PROFESSOR GIDEON DORON is the President of the Israeli Association of Political Science and a member of the Executive Board of the International Political Science Association. A graduate of the University of Rochester , he teaches at the department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University , where he served in the early 1990's as a department head. During the 1992 elections, he was Rabin's campaign strategist. In 1993, he was a member of the National Security Team. Between 1995 and 1999 he served as the Chairman of the Council of the 2nd Authority for Television and Radio. He is the author of dozens of articles in Hebrew and English, 12 books and three edited volumes.

Among his latest publications are: Strategy of Election (1996), The Electoral Revolution (1996), Government and Politics of Israel (1997), Awaiting Representation: Politics of Women in Israel (1998), Political Bargaining (2000), Public Policy and Electoral Reform (2000), The Politics of Bereavement (forthcoming), Presidential Regime For Israel (forthcoming).