Publications
“The Trump Effect: How 2016 Campaign Rallies Explain Spikes in Hate.” (Ayal Feinberg, Regina Branton, and Val Martinez-Ebers) PS: Political Science & Politics, 55, 2 (2022), 257-265.
“Does the Distribution of Ethnic-Kin-Groups Explain Mediation in Territorial Disputes?” (Ayal Feinberg and Michael Greig) International Negotiation, 27, 1 (2021), 157-189.
“Explaining Ethnoreligious Minority Targeting: Variation in U.S. Anti-Semitic Events.” Perspectives on Politics, 18, 3 (2020), 770-787.
“Homeland Violence and Diaspora Insecurity: An Analysis of Israel and American Jewry.” Politics & Religion, 13, 1 (2020), 1-27.
“Merging Actors with Events: Introducing the Social Conflict Analysis Dataset – Organizational Properties.” (Idean Salehyan, Ayal Feinberg, and Kelsey Naughton) International Interactions, 46, 1 (2020), 133-149.
“Holocaust History, Far-Right Parties, and Anti-Semitic Incidents.” (Ayal Feinberg and Brandon Stewart) Contemporary Jewry, 39, 2 (2019), 191-209.
“How International is Political Science? Patterns of Submission and Publication in the APSR.” (Marijke Breuning, Ayal Feinberg, Benjamin Gross, Melissa Martinez, Rmesh Sharma and John Ishiyama) PS: Political Science & Politics, 51, 4 (2018), 789-798.
“Clearing the Pipeline? Gender and Publishing in the APSR.” (Marijke Breuning, Benjamin Gross, Ayal Feinberg, Melissa Martinez, Ramesh Sharma, and John Ishiyama) PS: Political Science & Politics, 51, 3 (2018), 629-634.
“The Irony of the Iron Dome: Intelligent Defense Systems, Law and Security.” (Daphné Richemond-Barak and Ayal Feinberg) Harvard National Security Journal, 7, 2 (2016), 469-525.
“Social Distance, Education and Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia.” (James Meernik, Nenad Golcevski, Ayal Feinberg, Kimi King, Roman Krastev, and Melissa McKay) Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 16, 3 (2016), 413-431.
Under Review
“Student Protest, Violent Interactions, and State Repression.” (Ayal Feinberg and Idean Salehyan) Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Peace Research
“Explaining Antisemitic Incidents on American Campuses.”
“The Effects of Hate Crime on Foreign Policy Preferences.” (Ayal Feinberg, and Jacob Scott Lewis)
“How Pride Determines LGBTQ+ Hate Crime in America.” (Regina Branton, Michael Elwell and Ayal Feinberg)
Selected Works in Progress
“Insecurity in Paradise: Anti-Semitism in Modern America.” preparation for book manuscript submission “Anti-Semitic Event Variation in Europe.” preparation for journal submission
“Hate Beyond the State: Why Political Scientists Must Examine Hate Crimes.” (Ayal Feinberg, Regina Branton, and Valerie Martinez-Ebers) preparation for journal submission
“Attribution of Blame for Foreign Conflict” (Ayal Feinberg and Jacob Scott Lewis) preparation for journal submission
“Synthetic vs. Real Hate Crimes in Social Science Experiments.” (Ayal Feinberg and Jacob Scott Lewis) preparation for journal submission
“Moving to the Homeland: How Diaspora Insecurity Explains Emigration.” preparation for journal submission
Commentary and Engagement
Ayal Feinberg. April, 2020. “Hate crimes against Asian Americans have been declining for years. Will the coronavirus change that?” The Monkey Cage, The Washington Post
Ayal Feinberg. April, 2020. “Covid-19’s Bigotry Epicenters: Asian and Jewish Americans” Rantt Media
Ayal Feinberg. December, 2019. “Unquantified Prejudice: The Challenges of Tracking Hate Crimes” Rantt Media
Ayal Feinberg (with Regina Branton & Valerie Martinez-Ebers). March, 2019. “Counties that hosted a 2016 Trump rally saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes” The Monkey Cage, The Washington Post
- The Monkey Cage’s #1 most popular post of 2019
- Evidence at U.S. House Committee on The Judiciary’s hearing, “Hate Crimes and the Rise of White Nationalism” – April 9th, 2019
Ayal Feinberg. December, 2016. “These four factors trigger anti-Semitism in the U.S.” The Monkey Cage, The Washington Post
Selected Student Co-Authored Research
“Queer Hate Crime in America” (with Michael Elwell) preparation for journal submission
“The Curious Relationship Between Abortion Legislation and Adoptions” (with Hannah Anderson) preparation for journal submission