Director

Elisabeth Gidengil
Department of Political Science
McGill University
414 Leacock Building
855 Sherbrooke west
Montreal QC H3A 2T7
elisabeth.gidengil@mcgill.ca

Staff

Administrative Assistant	Tara Alward
Media Centre Coordinator	(TBA)
Funding Assistant	(TBA)
Webmaster	Mark Daku

Faculty

Darin Barney
Darin Barney is Canada Research Chair in Technology & Citizenship and Associate Professor of Communication Studies at McGill University. His research concerns the relationship between technology and politics. His publications include Communication Technology: The Canadian Democratic Audit (UBC: 2005); The Network Society (Polity: 2004); and Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology (UBC/Chicago: 2000).

Frédéric Bastien
Frédérick Bastien is assistant professor in the Department of Information and Communication at Université Laval. His main research interests include electoral communication, infotainment, opinion polls, television news and Internet uses by political parties. His work currently focuses on trends in media coverage of election campaigns in Canada, election poll media reports, comparative analysis of Internet uses by parties, Québec MP’s media behavior and attitudes, and trends in television programs on French-language Québec television.

Antoine Bilodeau
Antoine Bilodeau is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. He is also leader for Domain 1 (Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration) for the Quebec Metropolis Centre. Professor Bilodeau’ research interests focus on the political integration of immigrants and on racial tolerance and inter-ethnic cohabitation.

André Blais
André Blais is professor in the department of political science at the Université de Montréal. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a past president of the Canadian Political Science Association. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies. His research interests are elections, electoral systems, turnout, public opinion, and methodology.

Éric Bélanger
Éric Bélanger is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. His research interests include political parties, public opinion, voting behaviour, as well as Canadian and Quebec Politics. His current work focuses mainly on an examination of Quebec voting behaviour in recent provincial elections.

Jean Crête
Jean Crête (DPhil. Oxon) is professor of political science at Université Laval. His research interests include the study of political behaviour, public policy and methodology. His current agenda focuses on the utilization of the Web as a tool to conduct opinion polls and to collect information on electoral behaviour, on voluntarism as a way to conduct public policy and on textual analysis as a measuring tool in the field of public policy.

Claire Durand
Claire Durand is professor in the Department of Sociology, Université de Montréal. Her research interests focus on various aspects of survey methodology including the impact of methodological features on the quality of estimates, interviewers’ work and training, the role of polls in society and attitudes towards surveys. Her current research aims to identify why, in some electoral campaigns, most or all of the polls sometimes err in the same direction. Claire Durand is secretary-treasurer of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (Wapor) and vice-president at large of RC33 (Logic and Methodology) of the International Sociological Association.

Benjamin Forest
Benjamin Forest is an Associate Professor of Geography at McGill University. He received his Ph.D. in Geography from UCLA in 1997, and before coming to McGill, he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire from 1998 to 2006. His current research projects include the impacts of GIS technology on political representation (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), the role of racial segregation in public policy in the United States, and the symbolic politics of national identity in the post-Communist world.

Martial Foucault
Martial Foucault is assistant professor of political science at the University of Montreal and associate researcher of the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CNRS) and CIRANO (Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations). He received in 2004 his PhD degree in economics at the University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne. He has been research fellow in 2005/06 at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies within the European University Institute (Italy). His research agenda covers economics and politics of fiscal policy, agenda-setting, theory of public goods, defense policy and methods. He has recently published in American Journal of Political Science, Public Choice, Political Studies, West European Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of European Public Policy, French Politics, Revue Economique. In 2009, he has received the IIPF (International Institute of Public Finance) Young Economist Award for a research granted by the NBER on fiscal decentralization in Benin.

Patrick Fournier
Patrick Fournier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal. He is co-investigator of the Canadian Election Study for the 2004, 2006 and 2008 elections. His research interests include political behaviour, political psychology, citizen competence, opinion change, and survey methodology.

François Gélineau
François Gélineau is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval. François’ teaching and research interests include elections and voting behaviour, democracy and democratization, comparative political economy, and methods. His current research endeavours explore different dimensions of electoral accountability in Latin America

Thierry Giasson
Thierry Giasson is Assistant Professor in the Information and Communication Department at Université Laval, in Québec City. Dr. Giasson is the lead investigator of the Research Lab on Political Communication (GRCP) and a research associate in the Institut Technologies de l’Information et Société at the same institution. His research focuses on new civic forms of political communication, on media coverage of cultural diversity issues in Québec, and on the effects of political communication and marketing practices on electoral campaigns, political participation and civic engagement in Québec and Canada.

