Chaire de recherche du Canada en démocratie électorale

Party Prediction for Twitter Kellin Pelrine, Anne Imouza, Gabrielle Desrosiers-Brisebois, Sacha Lévy, Jacob-Junqi Tian, Zachary Yang, Aarash Feizi, Cécile Amadoro, André Blais, Jean-François Godbout and Reihaneh Rabbany A large number of studies on social media are based on predictive models for inferring political affiliation of users. The methods designed for this party prediction rely on […] Read more

‘Credible’ or ‘Capricious’? The Reputational Cost of Party Policy Change in Multi-Party Settings Maurits Meijers – Assistant Professor at Radboud Universiteit Political parties regularly change their policy positions on a wide range of issues. Yet, it is unclear how policy change affects parties’ reputations in multi-party systems. On the one hand, voters can accept political parties’ […] Read more

Cultural Sources of Gender Gaps: Confucian Meritocracy Reduces Gender Inequalities in Electoral Participation Baowen Liang – PhD Candidate at Université de Montréal East Asian women’s political participation has not increased at the same pace as economic development. One frequently mobilized cause for this discrepancy is the region’s Confucian culture, with its strong focus on hierarchy, […] Read more

Who is under pressure? A descriptive study of social pressure to vote Maxime Coulombe – PhD Candidate at Université de Montréal Randomized field experiments such as Gerber et al.’s (2008) Get-Out-the-Vote study provide causal estimates of the mobilizing effects of social pressure to vote. While offering important contributions, these studies leave open questions regarding how […] Read more

Inclusive Redistribution and Perceptions of Membership: A Cross-National Comparison Allison Harell – Professor at UQAM Immigrants tend to be seen as less deserving of welfare benefits than native-born citizens, but little consensus exists to explain this finding or how to build greater public support for more inclusive policies. New work on citizens perceptions of the […] Read more