From 20 to 22 May 2019, Laurie Beaudonnet (Jean Monnet Centre Montréal) and Ruth Dassonneville (Canada Research Chair in Electoral Democracy) co-organized an acedemic workshop on European election and attitudes toward the Union. Speakers included, besides the organizers themselves, Jae-Jae Spoon (University of Pittsburgh), Joost van Spanje (University of Amsterdam), Katjana Gattermann (University of Amsterdam) […] Read more

On May 21, 2019, the Research Chair, in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and the Centre Jean Monnet Montréal organized a public forum entitled ‘Europe on the Brink’. This event was an opportunity for many researchers (Laurie Beaudonnet – Université de Montréal; Ruth Dassonneville – Université de Montréal; Katjana Gatterman […] Read more

Ruth Dassonneville, Semih Çakır and Philippe Mongrain Summary On 26 May 2019, Belgians will turn to the polls to elect members of the regional, federal and European parliaments, and the stakes are high. While the elections are still a couple of weeks away, and while many voters are believed to make up their mind in […] Read more

Last term, I asked students enrolled in my undergrad course on elections (POL3015), to create infographics. In these infographics, they explained a concept in the field of electoral studies. The students created infographics on many different topics, such as the concept of economic voting, compulsory voting, women suffrage, amongst others. Below are some examples of […] Read more

At the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Ruth Dassonneville and Filip Kostelka were awarded the Marion Irish Award for the best paper on Women and Politics, presented at the 2018 SPSA Meeting. They won the award for their paper ‘The Gender Gap in Voter Turnout: A Longitudinal Analysis of European Parliament […] Read more

Several Chair members participated in the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, which took place in Austin (TX) in January 2019. Semih Çakir presented a paper on the role of ambivalence on electoral participation, and Alexandra Jabbour presented co-authored work (with Jean-François Daoust) on the role of long-term factors on the vote choice […] Read more

The first edition of the Political Behavior Seminar for Doctoral Students took place on Thursday, November 8, at the University of Montreal. This seminar gives the opportunity for advanced doctoral students to present their work and to benefit from the comments of professors and students. Members of the Chair – Alexandra Jabbour, Semih Cakir, Phillipe […] Read more

Marta Gallina was awarded the 2018 Party Politics Prize for the best paper presented at the ECPR Summer School on Political Parties. In 2018, the Summer School was organized by Fernando Casal Bertoa and Cees van der Eijk at the University of Nottingham. Marta was awarded the prize for her paper ‘Abilities, opportunities and motivations […] Read more

Ruth Dassonneville was awarded a Publons Peer Review Award for the year 2018. She received the award for placing herself in the top 1% reviewers in Social Sciences. And was ranked at the 10th place of all Social Scientist on Publons. Read more