Much Ado About Debt? Charlotte Cavaille (Assistant professor at University of Michigan) For countries with cheap borrowing costs, putting deficit concerns aside is politically more attractive than crafting ambitious fiscal responses to rising public debt. Should we conclude that voters impose few constraints on deficit-friendly policymakers? In this paper, we identify and test for the […] Read more

Measuring Policy Preferences: Why It is Hard and Can We Do Anything About It? Charlotte Cavaille (Assistante Professeure à l’Université du Michigan) Political scientists rely extensively on subjective survey data to measure policy preferences. The limits of such measurement tools are known to all. They include 1) measurement error that correlates with individual characteristics, with […] Read more

At the 12th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, which took place from 23 to 25 June 2022 in Prague, Ruth Dassonneville was awarded the annual ‘best reviewer award’ from the journal Political Science Research and Methods. Read the announcement by the editor here. And for a picture of the celebration see here. Read more

Thanks to a mobility grant from the Université de Montréal, Maxime Coulombe completed a research stay at Simon Fraser University between January and May 2022 under the supervision of Eline de Rooij. During his visit, Maxime worked on the second paper of his doctoral dissertation, in which he analyzes the influence of abstention disapproval avoidance […] Read more

Several members of the Chair will be presenting their work at the EPSA 2022 Annual Meeting in Prague. See below for an overview of the panels that will feature Chair-research.For the full program, see this link. Thursday 23 June 2022 13:10 — 14:50 Cleavages and Vote ChoiceSouth Room 224Panel Session 3Ruth Dassonneville – The Effectiveness of […] Read more

The Correlates of Secessionist Party Support, 1945-2021 Alex B. Rivard (Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship) Where there exists a host of research examining secessionist party ideology (Massetti 2009; Massetti and Schakel 2015, 2016), on how parties manage the presence of a regional cleavage (Alonso et al. 2013; Basile 2013, 2016; Meguid 2005, […] Read more

The Robert Schuman Center at the European University Institute has a series of short video capsules in which researchers briefly introduce a research topic. Ruth Dassonneville recorded a Schuman short video on one of her research topics: group appeals. You can see the video below. Read more

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

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