Lior Sheffer
@LiorSheffer
Political scientist at @telavivuni. I study elite political behaviour.
🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨 A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit, @LiorSheffer and @ItamarYakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization. doi.org/10.1111/ajps.1…
Very cool paper on something I’ve often wondered about - how politicians’ theories of how voters think match up to how voters (claim to) think (voters can be wrong about their own motives! Introspection is hard and people are bad at it)
Now in @apsrjournal: What do politicians think about their voters? Fielding face-to-face surveys to 982 sitting politicians in 11 countries, and surveys of 12,000 citizens, we find they have remarkably consistent - and cynical - theories of voters: /1 doi.org/10.1017/S00030…
#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal - Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior - cambridge.org/core/journals/… - @LiorSheffer, @PeejLoewen, @KSoontjens, @EranAmsalem, @StefanieBailer, @pirminbundi, @miguelmaria, @ProfPersson, @jbpilet, @AnneRasmussen, et al #FirstView