Jacob Shamir
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1417518 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jacob Shamir |
| NOMBRES | Jacob |
| APELLIDO | Shamir |
| FIRMA | SHAMIR J |
| AFILIACIONES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Voter Election Frames
How do citizens think about elections? Building on democratic theory, political psychology and political communication theories, we conceptualize how voters interpret elections in terms of election frames, and explore the interplay between them and media frames. Election frames are deduced from the empirical and normative body of work on elections and democracy and they are tracked empirically through in-depth interviews with citizens, carried ou…
Symbolic and Concrete Demands in Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Researchers have recently leveled criticism at the realist approach to conflict resolution by pointing out the importance of symbolic aspects of this issue. Few studies, however, have hitherto focused on symbolic demands in conflicts. The present study examines the role of symbolic as well as concrete demands in conflict resolution, and is therefore innovative in this regard. A demand is categorized as “concrete” if it is based on an interest tha…
Palestinian and Israeli Public Opinion
The influence of public opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Palestinian and Israeli Public Opinion
Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Joint Israeli-Palestinian Poll: Context and Methodology 3. The Public Imperative: Public Opinion in Two-Level Games 4. The Israeli and Palestinian Publics: Differences and Similarities 5. Camp David 2000: Tied Hands and Closed Lips 6. The Eruption of the Intifada: The Role of Violence in Two-Level Games 7. From Geneva to Disengagement: Opportunities and Constraints 8. Political Turnabouts: The Electoral Connection 9…
Psychological Correlates of Public Support for Reconciliation
This study examines psychological correlates of Jewish-Israeli support for post-conflict political reconciliation with Jordan. An analysis of data from a public opinion survey conducted with a representative sample of Israeli-Jews (n=1000) indicated that appraisal of outgroup collective threat, as well as hatred and (lack of) sympathy towards Jordanians, predicted Jewish-Israeli decreased support for peaceful reconciliation with Jordan. Our findi…
What were the Elections about, and Why We Should Ask about it in Election Surveys
Elections are a prime topic of research for political scientists, given that they are the major apparatus of democracy. However the bulk of the studies focus on voting behavior and election campaigns. Thus, we know much about how the vote is structured and what enters voters’ calculus, how election campaigns are devised and how they affect voters. We know much less about what the elections mean, how the meaning of election outcomes is constructed…
The Political Communication of Mandate Elections
Elections are a prime topic of research for political scientists and political communication scholars, with most studies focusing on electoral behavior and election campaigns. Our interest lies in the construction of meaning of elections, and in particular electoral mandates—defined as policy directives sent from electorates to their elected leaders. Mandates emanate from the electorate, but assignment of meaning to elections is a typical politic…
Quality Assessment of Television Programs in Israel
Television programs' production value is highly regarded by professionals as a crucial dimension of program quality. This study examines the degree to which lay viewers, rather than professionals, are sensitive to television programs' production value as a distinct evaluative dimension, their ability to pass educated judgments on production value, and the impact of these judgments on their overall program appreciation and quality assessment. Base…
The Israeli—Palestinian Conflict in Israeli Elections
The Israeli—Palestinian conflict is one of the most intractable conflicts in the world today. During the period of the 1990s and early 2000s, its salience was especially high. In this article, we explore the role of elections in the conflict, focusing on deliberation, legitimation, and representation. We analyze the five Israeli elections between 1992 and 2003. Our findings raise significant doubts as to the quality of deliberation on the conflic…
Public Opinion in the Israeli-Palestinian Two-Level Game
The article focuses on public opinion as a policy-relevant imperative in negotiators' two-level games, in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Specifically, it highlights two characteristics of public opinion: its multifaceted nature and its susceptibility to framing efforts. The two are related in the sense that they provide negotiators with opportunities to shape their own and the other side's win-sets: the sets of possible agreemen…
Self–Serving Perceptions of Terrorism Among Israelis and Palestinians
Definitions of political violence as terrorism are often tainted by self–serving motivations. Groups in conflict in particular tend to justify the use of indiscriminate violent means by highly regarded political ends. This study explores such self–serving perceptions of terrorism in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In two surveys during December 2001, Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs and Palestinians were asked whether 11 local and int…
Determinants of Reconciliation and Compromise Among Israelis and Palestinians
This joint Palestinian-Israeli study stresses the importance of public opinion in reconciliation processes. It was conducted in the wake of the Arafat-Barak Camp David summit and intended to set up a baseline for sentiments of compromise and reconciliation among Israelis and Palestinians at the peak of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. The study is based on surveys of representative samples of the Israeli adult population ( n = 525) and the …
