Ruth Dassonneville is Full Professor in the political science department at the Université de Montréal, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Democracy. Together with Romain Lachat, she also is the co-chair of the Chaire CÉRIUM-FMSH sur la gouvernance mondiale. She obtained her PhD at the University of Leuven in 2015, where she was a PhD fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).

Her research interests include electoral behaviour, dealignment, economic voting, compulsory voting, and women and politics. Her work on these topics has been published in, amongst others, the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, the European Journal of Political Research and the Journal of Politics.

In 2023, she published Voters Under Pressure with Oxford University Press. In this book, she examines changes in voters’ electoral choices over time and investigate how these changes are linked to a growth in electoral volatility. The core argument that is presented and tested in this book is that group-based cross-pressures are an important source of electoral volatility. She talks about the book in this podcast episode.

Ruth Dassonneville is a member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and of the Montreal Centre for International Studies (CERIUM). She is an editor at the British Journal of Political Science and an associate editor at French Politics.