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2022 Impact Awards—Talent Award winner: Semra Sevi

Semra Sevi received the annual Impact Awards that recognize the highest achievements in SSHRC-funded research, knowledge mobilization and scholarship, notably for her PhD dissertation: What Voters Want: Identifying Voter Preferences for Candidates. She also collected and published the biggest dataset regarding Canadian historical candidate at the federal level, but also provincial level in Ontario. Her dataset […] Read more

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Electoral Chairs’ Seminars – April 3rd

Is Social Media Affectively Polarizing Us? An Experiment Comparing Facebook and Instagram Users Juliette Leblanc – Master’s student at Université de Montréal Do social media raise levels of affective polarization by increasing animosity towards opposing partisans? Research show that affective polarization is influenced by the growing levels of elite ideological polarization and most importantly, the […] Read more

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Electoral Chairs’ Seminars – March 25th

Party Prediction for Twitter Kellin Pelrine, Anne Imouza, Gabrielle Desrosiers-Brisebois, Sacha Lévy, Jacob-Junqi Tian, Zachary Yang, Aarash Feizi, Cécile Amadoro, André Blais, Jean-François Godbout and Reihaneh Rabbany A large number of studies on social media are based on predictive models for inferring political affiliation of users. The methods designed for this party prediction rely on […] Read more

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Electoral Chairs’ Seminars – March 13th

‘Credible’ or ‘Capricious’? The Reputational Cost of Party Policy Change in Multi-Party Settings Maurits Meijers – Assistant Professor at Radboud Universiteit Political parties regularly change their policy positions on a wide range of issues. Yet, it is unclear how policy change affects parties’ reputations in multi-party systems. On the one hand, voters can accept political parties’ […] Read more

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Electoral Chairs’ Seminars – March 6th

Cultural Sources of Gender Gaps: Confucian Meritocracy Reduces Gender Inequalities in Electoral Participation Baowen Liang – PhD Candidate at Université de Montréal East Asian women’s political participation has not increased at the same pace as economic development. One frequently mobilized cause for this discrepancy is the region’s Confucian culture, with its strong focus on hierarchy, […] Read more

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Electoral Chairs’ Seminars – March 20th

Who is under pressure? A descriptive study of social pressure to vote Maxime Coulombe – PhD Candidate at Université de Montréal Randomized field experiments such as Gerber et al.’s (2008) Get-Out-the-Vote study provide causal estimates of the mobilizing effects of social pressure to vote. While offering important contributions, these studies leave open questions regarding how […] Read more

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Electoral Chairs’ Seminars – February 13th

Inclusive Redistribution and Perceptions of Membership: A Cross-National Comparison Allison Harell – Professor at UQAM Immigrants tend to be seen as less deserving of welfare benefits than native-born citizens, but little consensus exists to explain this finding or how to build greater public support for more inclusive policies. New work on citizens perceptions of the […] Read more

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Electoral Chairs’ Seminars – February 6th

Business as Usual: The Determinants of Vote Choice in the 2021 Canadian Federal Election Matthew Taylor – PhD Candidat at Université de Montréal Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 federal election was unique in the history of Canada’s federal campaigns. In spite of the health crisis however, the results of the election belied […] Read more

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Electoral Chairs’ Seminars – January 30th

Buy-in for Buyouts: Attitudes Toward Compensation for Reforms Vincent Arel-Bundock – Associate Professor at Université de Montréal Political reforms are often held up by concentrated interest groups who lobby to block change that would benefit the majority. One under-examined policy response is to compensate the recalcitrant group in exchange for agreeing to the reform. We […] Read more