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You’re welcome to use the data and code (with proper credit).


Alon-Barkat, Saar. 2020. “The emotive effect of government branding on citizens’ trust and its boundaries: Does the personal relevance of the policy issue matter?”. Public Administration. DOI: 10.1111/padm.12647.

Alon-Barkat, Saar. 2020. “Can government public communications elicit undue trust? Exploring the interaction between symbols and substantive information in communications”. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 30(1): 77-95. DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muz013.


Data is based on online survey experiment conducted on January-February 2018 among residents of selected cities in Israel (recruited via iPanel).

Replication materials available online at ‘github.com/saaralonbarkat/SVIVA_2018’.


Alon-Barkat, Saar, and Sharon Gilad. 2017. “Compensating for Poor Performance with Promotional Symbols: Evidence from a Survey Experiment”. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 27(4): 661-675. DOI: 10.1093/jopart/mux013.


Data is based on online survey experiment conducted on December 2015 among residents of selected cities in Israel (recruited via Midgam).

Replication materials available online at ‘github.com/saaralonbarkat/IEC_2015’.


Gilad, Sharon, Saar Alon-Barkat, and Alexandr Braverman. 2016. “Large-Scale Social Protest: A Business Risk and a Bureaucratic Opportunity”. Governance 29(3): 371-392. DOI: 10.1111/gove.12173.

Alon-Barkat, Saar, and Sharon Gilad. 2016. “Political control or legitimacy deficit? Bureaucracies’ symbolic responses to bottom-up public pressures”. Policy & Politics 44(1): 41-58. DOI: 10.1332/030557315x14443003393944


This project is based on a cross-sectional-time-series dataset that includes the advertising expenditures of 136 Israeli organizations (businesses, public organizations and NGOs) between 2010-2012 (half year periods), together with organizations’ charecteristics. Data collected between 2013-2014.

Replication materials available online at ‘github.com/saaralonbarkat/PROTEST_2014’.