Dans cet épisode du balado, Jeanne Marlier, étudiante à la maîtrise au département de science politique, discute avec Philippe Mongrain, étudiant au doctorat qui s’intéresse à la prédiction électoral et plus particulièrement à la prédiction citoyenne. Philippe vient de publier un article qu’il a co-écrit avec Bruno Jérôme, Véronique Jérôme et Richard Nadeau, qui présente […] Read more
C’est avec enthousiasme qu’on lance la série balado de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en démocratie électorale. Dans nos balados, on discute des élections, du comportement des électeurs et des partis, et de la représentation. L’objectif de la série est de discuter avec les auteurs d’articles ou d’ouvrages récents, de ce qui a motivé […] Read more
Lors de l’émission radio « Tout un monde » du 11 septembre sur RTS, un membre de la Chaire, Philippe Mongrain, est intervenu pour discuter de prévision électorale. Vous pouvez trouver l’émission ici (Philippe intervient vers 6:30). Read more
1 September 2020 – Electoral Participation, Political Disaffection, and the Rise of the Populist Radical Right Julia Schulte-Cloos (LMU Research Fellow) 8 September 2020 […] Read more
On 20 May 2020, Dieter Stiers successfully defended his dissertation “Quality of the Vote Choice. Accountability and Congruence in Electoral Democracies” at the University of Leuven. Dieter was co-supervised by Marc Hooghe (KU Leuven) and Ruth Dassonneville, and the dissertation committee included André Blais, Richard R. Lau, Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Jean-Benoit Pilet and Stefaan Fiers. […] Read more
Two members of the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Democracy were awarded scholarships from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Alexandra Jabbour was awarded a Clifford C. Clogg Scholarship from the ICPSR for the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. Clifford C. Clogg Scholarships are awarded to scholars who […] Read more
The SSHRC and the FRQSC have announced the results of their 2019-2020 PhD scholarship competitions. There was some good news for students at the Chair: Alexandra Jabbour was awarded a scholarship of the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture. Maxime Coulombe was awarded a Joseph-Armand-Bombardier PhD scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research […] Read more
A new paper by Semra Sevi, Marco Mendoza Aviña, Gabrielle Peloquin-Skulski, Emmanuel Heisbourg, Paola Vegas, Maxime Coulombe, Vincent Arel-Bundock, Peter Loewen, and André Blais is now available online in the Canadian Journal of Political Science. In this article, the authors show, among other things, that visual presentation of COVID-19 progression has no effect on citizens’s […] Read more
A new paper by Jean-François Daoust and Alexandra Jabbour is now available online in French Politics. In this article, the authors provide a unique longitudinal perspective of citizens’ vote choice calculus in Quebec provincial elections. The paper is available here. Abstract: From 1970 to 2018, either the Québec Liberal Party or the Parti Québécois won the […] Read more
The project The Chair currently participates in a large-scale comparative project to study citizens’ attitudes under the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of this project, panel surveys are fielded in a number of different countries, with a focus on measuring citizens’ political attitudes and their evaluations of how governments are dealing with the crisis. Together with […] Read more