Orit Kedar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and a member of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her principal research interest lies in comparative politics. She is interested in electoral politics and the intersection of institutions and behavior. Her research focuses on themes such as representation, voter choice under different forms of power-sharing, party systems, and electoral systems and institutions more broadly, as well as on gender and politics. Other interests of hers include multi-level explanations in comparative politics and federalism. Most of her research is conducted under a framework of political economy. Read More.