I am an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the departments of political science and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My research examines the emergence, unfolding and regulation of anti-regime mobilization, protest behavior, ethnic polarization, and civil wars. I also have significant interest in the development of computer simulations -- Agent-Based Modeling in particular -- to assist comparative political analysis of these and other complex social phenomena. I teach classes on ethnic mobilization, civil wars, the study of politics and research methods. My research has been published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Political Research Quarterly, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations and more.

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"Minority Rule and Civil War Onset: Accounting for Ethnic Salience, Fiscal Policy, and Natural Resource Profiles" (with Ravi Bhavnani) Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 28, No. 5, November 2011, 438-458 (read this paper).

"Violence and Control in Civil Conflict: Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza" (with Ravi Bhavnani and Hyun-Jin Choi) Comparative Politics, Vol. 44, No. 1, October 2011, 61-80 (read this paper).

"Three Two Tango: Control and Violence in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza" (with Ravi Bhavnani and Hyun-Jin Choi) Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 55, No. 1, February 2011, 133-158 (read this paper).

"Does Political Decentralization Exacerbate or Ameliorate Ethnopolitical Mobilization? A Test of Contesting propositions" (with Britt Cartrite) Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 4, December 2010, 731-746 (read this paper).

"Replication and Beyond: Revisiting the Link Between Adaptive Agents, Political Institutions, and Civic Traditions" (with Britt Cartrite and Ravi Bhavnani) Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 13, No. 3, Spring 2010 (read this paper).

"The Puzzle of the Diffusion of Central Bank Independence Reforms: Insights from an Agent-based Simulation" (with Orit Rapaport and David Levi-Faur) Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, October 2009, 679-701 (read this paper).

"Ethnic Polarization, Ethnic Salience, and Civil War" (with Ravi Bhavnani) Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 53, No. 1, January 2009, 30-49 (read this paper).

"Abstractions, Ensembles, and Virtualizations: Simplicity and Complexity in Agent-Based Modeling" (with Ian S. Lustick), Comparative Politics, Vol. 41, No. 2, January 2009, 223-244 (read this paper).

"REsCape: An Agent-Based Framework for Modeling Resources, Ethnicity, and Conflict" (with Ravi Bhavnani and Jonas Nart) Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring 2008 (read this paper).

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