Elisabeth Gidengil
Elisabeth Gidengil is Hiram Mills Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. Her research focuses on voting behaviour and political engagement, with particular interests in gender and diversity. She has been a member of the Canadian Election Study team since 1992 and is principal investigator for the 2008 Canadian Election Study.

Jean-François Godbout
Jean-François Godbout is Assistant Professor in the Department of political science at the Université de Montréal. Godbout's research is primarily focused on Canadian and American political institutions. He is currently studying legislative voting in the Canadian House of Commons. You can read more about Godbout's work on the following web site.

Allison Harell
Allison Harell is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She completed her PhD in 2008 at McGill University, after which she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Opinion Research Archive. Her research focuses generally on political behaviour and public opinion, and in particular on questions of political socialization, ethnic and racial diversity and gender. She is currently a collaborator on the Canadian Election Study.

Mebs Kanji
Dr. Mebs Kanji's SSHRC- and FQRSC-funded research examines value diversity between different value communities in Canada and across other advanced industrial states. His current research centres on investigating the relationship between value diversity, social cohesion and political support. Some of his most recent findings reveal an expanding generational value divide that may have significant implications for the welfare state and democratic governance. Another set of findings demonstrate a link between value diversity across different Canadian communities and variations in support for electoral reform. Preliminary results from a broader cross-national project suggest that value diversity between different EU member states may have important implications for support for further European integration.

Louis Massicotte
Louis Massicotte is Chairholder of the Research Chair on Democracy and Parliamentary Institutions at Laval University in Québec. His most recent books are Le Parlement du Québec de 1867 à aujourd'hui (Québec, PUL, 2009) and Establishing the Rules of the Game: Election Laws in Democracies (Toronto, 2004) written with André Blais and Antoine Yoshinaka. He taught at the Université de Montréal (1992-2006) and was visiting professor at American University (Washington DC), Lille (France) and Beijing.

Henry Milner
Henry Milner is a researcher and adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Montreal and Visiting Professor at Umeå University in Sweden, and at the Institute for Research in Public Policy (IRPP). His primary research interest is the relationship between political knowledge and political participation, which is the subject of his 2002 book, Civic Literacy: How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work, and his soon-to-be-published The Internet Generation: Engaged Citizens or Political Dropouts (both from the University Press of New England). In 2004-2005 he held the Chair in Canadian Studies at the Sorbonne; in 2005-2006, he was Canada-US Fulbright Chair, at SUNY Plattsburgh. He has also been a visiting professor or researcher at universities in Finland, Australia and New Zealand. He is coordinator of the Civic Education Database Project based at IDEA in Stockholm, and member of the International Advisory Committee of Democracy: A Citizen Perspective, an Interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence at Abo Academy in Finland. He is also co-publisher of Inroads, the Canadian journal of opinion and policy.

Richard Nadeau
Richard Nadeau has an M.A. (1981) in Economics and a Ph.D. (1988) in Political Science from the Université de Montréal. As a specialist in electoral behaviour, public opinion, and political communication, he has published over one hundred articles on these topics in the most well-regarded journals of his discipline, such as the Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Electoral Studies, and Political Communication. As co-founder of the Political Communication programme at the Université de Montréal and thanks to the support of the FQRSC and SSHRC, Richard Nadeau is currently pursuing projects related to the spread of political information and on the creation of a new theory of framing in the context of electoral campaigns.

François Pétry
François Pétry is professor in the department of political science at Laval University where he heads the Centre for the Analysis of Public Policy. He is the president of the Quebec Political Science Association for 2009-2010. His research and his teaching focus on public policy, polls and public opinion, and methodology. He is also principal investigator for the Poltext project on the textual analysis of political documents. His most recent publications are Les sondages et la démocrate 2nd edition, co-authored with Vincent Lemieux (2010) and le Guide pratique d’introduction à la régression en sciences sociales 2nd edition, co-authored with François Gélineau (2009). He has published numerous book chapters and articles in journals such as European Journal of Political Research, The Journal of Politics, Political Communication and the Canadian Journal of Political Science.

