Political Behavior

Daniel Karell

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Daniel Karell is an assistant professor of sociology at Yale University, where he is also affiliated with the Institution of Social and Policy Studies and co-organizes the Computational Social Science Workshop. His current research uses computational, quantitative, and experimental methods to examine the intersection of social movements, culture, and technology.

Antonin Lacelle-Webster

External Postdoctoral Associate

Antonin Lacelle-Webster is an external fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) at Yale University. He received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of British Columbia in 2023. His research focuses primarily on democratic theory, with a particular interest in democratic innovation, political agency, and the politics of hope and disappointment. He is also involved with Participedia as a member of the Democratic Representation research cluster and the Editorial Board.

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 asssociate 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.