Israel Waismel-Manor
Biographic Data
| ID | 328752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Israel Waismel-Manor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Israel |
| FAMILY NAME | Waismel-Manor |
| SIGNATURE | WAISMEL-MANOR I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6202-8111 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The risk of corruption: Exploring the relationship between corruption and smoking-related mortality in the OECD
This study examines whether perceived public-sector corruption is associated with adult daily smoking prevalence and six smoking-attributable mortality indicators across the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). Drawing on publicly available national data from the 36 OECD member states (2012–2019), we conducted an ecological, cross-sectional analysis using correlation and backward-elimination regression modelling. Our mai…
Navigating participation: How website design impacts the digital divide in political engagement
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study
Across societies and across history, seemingly dominant, authoritarian leaders have emerged frequently, often rising to power based on widespread popular support. One prominent theory holds that evolved psychological mechanisms of followership regulate citizens' leadership preferences such that dominant individuals are intuitively attributed leadership qualities when followers face intergroup conflicts like war. A key hypothesis based on this the…
The Pitkinian public: Representation in the eyes of citizens
Democracy is backsliding in Europe and around the world as citizens’ trust in elected representatives and institutions wanes. Representation theories and studies have mostly centred on the representatives, rather than the represented. But how do citizens perceive political representation? Are their perceptions of any consequence at all? In this paper, we set forth a framework of representation in the eyes of citizens, based on Pitkin’s classic co…
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19
Covid-19 has shocked governance systems worldwide. Legislatures, in particular, have been shut down or limited due to the pandemic, yet with divergence from one country to another. In this article, we report results from a cross-sectional quantitative analysis of legislative activity during the initial reaction to this shock and identify the factors accounting for such variation. Exploring legislatures across 159 countries, we find no relation be…
People’s sense of political representation and national stories: The case of Israel
Previous research on political representation mainly focused on representatives but has overlooked individuals’ sense of inclusion within the greater group: the nation. Building on narrative theory, we propose a novel mechanism that fosters a feeling of political representation—a similarity between individuals’ personal-national stories and the collective-national metanarrative of the polity. Metanarratives are shared dominant stories that presen…
Political Para-Social Relationship as a Predictor of Voting Preferences in the Israeli 2019 Elections
The idea that the success of media personae in attracting audiences and maintaining their loyalty depends on the creation of a pseudo-friendship, known as para-social relationships, has been a mainstay of mass media research for more than half a century. Expanding the scope of para-social relationship research into the political realm, the notion that political support could be predicted based on the intensity of para-social relationships between…
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study
Does Corruption Corrupt? The Behavioral Effects of Mediated Exposure to Corruption
Corruption is a complex, widespread phenomenon with harmful economic and societal effects. Drawing upon theories in social psychology, political science, and communication, this study examines the direct and joint effects of mediated exposure to grand corruption and the presence of monetary incentives on people’s likelihood to engage in dishonest behavior. In a 2 × 2 factorial design (N = 404), half of all participants were exposed to a newscast …
The Macedonian Fake News Industry and the 2016 US Election
During the 2016 US presidential election, Americans were exposed to an onslaught of disinformation on social media. Many of the most viral posts originated from Veles, a small town in central Macedonia. During fieldwork in Veles, where we interviewed several residents and disinformation creators, we found that the epicenter of this viral phenomenon was Mirko Ceselkoski, an autodidact social media expert, teacher, and mentor to Veles’ fake news op…
A Cyberterrorism Effect? Emotional Reactions to Lethal Attacks on Critical Infrastructure
To what extent does exposure to cyberterrorism arouse negative emotions? Cyberterrorism has developed the potential to cause similarly lethal consequences to conventional terrorism, especially when targeted at critical infrastructures. But like conventional terrorism, cyberterrorism aims to terrorize, and exposure to cyberterror attacks can affect emotional responses. This article is based on an experiment that explores emotional responses to cyb…
The Interdependence of Perceived Ideological Positions
Theoretical and empirical models describing how voters form perceptions of political candidates assume that such perceptions are independent of each other, even though decades of evidence in cognitive science have shown that context influences the perceptions of various stimuli. In this research note, we argue that such perceptions depend on the full range of available ideological platforms. Data from three survey experiments in Israel provide st…
The Right Faces for Right-Wing and Left-Wing Politicians
Researchers of the baby-face stereotype maintain that having a more adult-looking face contributes to success in the political arena. However, this hypothesis has not been confirmed in previous research. This study suggests that more mature faces will be beneficial only for left-wing politicians whose public perception suffers from the appearance of a lack of dominance. Furthermore, with regard to only left-wing politicians, we also hypothesized …
