פרופ' אמנון כוורי

בית ספר לאודר לממשל, דיפלומטיה ואסטרטגיה Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin-Madison

ראש המכון לחירות ואחריות

תחומי הוראה ומחקר

  • פרופ׳ אמנון כוורי הוא פרופסור חבר וראש המכון לחירות ואחריות בבית ספר לאודר לממשל, דיפלומטיה ואסטרטגיה באוניברסיטת רייכמן. תחום ההתמחות של פרופ׳ כוורי הוא הקשר בין הציבור לאליטה פוליטית בארה"ב ובישראל. במחקריו, פרופ׳ כוורי משלב ניתוח כמותי של פעולות מנהיגים פוליטיים עם נתוני דעת קהל.
    פרופ׳ כוורי מנהל את פרויקט המחקר על דעת קהל בארה״ב כלפי ישראל (APOI), אשר בוחן מגמות בתמיכה האמריקאית בישראל מהקמת המדינה ועד היום, ומנהל משותף של פרויקט סדר היום הפוליטי בישראל (CAP-IL), אשר בוחן את סדר היום של שחקנים פוליטיים בישראל באופן השוואתי.
    בין ספריו, The Party Politics of Presidential Rhetoric אשר זכה בפרס הספר הטוב ביותר בנושא הנשיאות האמריקאית מטעם האגודה האמריקאית למדע המדינה, והספר American Public Opinion toward Israel, אשר בוחן את דעת הקהל בארה"ב כלפי ישראל מקום המדינה ועד היום. בנוסף, פרופ׳ כוורי ערך מספר ספרים על הבחירות בארה"ב, ופירסם מאמרים בכתבי עת אקדמיים שונים. פרופ׳ כוורי לוקח חלק בשיח הציבורי באירועים וערוצי חדשות שונים. פרופ׳ כוורי זוכה פרס החוקר הצעיר של האגודה הבינלאומית לחקר ישראל (2020).

  • Books
    Cavari, Amnon, and Guy Freedman. 2021. American Public Opinion toward Israel: From Consensus to Divide. New York: Routledge.

    Cavari, Amnon. 2017. The Party Politics of Presidential Rhetoric. New York: Cambridge University Press.
        * Winner of the 2018 Richard Neustadt Award for the best book on the US presidency.

    Cavari, Amnon, Richard Powell, and Kenneth Mayer (ed.). 2017. The 2016 Presidential Election: The Making of a Political Earthquake. Lanham: Lexington.

    Cavari, Amnon, Richard Powell, and Kenneth Mayer (ed.). 2014. The 2012 Presidential Election: Forecasts, Outcomes, and Consequences. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. 

     


