Alon Yakter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1417865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alon Yakter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alon |
| FAMILY NAME | Yakter |
| SIGNATURE | YAKTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6971-2741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do Personality Traits Predict Voter Attitudes When Politics Is Structured Around Conflict? Lessons from Israel
The relationship between personality traits and political attitudes has been studied extensively. However, existing accounts largely study personality’s links to liberal-conservative divisions on social and economic issues. We know far less about its attitudinal influences when politics is organized around other issue domains, particularly ethnonational conflicts. Addressing this gap, we examine the relationship between the Big Five personality t…
Disentangling the Relationship Between Prospective Expectations and Policy Preferences in Violent Conflicts
Popular willingness to compromise is an important step for conflict resolution. A key argument suggests that improving expectations about the prospects of peace can increase public support for concessions. Yet a competing view, anchored in broader debates about preferences and expectations, suggests that prior ideological dispositions motivate biased future expectations rather than vice versa. This tension, however, remains understudied in violen…
The Electoral Implications of Legislative Candidate Selection Democratization
Amid declining public standing, many political parties seek to regain disaffected voters through various institutional strategies. One key approach is democratizing legislative candidate selection to grant party members or voters greater influence and signal improved responsiveness, transparency, and legitimacy. Yet does this strategy pay off electorally? The growing literature on this topic provides conflicting answers and limited evidence. We a…
Is terrorism necessarily violent? Public perceptions of nonviolence and terrorism in conflict settings
Discussions of terrorism assume actual or threatened violence, but the term is regularly used to delegitimize rivals' nonviolent actions. Yet do ordinary citizens accept descriptions of nonviolence as terrorism? Using a preregistered survey-experiment in Israel, a salient conflictual context with diverse repertoires of contention, we find that audiences rate adversary nonviolence close to terrorism, consider it illegitimate, and justify its force…
Public Preferences for Intergroup Assistance in Conflicts Facing Joint External Threats
With global changes, large-scale natural hazards are more frequent and intense, posing a particular challenge for groups in conflict. Do these shared external threats influence group willingness to cooperate and assist the adversary, and how? The literature suggests inconsistent expectations, from increased intergroup cooperation, to exacerbated animosity, to no discernable impact. We explore this question in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict amid…
Attitudinal Ambivalence on Redistribution
While support for redistribution remains high across Europe, voting for left-wing parties, traditionally identified with this agenda, has been under par. Past research explains this puzzle by class-based disagreements about redistributive priorities and by second-dimension attitudes. These explanations, however, assume coherent voter preferences reacting to structural changes. By contrast, I argue that part of the puzzle also lies in attitudinal …
Long-Term Change in Conflict Attitudes
A large literature examines how citizens in violent conflicts react to the conflict's events, particularly violent escalations. Nevertheless, the temporal nature of these attitudinal changes remains under-studied. We suggest that popular reactions to greater violence are typically immediate but brief, indicating short-term emotional responses to physical threats. Over the longer term, however, public opinion is more commonly shaped by non-violent…
The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation
What prolonged implications does conflict escalation have on voting behavior? The literature focuses primarily on the immediate effect of violent events on voting in nearby elections, leaving open questions about longer-term consequences. This article examines this question by studying Israel, where violent escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the early 2000s was followed by an unexpected electoral outcome: the emergence and consolid…
The heterogeneous effect of diversity
The current consensus among comparative political scientists postulates that diverse democracies redistribute less than do homogeneous ones. However, whereas homogeneous democracies do redistribute more on average, diverse democracies exhibit high variation in redistributive outcomes. Why does ascriptive heterogeneity stifle redistribution in some cases but not in others? In this article, it is argued that diversity undermines redistributive outc…
Understanding Multiple Perspectives
Teaching about political conflict requires an understanding of the multiple perspectives and motivations of the parties to the conflict. This is especially true when teaching students who may have strong predispositions, such as in classes on the Arab–Israeli conflict. Various active-learning techniques address this problem but often at a cost of long preparation, substantial class time, and class-size limitations. This article offers both quanti…
Retracted
Retraction Statement: Alon Yakter, The heterogeneous effect of diversity: Ascriptive identities, class and redistribution in developed democracies, European Journal of Political Research 2019, 58(1), 12283 ( https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6765.12283 ). The above article, published online on 17 May 2018 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief Emi…
The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation
What prolonged implications does conflict escalation have on voting behavior? The literature focuses primarily on the immediate effect of violent events on voting in nearby elections, leaving open questions about longer-term consequences. This article examines this question by studying Israel, where violent escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the early 2000s was followed by an unexpected electoral outcome: the emergence and consolid…
Long-Term Change in Conflict Attitudes
A large literature examines how citizens in violent conflicts react to the conflict's events, particularly violent escalations. Nevertheless, the temporal nature of these attitudinal changes remains under-studied. We suggest that popular reactions to greater violence are typically immediate but brief, indicating short-term emotional responses to physical threats. Over the longer term, however, public opinion is more commonly shaped by non-violent…
Attitudinal Ambivalence on Redistribution
