Orit Kedar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1191030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orit Kedar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orit |
| FAMILY NAME | Kedar |
| SIGNATURE | KEDAR O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2110-2316 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 443 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Disproportionality in Geographic Representation
We theoretically develop and empirically study the concept of geographic representation. We identify an overlooked aspect of (mis)representation in electoral systems: the degree to which within parties, voters residing in some districts are overrepresented at the expense of their co-partisans residing elsewhere. Drawing on district-level data of 113 parties from twelve districted democracies, we find a substantial degree of geographic representat…
Conceptualizing and measuring district magnitude for comparative research
District magnitude, the number of seats per district, is a critical component of electoral systems. It affects key outcomes such as accountability, legislative fragmentation, and disproportionality in representation by providing incentives for voters, candidates, and representatives. Some democracies have identical-magnitude districts (whether under majoritarian or districted proportional representation), yet many elect their representatives thro…
Party positions and the changing gender gap(s) in voting
Why, despite increased female support, do social democratic parties (SDPs) in most Western European countries face electoral decline? To study this puzzle, we harness a well-documented regularity: diminishing support for SDPs by manual workers and their increased support for the far right. We contend that this trend is intensified in contexts where the economic positions of SDPs align with market-oriented policies or converge with those of the fa…
Permissibility of Electoral Systems
Permissibility of electoral systems, and in particular the conversion of voices in the electorate to the legislature, is broadly considered to depend on the number of seats per district (district magnitude) in a country. Yet the most prevalent electoral system in the democratic world, proportional representation with districts, is often characterized by an almost entirely overlooked variation: within the same country districts vary in their magni…
Are Voters Equal under Proportional Representation
We develop and apply a new conceptual framework and measure for evaluating electoral systems, focusing on (in)equality in parliamentary representation. Our main arena of interest is proportional representation with districts, an electoral system employed by more than halfof democratic states, and we draw on an almost entirely overlooked fact: Electoral regimes vary substantially within countries, with some voters casting their ballot in semi‐majo…
Voter Choice and Parliamentary Politics
This article offers organizing principles to an emerging research agenda that analyses how parliamentary politics affects voter considerations. It uses the process by which votes are turned into policy as a unifying framework: every step in the process poses incentives for voters and encourages different types of strategic behaviour by voters. The standard version of strategic voting commonly found in analyses of voter choice is about the step fa…
Context, Behavior, Outcomes, and Tradeoffs
G Bingham Powell's core intellectual contribution to the study of politics has been to help us understand fundamental normative tradeoffs that are inherent to institutional choice in democratic political systems. The tradeoffs involve dimensions of political performance of central concern in the discipline, including political violence, political participation, political representation, political accountability, and political stability. In offeri…
Race And Turnout In U.S. Elections Exposing Hidden Effects
Journal Article Race And Turnout In U.S. Elections Exposing Hidden Effects Get access Benjamin J. Deufel, Benjamin J. Deufel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Orit Kedar Orit Kedar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 74, Issue 2, Summer 2010, Pages 286–318, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfq017 Published: 22 April 2010
Coalition‐Targeted Duvergerian Voting
Inspired by analyses of majoritarian systems, students of consensual polities have analyzed strategic voting due to barriers to party success, namely, district magnitude and threshold. Given the prevalence of coalition governments in proportional systems, we analyze a type of strategic voting seldom studied: how expected coalition composition affects voter choice. We identify Duvergerian behavior by voters targeted at the coalition formation stag…
How voters work around institutions
Introduction to the Special Issue
The use of multilevel models—models in which lower-level (“micro”) units are nested within higher-level (“macro”) units—has blossomed recently in political science. Possible relationships in such models include macro variables influencing macro variables; micro variables influencing micro variables; macro variables influencing micro variables, and vice versa; and often most interestingly, micro-micro relationships varying interactively with macro…
How Diffusion of Power in Parliaments Affects Voter Choice
I analyze how the diffusion of power in parliaments affects voter choice. Using a two-step research design, I first estimate an individual-level model of voter choice in 14 parliamentary democracies, allowing voters to hold preferences both for the party most similar to them ideologically and for the party that pulls policy in their direction. While in systems in which power is concentrated the two motivations converge, in consensual systems they…
