Ronen Mandelkern @mandelkern.bsky.social

A belated 🧵 on the paper @tami_oren_1 and I have published last year in @RIPEJournal - (open access) - "Counterproductive evolution: the long-term effects of short-term interventionism following the Great Financial Crisis" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Hi — do any experts or observers of Labour back-bench groups know if there’s a publicly available list of MPs who are members of the Red Wall Caucus (led by Jo White) within the Labour Party? Many thanks!

13/13 We warmly thank the editors who included our work and provided invaluable feedback: Bent Greve | @MoreiraAmilcar @MinnavanGerven @B_Ebbinghaus Moira Nelson | Zoe Irving | IJSW team. Their engagement made each of these collaborations sharper and richer.

12/13 Across these four works, our central message is clear: understanding social policy requires taking ideas seriously — as causal, contestable, and teachable forces that shape how welfare states evolve and how we study them.

1/13 Over the past two years, @danielbeland and I have published four pieces exploring how ideas shape social policy — from conceptual foundations to reform and pedagogy. This thread walks through them:

Check out our new paper, just published in @PoPpublicsphere, which links theories of ideational and ideological change and diaspora politics to understand how and why the Israeli Right has adopted American conservatism (while maintaining its adherence to Jewish ethno-nationalism)

What links the recent Israeli government attacks against its Attorney General and the new Leadership Institute Israeli branch? @MandelkernRonen and I answer that in a new paper in @PoPpublicsphere on the ideological shift of Israel's Right- a 🧵: doi.org/10.1017/S15375…

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Diaspora–Local #Cooperation as a Driver of #Ideological #Change: The #Ascendance of #American #Conservatism in #Israel By @OrAsher2 & @MandelkernRonen doi.org/10.1017/S15375…

My first academic paper was accepted! Co-authored with @MandelkernRonen - so at least one of us knew what we were doing. Coming soon in @PoPpublicsphere

Like slavery in the pre–Civil War American South, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank created radical political forces that now threaten its democracy from within. An op-ed I wrote for @haaretzcom: haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

I have joined hundreds of other Israeli academics in calling on our academic system to take immediate action against the war in Gaza—for the sake of the lives that can still be saved and for our future here. Full letter (English follows Hebrew & Arabic): docs.google.com/document/d/14M…