Political Behavior

Hélène Landemore

Professor of Political Science

Hélène Landemore is a professor of political science (with a specialization in political theory). Her research and teaching interests include democratic theory, political epistemology, theories of justice, the philosophy of social sciences (particularly economics), constitutional processes and theories, and workplace democracy.

Mellissa Meisels

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Mellissa Meisels is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral associate in the Center for the Study of American Politics at Yale and a Democracy Center visiting scholar at the University of Rochester. She received her Ph.D.

Itamar Yakir

Postdoctoral Associate

Itamar Yakir is a postdoctoral sssociate with the Democratic Innovations program at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies and with Yale’s Identity and Conflict Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2023.