Amnon Cavari

📢 New publication in Political Behavior With @acavari.bsky.social and @Liot_Shvarts 📢
Polarization and Partisan Bias in Citizens' Evaluations of Public Services
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03.09.2025 10:09 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Conspiracy Thinking and Electoral Trust During Tumultuous Times: The Case of Israel Abstract. Recent research reveals the association between conspiracy thinking, i.e., one’s predisposition to believe in conspiracy theories, and trust in e

Just out in International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
With @OmerYair1 and @AsifEfrat, we show that conspiracy thinking predicts mistrust in elections; well beyond losing or winning elections.

doi.org/10.1093/ijpo...

28.03.2024 19:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do international rankings affect public opinion? - Amnon Cavari, Asif Efrat, Omer Yair, 2024 International rankings push governments to adopt better policies by providing comparative information on states’ performance. How do citizens respond to this in...

Just out with BJPIR. International rankings give states grades for their performance. Using a survey experiment in Israel, we show that citizens take note of high rankings given to their country, but dismiss poor rankings. People wish to think well of their country!
doi.org/10.1177/1369...

03.03.2024 16:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Public support for democracy is crucial to prevent backsliding. But existing survey questions focusing on “democracy” may not measure the concept well, as the term “democracy” varies in meaning and may prompt social desirability. polisky 1/3

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