Looks That Matter: The Effect of Physical Attractiveness in Low- and High-Information Elections
Research demonstrates that good looks matter in politics. The global trend today is toward more visual ballots, which include candidates' photographs. Because voters are exposed to a candidate's appearance right before they vote, physical attractiveness may be a significant contributor to electoral success. But does appearance matter equally in high-information elections, where all candidates are well known to voters, and low-information election…
What Does National Resilience Mean in a Democracy? Evidence from the United States and Israel
Given various challenges to national security in democracies, such as terrorism and political violence, a growing need for reconceptualization of the term 'resilience' emerges. The interface between national security and resilience is rooted in individuals' perceptions and attitudes toward institutions and leadership. Therefore, in this article, we suggest that political-psychological features form the basis of citizens' perceived definitions of …
The Influence of President Obama’s, Middle Name on Middle Eastern and U.S. Perceptions
Spinning Forward: Professionalization Among Campaign Consultants
Scholars have argued that, as an occupation, campaign consultants' work is closer to an art than to a science. In order to learn whether consultants are professionals, or at least in the process of becoming ones, this study puts campaign consultants' professionalization to the test. Evidence from a 14-year-long, computer-assisted content analysis of Campaigns & Elections, the leading trade journal in the field, shows that campaign consultants are…
Can Overreporting in Surveys be Reduced? Evidence from Israel's Municipal Elections
Studies over the last 50 years have consistently shown that survey respondents overreport their participation in American national elections (Abelson, Loftus & Greenwald, 1992; Clausen, 1968; Parry & Crossley, 1950; Presser, Traugott & Traugott, 1990; Silver, Anderson & Abramson, 1986; Traugott & Katosh, 1979). Similar results were reported in Britain (Swaddle & Heath, 1989), Sweden (Granberg & Holmberg, 1991), New Zealand (Karp & Banducci, 1999)…
Waismel-Manor and Lowi’s Reply
Why Do Better-Looking Members of Congress Receive More Television Coverage
Based on psychological research on the attractiveness effect, this study investigated the role of legislators' physical attractiveness in shaping the amount of their news coverage. The physical attractiveness of members of the first session of the 110th U.S. Congress was evaluated by non-American college students. Computerized searches in news transcripts archived in Lexis-Nexis were used to determine the number of times each of the representativ…
Politics in Motion: A Personal History of Political Science
The American Political Science Review (APSR) centennial provided us an occasion for the examination of the political science profession as reflected from its pages. Employing a citation analysis of 220 major political scientists published in the APSR and probing deeper into the citation record of some of its prominent scholars, this paper charts the dynamics of political science history. Since its birth over a hundred years ago, the profession ha…
Exploring the Association between Israeli Legislators’ Physical Attractiveness and Their Television News Coverage
This study develops and tests the hypothesis that physically attractive politicians receive more news coverage. The physical attractiveness of Members of the 16th Israeli Knesset (MKs) was assessed by students abroad, who did not know they were evaluating Israeli politicians. The number of times each member appeared on national television news at the time of study was obtained and used as a measure of television news coverage. Multivariate analys…
Democracy Based on Difference: Examining the Links Between Structural Heterogeneity, Heterogeneity of Discussion Networks, and Democratic Citizenship
This study explores the direct and indirect links between structural heterogeneity, network heterogeneity, and political participation. We review the often conflicting scholarship on discussion network heterogeneity and political participation and place it within a multilevel conceptual framework of heterogeneity. Based on this integrated theoretical model, our study uses a combination of macro-level and individual-level survey data from various …
Network in Progress: A Conference Primer for Graduate Students
Conferences are an integral part of academic life. They generate focal points for intellectual exchange and encourage professional socialization. They help scholars working on similar issues to identify others who might be part of their specialist community while also creating opportunities to learn about research that colleagues are doing in different areas of the discipline. In other words, conferences provide an opportunity for scholars to pre…
Striking Differences: Hunger Strikes in Israel and the USA
Although certain repertoires of collective action have been around for a very long time, many actors choose not to use them. Why does this happen? Applying a comparative framework, this paper examines hunger strikes in Israel and the USA over a period of twenty-six years. After showing that hunger strikes are much more widespread in Israel, the paper puts forward five explanations for this ‘striking’ difference. It argues that (1) Israelis' socia…
Why Do Better-Looking Members of Congress Receive More Television Coverage
Based on psychological research on the attractiveness effect, this study investigated the role of legislators' physical attractiveness in shaping the amount of their news coverage. The physical attractiveness of members of the first session of the 110th U.S. Congress was evaluated by non-American college students. Computerized searches in news transcripts archived in Lexis-Nexis were used to determine the number of times each of the representativ…
