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Dr Roi Zur
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Email
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Location
5.017, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Monday 12:30-14:30
Profile
Biography
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. I received my PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. My primary field of study is Comparative Politics with a focus on voting behavior, election strategies of political parties, political representation, and political institutions. My current research agenda focuses on the electoral implications of issue salience and parties' issue-emphasis strategies. I also have a special interest in Israeli politics, and I am the PI of the Israeli Chapel Hill Expert Survey. My work has been published in the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies, Party Politics, Political Behavior, and elsewhere. At Essex, I teach about democratic institutions (GV121), political parties and elections (GV203), electoral behaviour (GV303), and Israeli politics (GV525).
Qualifications
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PhD University of California, Davis,
Appointments
University of Essex
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Lecturer, Government, University of Essex (1/1/2020 - present)
Teaching and supervision
Current supervision
Publications
Journal articles (12)
de la Cerda, N., Bakker, R., Jolly, S., Koedam, J., Dassonneville, R., Leslie, P., Polk, J., Sheppard, J. and Zur, R., (2026). A global scale of economic left-right party positions: cross-national and cross-expert perceptions of party placements. The Journal of Politics. 88 (4), 1403-1418
Zur, R. and Bakker, R., (2025). The Israeli parties' positions in comparative perspective. Party Politics. 31 (2), 323-334
Harsgor, L. and Zur, R., (2025). Israel: Political Developments and Data in 2024. European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook. 64 (1), 327-347
Shomer, Y., Tzelgov, E. and Zur, R., (2025). Editorial: The crises of the Israeli democracy. Frontiers in Political Science. 7
Adams, J., Merrill, S. and Zur, R., (2024). How much does issue salience matter? A model with applications to the UK elections. European Journal of Political Research. 63 (2), 798-809
Bohmelt, T., Ezrow, L. and Zur, R., (2024). Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home. Electoral Studies. 88 (April), 102762-102762
Algara, C. and Zur, R., (2023). The Downsian roots of affective polarization. Electoral Studies. 82, 102581-102581
Vasilopoulou, S. and Zur, R., (2022). Electoral competition, the EU issue and far-right success in Western Europe. Political Behavior. 46 (1), 565-585
Zur, R., (2021). Stuck in the middle: Ideology, valence and the electoral failures of centrist parties. British Journal of Political Science. 51 (2), 706-723
Zur, R., (2021). The Multidimensional Disadvantages of Centrist Parties in Western Europe. Political Behavior. 43 (4), 1755-1777
Zur, R., (2019). Party survival in parliament: Explaining party durability in lower‐house parliaments. European Journal of Political Research. 58 (3), 960-980
Zur, R., (2017). When Valence Crushes: Explaining the Electoral Failure of the German FDP in the 2013 Election. German Politics. 26 (3), 380-397
Book chapters (2)
Magyar, A., Wagner, S. and Zur, R., (2023). Party strategies: Valence versus position. In: The Routledge Handbook of Political Parties. Editors: Carter, N., Keith, D., Sindre, GM. and Vasilopoulou, S., . Routledge. 9780367208745
Adams, J., Merrill, S. and Zur, R., (2020). The Spatial Voting Model. In: The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations. Editors: Curini, L. and Franzese, R., . SAGE. 205- 223. 9781526459930
Grants and funding
2022
How Parties Die? Political Parties Change and Mortality in Western Democracies
British Academy
Contact
Academic support hours:
Monday 12:30-14:30