Alon Yakter

Welcome! I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs and a faculty affiliate at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. 

My research and teaching interests revolve around the dynamics and implications of intergroup relations, identities, attitudes, and conflict from a comparative perspective. I have a particular interest in complex and conflictual attitude structures that lead to nontrivial policy preferences, voting patterns, economic policy, and support for conflict resolution. I also study Israeli politics and serve as a co-principal investigator in the Israeli National Election Studies (INES) and the Peace Index survey series. 

My work has been published or forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Political Science Research and Methods, Journal of Peace Research, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and PS: Political Science & Politics.  My research has been funded by the Israel Science Foundation, Schusterman Foundation, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, the University of Michigan's Center for European Studies, and Tel Aviv University's Walter Lebach Institute. 

Before joining Tel Aviv University, I completed my Ph.D. in political science at the University of Michigan and my M.A. (summa cum laude) and B.A. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.