Naama Rivlin-Angert  

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I'm a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as part of the ERC-funded project  Varieties of Nationalism Shape Our Polarized Politics (VARNATPOL). My research sits at the intersection of political behavior, political psychology, public opinion, and political communication. 

My Ph.D. dissertation explored how existing political identities can be strategically deconstructed. I claim that when political identity becomes the object of political delegitimization discourse (PDD), members of the political group will renounce and denounce their now illegitimate identity. My study highlights how political actors strategically manipulate affiliations by attaching negative symbolic labels to certain political identities, reshaping individuals' relationships with their political groups. My research toolbox includes various quantitative methods, such as computerized text analysis, designing and analyzing surveys, conducting survey experiments, and more. 

My research has been published in Public Opinion Quarterly and European Political Science.

Beyond my current research, I'm a member of the DeepStory Lab at the Hebrew University, and have also contributed to various large-scale projects, including the Israeli National Election Study (INES), and the ISF-funded Center of Excellence "Looking beyond the Crisis of Democracy: Patterns of Representation in Israeli Elections." 

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