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Overview

Ami Pedahzur is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel and conducts research primarily within the social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including statistics, probability and uncertainty, artificial intelligence, demography, and general social sciences.

The main topics addressed in Pedahzur's research include terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence; political conflict and governance; Jewish and Middle Eastern studies; qualitative comparative analysis research; scientometrics and bibliometrics research; explainable artificial intelligence (XAI); and German legal, social, and political studies.

Among the notable recent papers associated with Ami Pedahzur are:

  • "Can We Do Better? Replication and Online Appendices in Political Science" (2020), published in Perspectives on Politics
  • "Reconstructing the theater of terror" (2020), published in Small Wars and Insurgencies
  • "Political Science and Big Data: Structured Data, Unstructured Data, and How to Use Them" (2020), published in Political Science Quarterly
  • "The Munich massacre and the proliferation of counterterrorism special operation forces" (2022), published in Israel Affairs
  • "The Quantitative Study of Terrorist Events: Challenges and Opportunities" (2020), published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Pedahzur has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, particularly Jonathan Grossman, with whom they have coauthored eight works. Other frequent coauthors include Arie Perliger, Matthew Sweeney, Ronit Berger Hobson, and Orel B. Amano.

Their research has been disseminated in a variety of academic venues, with multiple publications in Harvard Dataverse and Perspectives on Politics. Additional venues of publication include Small Wars and Insurgencies, Political Science Quarterly, and Israel Affairs.

Best Publications

  • The Challenges of Conceptualizing Terrorism

    Leonard Weinberg;Ami Pedahzur;Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler

  • altruism and fatalism: the characteristics of palestinian suicide terrorists

    Ami Pedahzur;Arie Perliger;Leonard Weinberg

  • Political Parties and Terrorist Groups

    Leonard Weinberg;Ami Pedahzur;Arie Perliger

  • The Changing Nature of Suicide Attacks: A Social Network Perspective

    Ami Pedahzur;Arie Perliger

  • Social Network Analysis in the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence

    Arie Perliger;Ami Pedahzur

  • The Institutionalization of Extreme Right-wing Charismatic Parties: a Paradox?

    Ami Pedahzur;Avraham Brichta

  • Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism : The Globalization of Martyrdom

    Ami Pedahzur

  • Jewish Terrorism in Israel

    Ami Pedahzur;Arie Perliger

  • The Israeli secret services and the struggle against terrorism

    Ami Pedahzur

  • Hatred by Hated People: Xenophobia in Israel

    Ami Pedahzur;Yael Yishai

  • The social and religious characteristics of suicide bombers and their victims

    Leonard Weinberg;Ami Pedahzur;Daphna Canetti-Nisim

  • The Triumph of Israel's Radical Right

    Ami Pedahzur

  • A Tertiary Model for Countering Terrorism in Liberal Democracies: The Case of Israel

    Ami Pedahzur;Magnus Ranstorp

  • Democratic attitudes among high-school pupils: The role played by perceptions of class climate

    Arie Perliger;Daphna Canetti-Nisim;Ami Pedahzur

  • Contributory factors to Political Xenophobia in a multi-cultural society:: the case of Israel

    Daphna Canetti-Nisim;Ami Pedahzur

  • Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism

    Leonard Weinberg;Ami Pedahzur

  • Much ado about religion: Religiosity, resource loss, and support for political violence

    Daphna Canetti;Stevan E Hobfoll;Ami Pedahzur;Eran Zaidise;Eran Zaidise

  • The Uniqueness of Islamic fundamentalism and the fourth wave of international terrorism

    Gabriel Ben-Dor;Ami Pedahzur

  • Religious fundamentalism and the extreme right-wing camp in Israel

    Shai Bermanis;Daphna Canetti-Nisim;Ami Pedahzur

  • Political parties and terrorist groups: Conclusions

    Leonard Weinberg;Ami Pedahzur

  • The Gap Between Participation and Violence: Why We Need to Disaggregate Terrorist ‘Profiles’

    Arie Perliger;Gabriel Koehler-Derrick;Ami Pedahzur

Frequent Co-Authors

Stevan E. Hobfoll
Stevan E. Hobfoll Rush University Medical Center
Gustavo S. Mesch
Gustavo S. Mesch University of Haifa

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