Cross-ethnic voters are Jewish-Israeli voters who vote for predominately Palestinian party lists and Palestinian-Israeli voters who vote for predominately Jewish party lists

It is a real problem that the government said it will ignore a Supreme Court ruling, but the Israeli Supreme Court is an active participant in undermining of the rule of law

The highly contentious debate around Ultra-Orthodox conscription misdiagnoses the problem and proposes unhelpful "solutions". What makes Israel costly is the security apparatus and the conflict

The two remaining leftist Jewish parties joined and are now called "The Democrats". They are led by former general Yair Golan who believes that his security AND peace credentials can revive the left.

The rhetoric surrounding the upcoming elections frames Palestinian-Israelis as disloyal - what do these ethnonationalist and populist conditions mean for Palestinian political participation?

The newly established Jewish-Arab Party "A Place for Us All" has elicited criticism for wasting votes. However, there may be value to the party beyond immediate electoral outcomes

Abstract. Existing research suggests that rebel group mergers typically force at least one side to abandon its group identity and come under the control of

Most Jewish-Israelis primarily consume Hebrew language media that presents limited information and perspectives

YouTube video by Mothers Against Violence Israel (MAVI)

בסדרת "אני לא פוליטי?" אנו בוחנות את עמדות מנהיגי האופוזיציה בשאלות היסוד של ישראל: מלחמה ושלום, דמוקרטיה, שוויון, זכויות אדם והעתיד המדיני. בכל מפגש נציג את "מדד הכיבוש" – מערכת שאלות הבוחנת כיצד כל ...

Ultra-Orthodox political parties are not satisfied with limited involvement in the state apparatus and safeguarding their way of life. For decades they have expanded their power over state resources.

Media reports focus on Israel's growing international isolation, but how do Israelis understand this isolation?

Since 2023 a record number of women are doing reserve duty in the military and yet there are fewer women in politics and men are dominating political discourse

A history of Israeli generals' political failures and why Eisenkot will not be the exception

From deliberately derailing the Oslo process, to his neo-liberal economic policies reshaping the Israeli economy and society, Netanyahu has succeeded in achieving many of his goals.

A story of relative stability

Possible insight into the upcoming elections in Israel

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Legislating Peace

Deadline February 8, 2026

Across democratic systems, ideological cleavages increasingly emerge not only between but also within political parties. At the same time, hyperpartisan and digitally networked media ecosystems amp...

Edelstein elucidates the occasional successes of military occupations and their more frequent failures through 26 cases since 1815 in which an outside power seized control of a territory where the occ...

Affective polarization—that is, personal dislike and distrust between Democrats and Republicans—is argued to arise, at least in part, from fewer cross-cutting ties that bridge Democrats and Republican...

When Serving the Public Interest Generates Private Gains: Private Actor Governance and Two-Sided Digital Markets By Guillaume Beaumier, l'École Nationale d'Administration Publique and Abraham Newman, Georgetown University From speech to privacy, broad public interests are increasingly governed online by policy decisions taken by private companies. We examine when and how firms make such decisions. In contrast to the shadow of hierarchy and functionalist explanations of private authority, we build an analytical framework based on business power and the economics literature concerned with two-sided markets.