Tuesday October 1, 2019: Peter Loewen (University of Toronto). “Intrinsic Motivations to Represent Marginalized Groups in a Democracy: Evidence from an unelected legislature”. Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, C-4145, 12h-13h. Title: Intrinsic Motivations to Represent Marginalized Groups in a Democracy: Evidence from an Unelected Legislature Abstract: Do legislators from marginalized groups have intrinsic motivations to represent ‘their’ […] Read more

  6th Leuven-Montréal Winter School on Elections   In collaboration with the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)   Supported by the ECPR Standing Group on Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective & The Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship   29 February – 7 March 2020, Montréal (Canada) […] Read more

Upcoming Talk Tuesday September 24, 2019: Ruth Dassonneville (Université de Montréal), Stephen Quinlan (CSES, GESIS) and Ian McAllister (Australian National University). “‘That Bloody Woman’ Syndrome? The Popularity of Female Party Leaders Worldwide.” Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, Room C-4145, 12h-13h. Read more

Upcoming Talk Tuesday September 17, 2019: Jean-François Daoust (McGill University) and Peter Loewen (University of Toronto). “What is the impact of winning an election? Evidence from a quasi-experimental approach.” Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, Room C-4145, 12h-13h. Read more

In July 2019, Philippe Mongrain won the firt edition of the Canadian Election Study Module Competition (PhD stream) organized by the Consortium on Electoral Democracy (C-Dem) for his proposal entitled “Contact Networks and Citizen Forecasting.” The module proposed by Mongrain will contribute to analyze the relationship between voters’ foretelling abilities and the characteristics of their […] Read more

The 2019 American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting & Exhibition was held from August 29 to September 1 in Washington, D.C. on the theme “Populism and Privilege.” Semra Sevi, a member of the Research Chair in Electoral Studies and the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Democracy,  presented a paper entitled “The Impact of Role Models […] Read more

At the 2019 American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Ruth Dassonneville and Ian McAllister were awarded the 2019 GESIS Klingemann Prize for the Best CSES Scholarship for their article “Gender, Political Knowledge, and Descriptive Representation: The Impact of Long-Term Socialization” in the American Journal of Political Science. From left to right: André Blais, Ruth […] Read more

Upcoming Talk Tuesday September 10, 2019 : Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski. “Quelle façon de voter les électeurs préfèrent-ils?” Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, Room C-4145, 12h-13h. Read more

Several Chair-members attended the Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association, that took place at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. Both Florence Vallée-Dubois and Semra Sevi presented multiple papers during the conference (for more information on the program, see here). Finally, Ruth Dassonneville presented a co-authored paper on “Voting at 16”, based […] Read more

The 2019 edition of the SQSP, that took place at the Université de Montréal, offered an opportunity for many Chair members to present their research. Many students took part in the workshop “Les défis de la démocratie électorale: le comportement électoral dans un contexte de volatilité”, that Ruth Dassonneville co-organised with Valérie-Anne Mahéo. Here is […] Read more