While support for redistribution remains high across Europe, voting for left-wing parties, traditionally identified with this agenda, has been under par. Past research explains this puzzle by class-based disagreements about redistributive priorities and by second-dimension attitudes. These explanations, however, assume coherent voter preferences reacting to structural changes. By contrast, I argue that part of the puzzle also lies in attitudinal …
The heterogeneous effect of diversity
The current consensus among comparative political scientists postulates that diverse democracies redistribute less than do homogeneous ones. However, whereas homogeneous democracies do redistribute more on average, diverse democracies exhibit high variation in redistributive outcomes. Why does ascriptive heterogeneity stifle redistribution in some cases but not in others? In this article, it is argued that diversity undermines redistributive outc…
Retracted
Retraction Statement: Alon Yakter, The heterogeneous effect of diversity: Ascriptive identities, class and redistribution in developed democracies, European Journal of Political Research 2019, 58(1), 12283 ( https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6765.12283 ). The above article, published online on 17 May 2018 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief Emi…
Understanding Multiple Perspectives
Teaching about political conflict requires an understanding of the multiple perspectives and motivations of the parties to the conflict. This is especially true when teaching students who may have strong predispositions, such as in classes on the Arab–Israeli conflict. Various active-learning techniques address this problem but often at a cost of long preparation, substantial class time, and class-size limitations. This article offers both quanti…
Retracted
Retraction Statement: Alon Yakter, The heterogeneous effect of diversity: Ascriptive identities, class and redistribution in developed democracies, European Journal of Political Research 2019, 58(1), 12283 ( https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6765.12283 ). The above article, published online on 17 May 2018 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief Emi…
The heterogeneous effect of diversity
The current consensus among comparative political scientists postulates that diverse democracies redistribute less than do homogeneous ones. However, whereas homogeneous democracies do redistribute more on average, diverse democracies exhibit high variation in redistributive outcomes. Why does ascriptive heterogeneity stifle redistribution in some cases but not in others? In this article, it is argued that diversity undermines redistributive outc…
Public Preferences for Intergroup Assistance in Conflicts Facing Joint External Threats
With global changes, large-scale natural hazards are more frequent and intense, posing a particular challenge for groups in conflict. Do these shared external threats influence group willingness to cooperate and assist the adversary, and how? The literature suggests inconsistent expectations, from increased intergroup cooperation, to exacerbated animosity, to no discernable impact. We explore this question in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict amid…
Attitudinal Ambivalence on Redistribution
While support for redistribution remains high across Europe, voting for left-wing parties, traditionally identified with this agenda, has been under par. Past research explains this puzzle by class-based disagreements about redistributive priorities and by second-dimension attitudes. These explanations, however, assume coherent voter preferences reacting to structural changes. By contrast, I argue that part of the puzzle also lies in attitudinal …
Long-Term Change in Conflict Attitudes
A large literature examines how citizens in violent conflicts react to the conflict's events, particularly violent escalations. Nevertheless, the temporal nature of these attitudinal changes remains under-studied. We suggest that popular reactions to greater violence are typically immediate but brief, indicating short-term emotional responses to physical threats. Over the longer term, however, public opinion is more commonly shaped by non-violent…
The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation
What prolonged implications does conflict escalation have on voting behavior? The literature focuses primarily on the immediate effect of violent events on voting in nearby elections, leaving open questions about longer-term consequences. This article examines this question by studying Israel, where violent escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the early 2000s was followed by an unexpected electoral outcome: the emergence and consolid…
Is terrorism necessarily violent? Public perceptions of nonviolence and terrorism in conflict settings
Discussions of terrorism assume actual or threatened violence, but the term is regularly used to delegitimize rivals' nonviolent actions. Yet do ordinary citizens accept descriptions of nonviolence as terrorism? Using a preregistered survey-experiment in Israel, a salient conflictual context with diverse repertoires of contention, we find that audiences rate adversary nonviolence close to terrorism, consider it illegitimate, and justify its force…
Do Personality Traits Predict Voter Attitudes When Politics Is Structured Around Conflict? Lessons from Israel
The relationship between personality traits and political attitudes has been studied extensively. However, existing accounts largely study personality’s links to liberal-conservative divisions on social and economic issues. We know far less about its attitudinal influences when politics is organized around other issue domains, particularly ethnonational conflicts. Addressing this gap, we examine the relationship between the Big Five personality t…
Disentangling the Relationship Between Prospective Expectations and Policy Preferences in Violent Conflicts
Popular willingness to compromise is an important step for conflict resolution. A key argument suggests that improving expectations about the prospects of peace can increase public support for concessions. Yet a competing view, anchored in broader debates about preferences and expectations, suggests that prior ideological dispositions motivate biased future expectations rather than vice versa. This tension, however, remains understudied in violen…
The Electoral Implications of Legislative Candidate Selection Democratization
Amid declining public standing, many political parties seek to regain disaffected voters through various institutional strategies. One key approach is democratizing legislative candidate selection to grant party members or voters greater influence and signal improved responsiveness, transparency, and legitimacy. Yet does this strategy pay off electorally? The growing literature on this topic provides conflicting answers and limited evidence. We a…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (5 works)