Amanda Léal published an op-ed (co-written with Abir Samih) on the topic of misinformation and “fake news”. You can read the article here. Read more

Dans cet épisode du balado, Jeanne Marlier, étudiante à la maîtrise au département de science politique, discute avec Valérie-Anne Mahéo, professeure de science politique à l’Université Laval. Valérie-Anne est spécialiste de l’opinion publique, de la participation politique et de l’engagement politique des citoyens. Valérie-Anne a publié un article qu’elle a co-écrit avec Éric Bélanger qui […] Read more

L’association étudiante des cycles supérieurs de science politique (AECSSPUM) est à la recherche de mentor.es pour cette session qui seront jumelé.e à un nouvel étudiant inscrit ou à une nouvelle étudiante inscrite aux études supérieures en science politique. Les rôles des mentor.es sont : 1) Aider à l’intégration de son mentoré.e dans son nouveau programme d’étude et 2) Répondre […] Read more

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

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

Attitudes towards homosexuality after “Obergefell v. Hodges”. Quasi-experimental evidence of anticipatory backlash from Israel  Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte (University of Southampton) The US Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges was a landmark judicial ruling that expanded the civil rights afforded to sexual minority individuals by recognising the constitutional and federal right of lesbian, gay or […] Read more

Dyadic Representation in Canadian Parliamentary Debates Florence Vallée-Dubois (Université de Montréal) Dyadic representation rests on the incentives of representatives to attend to the interests of their constituents in single-member district electoral systems. But party discipline greatly limits dyadic representation. In Westminster style parliamentary systems, for example, members are expected to toe the party line, which […] Read more

Are citizens still receiving the treatment? A reassessment of previous findings on the effect of local context on the perception of the national economy Alexandra Jabbour (Université de Montréal) A growing number of studies investigate the role of local factors on individuals’ perceptions of the national economy. Some of those studies showed that individuals use local […] Read more

Vote switching and Coalition-Directed Voting: A Panel Study of Repeat Elections in Israel Liran Harsgor (University of Haifa)Reut Itzkovitch-Malka (The Open University of Israel) Or Tuttnauer (MZES Universität Mannheim)  A growing body of knowledge highlights the determinants of vote switching, such as issues, party positions and personality. This literature, however, does not take into account coalition-directed voting, which has […] Read more