The Israel National Election Studies

Current INES Research Team Past Team Members and Project Leaders

Current INES Research Team

Past Team Members and Project Leaders

Asher Arian Z"L 

Founder

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The founder of the Israel National Election Studies passed away on July 7 2010. 
Asher was senior fellow and scientific director of The Guttman Center at The Israel Democracy Institute, and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. 
He was Professor of Political Science at the University of Haifa (1990-2006) and at Tel Aviv University (1966-89).

Michal Shamir

Tel Aviv University

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Michal is a Professor ​Emerita ​in the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on democratic politics, including elections, party systems, public opinion, tolerance, and democratic culture, in old and newly established democracies, with a particular emphasis on Israel.

Naama Rivlin-Angert

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Naama is a postdoctoral researcher with the ERC-funded project Varieties of ‎Nationalism Shape Our Polarized Politics and a research fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences at ‎the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Tel Aviv University, ‎where her dissertation examined the deconstruction of political identities. Her research lies at the ‎intersection of political behavior, political psychology, public opinion, and political ‎communication, examining how identity dynamics and political discourse shape democratic life.