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Dr. Dvir's research interests lie in the intersection of decision-making and public policy and administration theories. In particular, his work explores how interactions between behavioral and structural factors shape the decisions and preferences of policymakers, public members and other stakeholders in the context of policy issues related to natural disasters, climate change and other environmental hazards, infrastructure resilience, technological innovations and government performance. His work also addresses topics such as foreign policy decision-making, global terrorism and international security. He has extensive experience in different quantitative methodologies. In particular, he is an expert in experimental research designs, public opinion surveys, conjoint experiments, and statistical analysis of large datasets.
Dr. Dvir has published research articles in peer-reviewed outlets, including Public Management Review, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Environmental Hazards, Foreign Policy Analysis, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Intelligence and National Security and more. His current research focuses on individual risk perceptions and policy preferences related to environmental hazards resilience. In particular, he explores questions about health threats and mitigation behavior in the face of natural disasters and pollution hazards. In other work, he uses advanced methodological tools like conjoint experiments and machine learning methods to study issues in public views of government performance. Dr. Dvir has taught advanced courses on global terrorism and theories of international relations. Currently, he is teaching a graduate-level course on quantitative research methods in public policy.
Dr. Dvir received his PhD from the department of Political Science at Texas A&M University. He also has MA in international relations and BA in Economics and Political Science from Haifa University.