    Articles in Refereed Journals

    Cavari, Amnon, Amichai Magen, and Benjamin Yoel. 2024. “U.S. Democratic Backsliding and the Decline of Democratic Support Abroad.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 36(2): edae026. doi:10.1093/ijpor/edae026.
    Cavari, Amnon, Akos Mate, and Miklós Sebők. 2024. “Staying on the Democratic Script? A Deep Learning Analysis of the Speechmaking of U.S. Presidents.” Policy Studies Journal: (online first). doi:10.1111/psj.12534.
    Cavari, Amnon, Asif Efrat, and Omer Yair. 2024. “Do International Rankings Affect Public Opinion?” The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. (online first). doi:10.1177/13691481241230859.
    Claassen, Christopher, Kathrin Ackermann, Eri Bertsou, Lucas Borba, Ryan E. Carlin, Amnon Cavari, Sirianne Dahlum, et al. 2024. “Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach.” Comparative Political Studies: 00104140241259458. doi:10.1177/00104140241259458.
    Yair, Omer, Amnon Cavari, and Asif Efrat. 2024. “Conspiracy Thinking and Electoral Trust During Tumultuous Times: The Case of Israel.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 36(2): (online first). doi:10.1093/ijpor/edae014.
    Cavari, Amnon, Maoz Rosenthal, and Ilana Shpaizman. 2023. “Reevaluating the Policy Success of Private Members Bills.” Research & Politics 10(2). doi: 10.1177/20531680231181750.
    Shpaizman, Ilana, and Amnon Cavari. 2023. “Minding (Your Own and) Others’ Business: Assigning Co-Responsibility in Cabinet Decisions.” Comparative Political Studies 56(11): 1760-1789. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140231152797
    Cavari, Amnon, and Guy Freedman. 2023. “Survey Non-Response and Mass Polarization: The Consequences of Declining Contact and Cooperation Rates.” American Political Science Review 117: 332-331.
    Cavari, Amnon, Maoz Rosenthal, and Ilana Shpaizman. 2022. “Introducing a new Dataset: The Israeli Political Agendas Project.” Israel Studies Review 37(1): 1-30.
    Cavari, Amnon. 2022. “Trump and Israel: Exploiting a Partisan Divide for Political Gains.” Israel Studies 27(1): 156-181.
    Cavari, Amnon, Benjamin Yoel, and Hannah Lowenkamp. 2021. “In the Name of the President.” American Politics Research 49(6): 666-680. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1532673X211022630
    Canetti, Daphna, Amnon Cavari, Carmit Rapaport, Hadar Shalev and Stevan E. Hobfoll. 2021. “Individual Exposure to Terror and Political Attitudes: A Physiological and Psychological Process.” Terrorism and Political Violence 33(5): 1055-1070. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2019.1598389
    Ben Levi, Raphael, Amnon Cavari, and Lesley Terris. 2019. “Taking Sides in Foreign Conflicts: Explaining Global Public Opinion toward Israel and the Palestinians in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Israel Affairs 25(6): 1006-1025.
    Cavari, Amnon. 2019. “Evaluating the President on Your Priorities.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 49(4): 798-826.
    Cavari, Amnon, and Micah Ables. 2019. “Going Global: Assessing Presidential Foreign Travel.” Congress & The Presidency 46(2): 306-329.
    Cavari, Amnon, and Guy Freedman. 2019. “Partisan Cues and Opinion Formation on Foreign Policy.” American Politics Research 47(1): 29-57.
    Cavari, Amnon, and Guy Freedman. 2018 “Polarized Mass or Polarized Few? Assessing the Parallel Rise of Survey Non-Response and Measures of Polarization.” Journal of Politics 80(2): 719-725.
    Cavari, Amnon, Moran Yachi and Shira Pindyck. 2017. “Foreign News on US Media: A Longitudinal Analysis of News Coverage of Israel.” Israel Studies 22(1): 24-49.
    Yarchi, Moran, Cavari Amnon and Shira Pindyck. 2017. “Covering foreign news–intensity and topics: the case of the American coverage of Israel 1981–2013.” The Journal of International Communication 23(1): 115-137.
    Cavari, Amnon, and Elan Nyer. 2016. “Partisanship in Congressional Actions toward Israel” (in Hebrew). Politika 25: 235-252.
    Cavari, Amnon, and Shir Marom Melnik. 2016. “Attitudes of American Hispanics toward Israel” (in Hebrew). Politika 25: 226-234.
    Yarchi, Moran, Shira Pindyck and Amnon Cavari. 2016. “Israel in the US Press, 1981-2013” (in Hebrew). Politika 25: 269-282.
    Cavari, Amnon, and Itay Gabay. 2014. “Coverage of Foreign Events on US Local Television News.” Israel Studies Review 29(1).
    Cavari, Amnon, and Elan Nyer. 2014. “From Bipartisanship to Dysergia: Trends in Congressional Actions toward Israel.” Israel Studies 19(3).
    Cavari, Amnon. 2013. “Religious Beliefs, Elite Polarization, and Public Opinion on Foreign Policy: The Partisan Gap in American Public Opinion toward Israel.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 25(1): 1-22.
    Cavari, Amnon. 2013. “The Short-Term Effect of Going Public.” Political Research Quarterly 66(2): 336-351.


    Book Chapters

    Cavari, Amnon, and Shay Har-Zvi. 2024. “Still a Special Relationship? The Effect of the Administration Change on the U.S.-Israel Relationship.” In Presidential Leadership and Foreign Policy, Springer Studies in American Politics, eds. Stanley A. Renshon and Peter Suedfeld. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 177–94. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-52799-9_10.
    Cavari, Amnon. 2020. “Trump, Israel, and the Shifting Pattern of Support for a Traditional Ally,” in Renshon, Stanley, and Peter Suedfeld (editors), The Trump Doctrine and the Emerging International System. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
    Cavari, Amnon, and Guy Freedman. 2019. “From Public to Publics: Assessing Group Variation in Issue Priorities in the U.S. and Israel.” In Baumgartner et al. (ed.) Comparative Agendas: Concepts, Tools and Data. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Cavari, Amnon, and Guy Freedman. 2017. “From Bipartisan Agreement to Electoral Contest: Israel in US Elections.” In Cavari et al. (ed.) The 2016 Presidential Election: The Making of a Political Earthquake. Lanham: Lexington.
    Cavari, Amnon. 2014. “The Interplay of Macropartisanship and Macrohandling, and the 2012 Electoral Success of the Democratic Party.” In Cavari et al. The 2012 Presidential Election: Forecasts, Outcomes, and Consequences. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
    Cavari, Amnon. 2012. “Six Decades of Public Affection: Trends in American Public Attitudes toward Israel,” in Robert O. Freedman (ed.), The US and Israel: Six Decades of Relations. Boulder: Westview Press.


    Policy Publications
    Cavari, Amnon, and Shir Marom Melnick. 2015. “Attitudes of Hispanics toward Israel. American Public Opinion toward Israel (APOI) Project, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS).
    Cavari, Amnon. 2015. “Congressional Support for Israel: Analyzing Trends in Congressional Legislative Action with regards to Israel.” BESA Center.
    Cavari, Amnon, and Guy Freedman. 2015. Israeli Public Opinion toward the US: Divided Along Party Lines. American Public Opinion toward Israel (APOI) Project, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS).
    Cavari, Amnon. 2014. American Public Support for Israel: Assessing the Cracks in a Unique Bond. American Public Opinion toward Israel (APOI) Project, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS).