Odelia Oshri is a faculty member in the Political Science Department and the European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her main research interests are in comparative politics and political behavior. She explores, from a comparative perspective, notions of identity and how they shape and construct different political behaviors. Empirically, her investigations pivot around the European Union, targeting identification processes and their manifestations in the variegated European political settings. In her current work,she examines failures in representation linked to changes in mainstream party platforms.