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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan

@raanan-sk.bsky.social
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Prof. of Public Policy, Hebrew University Head of the Federmann School of public policy 2017-2021

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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Economic Impact of Brexit www.nber.org/papers/w34459
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The Economic Impact of Brexit
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ought ≠ Is: No Evidence for an 'Honesty Premium' in Public Sector Culture bppblog.com/2026/04/30/h...
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Does Public Sector Culture Foster Honesty?
Explore fresh research revealing that public sector culture may not enhance honesty as traditionally believed. Discover the implications!
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
It was a pleasure to present my joint work with Nir Gavish at the Collaborative Research Centre "Global Dynamics of Social Policy", @unibremen.bsky.social. My thanks to @markustepe.bsky.social and to all the participants, for their helpful and interesting questions, comments and suggestions.
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It was a pleasure to present my joint work with Nir Gavish at the Public Administration, Welfare and Politics (PAWP) seminar, @sdu.dk. Thanks to Pieter Vanhuysse for organizing and chairing, and to all the participants for their helpful and interesting questions, comments and suggestions.
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SFB 1342 @sfb1342.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
📣 CRC 1342 Jour Fixe: Professor Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social from Hebrew University will give a talk on the "Curse of Highly Effective Social Policies" on Wednesday, May 20, 12 to 2 pm, Room 7.1020, UNICOM. #SocialPolicy Read more: www.socialpolicydynamics.de/en/
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Ought ≠ Is: No Evidence for an 'Honesty Premium' in Public Sector Culture bppblog.com/2026/04/30/h...
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Does Public Sector Culture Foster Honesty?
Explore fresh research revealing that public sector culture may not enhance honesty as traditionally believed. Discover the implications!
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
bppblog.com/2026/04/30/h... @markustepe.bsky.social @saaralonbarkat.bsky.social
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Does Public Sector Culture Foster Honesty?
Explore fresh research revealing that public sector culture may not enhance honesty as traditionally believed. Discover the implications!
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
- Proven Predictive Power: In a Random Forest demonstration, integrating TOQA's multi-source data significantly improved forecasts of next-quarter fatalities compared to using GTD data alone. details: dash.harvard.edu/entities/pub...
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Introducing TOQA: A Terrorist Organization Quarterly Activity Dataset, 1970–2020
Event-level terrorism datasets are designed for incident-level analysis, whereas many research questions require data better suited to organizational trajectories and within-organization change over t...
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
- Integrative several datasets: It links 2,868 organizations to 439 UCDP Actor IDs, linking the terrorism research and civil war studies.
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
- Integrates inactive periods: Unlike incident-only datasets, TOQA explicitly records "quiet quarters" (zero-activity periods). This is crucial for studying dormancy and preventing survivorship bias.
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
- Identity Resolution: It harmonizes 216 fragmented perpetrator labels into 81 canonical organizations, ensuring a group’s history isn't lost across aliases or rebrands.
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🚨A new paper by Nimrod Tzukert and myself, introduces TOQA (Terrorist Organization Quarterly Activity) - a reproducible 1970–2020 panel dataset designed to study terrorist organizational trajectories constructed based on incidence data (GTD). TOQA's contributions include: >>
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
These findings challenge the assumption that public sector culture promotes honesty, and suggests that societal honesty norms and institutional measures play a more significant role in shaping public officials' ethical behaviour and corruption levels. 7/7 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
We find no evidence for the effect of public sector culture on honest behaviour in individual tasks (Studies 1-4); and no support for a negative effect of priming public sector identity on collaborative dishonest behaviour among public sector workers (Study 5). 6/7
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Next, we employed this instrument in 5 preregistered RCTs among civil servants in 5 countries (N=2,827), and measured actual cheating behaviour in both individual and collaborative games. 5/7
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
We first validated an instrument for priming public sector identity in two countries, measuring its effect on the cognitive availability of public sector concepts using word-completion tasks. 4/7
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
We take advantage of the relationship between culture and identity, and the possibility to randomly prime the latter, for estimating the effect of public sector culture on honest behaviour of public employees. 3/7
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Identifying the causal effect of public sector culture on honesty is methodologically challenging. Naïve cross-sector comparisons may be confounded by: • Honesty-based selection into the public sector👇 • Other intervening factors 2/7 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Sustaining Honesty in Public Service: The Role of Selection
(November 2019) - We study the role of self-selection into public service in sustaining honesty in the public sector. Focusing on the world's least corrupt country, Denmark, we use a survey experiment...
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🚨New paper The ideal that honesty is a central part of public sector culture is found across cultures and throughout history. Yet does the culture of the public sector increase honesty behaviour of public employees? @bppjournal.bsky.social @saaralonbarkat.bsky.social @omeryair88.bsky.social 1/7
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 04/03/2026
Large language models have the potential to level the playing field in consumer financial complaints
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Large language models have the potential to level the playing field in consumer financial complaints
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02411-wBy analysing 1.13 million complaint narratives submitted to the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), we show that large language model (LLM)-assisted complaints surged after the release of ChatGPT and increased the chances of consumers of receiving relief. Furthermore, consumers with unobserved disadvantages in self-advocacy were found to be more likely to adopt LLMs, which highlights a potential for LLM tools to act as an equalizer.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
About Anthropic, Iran, and dumbing down www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjUo...
