Naama Rivlin-Angert

Naama Rivlin-Angert is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, and a researcher in the Israeli National Election Studies institution (INES). Her research interests include political behavior, political psychology, public opinion, political communication, and combines quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Her dissertation focuses on the processes of deconstruction and destruction of existing political identities. It claims that when political identity becomes the object of political delegitimization, members of the political group will renounce and denounce their now illegitimate identity.