When Moderate Voters Prefer Extreme Parties
This work develops and tests a theory of voter choice in parliamentary elections. I demonstrate that voters are concerned with policy outcomes and hence incorporate the way institutions convert votes to policy into their choices. Since policy is often the result of institutionalized multiparty bargaining and thus votes are watered down by power-sharing, voters often compensate for this watering-down by supporting parties whose positions differ fr…
When Moderate Voters Prefer Extreme Parties
This work develops and tests a theory of voter choice in parliamentary elections. I demonstrate that voters are concerned with policy outcomes and hence incorporate the way institutions convert votes to policy into their choices. Since policy is often the result of institutionalized multiparty bargaining and thus votes are watered down by power-sharing, voters often compensate for this watering-down by supporting parties whose positions differ fr…
Coalition‐Targeted Duvergerian Voting
Inspired by analyses of majoritarian systems, students of consensual polities have analyzed strategic voting due to barriers to party success, namely, district magnitude and threshold. Given the prevalence of coalition governments in proportional systems, we analyze a type of strategic voting seldom studied: how expected coalition composition affects voter choice. We identify Duvergerian behavior by voters targeted at the coalition formation stag…
Are Voters Equal under Proportional Representation
We develop and apply a new conceptual framework and measure for evaluating electoral systems, focusing on (in)equality in parliamentary representation. Our main arena of interest is proportional representation with districts, an electoral system employed by more than halfof democratic states, and we draw on an almost entirely overlooked fact: Electoral regimes vary substantially within countries, with some voters casting their ballot in semi‐majo…
How Diffusion of Power in Parliaments Affects Voter Choice
I analyze how the diffusion of power in parliaments affects voter choice. Using a two-step research design, I first estimate an individual-level model of voter choice in 14 parliamentary democracies, allowing voters to hold preferences both for the party most similar to them ideologically and for the party that pulls policy in their direction. While in systems in which power is concentrated the two motivations converge, in consensual systems they…
How voters work around institutions
Race And Turnout In U.S. Elections Exposing Hidden Effects
Journal Article Race And Turnout In U.S. Elections Exposing Hidden Effects Get access Benjamin J. Deufel, Benjamin J. Deufel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Orit Kedar Orit Kedar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 74, Issue 2, Summer 2010, Pages 286–318, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfq017 Published: 22 April 2010
Introduction to the Special Issue
The use of multilevel models—models in which lower-level (“micro”) units are nested within higher-level (“macro”) units—has blossomed recently in political science. Possible relationships in such models include macro variables influencing macro variables; micro variables influencing micro variables; macro variables influencing micro variables, and vice versa; and often most interestingly, micro-micro relationships varying interactively with macro…
Voter Choice and Parliamentary Politics
This article offers organizing principles to an emerging research agenda that analyses how parliamentary politics affects voter considerations. It uses the process by which votes are turned into policy as a unifying framework: every step in the process poses incentives for voters and encourages different types of strategic behaviour by voters. The standard version of strategic voting commonly found in analyses of voter choice is about the step fa…
Permissibility of Electoral Systems
Permissibility of electoral systems, and in particular the conversion of voices in the electorate to the legislature, is broadly considered to depend on the number of seats per district (district magnitude) in a country. Yet the most prevalent electoral system in the democratic world, proportional representation with districts, is often characterized by an almost entirely overlooked variation: within the same country districts vary in their magni…
Context, Behavior, Outcomes, and Tradeoffs
G Bingham Powell's core intellectual contribution to the study of politics has been to help us understand fundamental normative tradeoffs that are inherent to institutional choice in democratic political systems. The tradeoffs involve dimensions of political performance of central concern in the discipline, including political violence, political participation, political representation, political accountability, and political stability. In offeri…
Party positions and the changing gender gap(s) in voting
Why, despite increased female support, do social democratic parties (SDPs) in most Western European countries face electoral decline? To study this puzzle, we harness a well-documented regularity: diminishing support for SDPs by manual workers and their increased support for the far right. We contend that this trend is intensified in contexts where the economic positions of SDPs align with market-oriented policies or converge with those of the fa…
Introduction to the Special Issue
The use of multilevel models—models in which lower-level (“micro”) units are nested within higher-level (“macro”) units—has blossomed recently in political science. Possible relationships in such models include macro variables influencing macro variables; micro variables influencing micro variables; macro variables influencing micro variables, and vice versa; and often most interestingly, micro-micro relationships varying interactively with macro…
