Lior a Senior Lecturer at the Tel Aviv University's School of Political Science, Government, and International Affairs, where he studies elite political behaviour. His research focuses on executive decision making, looking at whether and how people who run for office differ from non-politicians when they solve problems and reason about the policy choices they have to make, and how this affects the quality of representation in democracies.
Yael a Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, at Tel-Aviv University. Her broad research interests are in comparative politics and democratic institutions, and she specializes in legislative politics, electoral systems, candidate selection processes, parties and party systems and quantitative methodology.
Alon a Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University. His research revolves around the dynamics and implications of intergroup relations, attitudes and conflict from a comparative perspective and in Israel.
Adi a PhD candidate in the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University.His research interests include intergroup solidarity, cooperation, political psychology and Israeli politics.
Yochay is a M.A student in the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University.His research interests include affective polarization and disinformation in social media.
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 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.
Dr. Raphael Ventura was part of the INES team, working on INES questionnaires and data, from 1988 to 2021. He was a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute and the director of the data archive of IDI's Guttman Center for Surveys. He taught courses on elections, voting behavior, political socialization, political behavior in Israel, and public opinion polls at Tel Aviv University, the University of Haifa, and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Tel Aviv University; his doctoral dissertation was on the influence of the close family circle on the voting patterns of the individual in Israel.
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.
