Author profile: Patricia Sohn

Dr. Patricia Sohn, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. She is co-editor (with Simone Raudino) of Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics, (University of Michigan Press 2022); and author of Judicial Power and National Politics: Courts and Gender in the Religious-Secular Conflict in Israel (SUNY Press 2017 and 2008).

What Do We Mean by ‘Local People’? The Palestinian Case.

Patricia Sohn • Jun 23 2017 • Articles

In the West Bank and Gaza, municipal leaders do truly thankless and heroic tasks every day.  Let them represent their people.

Will Trump Be to Palestinian-Israeli Peace What Nixon Was to the U.S and China?

Patricia Sohn • Jun 8 2017 • Articles

Peace processes should be about local populations. In the Palestinian case it must be about local Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line and their quality of life.

Which T.V. Show or Movie Does This World Most Resemble?

Patricia Sohn • May 19 2017 • Articles

Some elements of the story lines of known television shows and movies resonate well with the current global political climate.

What I Learned Fending off Wild Camels in Pamukkale (A Travelogue)

Patricia Sohn • May 11 2017 • Articles

Fieldwork teaches you to appreciate the similarities of individuals and communities across the globe.

Bombing Syria, Isis, and How We Got Here

Patricia Sohn • May 4 2017 • Articles

The true ideological divide in the U.S. today is true democrats versus neo-colonialists.

The Faith and Good Works Party – In My (Utopian) Dreams

Patricia Sohn • Apr 28 2017 • Articles

Without a multi-party system, the range of viewpoints that citizens inhabit every day is simply unrepresented in U.S. politics at the local, state, and national levels.

Has the U.S. Become a Single-Party Regime?

Patricia Sohn • Apr 20 2017 • Articles

The U.S. today may increasingly resemble the single-party, single-coalition or dominant party regimes of yesteryear.

Field Research, Research Design, and Scientific Method (A Personal Account)

Patricia Sohn • Apr 13 2017 • Articles

“Science” is a many splendored and varied thing. It even includes qualitative research.

Institutions Matter, Or, What I Learned Sleeping with Lions in Kenya

Patricia Sohn • Apr 6 2017 • Articles

Several lessons can be learned from fieldwork. Experience in Kenya speaks to the variety found in the everyday functioning of societies, institutions and cultures.

Want a Scapegoat? Blame Serbia! (a Satire)

Patricia Sohn • Mar 31 2017 • Articles

Whilst scapegoating of countries like Israel is common, there is a frightening and serious rise of fascism in Europe. Satire can offer a fresh outlook on bias.

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