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Claude at war
YouTube video by Paul Krugman
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Conformity and Group Performance - Human Nature
This research provides evidence regarding the causal effect of group conformity on task performance in stable and variable environments. Drawing on studies in cultural evolution, social learning, and ...
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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Opinion | The Great Capitulation Is Over. What Comes Next?
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Our new paper is online: Priming public sector identity in five countries (DE, IL, SE, IT, UK) does not increase honest behaviour (although it does increase PSM). @bppjournal.bsky.social @markustepe.bsky.social @saaralonbarkat.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Public sector culture does not increase honest behavior: evidence from RCTs in five countries | Behavioural Public Policy | Cambridge Core
Public sector culture does not increase honest behavior: evidence from RCTs in five countries
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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The role of exogenous macro shocks in shaping the appeal of government employment
Studies of individuals’ attraction to work in the public sector overlook the likely effect of perturbations to the national-level context. Advancing this research agenda, this article examines whet...
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A taste for government employment also rests on its political flavor onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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<em>Public Administration Review</em> | ASPA Journal | Wiley Online Library
The global experience of political polarization, and politicians' attacks on democratic institutions, render individuals' identification with the governing coalition, or with its opposition, a likely....
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
תודה. באיזה קורס/תחום מדובר ? על כמה תצפיות מתבסס הגרף?
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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The file drawer problem in social science survey experiments | PNAS
The file drawer problem&mdash;often operationalized in terms of statistically significant results being published and statistically insignificant not bei...
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
9/ Why does this happen? 🧠 Compromise effect: Temporary laws seem like a "middle ground." 🏛️ Status quo bias: Once a law exists, people prefer to keep it. 🔄 Ratchet effect: Temporary laws often get extended rather than repealed.
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
8/ Real-world examples: USA PATRIOT Act (2001): Originally temporary, but many provisions remain. State of emergency laws in France: Post-2015 terror attacks, later made permanent. COVID-19 policies: Some surveillance measures still in use today.
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
7/ Main takeaway: Temporary laws can erode resistance to rights restrictions. Once enacted, they become easier to extend—eventually leading to permanent policy shifts. The "sunset clause paradox": Laws meant to expire tend to stick around.
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
6/ Experiment 3: When given multiple options (temporary vs. permanent), most chose temporary. However, once a policy was in place, people were more likely to extend it than approve a new one. Status quo bias at work. 🔁
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
5/ Experiment 2: Even people who initially rejected the policy were more willing to approve it if framed as temporary. This suggests policymakers can use "temporary" framing to push through controversial policies.
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
4/ Experiment 1: Participants were asked whether they approve a policy allowing harsh interrogation techniques. Some saw it as temporary, others as permanent. Those who saw it as temporary were more likely to approve it!
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
3/ Do temporary policies make people more likely to approve rights-restricting measures they would otherwise reject? To find out, we conducted 3behavioral experiments. 🧪📊
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
2/ Governments frequently enact temporary policies during crises. Examples: 🦠 COVID-19 restrictions 🛂 Counterterrorism laws 👮 Surveillance measures But do these policies remain temporary, or do they become the new normal? 🤔
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🧵👇 1/ How do temporary laws impact human rights? This study examines how "temporary" rights restrictions—often used in emergencies—can lead to permanent limitations. The findings reveal a slippery slope effect. 📉⚖️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The slippery slope of rights-restricting temporary measures: an experimental analysis | Behavioural Public Policy | Cambridge Core
The slippery slope of rights-restricting temporary measures: an experimental analysis - Volume 9 Issue 1
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A bus stop in London:
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Public sector culture does not increase honest behavior: Evidence from RCTs in five countries
Honest behavior of public sector workers is an important quality of governance, impacting the functioning of government institutions, the level of corruption, e
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Emphasis on "still". This may change if the issue becomed salient over time.
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This incompetent "reorganization" of the federal public sector poses a risk on a global scale.
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Relatedly, in this paper we showed the implications of cognitive biases (alternative cost neglect & impact bias) for ex-ante public support for policy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Foregone and predicted futures: challenges of opportunity cost neglect and impact bias for public participation in policymaking
Deliberative democracy fosters greater involvement of the public in policymaking. However, psychological challenges involved in eliciting policy preferences receive little attention in this context...
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
#publicadministration
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
#Qatargate www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
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Alleged ties between Netanyahu aides and Qatar prompt calls for investigation
The demand came in the wake of a report that Eli Feldstein had provided public relations services to Qataris while working in the PMO.
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
These findings challenge the assumption that public sector culture promotes honesty, and suggests that societal honesty norms and institutional measures play a more significant role in shaping public officials' ethical behaviour and corruption levels. osf.io/preprints/os... 7/7
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Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We find no evidence for the effect of public sector culture on honest behavior in both individual (studies 1-4) and collaborative tasks (study 5), although it had an effect on reported public sector motivation (PSM). 6/7>>
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