Exploring the Association between Israeli Legislators’ Physical Attractiveness and Their Television News Coverage
This study develops and tests the hypothesis that physically attractive politicians receive more news coverage. The physical attractiveness of Members of the 16th Israeli Knesset (MKs) was assessed by students abroad, who did not know they were evaluating Israeli politicians. The number of times each member appeared on national television news at the time of study was obtained and used as a measure of television news coverage. Multivariate analys…
What Does National Resilience Mean in a Democracy? Evidence from the United States and Israel
Given various challenges to national security in democracies, such as terrorism and political violence, a growing need for reconceptualization of the term 'resilience' emerges. The interface between national security and resilience is rooted in individuals' perceptions and attitudes toward institutions and leadership. Therefore, in this article, we suggest that political-psychological features form the basis of citizens' perceived definitions of …
Looks That Matter: The Effect of Physical Attractiveness in Low- and High-Information Elections
Research demonstrates that good looks matter in politics. The global trend today is toward more visual ballots, which include candidates' photographs. Because voters are exposed to a candidate's appearance right before they vote, physical attractiveness may be a significant contributor to electoral success. But does appearance matter equally in high-information elections, where all candidates are well known to voters, and low-information election…
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19
Covid-19 has shocked governance systems worldwide. Legislatures, in particular, have been shut down or limited due to the pandemic, yet with divergence from one country to another. In this article, we report results from a cross-sectional quantitative analysis of legislative activity during the initial reaction to this shock and identify the factors accounting for such variation. Exploring legislatures across 159 countries, we find no relation be…
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study
Politics in Motion: A Personal History of Political Science
The American Political Science Review (APSR) centennial provided us an occasion for the examination of the political science profession as reflected from its pages. Employing a citation analysis of 220 major political scientists published in the APSR and probing deeper into the citation record of some of its prominent scholars, this paper charts the dynamics of political science history. Since its birth over a hundred years ago, the profession ha…
Striking Differences: Hunger Strikes in Israel and the USA
Although certain repertoires of collective action have been around for a very long time, many actors choose not to use them. Why does this happen? Applying a comparative framework, this paper examines hunger strikes in Israel and the USA over a period of twenty-six years. After showing that hunger strikes are much more widespread in Israel, the paper puts forward five explanations for this ‘striking’ difference. It argues that (1) Israelis' socia…
People’s sense of political representation and national stories: The case of Israel
Previous research on political representation mainly focused on representatives but has overlooked individuals’ sense of inclusion within the greater group: the nation. Building on narrative theory, we propose a novel mechanism that fosters a feeling of political representation—a similarity between individuals’ personal-national stories and the collective-national metanarrative of the polity. Metanarratives are shared dominant stories that presen…
Can Overreporting in Surveys be Reduced? Evidence from Israel's Municipal Elections
Studies over the last 50 years have consistently shown that survey respondents overreport their participation in American national elections (Abelson, Loftus & Greenwald, 1992; Clausen, 1968; Parry & Crossley, 1950; Presser, Traugott & Traugott, 1990; Silver, Anderson & Abramson, 1986; Traugott & Katosh, 1979). Similar results were reported in Britain (Swaddle & Heath, 1989), Sweden (Granberg & Holmberg, 1991), New Zealand (Karp & Banducci, 1999)…
The Pitkinian public: Representation in the eyes of citizens
Democracy is backsliding in Europe and around the world as citizens’ trust in elected representatives and institutions wanes. Representation theories and studies have mostly centred on the representatives, rather than the represented. But how do citizens perceive political representation? Are their perceptions of any consequence at all? In this paper, we set forth a framework of representation in the eyes of citizens, based on Pitkin’s classic co…
The Macedonian Fake News Industry and the 2016 US Election
During the 2016 US presidential election, Americans were exposed to an onslaught of disinformation on social media. Many of the most viral posts originated from Veles, a small town in central Macedonia. During fieldwork in Veles, where we interviewed several residents and disinformation creators, we found that the epicenter of this viral phenomenon was Mirko Ceselkoski, an autodidact social media expert, teacher, and mentor to Veles’ fake news op…
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study
Across societies and across history, seemingly dominant, authoritarian leaders have emerged frequently, often rising to power based on widespread popular support. One prominent theory holds that evolved psychological mechanisms of followership regulate citizens' leadership preferences such that dominant individuals are intuitively attributed leadership qualities when followers face intergroup conflicts like war. A key hypothesis based on this the…
Does Corruption Corrupt? The Behavioral Effects of Mediated Exposure to Corruption
