Dr. Jacob Shamir
BOOKS
J. Shamir and K. Shikaki
The Public Imperative: Palestinian and Israeli Public Opinion in the Second Intifada. Forthcoming,
J. Shamir and M. Shamir
The Anatomy of Public Opinion. The
ARTICLES
T. Grbelsky-Lichtman, J. Shamir and S. Blum-Kulka
“Discourse of Success and Failure in Televised Political Debates” Megamot forthcoming 2008, (in Hebrew)
M. Shamir and J. Shamir
"What Were the Elections About and Why We Should Ask About it in Election Surveys" International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 20 (2) 2008, 211-223.
M. Shamir, J. Shamir, and T. Sheafer
"The Political Communication of Mandate Elections" Political Communication, 25(1) 2008, 47-66.
J. Shamir
“Quality Assessment of Television Programs: Can Viewers Recognize Production Value?” Journal of Applied Communication Research, 35(3) 2007, 320-341.
M. Shamir and J. Shamir
"The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Israeli Elections" International Political Science Review, 28(4) 2007, 469-491.
J. Shamir and K. Shikaki
"Public Opinion in the Israeli-Palestinian Two-Level Game"
Journal of Peace Research 42(3) 2005, 311-328.
J. Shamir and K. Shikaki
"Self-Serving Perceptions of Terrorism Among Israelis and Palestinians"
Political Psychology, 23(3) 2002, 537-558.
J. Shamir and K. Shikaki
"Between Conflict and Reconciliation: Determinants of Reconciliation and Compromise Among Israelis and Palestinians" Journal of Peace Research 39(2) 2002, 185-202.
J. Shamir, N. Ziskind, S. Blum-Kulka
"What's in a Question? A Content Analysis of Survey Questions"
Communication Review 3(4) 1999, 1-25.
* Reprinted in M. I. A. Bulmer (ed.) Questionnaires. Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Series. Sage Publ.,
* Abridged version appears as the entry “Question wording as discourse indicators” in Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods, Sage Publ., Thousand Oaks, CA, 2008.
J. Shamir
"Motivation and Accuracy in the Estimation of Opinion Distributions: A Survey Experiment" International Journal of Public Opinion Research 10(2) 1998, 91-108.
J. Shamir
"Speaking Up and Silencing Out in Face of a Changing Climate of Opinion"
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 74(3) 1997, 602-614.
J. Shamir and M. Shamir
"Pluralistic Ignorance Across Issues and Over Time: Information Cues and Biases"
Public Opinion Quarterly 61(2) Summer 1997, 227-60.
* Abridged Hebrew version “Pluralistic Ignorance in Israeli Public Opinion” Dvarim Ahadim 1, Spring 1997, 99-115
M. Shamir and J. Shamir
“Value Preferences in Israeli Public Opinion” Megamot 37(4), 1996, 371-393 (in Hebrew).
J. Shamir
"Information Cues and Indicators of the Climate of Opinion: The Spiral of Silence Theory in the Intifada" Communication Research 22, 1995, 24-53.
M. Shamir and J. Shamir
"Competing Values in Public Opinion: A Conjoint Analysis"
Political Behavior 17, 1995, 107-133.
J. Shamir
"Pluralistic Ignorance Revisited: Perceptions of Opinion Distributions in
International Journal of Public Opinion Research 5 (1), 1993, 22-39.
J. Shamir, B. Straus Reed and S. Connell
"Individual Differences in Ethical Values of Public Relations Practitioners"
Journalism Quarterly 67(4), Winter 1990, 956-964.
* Winning paper of the 1991 International Association of Business Communicators award.
J. Shamir
"Israeli Elite Journalists: Views on Freedom and Responsibility"
Journalism Quarterly 65(2), Fall 1988, 589-594,647.
J. Shamir
"Horse Race Journalism and Pollsters' Performance in
Political Communication and Persuasion 4(3), Winter 1987, 371-383.
J. Shamir
"Pre‑Election Polls in
Public Opinion Quarterly 50(1) Spring 1986, 62‑75.