Chagai M. Weiss

Assistant Professor
Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair
The University of Toronto
chagai.weiss@utoronto.ca

Books

  1. Delivering Tolerance: How Unintended Institutional Inclusion Reduces Prejudice. Princeton University Press, Studies in Political Behavior Series.2026.
  2. Abstraction in Experimental Design: Testing the Tradeoffs. (with Ryan Brutger, Joshua Kertzer and Jonathan Renshon). Cambridge University Press, Elements in Experimental Political Science series. 2022.
     

Publications

  1. Politicians' Bipartisan Appeals to Civility and Partisan Divides: A Field Experiment with U.S. Governors. Accepted for Publication, The American Journal of Political Science. (with Robb Willer and Donald Green).
    [Washington Post Coverage]
  2. Outgroup Avoidance. Forthcoming at The Journal of Politics. (with Alexandra Scacco and Alexandra Siegel).
  3. Financial Market Exposure Increases Generalized Trust, Particularly Among the Politically Polarized. Accepted at The Journal of Public Economics. (with Saumitra Jha and Moses Shayo).
    Stanford GSB Working Paper No 4083.
    [Review at Stanford GSB Insights]
  4. The Generalizability of IR Experiments Beyond the U.S. Forthcoming at The American Political Science Review, (with Lotem Bassan-Nygate, Jonathan Renshon, and Jessica Weeks).
  5. Female Representation and Legitimacy: Evidence from a Harmonized Experiment in Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia. (With Kristen Kao, Ellen Lust, and Marwa Shalaby). 2024, The American Political Science Review.
  6. Educating for Inclusion: Diversity Education Programs can Reduce Prejudice towards Outgroups in Israel. 2023. (with Eran Halperin and Shira Ran). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
    [Israeli National TV (כאן) Newstory] [Israeli National Radio (כאן) Feature]
  7. Beliefs about Minority Representation in Policing and Support for Diversification. 2022. (with Kyle Peyton and Paige Vaughn). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  8. How Threats of Exclusion Mobilize Palestinian Political Participation. 2023. (with Alexandra Siegel and David Romney). The American Journal of Political Science.
  9. Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design. 2023. (with Ryan Brutger, Joshua Kertzer, Jonathan Renshon, and Dustin Tingley). The American Journal of Political Science.
  10. War Time Military Service Can Affect Partisan Preferences. 2022. (with Anna Getmansky). Comparative Political Studies.
  11. Atypical Violence and Conflict Dynamics: Evidence from Jerusalem. Forthcoming. (with Eugene Finkel, Yon Lupu, Dan Miodownik, and Neal Tsur). Political Science Research and Methods.
  12. Interstate Conflict Can Reduce Support for Incumbents: Evidence from the Israeli Electorate and the Yom Kippur War. 2023. (with Anna Getmansky). Journal of Conflict Resolution.
  13. Diversity in Health Care Institutions Reduces Israeli Patients' Prejudice toward Arabs. 2021. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  14. Party Competition and Cooperation Shape Affective Polarization: Evidence from Natural and Survey Experiments in Israel. 2020. (with Lotem Bassan-Nygate). Comparative Political Studies.
    [Scope Conditions Podcast] [Monkey Cage Blog] [בלוג המכון לחירות ואחריות]
  15. Bureaucratic Politics and the Translation of Movement Agendas. 2019. (with Sharon Gilad and Saar) Governance.
  16. Geographies of violence in Jerusalem: The spatial logic of urban intergroup conflict. 2018. (with Jonathan Rock and Dan Miodownik). Political Geography.