The article ‘About time: age, period, and cohort effects on support for Quebec sovereignty‘, co-authored by Florence Vallée-Dubois, Ruth Dassonneville and Jean-François Godbout is now available online. The article is forthcoming in Nations and Nationalism. Abstract Can age, period and cohort effects help explain support for Quebec sovereignty? Previous work on this question has […] Read more
3 March 2018 10 March 2018
4th Leuven-Montréal Winter School on Elections In collaboration with the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Supported by the ECPR Standing Group on Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective & The Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship 3 March – 10 March 2017, Montréal (Canada) Elections […] Read more
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The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has announced the results of the February 2017 competition of its Insight Development Grants program. One of the funded research projects is a project on ‘Elections as a Linkage Mechanism between Public Opinion and Policy Outcomes’, that will be supervised by Ruth Dassonneville. Summary of the […] Read more
What Montréal bakery has the best bagels? Fairmount or St. Viateur? We investigated this question by means of a within-subjects design. From left to right: Dieter Stiers, Fernando Feitosa, Ruth Dassonneville and Remko Voogd. Read more
Dieter Stiers took part in the 2017 edition of the CSDC Graduate Student Conference in Quebec. He presented his work on retrospective voting and received a special mention for the originality of his work and his rich review of the literature. Congratulations! The award-winning students and students who received a special mention at the […] Read more
3rd Leuven-Montréal Winter School on Elections The 3rd edition of our PhD program on elections took place at the University of Leuven (Belgium) from 25 February to 5 March 2017. Courses this year were given by Ruth Dassonneville (Université de Montréal), Michael S. Lewis-Beck (University of Iowa), Eva Anduiza (Autonomous University Barcelona), Kees Aarts (University […] Read more
Dutch election forecast : What if the economy decided the Dutch election? Philippe Mongrain (Université de Montréal), Ruth Dassonneville (Université de Montréal) and Michael S. Lewis-Beck (University of Iowa) While most observers are covering the Dutch election as a litmus test for populism in Europe, focusing on issues such as the European Union, immigration and […] Read more
On 19 February 2017, we played curling! Read more
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