Michael Freedman

Assistant professor @UofHaifa | Political Science | Religion and Conflict | Israel-Palestine | PhD from @mitpolisci

[Michael Freedman @FreedMichael23]

Causal Inference folks: what are the best causal inference papers in political science or economics. I want to make a list of papers for my class on causal inference. Feel free to self-cite!

[Daniel Bachmat @DanielBachmat]

בפגיעה בפתח תקווה נהרגו שני אנשים ששהו בממ״ד.
רבים פנו אלי בשאלה האם הדברים שכתבתי על רמת הביטחון בממ״ד משתנים לאור האירוע הזה. התשובה היא לא, אפילו להיפך, הם מתחדדים.
ההגנה בממ״ד מעולה וזו עדיין החלופה הנכונה להתמגן. הסבר מפורט בשרשור 🧵⬇️

[Chagai Weiss @chagai_weiss]

🚨 We are excited that the Toronto Political Behavior Workshop is back for its 11th edition!

📍Nov 7–8, 2025 @UofT_PolSci @munkschool @UofT

Apply to present a paper/poster by July 11

More info & app: https://t.co/oQ4yrvxzrf

@dktr_dr @EricMerkley @SBorwein #MichaelDonnelly

[Michael Freedman @FreedMichael23]

Feels like an opportune time to repost this: https://t.co/gbkX6UCD5T

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Wow!

Check out this cool working paper.

"War Causes Religiosity"

The authors scraped web images of hundreds of thousands of gravestones of deceased Americans.

They found that people who were randomly drafted into war are at least 20% more likely to have religious gravestones.

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

@mellissameisels Interestingly, yes I have! First, thanks to https://t.co/PvtbKUi3Ra for the raw data. Second, I ran and Ordinal IRT model first for all cardinals included:

[Landon Schnabel @LandonSchnabel]

A study I'm particularly excited about and have been working on a long time is finally live: https://t.co/Dv2ui0o19R

We follow people from adolescence into adulthood and show why they are leaving *organized* religion.

Press release summarizing it: https://t.co/1MhpG0ma42

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Three Blind Spots in Politics

-Leftists see the world as a battle between victims and oppressors.
-Conservatives see the world as a battle between civilization and barbarism.
-Libertarians see the world as a battle between freedom and coercion.

[Link below.]

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias.

[Link below.]

[Manish Kumar @manishkhosiya]

MIT University just released free online courses.

No payment required.

Here are 10 courses you don't want to miss in 2025:

[Noam Gidron @NoamGidron]

בשעה טובה, הספר שלנו על בחירות 2022 מתפרסם גם בעברית. פרקי הספר מציעים מגוון נקודות מבט תיאורטיות ומתודולוגיות על הבחירות האחרונות. שמחתי להצטרף לפרוייקט החשוב הזה, שמיכל שמיר וגידי רהט מובילים. הספר זמין להורדה בחינם באתר המכון הישראלי לדמוקרטיה (לינק בהמשך). קצת על הפרקים בספר:

[Noam Gidron @NoamGidron]

גם הפרק של @FreedMichael23 ונדב שלף מתמקד בציונות הדתית, הפעם עם דגש על ניתוח סקרי דעת קהל.

[Michael Freedman @FreedMichael23]

@chagai_weiss Fantastic news! Can't wait to visit you in Toronto!

[Carles Boix 🇺🇦 @boixserra]

Very happy to see my "Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity" published in @apsrjournal

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Arguing on social media

[Frontiers - Political Science @FrontPolSci]

New Research: The crises of Israeli democracy: political-ideological framings by members of Israel’s 24th Knesset https://t.co/VnnGfUyMMU #FrontiersIn #PoliticalScience

[Tamar Mitts @TamarMitts]

The advance copy of my book, Safe Havens for Hate, is here! It offers a deep dive into the moderation of harmful content on social media and explains why efforts to combat online extremism keep failing. Official release March 4! https://t.co/u4U5aCCwlX

[Gael Le Mens @gael_lemens]

📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 📷 1/7

[Noam Gidron @NoamGidron]

Our book is now published! You can find here diverse perspectives on the 2022 Israeli elections by leading scholars of Israeli politics. Some chapters deal with issues such as polarization and personalization, while others focus on specific parties. ⬇️
https://t.co/Sid7ANu4sP

[Hadar Susskind @HadarSusskind]

This is an incredibly painful read. I hope that those who find this hard to believe will be the ones to read it. Stop trying to score points for "your side" and instead read the words of Israeli army commanders who are telling you what is really happening. https://t.co/SXlj96nQcC

[Michael Freedman @FreedMichael23]

@IdanTendler @SharonGilad1