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Gideon Rahat is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of electoral systems, political participation, and political science, contributing extensively to the field of social sciences.

The scientist has published across several notable venues, including:

  • Party Politics
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Frontiers in Political Science
  • Social Science Quarterly
  • Electoral Studies

Their publication record includes articles covering a range of topics related to political systems and governance, electoral systems, and the dynamics of party politics. Selected recent papers are:

  • "Party Types in the Age of Personalized Politics," 2022, Perspectives on Politics
  • "Servants of two (or more) masters: Accounting for the complexity of intraparty candidate selection methods," 2022, Party Politics
  • "What constitutes a new party? The lack of a standard operationalization and the way forward," 2025, Frontiers in Political Science
  • "The personalization of the Likud in the era of Netanyahu," 2023, Social Science Quarterly
  • "Institutional personalism and personalised behaviour: Electoral systems, candidate selection methods, and politicians' campaign strategy," 2025, Electoral Studies

The scientist frequently collaborates with other scholars including Or Tuttnauer, Ofer Kenig, Reuven Y. Hazan, Alan Dowty, and Menachem Hofnung.

Rahat's research spans several key topics, which include:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Political Systems and Governance
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Middle East Politics and Society

In terms of fields of study, their work is primarily situated within social sciences, with a strong specialization in political science and international relations as well as sociology and political science. Additional subfields covered include gender studies and strategy and management.

Best Publications

  • Democracy within Parties: Candidate Selection Methods and their Political Consequences

    Reuven Y. Hazan;Gideon Rahat

  • Candidate Selection Methods An Analytical Framework

    Gideon Rahat;Reuven Y. Hazan

  • The Personalization(s) of Politics: Israel, 1949–2003

    Gideon Rahat;Tamir Sheafer

  • Democracy within Parties

    Reuven Y. Hazan;Gideon Rahat

  • Two routes to personalized politics: Centralized and decentralized personalization

    Meital Balmas;Gideon Rahat;Tamir Sheafer;Shaul R Shenhav

  • Candidate Selection: Methods and Consequences

    Reuven Y. Hazan;Gideon Rahat

  • Party rules, party resources and the politics of parliamentary democracies How parties organize in the 21st century

    Thomas Poguntke;Susan E Scarrow;Paul D Webb;Elin H Allern

  • Democracy and Political Parties: On the Uneasy Relationships between Participation, Competition and Representation

    Gideon Rahat;Reuven Y. Hazan;Richard S. Katz

  • CANDIDATE SELECTION: THE CHOICE BEFORE THE CHOICE

    Gideon Rahat

  • Reforming Candidate Selection Methods A Three-Level Approach

    Shlomit Barnea;Gideon Rahat

  • From Party Politics to Personalized Politics

    Gideon Rahat;Ofer Kenig

  • The influence of candidate selection methods on legislatures and legislators: Theoretical propositions, methodological suggestions and empirical evidence

    Reuven Y. Hazan;Gideon Rahat

  • ‘Out with the old, in with the ‘‘new’’’: What constitutes a new party?:

    Shlomit Barnea;Gideon Rahat

  • The Barriers to Electoral System Reform: A Synthesis of Alternative Approaches

    Gideon Rahat;Reuven Y. Hazan

  • Lessons from Europe

    Sheri Berman

  • REPRESENTATION, ELECTORAL REFORM, AND DEMOCRACY Theoretical and Empirical Lessons From the 1996 Elections in Israel

    Reuven Y. Hazan;Gideon Rahat

  • Electoral Engineering in Chile: the Electoral System and Limited Democracy

    Gideon Rahat;Mario Sznajder

  • Which Candidate Selection Method is the Most Democratic? 1

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  • What Is Democratic Candidate Selection

    Gideon Rahat

  • Political personalization and personalized politics within and beyond the behavioural arena

    Helene Helboe Pedersen;Gideon Rahat

  • The Politics of Electoral Reform: The State of Research

    Gideon Rahat

  • Competitiveness of Party Leadership Selection Processes

    Ofer Kenig;Gideon Rahat;Or Tuttnauer

  • PARTY PRIMARIES: TOWARDS A DEFINITION AND TYPOLOGY

    Ofer Kenig;William Cross;Scott Pruysers;Gideon Rahat

Frequent Co-Authors

Reuven Y. Hazan
Reuven Y. Hazan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tamir Sheafer
Tamir Sheafer Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wolfgang C. Müller
Wolfgang C. Müller University of Vienna
Zsolt Enyedi
Zsolt Enyedi Central European University
Thomas Poguntke
Thomas Poguntke Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Aleks Szczerbiak
Aleks Szczerbiak University of Sussex
Susan E. Scarrow
Susan E. Scarrow University of Houston
Paul Webb
Paul Webb University of Sussex
Richard S. Katz
Richard S. Katz Johns Hopkins University
Tània Verge
Tània Verge Pompeu Fabra University

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