Dr. Noa Balf נועה באלף نوعة بالف

Legislating Peace Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Legislating Peace

Legislating Peace is out now with the Cambridge Elements Series in Gender & Politics. It’s available to download for free until March 6th!

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More are on the way!
These forthcoming Elements by @cbolzendahl.bsky.social & @hildecoffe.bsky.social 📚 @lizziebrannon.bsky.social & Jakana Thomas 📚 Mariela Daby & Eli Rau will launch on the website soon!

🧵 Excited to share my new book w/ @hildecoffe.bsky.social : "Different and Unequal? Gendered Political Participation in European Democracies" — with @universitypress.cambridge.org Elements in Gender and Politics (open access!)

TLDR? Women don't just participate less. They participate *differently*

Hamutal Gouri - Lecturer, consultant, and storytelling for social change.
Hila Tov - Independent Journalist and activist
Knesset Member Aida Touma-Suleiman - Palestinian feminist leader and politician
and me :)

Panelists:
Sivan Tahel - Mizrahi activist & journalist for independent magazine The Hottest Place in Hell
Maya Savir - Development professional working in humanitarian relief, human rights, and the peace community.
Samah Salaime - Researcher, writer, Palestinian feminist activist

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When they say "Defense" - we ask for whom?
When they say "Response" - we ask who initiated?
When they say "Inevitable" - we ask who determined that?

War is not destiny it is a choice.
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#Palestine #Israel #Feminism #Resistance #MiddleEast

ביום ראשון ה8 במרץ אין לנו פריבילגיה לשתוק

Excited to be back on the webinar 'The Circle with Hamutal' 3.8 International Woman's Day we consider feminist resistance that refuses to whitewash abuses of power refuses to accept politics defined & driven by fear & normalization of violence for alleged 'security'

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Our 2026 (volume 56) articles can be found here -

https://cup.org/4kRKcgQ

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אם אנחנו לא שם — אנחנו לא קיימות.

Very excited to join an incredible panel of Feminists and politicians to discuss power dynamics in Israeli politics.

This is an election year in Israel and the stakes are incredibly high.

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A couple months ago I wrote for the #ForumforRegionalThinking arguing there are no real alternatives to right wing extremism in Israeli politics - it's a sobering discussion of policies in the upcoming election regarding Palestinians
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Call for Papers: The Comparative Politics of Gender Deadline February 8, 2026

📣 The Italian Political Science Review invites submissions for a special issue on “The Comparative Politics of Gender”, guest-edited by @klbeckwith.bsky.social and myself.

Deadline for submitting your proposal: February 8, 2026.

Take a look at the call 👇

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📣 Still open!
⌛ The #ECPRGC26 Call for Panels & Papers is open until 9 January 2026.
📝 Still time to submit your proposal to our Section Political Parties and the Future of Democracy
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The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics Across democratic systems, ideological cleavages increasingly emerge not only between but also within political parties. At the same time, hyperpartisan and digitally networked media ecosystems amp...

🚨NEW PAPER
The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social

Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public.
It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Maybe you don't care, we don't know each other so my response was not about you specifically. But realistically a lot of this type of conversation is very concerned with who white women date.

When I first started hearing this it was after the 2016 election and there was a lot of hand ringing about ppl not dating across the aisle and that political polarization negatively impacts dating opportunities. The conversation was motivated by the gender voting gap. It *is* gendered & racialized.

I think this question is some white supremacist patriarchal bullshit. It relies on the idea that (primarily) women (preferably white) be available to (mostly white) men who are interested in them. The question challenges the idea that we are always entitled to say no, for whatever reason. End rant.

Destroying bureaucracy, independent journalism, academic institutions, public intellectual activity and research, Healthcare, freedom of movement, election integrity, was NEVER about government spending. This attack is an outcome of militarized ethnoreligious racist autocracy. Ask me about Israel.

Here's the book on how occupation never goes well, by @dmedelstein.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...

You wanna know what a country looks like with a hollowed out bureaucracy and diplomatic corps, with diplomacy and foreign affairs handled by extremist, inexperienced, sychophantic yes men? Look at Israel. What it means for military to follow illegal executive orders? Israel. AMA.

I know everyone is gonna look TO Latin Americanists to understand what is happening, but hear me out - a really relevant case for thinking through consequences is Israel. You want to know what it looks like for an executive to engage in destructive war unchecked by the legislature? I got you. AMA.

Nothing says we care about government spending like going to war. The most expensive government programming. 2026 is already delivering.

Go home prediction markets: you’re drunk

Political prediction markets moved billions in 2024, but new evidence shows they weren’t very accurate or efficient

PredictIt beat chance 93% of the time

Kalshi? 78%

Polymarket? 67%

Big price divergences, weak/negative correlations, & rampant arbitrage

Our paper on how cross-cutting group memberships predict warmer out-party affect and analyses suggesting this is why Latinos in the US have warmer feelings toward the out-party is now fully published in the most recent @polbehavior.bsky.social issue.

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My latest article is now up on ASR. In it, we argue that the U.S. LGBTQ movement is in the midst of a widespread, conflictual process of generational turnover—with important implications for the future of the movement.

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#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social -

Attitudinal and Behavioral Legacies of Wartime Violence: A Meta-Analysis - https://cup.org/43QCUmg

- @joan-barcelo.bsky.social

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When Serving the Public Interest Generates Private Gains: Private Actor Governance and Two-Sided Digital Markets When Serving the Public Interest Generates Private Gains: Private Actor Governance and Two-Sided Digital Markets By Guillaume Beaumier, l'École Nationale d'Administration Publique and Abraham Newman, Georgetown University From speech to privacy, broad public interests are increasingly governed online by policy decisions taken by private companies. We examine when and how firms make such decisions. In contrast to the shadow of hierarchy and functionalist explanations of private authority, we build an analytical framework based on business power and the economics literature concerned with two-sided markets.

When Serving the Public Interest Generates Private Gains: Private Actor Governance and Two-Sided Digital Markets

When Serving the Public Interest Generates Private Gains: Private Actor Governance and Two-Sided Digital Markets By Guillaume Beaumier, l'École Nationale d'Administration Publique and…

Happy that our paper with @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, and @lstoetze.bsky.social found a home at @thejop.bsky.social. You can read it here 👇

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Thanks to all the fantastic people giving feedback and supporting us

As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.

Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

Heading to the Middle East Studies Association @mesa1966.bsky.social - please say hi!! I would love to connect

The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.

Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.