The Division for Development and Public Relations     ABRAHAM  DISKIN,  ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE  Status : EMERITUS Birth place : JERUSALEM Office Phone: 02-588-3060 Fax: E-Mail: mshanna@mscc.huji.ac.il U.R.L:   Department Faculty   POLITICAL SCIENCE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Dept. Description   Academic Degree   Institution Year Ph.D. HEBREW UNIV. 1976   Academic Position   Year EMERITUS 2010 ASSOC. PROFESSOR 1992 SENIOR LECTURER 1981 LECTURER 1978   External Academic Positions Visiting Scholar: Univ. of Mich., Ann Arbor, 1977-78; Japan- Foundation, Tokyo, 1986 Visiting Prof.: Univ. of Western Ontario, London 1982-83; Carleton Univ., Ottawa, 1983-84, 1993-94   Research Interests Comparative politics. Electoral studies. Israeli politics. Game theory.   Research Projects Predictive power of coalition theories: Strategic voting in the 1999 elections: Electoral participation and decisiveness of electoral results: Democratic stability and consolidation of democracy: A new solution of the bargaining problem: The development of judicial review in Israel:   Selected Publications Publication Title   Year Comparing strategic voting under first-past-the-post (FPTP) and 2010 Voting power: An information theory approach. 2010 Political data in 2008 Israel. 2009 The Parliamentary Election in Israel, February 2009. 2009 Measuring disproportionality, volatility and malapportionment: 2009 Regional Elections in Israel. Jerusalem: Van Leer Jerusalem 2009 "Israel." 2008 The Presidents. Jerusalem: Maggie Publishers Ltd., 2008 The Israeli party map. In: 2008 "Israel." 2007 Individual rationality and bargaining. 2007 Nonvoting and the decisiveness of electoral outcomes. 2007 The Knesset election in Israel, March 2006. 2007 Homogeneity, heterogeneity and direct democracy: The case of 2007 Why democracies collapse: The reasons for democratic failure and 2005 The parliamentary elections in Israel, 2003. 2004 Strategic abandonment or sincerely second best? The 1999 Israeli 2004 "Israel." 2003 The Last Days in Israel: Understanding the New Israeli 2003 (Bertie) The Lagado Travel. Jerusalem: Maggie Publishers, 2003 Ideology, party change, and electoral campaigns in Israel, 2003 The 2001 Prime Ministerial elections in Israel. 2002 Domestic Israeli politics and conflict. In: 2002 Waking up from the Oslo Dream. In: 2002 "Israel." 2002 Jerusalem's Last Days. Jerusalem: The Floersheimer 2001 "Israel." 2001 The 1999 Knesset and prime ministerial elections in Israel. 2000 Rethinking De Swaan (1973): A note on closed coalitions - 2000 "Israel." 2000 The new political system of Israel. 1999 Voters' Attitudes on the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the 1996 1999 Is it a total conflict? In 1999 The second option: Paradoxes and dilemmas of center parties. 1999 The Jerusalem Municipal Elections. Jerusalem: The 1999 The Rational Voter in the 1998 Municipal Elections. 1999 Fifty years of the political system. In: 1998 The Israeli political system at a crossroad. In: 1998 The sinking of the political parties and the direct elections of 1998 The 1996 Knesset and Prime Ministerial Elections: Readings 1997 With Dindush: Some reflections on the Israeli political system 1996 The politics of electoral reform in Israel. 1995 Typology of Western Democratic Governments. Jerusalem: 1994 The Elections of the 13th Knesset. Jerusalem: The 1993 Election in Israel 1992. Chapter 2. Jerusalem, Jerusalem 1993 The Israeli general elections of 1992. 1992 Political distances between individual parliament members and 1991 Direct Elections of the Prime Minister. Jerusalem: The 1991 The 1988 Knesset Elections. Jerusalem, 1990 Political distances between Knesset members and coalition 1990 Elections and Voters in Israel. Praeger, New York, 1990 Statistical characteristics of the Arab vote. 1989 The 1988 general elections in Israel. 1989 Critical periods of news coverage during an election campaign. 1988 Elections and Voters in Israel. Jerusalem, Eshkol 1988 Changing the system of elections: Analysis of a proposal on the 1988 The Canadian electoral system: An Israeli perspective. 1988 A Guide to Change - The Voting System . Jerusalem, 1988 Political news coverage during the 1986 Japanese election 1988   © All rights reserved to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem