The first edition of the Political Behavior Seminar for Doctoral Students took place on Thursday, November 8, at the University of Montreal. This seminar gives the opportunity for advanced doctoral students to present their work and to benefit from the comments of professors and students. Members of the Chair – Alexandra Jabbour, Semih Cakir, Phillipe […] Read more
8 November 2018 • 9h00 8 November 2018 • 16:00
PROGRAMME 2018 COLLOQUE DES ÉTUDIANTS AU DOCTORAT EN FORCES ET COMPORTEMENTS Organisé par la Chaire de Recherche du Canada en Démocratie Electorale & la Chaire de Recherche en Études Électorales JEUDI 8 NOVEMBRE 2018 Salle C-3134, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx 9h00 Simon Dabin « Pourquoi participer ? Les Autochtones et les institutions démocratiques […] Read more
Marta Gallina was awarded the 2018 Party Politics Prize for the best paper presented at the ECPR Summer School on Political Parties. In 2018, the Summer School was organized by Fernando Casal Bertoa and Cees van der Eijk at the University of Nottingham. Marta was awarded the prize for her paper ‘Abilities, opportunities and motivations […] Read more
Ruth Dassonneville was awarded a Publons Peer Review Award for the year 2018. She received the award for placing herself in the top 1% reviewers in Social Sciences. And was ranked at the 10th place of all Social Scientist on Publons. Read more
Ruth Dassonneville was interviewed for the podcast ‘How to Win Arguments with Numbers‘ of the Q-Step Centre at the University of Kent. In the podcast, she talks about the changing relationship between voters and parties in established democracies. To access and listen to the podcast, click here Read more
par Philippe Mongrain À la veille de l’élection québécoise du 1er octobre 2018, la plupart des sondages et des projections laissaient croire à la formation d’un gouvernement caquiste ou libéral minoritaire (voir L’élection québécoise de 2018). Or, le parti de François Legault a rapidement distancé ses adversaires. Sur bien des plans, l’élection de 2018 […] Read more
L’élection québécoise de 2018 par Philippe Mongrain Depuis la fin des années 1960, la compétition entre le Parti libéral et le Parti québécois s’est principalement articulée autour des questions constitutionnelles et de la place du Québec à l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur de la fédération canadienne. Bien que ce clivage persiste et que le PQ cherche […] Read more
Eric Guntermann is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Democracy. Eric has been awarded an FRQSC post-doctoral fellowship and will be moving to the University of California, Berkeley in July 2018. He will be working on issue voting and policy representation with Gabriel Lenz. Here is a summary of Eric’s […] Read more
Several funding agencies have announced the results of their PhD scholarship competitions. There was some good news for students at the Chair: both Florence Vallée-Dubois and Fernando Feitosa have been awarded a scholarship of the Fonds québécois de recherche – Société et culture. In addition, Florence has also been awarded a Joseph-Armand-Bombardier PhD scholarship from the Social […] Read more
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Department of Political Science at Université de Montréal, the faculty is sharing their insights and expertise by means of a podcast series. In the second podcast in the series “la politique en questions” Ruth Dassonneville and André Blais discuss compulsory voting. You can access the podcast here. Enjoy […] Read more