How Diffusion of Power in Parliaments Affects Voter Choice
I analyze how the diffusion of power in parliaments affects voter choice. Using a two-step research design, I first estimate an individual-level model of voter choice in 14 parliamentary democracies, allowing voters to hold preferences both for the party most similar to them ideologically and for the party that pulls policy in their direction. While in systems in which power is concentrated the two motivations converge, in consensual systems they…
When Moderate Voters Prefer Extreme Parties
This work develops and tests a theory of voter choice in parliamentary elections. I demonstrate that voters are concerned with policy outcomes and hence incorporate the way institutions convert votes to policy into their choices. Since policy is often the result of institutionalized multiparty bargaining and thus votes are watered down by power-sharing, voters often compensate for this watering-down by supporting parties whose positions differ fr…
How voters work around institutions
Coalition‐Targeted Duvergerian Voting
Inspired by analyses of majoritarian systems, students of consensual polities have analyzed strategic voting due to barriers to party success, namely, district magnitude and threshold. Given the prevalence of coalition governments in proportional systems, we analyze a type of strategic voting seldom studied: how expected coalition composition affects voter choice. We identify Duvergerian behavior by voters targeted at the coalition formation stag…
Race And Turnout In U.S. Elections Exposing Hidden Effects
Journal Article Race And Turnout In U.S. Elections Exposing Hidden Effects Get access Benjamin J. Deufel, Benjamin J. Deufel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Orit Kedar Orit Kedar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 74, Issue 2, Summer 2010, Pages 286–318, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfq017 Published: 22 April 2010
Context, Behavior, Outcomes, and Tradeoffs
G Bingham Powell's core intellectual contribution to the study of politics has been to help us understand fundamental normative tradeoffs that are inherent to institutional choice in democratic political systems. The tradeoffs involve dimensions of political performance of central concern in the discipline, including political violence, political participation, political representation, political accountability, and political stability. In offeri…
Voter Choice and Parliamentary Politics
This article offers organizing principles to an emerging research agenda that analyses how parliamentary politics affects voter considerations. It uses the process by which votes are turned into policy as a unifying framework: every step in the process poses incentives for voters and encourages different types of strategic behaviour by voters. The standard version of strategic voting commonly found in analyses of voter choice is about the step fa…
Are Voters Equal under Proportional Representation
We develop and apply a new conceptual framework and measure for evaluating electoral systems, focusing on (in)equality in parliamentary representation. Our main arena of interest is proportional representation with districts, an electoral system employed by more than halfof democratic states, and we draw on an almost entirely overlooked fact: Electoral regimes vary substantially within countries, with some voters casting their ballot in semi‐majo…
Permissibility of Electoral Systems
Permissibility of electoral systems, and in particular the conversion of voices in the electorate to the legislature, is broadly considered to depend on the number of seats per district (district magnitude) in a country. Yet the most prevalent electoral system in the democratic world, proportional representation with districts, is often characterized by an almost entirely overlooked variation: within the same country districts vary in their magni…
Party positions and the changing gender gap(s) in voting
Why, despite increased female support, do social democratic parties (SDPs) in most Western European countries face electoral decline? To study this puzzle, we harness a well-documented regularity: diminishing support for SDPs by manual workers and their increased support for the far right. We contend that this trend is intensified in contexts where the economic positions of SDPs align with market-oriented policies or converge with those of the fa…
Disproportionality in Geographic Representation
We theoretically develop and empirically study the concept of geographic representation. We identify an overlooked aspect of (mis)representation in electoral systems: the degree to which within parties, voters residing in some districts are overrepresented at the expense of their co-partisans residing elsewhere. Drawing on district-level data of 113 parties from twelve districted democracies, we find a substantial degree of geographic representat…
Conceptualizing and measuring district magnitude for comparative research
District magnitude, the number of seats per district, is a critical component of electoral systems. It affects key outcomes such as accountability, legislative fragmentation, and disproportionality in representation by providing incentives for voters, candidates, and representatives. Some democracies have identical-magnitude districts (whether under majoritarian or districted proportional representation), yet many elect their representatives thro…
Electoral Systems and Political Participation (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Voting (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works)