Professor David Nachmias is a Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) and holds the Romulo Betancourt Chair in Political Science at Tel Aviv University. His academic and professional experience includes: Associate Director of the Urban Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Visiting Associate Professor at the J.F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Visiting Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science at the University of Kentucky.
Professor Nachmias received his B.A. from Tel Aviv University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. He has received research grants from the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Foundation, the Graduate School Research Committee of the University of Wisconsin, the National Science Foundation, the Sapir Research Center, the Arab-Israeli Research Institute and the Ebert Frederich Foundation. In 1984 Professor Nachmias received the Fulbright Senior Research Fellow award of the U.S. Department of Education, in 1994 he received the Donald Campbell Award for Methodological Innovations in Policy Studies, and in 1998 he received the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award.
Professor Nachmias has extensively published and presented papers in the areas of Political Science, Public Administration and Public Policy, both in Israel and abroad. He now serves on the editorial board of Policy Studies Review; and is a member of the American Political Science Association; Midwest Political Science Association; Policy Studies Organization; the International Political Science Association and Israel's Political Science Association.
His numerous books and articles include: Public Policy in Israel, Frank Cass, 2002; Executive Governance in Israel, Patgrave, 2002 (Co-author); Research Methods in the Social Sciences, Worth, 6th ed. 1999; and "The Bias of Pluralism: The Redistributive Consequences of Israel's New Electoral Law" in A. Arian and Michal Shamir (eds.) The Elections in Israel - 1996, State University of New York Press, 1999.