Lior Sheffer

Ayala Panievsky @panievsky.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 27, 2024 at 12:50 UTC

Excited to share my new publication in the International Journal of Press/Politics with my brilliant friends Yossi David, @noamgidron.bsky.social & @liorsheffer.bsky.social! Imagined audiences have been studied for decades - but what do we know about imagined journalists? >;>
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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 17, 2024 at 14:04 UTC

This paper is the first contribution in what we argue should be a new, comparative research agenda on the causes and consequences of politicians' democratic theories. We are definitely working on that! Much more in the paper: doi.org/10.1111/1475...

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 17, 2024 at 14:03 UTC

This is not merely an academic debate: these theories strongly predict politicians' in-office choices, such as how many hours per week they spend on different representational tasks. They also have other potential implications that we discuss. /4

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 17, 2024 at 14:03 UTC

they believe that voters are driven by identity over policy, are unfair evaluators of politicians, and are past- rather than future-oriented. Only about 10% of politicians ascribe to 'folk theory' of democracy that sees voters as capable decision makers. /3

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 17, 2024 at 14:02 UTC

Responding to this gap, Jack Lucas, Peter Loewen and I studied over 2,000 American and Canadian politicians to identify and classify their beliefs on voters. We find that a full 30% of Canadian politicians and nearly half of Americans ascribe to a "democratic realist" view: /2

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 17, 2024 at 14:01 UTC

Now in @EJPRjournal: Are Politicians Democratic Realists? Social scientists debate whether citizens are competent participants in the political game, but where politicians stand on this question is far more consequential, and yet we know virtually nothing about their views. /1

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 04, 2023 at 15:59 UTC

What's the bottom line? Coalition governments can redefine the fault lines of partisan hostility, but they do not appear to help drain the continuously filling pool of negative affect in some countries. Much more in the paper.
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 04, 2023 at 15:59 UTC

We find a symmetric spike in hatred towards the same coalition parties by Netanyahu supporters who found themselves out of power, likely foreshadowing the mobilization that returned him to power in 2022. /3

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 04, 2023 at 15:59 UTC

We show that once coalition voters found out who they were co-governing with, they immediately began expressing warmer feelings towards those parties, quickly erasing what was until then seen as deep-rooted, ideological dislike. But we also document an offsetting trend: /2

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 04, 2023 at 15:58 UTC

Now in EJPR: Can elections reduce partisan hostility? @noamgidron.bsky.social and I tracked 1,000 voters throughout the 2021 election in Israel, in which Netanyahu was temporarily ousted by a short-lived, improbable coalition whose member parties were highly hostile to each other. /1

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