Dr. Noa Balf נועה באלף نوعة بالف

New JREP paper with a team of amazing co-authors❗

We use CMPS data (2008-2020) + a genetic matching approach to examine how country of origin shapes the voting behavior of U.S. Latinos, revealing substantial variation in party ID and electoral choices.

Open access: doi.org/10.1017/rep....

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New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

BJPolS abstract which discusses the relationship between politicians' communication and voter perceptions through social media content analysis between 2012 and 2022.

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Believing What Politicians Communicate: Ideological Presentation of Self and Voters’ Perceptions of Politician Ideology - https://cup.org/4gTSToM

- @hjghassell.bsky.social, @michaelheseltine.bsky.social & @reuning.bsky.social ‬

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#OpenAccess from the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics -

The Political Implications of Identifying as a “Woman of Color” for Latina and Asian American Women - https://cup.org/46FK3rx

- Kira Sanbonmatsu, Stacey Greene & Yalidy Matos

#FirstView #JREP10

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

unless you're a woman running for president, in which case you did everything wrong. 2016 and 2024 have radicalized me in ways I'm still contending with

Five out of six measures of identity and solidarity with U.S. people of color are equivalent across English and Spanish interviews As the US continues to racially diversify, researchers are increasingly investigating the prevalence of self-identification as – and feelings of solidarity with – people of color (PoC). Prior resea...

Our job as mentors is to identify our students' strengths and areas that can be developed. My PhD student (psych), Sydney Tran, has deep substantive interests, but also enviable methodological range. Her first, first-author publication is tagged below.

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YouTube video by Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center Yezid Sayigh on the Trump Plan

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🚨New #polisky publication 🚨
In @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Reut Itzkovitch-Malka, @liranharsgor.bsky.social and I ask: when do voters back a party that's not their top pick, but has a real shot at being the the next PM's party?
The answer is a mix of preferences, expectations, and uncertainty

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#OpenAccess from the new issue of the Journal of Policy History -

Gender and Party Polarization in the US Congress: Hypervisibility and Invisibility - https://cup.org/4mtEEbq

- Rosalyn Cooperman

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Strategic Inclusion Without Transformation: How Populist Radical Right Parties Engage With Women’s Interests - Bonnie M. Meguid, Hilde Coffé, Ana Catalano Weeks, Miki Caul Kittilson, 2025 Despite their Männerparteien reputation, populist radical right (PRR) parties have recently expanded their agendas to include women’s interests. When do they em...

🚨 New article out today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social !

📄 “Strategic Inclusion Without Transformation: How Populist Radical Right Parties Engage With Women’s Interests”

With Bonnie Meguid, @hildecoffe.bsky.social & Miki Kittilson

🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

How to Measure Economic Sanctions? 💡 Learn more about this recent article in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social‬ by Elshehawy, Nanni, Marinov, and Tama: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#polisky 🧵(1/6)

Hey political scientists whose work focuses on the role of military institutions and military leaders in democracies/democratization/political regimes - please share your expertise broadly! I wanna know what you are thinking!

There is a BIG difference between lobbying which is what the "training" video is and scholarship on Israel. If this description is correct (haven't seen it), then the information provided on antisemitism and Israel is disputed/rejected by scholarship and it is promoting misinformation. Scary shit.

Labels can impact politics. My paper @apsrjournal.bsky.social "What Happens When You Can't Check the Box?" shows when Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Americans are excluded from identity categories, they assert MENA identity when answering relevant political questions.
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You've heard me talk about it.
You've seen me write about it.
And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied!

Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it!
cup.org/4nfM2IM

Imagine of the article title "Who supports gender equality? Age, education, and sexism in the shadow of the radical right in Argentina"

🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨

In this new ✨FREE ACCESS✨ paper, @santiago-alles.bsky.social uses data from 2000+ respondents in Argentina 🇦🇷 to audit gender equality attitudes and what this means for the support of the radical right

doi.org/10.1332/2515...

"Public Perceptions of Corporate Position-Taking on Abortion and Transgender Rights" by Wayde Z. C. Marsh and Jordan Carr Peterson. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🤔 Do surveys exaggerate democratic support due to social desirability bias (SDB)?

➡️ Using survey-mode variation & list experiments in 24 countries, @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social & @aarslew.bsky.social find no evidence that SDB inflates democratic attitudes www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

w/ @massimoprearo.bsky.social on @qoe-ijes.bsky.social, we introduce our 2024 Italian LGBTIQ+ Electoral Survey: the first large-N evidence on the political behaviour & attitudes of Italian LGBTIQ+ citizens. We discuss data, methodological challenges & relevance here: oaj.fupress.net/index.php/qo...

I just woke up to some of the best news imaginable, news I’d not believe if her own sister didn’t confirm it below.

Our colleague Elizabeth Tsurkov—the Israeli-Russian PhD student at Princeton who was kidnapped whilst doing fieldwork in Iraq in March 2023—is, finally, free!!! 🧵

🚨New First View Article🚨

"Beyond production: Following nomadic space in IR" by Srishti Malaviya is now available #OpenAccess!

Check it out here 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/tJ7ybls

86% among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution: "Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the UN Convention for the Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide".

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My qualitative findings support my argument. I argue that this demonstrates the utility of a mixed methods approach. I demonstrate that women in the Knesset want & aspire to legislate on the conflict and security but in reality are prevented from doing so, focusing instead on social issues.

In this mixed methods research I consider explanations for variation in women's substantive representation over time. I consider the effect of ambition and time in office. My quantitative results contradict my argument BUT....

Less power, more gender legislation: women in the Israeli Knesset Why do women legislators propose gender-related legislation? Is it individual policy preferences or limitations on their legislative agendas? In this mixed-methods paper, I hypothesize that, as amb...

My article "Less power, more gender legislation: women in the Israeli Knesset" is now published at @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social!! This is part of my research agenda exploring how systemic marginalization better explains substantive representation of minorities.

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✨ Two additional articles from our new #SpecialIssue are now 🆓#FreeAccess! ⏳

2⃣ Italy’s right turn. A spatial analysis of party competition in the 2022 Italian national election

By P. Gambacciani, D. Giannetti, A. Pedrazzani & L. Pinto

📖 Read & download it here:
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You will find the consumers who switched from "INFLATION TOP CONCERN" to "No Big Deal" are overwhelmingly Republicans, and its journalistic malpractice no one in the political press seems aware of how today "partyID" mostly explains self-reported economic sentiment.

This. Is. So. Tiring.

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:

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#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social -

Affective sovereignty: A decolonising politics of emotion in Palestine - cup.org/4fBwwEd

- Jamal Nabulsi

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