Senior Lecturer in Political Science.

Ph.D.: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2001.

Hebrew University: Lecturer, 2002; Senior Lecturer, 2006.

Research Interests: Comparative politics; electoral systems; electoral reform; political parties; candidate selection methods; Israeli politics.

Other Appointments: Visiting Schusterman Professor, Department of Political Science and the Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine (2007-8), Visiting Fellow: Hoover Institution, Stanford University (2001).

Awards and Honors: Research scholarship from the American Friends of Israel Democracy Institute (2001-2002); Yitzhak Rabin Research Award (2003).

Courses: http://www.huji.ac.il/cgi-bin/mm/new/data/ihoker/MOP-STAFF_COURSES?itz_hfix=n&sno=5138205&Save_t=gideon+rahat

Candidate Selection.

The Politics of Regime Structure (electoral, governance system) Reform.

Power vs. relevancy

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The Politics of Regime Structure Reform in Democracies: Israel in Comparative Perspective. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2008.

(w. Sheafer, Tamir) "The Personalization(s) of Politics: Israel 1949-2003," Political Communication, vol. 24, no. 1 (2007), pp. 65-80.

(w. Barnea, Shlomit) “Reforming Candidate Selection Methods: A Three-Level Approach,” Party Politics, vol. 13, no. 3 (2007), pp. 375-394.

(w. Hazan, Reuven Y.)“Candidate Selection,” in Richard Katz and William Crotty (eds.), Handbook of Party Politics. London: Sage, 2007, pp. 109-121.

“The Politics of Electoral Reform Abolition: The Informed Process of Israel’s Return to Its Previous System,” Political Studies, vol. 54, no. 1 (2006), pp. 43-64.

(w. Hazan, Reuven Y.) “Israel: The Politics of an Extreme Electoral System,” in Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell (eds.), The Politics of Electoral Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 333-351.

“The Study of the Politics of Electoral Reform in the 1990’s: Theoretical and Methodological Lessons,” Comparative Politics, vol. 36, no. 4 (2004), pp. 461-479.

(w. Hazan, Reuven Y.) “Candidate Selection Methods: An Analytical Framework,” Party Politics, vol. 7, no. 3 (2001), pp. 297-322.

“The Politics of Reform in Israel: How the Israeli Mixed System Came to Be,” in Matthew S. Shugart & Martin P. Wattenberg (eds.), Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: The Best of Both Worlds? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 123-151.

(w. Hazan, Reuven Y.) "Representation, Electoral Reform and Democracy: Theoretical and Empirical Lessons from the 1996 Elections in Israel,” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 33, no. 10 (2000), pp. 1310-1336.

(w. Sznajder, Mario) "Electoral Engineering in Chile: The Electoral System and Limited Democracy," Electoral Studies, vol. 17, no. 4 (1998), pp. 429-442.