Curriculum Vitae 1. Personal Data: :Name in Hebrew ד"ר עקירב אסנת Akirav Osnat, Ph.D. Name in English: 2. Education Certificates and Degrees: From - To Department Institute Education 1988-1991 Political Science Tel Aviv University First Degree 1992-1994 Political Science Tel Aviv University Second Degree 1995-2003 Political Science Hebrew University, Third Degree Jerusalem 2007 Political Science UCSD, USA. Post Doc 3. Title of Master's Thesis: The causes of the formal activity of MK's at 13th Knesset Supervisor: Professor Gideon Doron Title of Doctoral Thesis: The connection between the system of candidates election to the parties and their activity at the 13th Knesst Supervisor: Professor Yaron Azrahi 4. Grants and Awards: Name of Grant/Award Year Edmond J. Safra Award for high achievements, excellence, and 2012 social contribution. The Edmond J. Safra Foundation and the ISEF Foundation. Best Article Prize, Israeli Political Science Association. 2012 Excellent Lecturer Prize, The American Political Science 2010 Assosiation. Excellent Lecturer Prize, The Western Galilee College. 2010 Post Doc fellowship, The ISEF fund. 2007 Post Doc fellowship, Western Galilee College. 2007 Research fellowship, Western Galilee College. 2006 Excellent Lecturer Prize, Derby University (Israel extension). 2000 Research fellowship for PhD, The ISEF fund. 1999 Social Involvement Excellency Prize, Tel Aviv University. 1993 Fellowship for Parliamentary Assistant, The ISEF fund, Tel Aviv 1993 University. 5. Reasearch Grants: Amount Title of Research Funding Agency From-To 5,000 $ Excellent Lecturer Prize The Western Galilee 2010-2011 Academic College 6. Organization of Scientific Conferences: 1. A discussant in The 2nd Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science in memory of Yitzhak Rabin, December 26th 2006, Haifa University. 2. A discussant in The 5nd Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science in memory of Yitzhak Rabin, December 10th 2009, The Hebrew University. 3. Chair of session at the MPSA conference, Chicago, USA. 31 March- 3 April 2011. 7. Positions Held: % Position Institute From-To Position 66% Adjunct Lecturer The Western Galilee 1997-2003 8. A College d 50% Advisor The Open University 1997-2000 d 100% Lecturer The Western Galilee 2003- 2012 i Academic College t i 100% Senior Leturer The Western Galilee 2012- Present o Academic College n 33% Adjunct Lecturer Haifa University 2003- Present a l Professional Experience (Public Positions): 1990-1994 A member in PERACH Organization, The coordinator for the “Educators Project”. During this period coordinator of "The Children of Prisoners Project" and the “Educators Enrichment Project" program at Tel Aviv University. 1990-1994 ISEF - The ISEF Foundation - Member of the fund and the coordinator of the "Theoretical Program" at Tel Aviv University. 1995 A member of a delegation of the (AJC) American Jewish Committee. The delegation consisted of 10 members who were chosen from various organizations as young leaders. The delegation's goal was to create a dialogue with the Jewish community in the Diaspora. 1994-1996 HALEV - the Movement for Fighting Poverty in Israel. Director of the movement which established a holistic plan to decrease the amount of poverty in Israel. We have tried to assimilate this plane in the government's budget. 1995-1997 A volunteer member of the Roteract Club (Junior Division of Rotary), and the chairperson of the community section. Our main project was to help the young patients in the children's department at Nahariya Hospital. 1999-2000 A volunteer member of the governing council at Kfar Vradim; a representative of the young families. 2000-2002 A volunteer as the chairperson of the Parent's Leadership of the kindergarten's clusters of Kfar Vradim. 2002-2003 A volunteer as the chairperson of the Parent's Leadership of the elementary school of Kfar Vradim. 2003-2013 A volunteer as a Council Member of the Kfar Vradim Local Regional Council. A volunteer as the Chairperson of the education committee of the Kfar Vradim Local Regional Council. The committee initiated and established the holistic. 2008- Current A volunteer as an academic advisor and lecturer at the WePower - non-profit, non-partisan Israeli NGO. WePower promots women's leadership, gender integration and equality at all levels of Israeli society. 9. Scientific Areas of Specialization: Legislative studies, setting the agenda of government, election studies, research methods, the Israeli political system, local government studies, gender and poilitics, minorities and politics. 10. Miscellaneous: REFEREE OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS: Referee of the Journal - American Political Science Review (A+). Referee of the Journal - Political Research Quarterly. 