Tuesday October 29, 2019: André Blais (Université de Montréal), Semra Sevi (Université de Montréal), and Clifton van der Linden (McMaster University). “Who supports electoral reform?” Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, C-4145, 12h-13h. Abstract: Electoral reform has been on the political agenda in Canada since the turn of the millennium. During the 2015 Canadian federal election, Justin Trudeau promised that would be the […] Read more

THE CANADA ELECTION NOWCASTER  ———————————————————————————- FINAL FORECAST FOR: OCTOBER 2019 (41.23%) ———————————————————————————– Post-election update: The 2019 election has proven to be quite harsh for the model, producing its second highest error (around eight percentage points) over the 1953-2019 period. Although I will look more deeply into this in the coming weeks, the SNC-Lavalin scandal and […] Read more

Tuesday October 22, 2019: Canadian Elections. Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, C-4145, 12h-13h. The Research Chair in Electoral Studies and the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Democracy will hold a discussion on the 2019 Canadian federal election results. Read more

Upcoming Talk Tuesday October 15, 2019: Philippe Mongrain (Université de Montréal), Richard Nadeau (Université de Montréal), and Bruno Jérôme (Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas). “Playing the synthesizer with Canadian data: Adding polls to a structural forecasting model“. Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, C-4145, 12h-13h. Abstract: Election forecasting has become a fixture of election campaigns in a […] Read more

Upcoming Talk Tuesday October 8, 2019: Maxime Coulombe (Université de Montréal). “Préférences de modes de scrutin dans un contexte non-partisan : présentation d’un projet d’expérience par sondage”. Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, C-4019, 12h-13h. Read more

Tuesday October 1, 2019: Peter Loewen (University of Toronto). “Intrinsic Motivations to Represent Marginalized Groups in a Democracy: Evidence from an unelected legislature”. Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, C-4145, 12h-13h. Title: Intrinsic Motivations to Represent Marginalized Groups in a Democracy: Evidence from an Unelected Legislature Abstract: Do legislators from marginalized groups have intrinsic motivations to represent ‘their’ […] Read more

  6th Leuven-Montréal Winter School on Elections   In collaboration with the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)   Supported by the ECPR Standing Group on Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective & The Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship   29 February – 7 March 2020, Montréal (Canada) […] Read more

Upcoming Talk Tuesday September 24, 2019: Ruth Dassonneville (Université de Montréal), Stephen Quinlan (CSES, GESIS) and Ian McAllister (Australian National University). “‘That Bloody Woman’ Syndrome? The Popularity of Female Party Leaders Worldwide.” Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, Room C-4145, 12h-13h. Read more

Upcoming Talk Tuesday September 17, 2019: Jean-François Daoust (McGill University) and Peter Loewen (University of Toronto). “What is the impact of winning an election? Evidence from a quasi-experimental approach.” Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, Room C-4145, 12h-13h. Read more