Noam Gidron Author & Editor

Gideon Rahat holds the Gersten Family Chair in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. His research interests are the politics of re­form, democratic institutions, political parties, candidate and leadership selection and political per­sonalization.

Noam Gidron is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Joint Program in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests focus on populism and polarization in Western democracies.

Michal Shamir is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on democratic politics, including elections, party systems, public opinion, tolerance, democratic culture, representation and democratic backsliding.