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Dr. Maoz Rosenthal

Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy Ph.D., Tel Aviv University

Research and Teaching Expertise

Israeli Politics
Comparative Politics
Judicial Politics
Ethnic Voting

Dr. Maoz Rosenthal has been a senior lecturer at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at Reichman University since 2013. Dr. Rosenthal's research deals with the way in which political actors strive to achieve their goals in parliamentary democracies in general and with specifically in the Israeli case. His research mainly examines how political elites (prime ministers, members of parliament, high court judges and senior officials) use institutional arrangements, rhetoric and heresthetic(s) to turn their political desires into public policy. Alongside dealing with political elites, Dr. Rosenthal examines how weakened political groups operate in elections based on their social status in order to achieve their goals. In this context, his research examines the political behavior of Arabs in Israel and the electoral behavior of Mizrahim in Israel. Dr. Rosenthal's research utilizes the rational choice approach (with an emphasis on realistic and pragmatic use of the principles of the approach), and on research methods such as analytical narratives and quantitative research methods. Dr. Rosenthal was a visiting lecturer in a program of Israeli colleagues on behalf of the Schusterman Foundation in the Department of Political Science at SUNY Binghamton University in the United States. He was a visiting researcher at the McMillan Center at Yale University and was the first postdoctoral fellow of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University. Dr. Rosenthal studied all his degrees in the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of the late Professor Gideon Doron.
Israel’s Governability Crisis: Quandaries, Unstructured Institutions and Adaptation. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2017. (ISBN 978-1-4985-1341-8) [Reviewed in Israel Studies Review 2018 33(3): 163-166]

"Stability, Diversity and Ideology in Media Attention Concerning Public Policy Topics During the 2019-2020 Elections Cycle". (With Gilad Greenwald). Misgraot Media 20: 8-33 (Hebrew).

"Introducing a new Dataset: The Israeli Political Agendas Project". (with Amnon Cavari and Ilana Shpizman). Israel Studies Review forthcoming.

"Judicial Review in a Defective Democracy: Judicial Nominations and Judicial Review in Constitutional Courts". (With Gad Barzilai and Assaf Meydani). Journal of Law and Courts, 2021, 9(1): 137-157.

Strategic agenda setting and Prime Ministers’ approval ratings: the heresthetic and rhetoric of political survival. British Politics, 2021, 16(4): 355-374.

“When does Descriptive Representation become Substantive? Systemic Luck, Social Power and Resources’ Allocation.” Ethnicities, 2019, 19(6): 1015-1037.

"Agenda Control by Committee Chairs in Fragmented Multi-party ParliamentsA Knesset Case Study." Israel Studies Review, 2018, 33(1): 66-80.

"Voting Locally Abstaining Nationally: Descriptive Representation, Substantive Representation and Minority Voters’ Turnout." (With Dave Nachmias and Hani Zubida) Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2017, 41(9): 1632-1650.

"Israeli National Party Strategies in Local Elections: Local Support, Party Valence, and Peripherality." (With Dave Nachmias and Hani Zubida) Israel Affairs, 2016, 22(2): 401−422.

"Policy Instability in a Comparative Perspective: The Context of Heresthetic." Political Studies, 2014, 62(1):172-196.

"The Determinants of Budgetary Implementation: A Policy Analysis of the Israeli Case." (With Adam Wolfson) Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2013, 15(5):432-451.

"Inverted First and Second-Order Elections: The Effects of Political Alienation on Electoral Turnout in Israel." (with Dave Nachmias and Hani Zubida), Israel Studies Review, 2012, 27 (1): 31−54.

"Agenda Control in an Unstable Parliamentary Democracy: Evidence from the Israeli Public Sector." Constitutional Political Economy, 2012, 23 (1): 22−44.

"Intra-Domestic Bargaining over the Lands and the Future: Israel’s Policy towards the 1967 Occupied Territories" (with Gideon Doron). In: Daniel Bartal and Izhak Schnell (eds.). 40 Years to Israeli Occupation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

"A Critical Decision: Ben-Gurion and the Israeli Non-Constitution", (With Gideon Doron) In: Moshe Lissak and Devora Hacohen (eds.) Critical Decisions in Israel, Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press, 2010. (Hebrew)

"Israel’s 1993 Decision to Make Peace with the PLO: Or How Political Losers (this time) Became Winners." (With Gideon Doron) International Negotiation, 2009, 14(3):449−474.

"Trapped in Strategy: Israeli Radical Right-Wing Parties and the Peace Process." (With Gideon Doron) Issues in Israeli Society, 2008, 6: 44 − 67 (Hebrew).

"Two-Way Barriers: The ’Occupied Territories’ and Israel’s Domestic Politics", (With Gideon Doron). In: Ephraim Lavi (ed.). 40 Years of Occupation: Influences on the State of Israel. Tel-aviv: The Tami Steinmentz Center for peace Studies, 2009. (Hebrew)

"Stability and Rationality in Politics: Political Survival and Fairness. " Politika, 2006, 49 − 70 (Hebrew).

"Rational Choice Theory: State of the Discipline." (With Gideon Doron) Politika, 2006, 9 − 24 (Hebrew).

"Al-Qaeda as a Dune Organization: Toward a Typology of Islamic Terrorist Organizations." (With Shaul Mishal) Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2005, 28,275293.
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2021 Coalition

Elections 2020 Mishpacha

Israel's Electoral System

Judicial Activism Israel

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