Corruption is a complex, widespread phenomenon with harmful economic and societal effects. Drawing upon theories in social psychology, political science, and communication, this study examines the direct and joint effects of mediated exposure to grand corruption and the presence of monetary incentives on people’s likelihood to engage in dishonest behavior. In a 2 × 2 factorial design (N = 404), half of all participants were exposed to a newscast …
The Interdependence of Perceived Ideological Positions
Theoretical and empirical models describing how voters form perceptions of political candidates assume that such perceptions are independent of each other, even though decades of evidence in cognitive science have shown that context influences the perceptions of various stimuli. In this research note, we argue that such perceptions depend on the full range of available ideological platforms. Data from three survey experiments in Israel provide st…
Waismel-Manor and Lowi’s Reply
Get it in Writing: Using Politics to Teach Writing and Writing to Teach Politics
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Get it in Writing: Using Politics to Teach Writing and Writing to Teach Politics
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Striking Differences: Hunger Strikes in Israel and the USA
Although certain repertoires of collective action have been around for a very long time, many actors choose not to use them. Why does this happen? Applying a comparative framework, this paper examines hunger strikes in Israel and the USA over a period of twenty-six years. After showing that hunger strikes are much more widespread in Israel, the paper puts forward five explanations for this ‘striking’ difference. It argues that (1) Israelis' socia…
Democracy Based on Difference: Examining the Links Between Structural Heterogeneity, Heterogeneity of Discussion Networks, and Democratic Citizenship
This study explores the direct and indirect links between structural heterogeneity, network heterogeneity, and political participation. We review the often conflicting scholarship on discussion network heterogeneity and political participation and place it within a multilevel conceptual framework of heterogeneity. Based on this integrated theoretical model, our study uses a combination of macro-level and individual-level survey data from various …
Network in Progress: A Conference Primer for Graduate Students
Conferences are an integral part of academic life. They generate focal points for intellectual exchange and encourage professional socialization. They help scholars working on similar issues to identify others who might be part of their specialist community while also creating opportunities to learn about research that colleagues are doing in different areas of the discipline. In other words, conferences provide an opportunity for scholars to pre…
Exploring the Association between Israeli Legislators’ Physical Attractiveness and Their Television News Coverage
This study develops and tests the hypothesis that physically attractive politicians receive more news coverage. The physical attractiveness of Members of the 16th Israeli Knesset (MKs) was assessed by students abroad, who did not know they were evaluating Israeli politicians. The number of times each member appeared on national television news at the time of study was obtained and used as a measure of television news coverage. Multivariate analys…
Spinning Forward: Professionalization Among Campaign Consultants
Scholars have argued that, as an occupation, campaign consultants' work is closer to an art than to a science. In order to learn whether consultants are professionals, or at least in the process of becoming ones, this study puts campaign consultants' professionalization to the test. Evidence from a 14-year-long, computer-assisted content analysis of Campaigns & Elections, the leading trade journal in the field, shows that campaign consultants are…
Can Overreporting in Surveys be Reduced? Evidence from Israel's Municipal Elections
Studies over the last 50 years have consistently shown that survey respondents overreport their participation in American national elections (Abelson, Loftus & Greenwald, 1992; Clausen, 1968; Parry & Crossley, 1950; Presser, Traugott & Traugott, 1990; Silver, Anderson & Abramson, 1986; Traugott & Katosh, 1979). Similar results were reported in Britain (Swaddle & Heath, 1989), Sweden (Granberg & Holmberg, 1991), New Zealand (Karp & Banducci, 1999)…
Waismel-Manor and Lowi’s Reply
Why Do Better-Looking Members of Congress Receive More Television Coverage
Based on psychological research on the attractiveness effect, this study investigated the role of legislators' physical attractiveness in shaping the amount of their news coverage. The physical attractiveness of members of the first session of the 110th U.S. Congress was evaluated by non-American college students. Computerized searches in news transcripts archived in Lexis-Nexis were used to determine the number of times each of the representativ…
Politics in Motion: A Personal History of Political Science
The American Political Science Review (APSR) centennial provided us an occasion for the examination of the political science profession as reflected from its pages. Employing a citation analysis of 220 major political scientists published in the APSR and probing deeper into the citation record of some of its prominent scholars, this paper charts the dynamics of political science history. Since its birth over a hundred years ago, the profession ha…
The Influence of President Obama’s, Middle Name on Middle Eastern and U.S. Perceptions
What Does National Resilience Mean in a Democracy? Evidence from the United States and Israel
Given various challenges to national security in democracies, such as terrorism and political violence, a growing need for reconceptualization of the term 'resilience' emerges. The interface between national security and resilience is rooted in individuals' perceptions and attitudes toward institutions and leadership. Therefore, in this article, we suggest that political-psychological features form the basis of citizens' perceived definitions of …
