Several members of the Chair will be presenting their work at the EPSA 2022 Annual Meeting in Prague. See below for an overview of the panels that will feature Chair-research.For the full program, see this link. Thursday 23 June 2022 13:10 — 14:50 Cleavages and Vote ChoiceSouth Room 224Panel Session 3Ruth Dassonneville – The Effectiveness of […] Read more

The Correlates of Secessionist Party Support, 1945-2021 Alex B. Rivard (Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship) Where there exists a host of research examining secessionist party ideology (Massetti 2009; Massetti and Schakel 2015, 2016), on how parties manage the presence of a regional cleavage (Alonso et al. 2013; Basile 2013, 2016; Meguid 2005, […] Read more

The Robert Schuman Center at the European University Institute has a series of short video capsules in which researchers briefly introduce a research topic. Ruth Dassonneville recorded a Schuman short video on one of her research topics: group appeals. You can see the video below. Read more

Mixed modes of data collection and administration and new sources of samples in the US 2020 election. How did they fare? Claire Durand (Université de Montréal) Tim. P. Johnson (University of Chicago)Luis P. Pena Ibarra (Université de Montréal) This paper presents the results of an analysis of the performance of the polls of the campaign […] Read more

Visualizing the impacts of climate change using AI Erick Lachapelle (Université de Montréal) Thomas Bergeron (University of Toronto)Victor Schmidt (MILA)Alex Hernandez-Garcia (MILA) Yoshua Bengio (MILA) Existing research suggests that climate change is perceived as a spatially and temporally distant threat, prompting researchers to explore various forms of risk communication that better engages the general public. However, results […] Read more

Local Economies, Local Wealth, and Economic Perceptions Ben Ansell  (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)Asli Cansunar (Washington University) Recent research in political economy has demonstrated that local economic conditions have a striking impact on the evaluation of the incumbent, social policy preferences, and support for anti-establishment movements. Whether voters can correctly perceive their district’s economic reality […] Read more

Foraging for Policy: Ambiguity as a Heuristic Sarah Lachance (University of British Columbia) Notwithstanding democratic norms of transparency and accountability, electoral candidates often take ambiguous policy positions by making vague or contradictory statements. Yet, the dominant assumption in the literature on voter behaviour is that voters are risk-averse. This poses a puzzle: if voters are […] Read more

On the 1st and 2nd of April, the 12th edition of the Graduate Student Conference of the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC) took place at the Clarendon Hotel in Quebec City. This edition, that was co-organized by Nadjim Fréchet, was the first in-person since the beginning of the pandemic. Four students of […] Read more

The Activation of Norms – Revisiting the Link between Citizenship Norms and Participation Kathrin Ackermann (Heidelberg University) Liberal democracies are under pressure around the globe. They are challenged by populist and authoritarian actors and movements who question and erode democratic norms. Against this backdrop, democracies depend particularly on the support and the actual participation of […] Read more

How do voters respond to elite polarization? Mass and party polarization on immigration in Europe Alina Vrânceanu (European University Institute) Much of the existing research on public attitudes toward immigration focuses on the drivers and political consequences of anti-immigrant sentiments. However, we know less about mass polarization on this issue and the extent to which it is […] Read more