Publications

2015
Balmas M, Sheafer T, Wolfsfeld G. Enemies also get their say: press performance during political crises. International journal of communication (Online) [Internet]. 2015 :154. Publisher's VersionAbstract
Press independence is a major concern in political communication. A considerable body of literature, mostly from studies of U.S. media, has claimed that the media have difficulty exercising independence from [...]
Tamir Shegfer. 2015.Abstract

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2014
Shenhav SR, Oshri O, Ofek D, Sheafer T. Story Coalitions: Applying Narrative Theory to the Study of Coalition Formation. Political Psychology [Internet]. 2014 :661. Publisher's VersionAbstract
To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.12072/abstract Byline: Shaul R. Shenhav, Odelia Oshri, Dganit Ofek, Tamir Sheafer Keywords: narrative; political narratives; narrative theory; narrative analysis; coalition formation; national stories; story coalitions; Israel This article explores the potential of incorporating narrative theory into the study of coalition formation. Following a discussion of the role of narratives in group-formation processes in a coalition-driven dynamic, we offer a theoretical framework to examine the ways political stories espoused by people are mirrored by the partisan system. We integrate theoretical assumptions of narrative studies with coalition-formation theories in an attempt to frame coalition-formation models in terms of voters' political stories. We test our theoretical framework by simulating various possible coalitions in the Israeli 2009 elections and as