheafer, Israel Waismel-Manor, Shaul Shenhav, Liran Harsgor, and Michal Shamir. SSRN pre-print is available here. 

Working Papers

• How Does Personal Experience with COVID-19 Shape Attitudes Towards Government Coercion? Evidence from Israel.

• Cultural Differences in Public Support for Government Paternalism. Evidence from Israel and the United States. 

• The Welfarist Effect of a Global Pandemic: Rethinking Socio-Economic Preferences, with Gal Bitton. 

• Personality Traits and Support for State Intervention: Evidence from Five Countries, with Alon Yakter and Lior Sheffer. 

• The Role of Issue Partisanship and Party Cues in Voter Decision-making, PEARL Lab project.