11. Academic Profile: I finished my doctoral dissertation at 2003 and started my academic life in participation at the International Political Science Association conference at Japan in July 2006. Since then I did post-doc at UCSD, published 6 researches that one of them was the post-doc study and presented papers in professional conferences in political science (IPSA, MPSA, ECPR). I was asked to be referee in two important professional journals in political science and was asked to be chair and discussant in a session at the MPSA conference in Chicago 2011. Legislative Studies is a field investigated in two main areas; North America and Europe. The main questions of the field try to understand the behavior of legislators, the procedures of parliament and the way these procedures enable or delay legislators to set their political agenda. Most of the research based on quantitative methods while less is based on quantitative methods. My research agenda emphasizes two aspects of the field's content: the first, using mix research methods accordance to the subject of it. In this way the picture that emerges from my researches is more comprehensive. The second aspect is developing models to examine the qualitative of the legislators' activities in their parliaments (for example, research regarding the effectiveness of parliamentary questions 2011 and the research regarding legislators' productivity 2011). At the same time my projects examine the differences between groups in parliaments such as gender, minority and religious. The contribution of my researches is overarching research methods, developing models for examining the quality of parliamentary activity and expanding the knowledge regarding the Israeli parliament These are my research projects: 1. One Minute Speeches. In the last decade few parliament adopted one minute speech as a tool that enable MP to speak about any subject for one minute. The project will map and examine the content of the speeches and will try to understand its important to the overall parliamentary activity. The project will compare between parliaments that use one minute speeches. 2. Parliamentary question as a tool for criticizing government. Continue to develop the model which was empirically examined by me at the Israeli parliament (one of the paper which was published at April 2011). I will examine the model in variety of parliaments such as Denmark, UK, Norway and Sweden. 3. Representatives at the local government. The research examines the characters of the representative's work at the local government councils. Its purpose is to expand the knowledge regarding the ways representatives act at the local arena. Nowadays I am a representative at the local government council of Kfar Vradim. Being in this position raised many questions especially about the huge gap between the expectations from the role and the facilities available to the role. 4. Legislators' productivity. I developed a model to examine the productivity of representatives. It is the first time that research combined between all the parliamentary tools into one measurement. In addition the research looks for the explanations regarding the differences at the productivity level. 5. Reelection. One of the major topics that interest the scholars at the legislative studies field is the explanation for reelection. As part of the productivity model mentioned above, I examine whether productivity helps MP to reelect. 6. Gender and Politics. Women activities at the political arena arouse curiosity among scholars. In my research I examine the content of women's activity compared to men's activity. 7. Minorities in Politics. The Arab minority in Israel was investigated in a variety of disciplines, my research examines the way Arab's representative comprehended the concepts of equality and recognition. 8. Local Governmant Studies. Representatives behavior at the local government. Gender and local government. Publications ד"ר אסנת עקירב Refereed Publications Articles and Chapters in Books Akirav, O., Cox, W., G., & McCubbins, D.M. (2009). Agenda Control in the Israeli Knesset during Ariel Sharon's Second Government. In: H. Zubida & D. Mekelberg (eds.), Sixty Years of Israeli Democracy: Reality and Vision. pp. 41- 64. (Hebrew). Akirav, O. (2010). Political Participation in Local Level: Representatives' activities. In: A. Brichta, E. Vigoda-Gadot, & G. Pade (eds.), City and state in Israel: Local Government towards the 7th decade. Carmel Publishing in collaboration with 'State and Society' Journal: Jerusalem, pp. 129-180. (Hebrew). Akirav, O. (2011). Legislators productivity. In: H. Zubida & D. Mekelberg (eds.), Dynamics of Changes: Israeli Politics in Transition. pp. 71-92. (Hebrew). Akirav, O. (2013). Preliminary Framework for Significant Legislation. In: D.A. Frenkel (ed.), 2013,