The Right Faces for Right-Wing and Left-Wing Politicians
Researchers of the baby-face stereotype maintain that having a more adult-looking face contributes to success in the political arena. However, this hypothesis has not been confirmed in previous research. This study suggests that more mature faces will be beneficial only for left-wing politicians whose public perception suffers from the appearance of a lack of dominance. Furthermore, with regard to only left-wing politicians, we also hypothesized …
Looks That Matter: The Effect of Physical Attractiveness in Low- and High-Information Elections
Research demonstrates that good looks matter in politics. The global trend today is toward more visual ballots, which include candidates' photographs. Because voters are exposed to a candidate's appearance right before they vote, physical attractiveness may be a significant contributor to electoral success. But does appearance matter equally in high-information elections, where all candidates are well known to voters, and low-information election…
The Interdependence of Perceived Ideological Positions
Theoretical and empirical models describing how voters form perceptions of political candidates assume that such perceptions are independent of each other, even though decades of evidence in cognitive science have shown that context influences the perceptions of various stimuli. In this research note, we argue that such perceptions depend on the full range of available ideological platforms. Data from three survey experiments in Israel provide st…
A Cyberterrorism Effect? Emotional Reactions to Lethal Attacks on Critical Infrastructure
To what extent does exposure to cyberterrorism arouse negative emotions? Cyberterrorism has developed the potential to cause similarly lethal consequences to conventional terrorism, especially when targeted at critical infrastructures. But like conventional terrorism, cyberterrorism aims to terrorize, and exposure to cyberterror attacks can affect emotional responses. This article is based on an experiment that explores emotional responses to cyb…
Does Corruption Corrupt? The Behavioral Effects of Mediated Exposure to Corruption
Corruption is a complex, widespread phenomenon with harmful economic and societal effects. Drawing upon theories in social psychology, political science, and communication, this study examines the direct and joint effects of mediated exposure to grand corruption and the presence of monetary incentives on people’s likelihood to engage in dishonest behavior. In a 2 × 2 factorial design (N = 404), half of all participants were exposed to a newscast …
The Macedonian Fake News Industry and the 2016 US Election
During the 2016 US presidential election, Americans were exposed to an onslaught of disinformation on social media. Many of the most viral posts originated from Veles, a small town in central Macedonia. During fieldwork in Veles, where we interviewed several residents and disinformation creators, we found that the epicenter of this viral phenomenon was Mirko Ceselkoski, an autodidact social media expert, teacher, and mentor to Veles’ fake news op…
Political Para-Social Relationship as a Predictor of Voting Preferences in the Israeli 2019 Elections
The idea that the success of media personae in attracting audiences and maintaining their loyalty depends on the creation of a pseudo-friendship, known as para-social relationships, has been a mainstay of mass media research for more than half a century. Expanding the scope of para-social relationship research into the political realm, the notion that political support could be predicted based on the intensity of para-social relationships between…
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study
The Pitkinian public: Representation in the eyes of citizens
Democracy is backsliding in Europe and around the world as citizens’ trust in elected representatives and institutions wanes. Representation theories and studies have mostly centred on the representatives, rather than the represented. But how do citizens perceive political representation? Are their perceptions of any consequence at all? In this paper, we set forth a framework of representation in the eyes of citizens, based on Pitkin’s classic co…
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19
Covid-19 has shocked governance systems worldwide. Legislatures, in particular, have been shut down or limited due to the pandemic, yet with divergence from one country to another. In this article, we report results from a cross-sectional quantitative analysis of legislative activity during the initial reaction to this shock and identify the factors accounting for such variation. Exploring legislatures across 159 countries, we find no relation be…
People’s sense of political representation and national stories: The case of Israel
Previous research on political representation mainly focused on representatives but has overlooked individuals’ sense of inclusion within the greater group: the nation. Building on narrative theory, we propose a novel mechanism that fosters a feeling of political representation—a similarity between individuals’ personal-national stories and the collective-national metanarrative of the polity. Metanarratives are shared dominant stories that presen…
Navigating participation: How website design impacts the digital divide in political engagement
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study
Across societies and across history, seemingly dominant, authoritarian leaders have emerged frequently, often rising to power based on widespread popular support. One prominent theory holds that evolved psychological mechanisms of followership regulate citizens' leadership preferences such that dominant individuals are intuitively attributed leadership qualities when followers face intergroup conflicts like war. A key hypothesis based on this the…
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