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New publication: An extraordinary election? A longitudinal perspective of the Québec 2018 election
rdassonneville 29 April 2020 Alexandra Jabbour
A new paper by Jean-François Daoust and Alexandra Jabbour is now available online in French Politics. In this article, the authors provide a unique longitudinal perspective of citizens’ vote choice calculus in Quebec provincial elections. The paper is available here. Abstract: From 1970 to 2018, either the Québec Liberal Party or the Parti Québécois won the […] Read more
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COVID-19 project: Citizens’ attitudes
rdassonneville 29 April 2020
The project The Chair currently participates in a large-scale comparative project to study citizens’ attitudes under the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of this project, panel surveys are fielded in a number of different countries, with a focus on measuring citizens’ political attitudes and their evaluations of how governments are dealing with the crisis. Together with […] Read more
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Tuesday Seminar – 28 January, 2020
rdassonneville 27 January 2020
Tuesday January 28, 2020: Jordan Mansell (UQAM), Steven Mock (University of Waterloo), Jinelle Piereder (University of Waterloo), Carter Rhea (UdeM) and Adrienne Tecza (University of Colorado). “New Methods for the Study of Ideology: Field-Test of Cognitive Affective Mapping (CAM’s).” Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, C-4145, 12h-13h. Abstract: In this study, we conduct the first test of cognitive-affective […] Read more
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Tuesday Seminar – 21 January, 2020
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UPCOMING TALK Tuesday January 21, 2020: Érick Lachapelle and Thomas Bergeron (Université de Montréal). “Visualizing Climate Change with AI.” Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, C-4145, 12h-13h. Abstract: Despite expert warnings of the catastrophic effects of runaway climate change and growing public acceptance of climate science regarding a rapidly warming planet and its human causes, the general public remains […] Read more
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Tuesday Seminar – 9 December, 2019
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UPCOMING TALK Tuesday December 10, 2019: Matthew Polacko (Royal Holloway University of London). “Party Positions, Income Inequality, and Voter Turnout in Canada, 1984-2015.” Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, C-4145, 12h-13h. Abstract: Scholars have so far only examined the relationship between inequality and turnout cross-nationally, and within the United States (US). However, rising income inequality and declining voter […] Read more
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Tuesday Seminar – 3 December, 2019
rdassonneville 29 November 2019
UPCOMING TALK Tuesday December 3, 2019: Alexandra Jabbour (Université de Montréal). “Contexte immobilier local et vote pour le sortant : une réévaluation du vote économique”. Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, C-4145, 12h-13h. Read more
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Tuesday Seminar – 26 November, 2019
rdassonneville 25 November 2019
Tuesday November 26, 2019: Jordan Mansell (UQAM) and Michael Bang Petersen (Aarhus University). “Cooperation and Defection in an Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma: Do Liberals and Conservatives Display Differences in Social Cognition?”. Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal, C-4145, 12h-13h. Abstract: In its most simple form, the research question that we want to answer is: Do individuals with different political values […] Read more
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Call for Paper proposals: Symposium ‘Forecasting the 2020 American National Elections’
rdassonneville 13 November 2019
Even though elections are seemingly increasingly unstable, and voters’ behaviour seems fickle, the outcomes of US elections have historically been quite predictable. First, election outcomes seem systematically correlated with election fundamentals, such as the state of the economy, and incumbency. Second, what happens in the run-up to the election, during the primaries and the conventions, […] Read more
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Cérémonie de remise des bourses d’excellence et du Prix de la meilleure thèse des ESP 2019
rdassonneville 7 November 2019 Maxime Coulombe / Philippe Mongrain
On October 29, 2019, the Faculty of Graduate Studies of the Université de Montréal held its annual awards and scholarships ceremony which rewards academic excellence. Maxime Coulombe and Philippe Mongrain, both of whom are doctoral students in the Departement of Political Science at the Université de Montréal, were among the laureates. Read more
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APSA 2019 First Generation Scholar in the Profession
rdassonneville 6 November 2019 Semra Sevi
Semra Sevi, a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal, was awarded the APSA First Generation Scholar in the Profession Travel Reimbursement Grant. You can find more about it here. Read more