Chaire de recherche du Canada en démocratie électorale

Distinct Strategy, Same Partisanship? Policy Stances and Expressive Partisanship in Canadian Elections Alvaro Pereira Filho-University of Western Ontario Partisanship in Canada is considered weaker than in the US. However, recent studies demonstrate that partisan-motivated reasoning, affective polarization, and emotional-driven voting are common phenomena among voters, which suggests a stronger partisanship to Canadian parties. Despite these […] Read more

Piercing the Fog of War – Tracking. Public Opinion with New Online Data Roberto Foa-Cambridge This event is co-organized with the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC) Read more

Do citizens perceive an empty left-authoritarian quadrant? Citizen perceptions of parties’ positions in a multi-dimensional space Ruth Dassonneville-Université de Montréal, Patrick Fournier-Université de Montréal, and Zeynep Somer-Topcu-University of Texas at Austin Given that few parties in advanced democracies take positions in the left- authoritarian quadrant of a two-dimensional space, citizens that combine eco- nomically left […] Read more

Multidimensional Party Competition and Out-Partisan Hostility Semih Cakir-University of Vienna and Markus Wagner-University of Vienna Hostility towards supporters of opposing political parties has been a subject of considerable scholarly attention. Existing research suggests that elite ideological polarization is key determinant of out-partisan dislike. However, the impact of party behavior in a multidimensional political space is […] Read more

Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from 70 Electoral Studies Maxime Coulombe-University of Western Ontario Field experiments such as Gerber et al.’s (2008) Get-Out-the-Vote study provide causal estimates of the mobilizing effects of social pressure to vote. While offering significant contributions, these studies leave open questions regarding the prevalence of the social pressure to vote […] Read more