Publications

Orit Kedar, Yair Amitai, and Gilad Horowitz (2026). "Geographic Disproportionality". BJPolS, accepted.

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Yair Amitai and Omer Yair (2025). Polarization is Dangerous, but its effect is not Deterministic. ICON-S Israel.

 

Yair Amitai, Noam Gidron, and Omer Yair (2025). Affective Polarization in Israel, 1992-2022. In Michal Shamir, Gidon Rahat, and Noam Gidron (eds.), "The Elections in Israel 2022". Routledge.

 

Yair Amitai and Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan (2024). Blame Avoidance in Polarized Societies. In Matthew Flinders, Gergana Dimova, Markus Hinterleitner, R. A. W. Rhodes, and Kent Weaver (eds.), "The Politics and Governance of Blame". Oxford University Press.

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Yair Amitai (2023). “The Activists Who Divide Us: A Cross-Country Analysis of Party Activists’ Influence on Polarization and Representation". Comparative Political Studies, 57(3), pp. 453-485.

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Under Review

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Yair Amitai, Amnon Cavari, and Asif Eftar. "Ideological Constraint Under Catastrophic Shock: Evidence from the October 7, 2023 Hamas Attack and the following war in Gaza".

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Omer Yair, Yair Amitai, Noam Gidron, Amnon Cavari, and Asif Eftar. "The persistence of affective polarization in times of security threats: Evidence from post-October 7 Israel".

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Asif Efrat, Yair Amitai, and Amnon Cavari. "Democratic Backsliding Fuels a Democratic Spring:

Executive Power Grab and Support for Democracy".

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Yair Amitai. "The Reciprocal Relationship Between Voter Affective Polarization and Elite Ideological Polarization".

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