Many disciplines in the social sciences face a ‘credibility crisis’. In response to such crises, the Open Science movement is promoting research practices that are more transparent. In political science, there is a clear trend towards more transparent and replicable research. More and more journals are requiring the pre-registration of experimental work and a few […] Read more

Evaluating Performance in Opposition Dieter Stiers (University of Leuven) Recent scholarship in retrospective voting has shown that voters do not only evaluate incumbent performance when they go to the polls, but the performance of parties in opposition as well. So far, however, these studies could only speculate what it is exactly that voters evaluate of […] Read more

Social norms and electoral participation: doing what is right or doing like everyone else Maxime Coulombe (Université de Montréal) People tend to behave differently, often more in accordance with social norms, when they feel observed or when they know their behavior is monitored or disclosed to others. In political science, Get-Out-To-Voteexperiments have shown how people […] Read more

Can Part ID be a Proxy? The Measure of Party Ideology with Party Identification Nadjim Frechet (Université de Montréal)Maxime Blanchard (McGill University) Many research questions in electoral studies focus directly or indirectly on political parties’ position on specific issues. Unfortunately, parties do not answer surveys. Accordingly, it is much more complex to determine their position […] Read more

19 January 2021 – Can Party Id be a Proxy? The Measure of Party Ideology with Party Identification     Nadjim Frechet (Université de Montréal) 26 January 2021 – Social Norms and Electoral Participation: Doing what is right or doing like everyone else Maxime Coulombe (Université de Montréal) 2 February 2021 – Evaluating Performance in […] Read more

Semra Sevi is a finalist of the SSHRC Talent Award. Each year, SSHRC awards prizes for Canada’s top social sciences and humanities researchers. The Talent Award recognizes the outstanding academic achievement of a current SSHRC doctoral or postdoctoral scholarship or fellowship holder. Congratulations on this accomplishment! More information on the award can be found here. Read more