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The Effectiveness of Group Appeals  Ruth Dassonneville (Associate Professor at Université de Montréal)  Citizens’ socio-demographic characteristics shape their political preferences, resulting in systematic differences in how social groups vote. These group-differences emerge when there are clear associations between social groups and specific parties. Recent work has shown that one way in which parties can create […] Read more

Does changing an electoral system to a mixed system (really) affect voter turnout and the party system? John Högström (Associate professor,  Department of Social Sciences, Mid Sweden University) In this study we aim to add to the understanding of whether, and if so how, a change of electoral system affects factors such as voter turnout […] Read more

Much Ado About Debt? Charlotte Cavaille (Assistant professor at University of Michigan) For countries with cheap borrowing costs, putting deficit concerns aside is politically more attractive than crafting ambitious fiscal responses to rising public debt. Should we conclude that voters impose few constraints on deficit-friendly policymakers? In this paper, we identify and test for the […] Read more

Measuring Policy Preferences: Why It is Hard and Can We Do Anything About It? Charlotte Cavaille (Assistante Professeure à l’Université du Michigan) Political scientists rely extensively on subjective survey data to measure policy preferences. The limits of such measurement tools are known to all. They include 1) measurement error that correlates with individual characteristics, with […] Read more

At the 12th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, which took place from 23 to 25 June 2022 in Prague, Ruth Dassonneville was awarded the annual ‘best reviewer award’ from the journal Political Science Research and Methods. Read the announcement by the editor here. And for a picture of the celebration see here. Read more

Thanks to a mobility grant from the Université de Montréal, Maxime Coulombe completed a research stay at Simon Fraser University between January and May 2022 under the supervision of Eline de Rooij. During his visit, Maxime worked on the second paper of his doctoral dissertation, in which he analyzes the influence of abstention disapproval avoidance […] Read more

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