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
22 May 2022
Call for Papers New Challenges to Democracy Workshop Montréal, September 12-14, 2022 Organized by the CERIUM-FMSH Chair on Global Governance We are inviting paper proposals for a three-day workshop on ‘New Challenges to Democracy’. The workshop will provide a forum for junior and senior researchers to present and discuss ongoing work that studies democratic attitudes […] Read more
19 January 2022 – The voting advice applications’ match effects on pre-voters Laura Uyttendaele (UC Louvain) 26 January 2022 – Assemblée citoyenne sur la démocratie électorale municipale André Blais (Université de Montréal) 2 February 2022 – Striking a Political Chord: The E ect of Musical Preferences on Voting Intentions in Canada Catherine Ouellet (University of Toronto)Nadjim […] Read more
Ruth Dassonneville and Romain Lachat (SciencesPo Paris) have been nominated to hold the first CÉRIUM-FMSH Chair on Global Governance. During the next three years, they will be organizing a series of events, workshops and create opportunities for student training and mobility around the topics of polarisation and challenges to democracy. For more information, see here. Read more
Thanks to a Mitacs Globalink Research Award, between October and December 2021, Philippe Mongrain completed a research stay at the Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF) in Paris under the supervision of Romain Lachat. During his stay, Philippe worked on the fourth and final paper of his doctoral dissertation in which he analyzes […] Read more
Ruth Dassonneville co-authored a paper with Ian McAllister that is online first in the journal Party Politics. The paper uses comparative survey data to examine whether citizens who are members of populist parties are similar or different than members of other parties, in terms of their socio-demographic characteristics and their political attitudes. The paper can […] Read more
On 26 November 2021, Florence Vallée-Dubois publicly defended her doctoral dissertation “Growing old : Population ageing and democratic representation in Canada.” In her thesis, Florence theorizes about the consequences of population ageing for democratic representation. In the empirical chapters, Florence analyses age differences in Canadian’s preferences for government spending, voting in seniors’ residences and patterns of […] Read more
Several members of the Chair participate in the Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, that is organized online from April, 14 to April 18, 2021. See below for an overview of the panels where you’ll see presentations by Chair members: Thursday, April 15, 1:20 – 2:50 pm EDTPanel: Social Media, Political Efficacy, and […] Read more
Semih published a paper in the journal Party Politics. In his paper, Semih uses the data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems projects to study the association between citizens’ feelings of party ambivalence and their likelihood to turn out to vote. Abstract Does party ambivalence, that is, simultaneously evaluating positively more than one political […] Read more
In this episode, Ruth Dassonneville talks with Diane Bolet about her research on the role of context-level factors for explaining the electoral success of radical right-wing parties. Read more