Motivation and Accuracy in Estimating Opinion Distributions
This paper explores the question of accuracy in the estimation of opinion distributions. Based on survey data on 24 issues, it finds that people are not very good in their exact numerical estimates, but they do much better in identifying the majority opinion on an issue. The paper further examines the role of motivation for accuracy through a survey experiment. The results indicate that the respondents tried harder when motivated, but did not imp…
Pluralistic Ignorance Across Issues and Over Time
Journal Article Pluralistic Ignorance Across Issues and Over Time: Information Cues and Biases Get access JACOB SHAMIR, JACOB SHAMIR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL SHAMIR MICHAEL SHAMIR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, August 1997, Pages 227–260, https://doi.org/10.1086/297794 Published: 01 August 1997
Information Cues and Indicators of the Climate of Opinion
This article explores the informational assumptions in Noelle-Neumann's spiral of silence theory. It is based empirically on data from in-depth interviews employing the “thinking aloud” protocols methodology, and survey data from Israel during the Intifada. Our respondents base their estimates of the climate of opinion on a broader, sounder, and more robust information array than the rather narrow and socially based overt opinion expression cues …
Competing values in public opinion
Pluralistic Ignorance Revisited
Israeli Elite Journalists
Horse‐race Journalism and pollsters' performance in Israel
This paper examines the interaction between the horse‐race attitude of the press in covering election campaigns and pollsters’ performance in Israel. Attempting to provide highly processed and more exciting reports, the press encourages pollsters to switch from relatively conservative approaches to projecting election results, into more daring ones, prone to situational errors. Moreover, criticizing such errors when they occur, the press focuses …
Preelection Polls in Israel
This article examines the last two Israeli election campaigns of 1981 and 1984, and suggests that structural variables greatly affect the accuracy of reported preelection polls. Pollsters' quest for more detail and refinement driven by competition and mass media pressures for highly processed predictions is liable to result in less accurate reports. The kind of errors in polls' projections are situation-bound and greatly depend on the nature of t…
Consumers' subjective perception of price in times of inflation
Pluralistic Ignorance Across Issues and Over Time
Journal Article Pluralistic Ignorance Across Issues and Over Time: Information Cues and Biases Get access JACOB SHAMIR, JACOB SHAMIR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL SHAMIR MICHAEL SHAMIR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, August 1997, Pages 227–260, https://doi.org/10.1086/297794 Published: 01 August 1997
Self–Serving Perceptions of Terrorism Among Israelis and Palestinians
Definitions of political violence as terrorism are often tainted by self–serving motivations. Groups in conflict in particular tend to justify the use of indiscriminate violent means by highly regarded political ends. This study explores such self–serving perceptions of terrorism in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In two surveys during December 2001, Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs and Palestinians were asked whether 11 local and int…
Determinants of Reconciliation and Compromise Among Israelis and Palestinians
This joint Palestinian-Israeli study stresses the importance of public opinion in reconciliation processes. It was conducted in the wake of the Arafat-Barak Camp David summit and intended to set up a baseline for sentiments of compromise and reconciliation among Israelis and Palestinians at the peak of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. The study is based on surveys of representative samples of the Israeli adult population ( n = 525) and the …
Information Cues and Indicators of the Climate of Opinion
This article explores the informational assumptions in Noelle-Neumann's spiral of silence theory. It is based empirically on data from in-depth interviews employing the “thinking aloud” protocols methodology, and survey data from Israel during the Intifada. Our respondents base their estimates of the climate of opinion on a broader, sounder, and more robust information array than the rather narrow and socially based overt opinion expression cues …
Competing values in public opinion
The Political Communication of Mandate Elections
Elections are a prime topic of research for political scientists and political communication scholars, with most studies focusing on electoral behavior and election campaigns. Our interest lies in the construction of meaning of elections, and in particular electoral mandates—defined as policy directives sent from electorates to their elected leaders. Mandates emanate from the electorate, but assignment of meaning to elections is a typical politic…
What were the Elections about, and Why We Should Ask about it in Election Surveys
Elections are a prime topic of research for political scientists, given that they are the major apparatus of democracy. However the bulk of the studies focus on voting behavior and election campaigns. Thus, we know much about how the vote is structured and what enters voters’ calculus, how election campaigns are devised and how they affect voters. We know much less about what the elections mean, how the meaning of election outcomes is constructed…
Quality Assessment of Television Programs in Israel
