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
During the PSA Annual Conference, last March, it was announced that Ruth Dassonneville and Marc Hooghe have been awarded the Politics Prize for the best paper published in the journal Politics in 2017. They were awarded this prize for their paper “Voter turnout decline and stratification: Quasi-experimental and comparative evidence of a growing educational gap”. […] Read more
Several Chair-members presented their work at the CSDC Graduate Student Conference, that took place in Québec City on 13-14 April 2018. Special mention for Florence Vallée-Dubois, who co-organized the conference, and for Semih Çakir, who was awarded the prize for the best MA student presentation. Congratulations! Semih Çakir presenting his research on partisanship in […] Read more