Last term, I asked students enrolled in my undergrad course on elections (POL3015), to create infographics. In these infographics, they explained a concept in the field of electoral studies. The students created infographics on many different topics, such as the concept of economic voting, compulsory voting, women suffrage, amongst others. Below are some examples of […] Read more

At the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Ruth Dassonneville and Filip Kostelka were awarded the Marion Irish Award for the best paper on Women and Politics, presented at the 2018 SPSA Meeting. They won the award for their paper ‘The Gender Gap in Voter Turnout: A Longitudinal Analysis of European Parliament […] Read more

Several Chair members participated in the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, which took place in Austin (TX) in January 2019. Semih Çakir presented a paper on the role of ambivalence on electoral participation, and Alexandra Jabbour presented co-authored work (with Jean-François Daoust) on the role of long-term factors on the vote choice […] Read more