Television programs' production value is highly regarded by professionals as a crucial dimension of program quality. This study examines the degree to which lay viewers, rather than professionals, are sensitive to television programs' production value as a distinct evaluative dimension, their ability to pass educated judgments on production value, and the impact of these judgments on their overall program appreciation and quality assessment. Base…
The Israeli—Palestinian Conflict in Israeli Elections
The Israeli—Palestinian conflict is one of the most intractable conflicts in the world today. During the period of the 1990s and early 2000s, its salience was especially high. In this article, we explore the role of elections in the conflict, focusing on deliberation, legitimation, and representation. We analyze the five Israeli elections between 1992 and 2003. Our findings raise significant doubts as to the quality of deliberation on the conflic…
Public Opinion in the Israeli-Palestinian Two-Level Game
The article focuses on public opinion as a policy-relevant imperative in negotiators' two-level games, in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Specifically, it highlights two characteristics of public opinion: its multifaceted nature and its susceptibility to framing efforts. The two are related in the sense that they provide negotiators with opportunities to shape their own and the other side's win-sets: the sets of possible agreemen…
Preelection Polls in Israel
This article examines the last two Israeli election campaigns of 1981 and 1984, and suggests that structural variables greatly affect the accuracy of reported preelection polls. Pollsters' quest for more detail and refinement driven by competition and mass media pressures for highly processed predictions is liable to result in less accurate reports. The kind of errors in polls' projections are situation-bound and greatly depend on the nature of t…
Voter Election Frames
How do citizens think about elections? Building on democratic theory, political psychology and political communication theories, we conceptualize how voters interpret elections in terms of election frames, and explore the interplay between them and media frames. Election frames are deduced from the empirical and normative body of work on elections and democracy and they are tracked empirically through in-depth interviews with citizens, carried ou…
Symbolic and Concrete Demands in Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Researchers have recently leveled criticism at the realist approach to conflict resolution by pointing out the importance of symbolic aspects of this issue. Few studies, however, have hitherto focused on symbolic demands in conflicts. The present study examines the role of symbolic as well as concrete demands in conflict resolution, and is therefore innovative in this regard. A demand is categorized as “concrete” if it is based on an interest tha…
Motivation and Accuracy in Estimating Opinion Distributions
This paper explores the question of accuracy in the estimation of opinion distributions. Based on survey data on 24 issues, it finds that people are not very good in their exact numerical estimates, but they do much better in identifying the majority opinion on an issue. The paper further examines the role of motivation for accuracy through a survey experiment. The results indicate that the respondents tried harder when motivated, but did not imp…
Pluralistic Ignorance Revisited
Consumers' subjective perception of price in times of inflation
Consumers' subjective perception of price in times of inflation
Horse‐race Journalism and pollsters' performance in Israel
This paper examines the interaction between the horse‐race attitude of the press in covering election campaigns and pollsters’ performance in Israel. Attempting to provide highly processed and more exciting reports, the press encourages pollsters to switch from relatively conservative approaches to projecting election results, into more daring ones, prone to situational errors. Moreover, criticizing such errors when they occur, the press focuses …
Preelection Polls in Israel
This article examines the last two Israeli election campaigns of 1981 and 1984, and suggests that structural variables greatly affect the accuracy of reported preelection polls. Pollsters' quest for more detail and refinement driven by competition and mass media pressures for highly processed predictions is liable to result in less accurate reports. The kind of errors in polls' projections are situation-bound and greatly depend on the nature of t…
Israeli Elite Journalists
Pluralistic Ignorance Revisited
Information Cues and Indicators of the Climate of Opinion
This article explores the informational assumptions in Noelle-Neumann's spiral of silence theory. It is based empirically on data from in-depth interviews employing the “thinking aloud” protocols methodology, and survey data from Israel during the Intifada. Our respondents base their estimates of the climate of opinion on a broader, sounder, and more robust information array than the rather narrow and socially based overt opinion expression cues …
Competing values in public opinion
Pluralistic Ignorance Across Issues and Over Time
Journal Article Pluralistic Ignorance Across Issues and Over Time: Information Cues and Biases Get access JACOB SHAMIR, JACOB SHAMIR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL SHAMIR MICHAEL SHAMIR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, August 1997, Pages 227–260, https://doi.org/10.1086/297794 Published: 01 August 1997
Motivation and Accuracy in Estimating Opinion Distributions
This paper explores the question of accuracy in the estimation of opinion distributions. Based on survey data on 24 issues, it finds that people are not very good in their exact numerical estimates, but they do much better in identifying the majority opinion on an issue. The paper further examines the role of motivation for accuracy through a survey experiment. The results indicate that the respondents tried harder when motivated, but did not imp…
