Orit Kedar

Orit Kedar (Hebrew: אורית קדר) is an Israeli political scientist. She is a professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is also affiliated with the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality. She specializes in electoral politics, electoral systems and party systems, and comparative vote choice under different political systems.

Education and early work Kedar attended Tel Aviv University, where she earned a BA in economics and political science. She then obtained an MA in political science at Brown University. Voting for Policy, Not Parties explains these patterns as the result of a "compensatory vote model" in which voters tend to overshoot their desired policies in systems that feature substantial power-sharing between different parties, with the expectation that the party they vote for will be moderated by the parties it has to share power with. which is awarded to "the best book on political economy published during the past three calendar years".

Kedar's article "Are Voters Equal under the Proportional Representation", published in the American Journal of Political Science, won the 2017 Lawrence Longley Award from the American Political Science Association for the best article published each year on the topic of representation and electoral systems.

Kedar was elected as the President of the European Political Science Association for the 2018–2019 term. In addition to her academic publications, Kedar has written pieces for Haaretz and the LSE Blogs.

Selected works Voting for Policy, Not Parties: How Voters Compensate for Power Sharing. . "Are Voters Equal under the Proportional Representation", American Journal of Political Science, 2016

Selected awards William H. Riker Award, American Political Science Association (2010) Lawrence Longley Award, American Political Science Association (2017)