Assemblée citoyenne sur la démocratie électorale municipale André Blais (Université de Montréal) Je vais présenter un projet de recherche que je compte mener en 2023 sur la démocratie électorale municipale. Il s’agira de mener un exercice de délibération citoyenne dans une municipalité québécoise. Une centaine de citoyens seront invités à réfléchir, discuter et faire une […] Read more

Ruth Dassonneville and Romain Lachat (SciencesPo Paris) have been nominated to hold the first CÉRIUM-FMSH Chair on Global Governance. During the next three years, they will be organizing a series of events, workshops and create opportunities for student training and mobility around the topics of polarisation and challenges to democracy. For more information, see here. Read more

The voting advice applications’ match effects on pre-voters Laura Uyttendaele (Université catholique de Louvain) The Test électoral is a Voting Advice Application (VAA) providing citizens with personalized information on their ideological profile by comparing their positions on a selection of political issues with those of parties. Scholars agree that VAAs have the potential to assist young people […] Read more

Thanks to a Mitacs Globalink Research Award, between October and December 2021, Philippe Mongrain completed a research stay at the Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF) in Paris under the supervision of Romain Lachat. During his stay, Philippe worked on the fourth and final paper of his doctoral dissertation in which he analyzes […] Read more

On 26 November 2021, Florence Vallée-Dubois publicly defended her doctoral dissertation “Growing old : Population ageing and democratic representation in Canada.” In her thesis, Florence theorizes about the consequences of population ageing for democratic representation. In the empirical chapters, Florence analyses age differences in Canadian’s preferences for government spending, voting in seniors’ residences and patterns of […] Read more