Self–Serving Perceptions of Terrorism Among Israelis and Palestinians
Definitions of political violence as terrorism are often tainted by self–serving motivations. Groups in conflict in particular tend to justify the use of indiscriminate violent means by highly regarded political ends. This study explores such self–serving perceptions of terrorism in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In two surveys during December 2001, Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs and Palestinians were asked whether 11 local and int…
Determinants of Reconciliation and Compromise Among Israelis and Palestinians
This joint Palestinian-Israeli study stresses the importance of public opinion in reconciliation processes. It was conducted in the wake of the Arafat-Barak Camp David summit and intended to set up a baseline for sentiments of compromise and reconciliation among Israelis and Palestinians at the peak of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. The study is based on surveys of representative samples of the Israeli adult population ( n = 525) and the …
Public Opinion in the Israeli-Palestinian Two-Level Game
The article focuses on public opinion as a policy-relevant imperative in negotiators' two-level games, in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Specifically, it highlights two characteristics of public opinion: its multifaceted nature and its susceptibility to framing efforts. The two are related in the sense that they provide negotiators with opportunities to shape their own and the other side's win-sets: the sets of possible agreemen…
Quality Assessment of Television Programs in Israel
Television programs' production value is highly regarded by professionals as a crucial dimension of program quality. This study examines the degree to which lay viewers, rather than professionals, are sensitive to television programs' production value as a distinct evaluative dimension, their ability to pass educated judgments on production value, and the impact of these judgments on their overall program appreciation and quality assessment. Base…
The Israeli—Palestinian Conflict in Israeli Elections
The Israeli—Palestinian conflict is one of the most intractable conflicts in the world today. During the period of the 1990s and early 2000s, its salience was especially high. In this article, we explore the role of elections in the conflict, focusing on deliberation, legitimation, and representation. We analyze the five Israeli elections between 1992 and 2003. Our findings raise significant doubts as to the quality of deliberation on the conflic…
What were the Elections about, and Why We Should Ask about it in Election Surveys
Elections are a prime topic of research for political scientists, given that they are the major apparatus of democracy. However the bulk of the studies focus on voting behavior and election campaigns. Thus, we know much about how the vote is structured and what enters voters’ calculus, how election campaigns are devised and how they affect voters. We know much less about what the elections mean, how the meaning of election outcomes is constructed…
The Political Communication of Mandate Elections
Elections are a prime topic of research for political scientists and political communication scholars, with most studies focusing on electoral behavior and election campaigns. Our interest lies in the construction of meaning of elections, and in particular electoral mandates—defined as policy directives sent from electorates to their elected leaders. Mandates emanate from the electorate, but assignment of meaning to elections is a typical politic…
Psychological Correlates of Public Support for Reconciliation
This study examines psychological correlates of Jewish-Israeli support for post-conflict political reconciliation with Jordan. An analysis of data from a public opinion survey conducted with a representative sample of Israeli-Jews (n=1000) indicated that appraisal of outgroup collective threat, as well as hatred and (lack of) sympathy towards Jordanians, predicted Jewish-Israeli decreased support for peaceful reconciliation with Jordan. Our findi…
Palestinian and Israeli Public Opinion
The influence of public opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Palestinian and Israeli Public Opinion
Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Joint Israeli-Palestinian Poll: Context and Methodology 3. The Public Imperative: Public Opinion in Two-Level Games 4. The Israeli and Palestinian Publics: Differences and Similarities 5. Camp David 2000: Tied Hands and Closed Lips 6. The Eruption of the Intifada: The Role of Violence in Two-Level Games 7. From Geneva to Disengagement: Opportunities and Constraints 8. Political Turnabouts: The Electoral Connection 9…
Symbolic and Concrete Demands in Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Researchers have recently leveled criticism at the realist approach to conflict resolution by pointing out the importance of symbolic aspects of this issue. Few studies, however, have hitherto focused on symbolic demands in conflicts. The present study examines the role of symbolic as well as concrete demands in conflict resolution, and is therefore innovative in this regard. A demand is categorized as “concrete” if it is based on an interest tha…
Voter Election Frames
How do citizens think about elections? Building on democratic theory, political psychology and political communication theories, we conceptualize how voters interpret elections in terms of election frames, and explore the interplay between them and media frames. Election frames are deduced from the empirical and normative body of work on elections and democracy and they are tracked empirically through in-depth interviews with citizens, carried ou…
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