All Stories

  1. Emotions and the Nation: Nation-Building, Nationhood Reproduction, Political Mobilization, and Change

    Article • Nationalities Papers, February 2026, Cambridge University Press

    Yuval Feinstein

  2. Year of Rupture: The Deepening Democratic Divide in Israel in 2023

    Article • September 2025, Center for Open Science

    Yuval Feinstein

  3. United but Divided. The Segmented Rally in a Polarized Society in Wartime

    Article • September 2024, Center for Open Science

    Yuval Feinstein

  4. How does Successfully Curbing a Pandemic Influence Leader Approval in a Polarized Society? Insights from a Natural Experiment in Israel during COVID-19

    Article • May 2024, Center for Open Science

    Yuval Feinstein

  5. The tempest within: the origins and outcomes of intense national emotions in times of national division

    Article • Theory and Society, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yuval Feinstein

  6. National emotions

    Article • April 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Yuval Feinstein

  7. The Comparative National Self Theory of Opinion Formation: Outline and Preliminary Evidence

    Article • January 2023, Center for Open Science

    Yuval Feinstein

  8. Consent and Legitimacy: A Revised Bellicose Theory of State-Building with Evidence from around the World, 1500–2000

    Article • World Politics, January 2023, Project Muse

    Yuval Feinstein

  9. The Partisan Sorting of “America”: How Nationalist Cleavages Shaped the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

    Article • American Journal of Sociology, September 2021, University of Chicago Press

    Yuval Feinstein

  10. Potent but precarious: When, how, and why national identities have strong impact on attitude formation in response to events

    Article • January 2021, Center for Open Science

    Yuval Feinstein

  11. Applying Sociological Theories of Emotions to the Study of Mass Politics: The Rally-Round-the-Flag Phenomenon in the United States as a Test Case

    Article • Sociological Quarterly, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Yuval Feinstein

  12. The Partisan Sorting of `America': How Nationalist Cleavages Shaped the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

    Article • August 2019, Center for Open Science

    Yuval Feinstein

  13. Nationalist narratives and anti-Immigrant attitudes: exceptionalism and collective victimhood in contemporary Israel

    Article • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Yuval Feinstein, Bart Bonikowski

  14. Keep a Stiff Upper Lip or Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve? Ethnic Identity and Emotion Management among Arab/Palestinians in Israel

    Article • Sociology, April 2018, SAGE Publications

    Yuval Feinstein

  15. Failed peace and the decline in liberalism in Israel: A spiral model

    Article • Mediterranean Politics, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Yuval Feinstein

  16. One flag, two rallies: Mechanisms of public opinion in Israel during the 2014 Gaza war

    Article • Social Science Research, January 2018, Elsevier

    Yuval Feinstein

  17. The Rise and Decline of “Gender Gaps” in Support for Military Action: United States, 1986–2011

    Article • Politics and Gender, November 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Yuval Feinstein

  18. Influential in its absence: The relationship between refusing to embrace sub-national ethnic identities and openness to inter-national coexistence among Jews and Arab/Palestinians in Israel

    Article • Ethnicities, August 2017, SAGE Publications

    Yuval Feinstein

  19. Still No Robust Evidence for World Polity Theory

    Article • American Sociological Review, April 2016, SAGE Publications

    Yuval Feinstein

  20. Pulling the Trigger: How Threats to the Nation Increase Support for Military Action via the Generation of Hubris

    Article • Sociological Science, January 2016, Society for Sociological Science

    Yuval Feinstein

  21. When and Why Do Americans Close Ranks behind Their Presidents during International Crisis and War?

    Article • Social Science History, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Yuval Feinstein

  22. When Peace Is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice. By Atalia Omer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xii+368. $25.00.

    Article • American Journal of Sociology, March 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Yuval Feinstein

  23. The Thin Line between “Crazy” and “Hero”

    Article • Armed Forces & Society, November 2013, SAGE Publications

    Yuval Feinstein

  24. The Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001

    Article • American Sociological Review, October 2010, SAGE Publications

    Yuval Feinstein

  25. Activists Squeezed between the “Apartheid Wall” and the “Separation Fence”

    Article • January 2009, Nature

    Yuval Feinstein

  26. "The Battle Over Our Homes": Reconstructing/Deconstructing Sovereign Practices Around Israel's Separation Barrier on the West Bank

    Article • Israel Studies, January 2007, Indiana University Press

    Yuval Feinstein