Stuart Soroka
Stuart Soroka is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. He is also Adjunct Professor and Director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive at the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University, Kingston. Dr. Soroka's research focuses on the links between public preferences and public policy, and on the sources of public preferences for policy.

Dietlind Stolle
Dietlind Stolle is Associate Professor in Political Science at McGill University, Montréal, Canada. She conducts research and has published on voluntary associations, trust, institutional foundations of social capital, ethnic-racial diversity and its consequences on social cohesion, and various forms of political participation. She is also the co-principal investigator of the unique longitudinal Comparative Youth Survey (CYS) as well as associate director of the US Citizenship, Involvement and Democracy (CID) survey. Stolle has also co-edited a book on social capital and one on political consumerism. She was guest professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and the NCCR at the University of Zürich.

Fellows

Post-doctoral Fellows

Blake Andrew
Blake Andrew (PhD, McGill) is a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal. He is also a research coordinator for the McGill Media Observatory. His interests include political communication, election campaigns, and Canadian politics. His work has appeared in the Harvard Journal of Press/Politics, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Policy, and Policy Options.

Ece Ozlem Atikcan
Ece Ozlem Atikcan (Ph.D. in Political Science, McGill University, October 2010) is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the European Union Center of Excellence (CEUE) at the Université de Montréal. Her post-doctoral research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Center for International Studies and Research (CÉRIUM) of the Université de Montréal. Her research interests lie at the intersection of voting behavior, political parties, social movements, and nationalism, with a particular focus on European integration. In her doctoral research she analyzed voting behavior in the four 2005 referenda on the European Constitutional Treaty, held in Spain, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, by focusing on campaign framing and diffusion among the cases. Her post-doctoral project explores the double EU referenda phenomenon, where European voters initially rejected a referendum proposal but approved it in a second vote some months later.

Delia Dumitrescu
Delia Dumitrescu (Ph.D., Ohio State U., 2009) is a post-doctoral fellow at the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies (CRCES) at the Université de Montréal. Her dissertation, “Spatial Visual Communications in Election Campaigns”, explores the functions of political poster displays in France and Belgium, in particular their role of signalling an actor’s strength and competitiveness in election. Her research interests include political communication, political psychology, political behaviour and public opinion in comparative settings (advanced democracies). Two of her current projects involve (1) designing an experimental method to test the effect of poster campaigns on individual voters, and (2) exploring the effects of one’s sense of civic duty on political decision-making.

Ekrem Karakoc
Ekrem Karakoc (Ph.D, Pennsylvania State University, 2010) is a post-doctoral fellow at the Université de Montréal. His dissertation argues that in contrast to the conventional argument in the political economy literature, inequality does not decrease after democratization and he asks why it is that democracies cannot generate income equality. Using a multi-method approach, he tests his theory both using large-N statistical analysis and two paired case studies in postcommunist and Southern Europe. During his postdoctoral fellowship, he is assisting with the Making Electoral Democracy Project (MEDW). He is also working on a book manuscript based on his dissertation and several projects that extend this research to non-democratic postcommunist countries and the Middle East and examine the role of social policy/welfare programs and political opposition in these regions. His work has appeared in World Politics (2007), Comparative Politics (forthcoming) and Comparative Political Studies (forthcoming).

Sara Vissers
Sara Vissers (Ph.D., Catholic University of Leuven, 2010) is a post-doctoral fellow at McGill university. Her work focuses on the role of the Internet for civic and political participation and mobilization. Her research interests include the concepts of political participation, the democratic impact of information and communication technologies, new modes of political mobilization, and public opinion.

Students

Master’s Candidates

Mélanie Deslauriers
Melanie Deslauriers is a Master's student in Sociology at the University of Montreal. She holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master's Scholarship (SSHRC). She specializes in Aboriginal conditions and in the production of statistics on Aboriginals in Canada. Her research focuses on social inequalities within First Nations communities located in the province of Quebec and aims at evaluating the diversity of life conditions of First Nations.

Pascal Doray-Demers
Pascal Doray-Demers is a Master's student in economics. He specializes in the use of advance statistical models in social sciences.

Émilie Foster
Émilie Foster has been a student researcher with the Research Lab on Political Communication (GRCP) since May 2010. She is also a student member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and coordinates the activities of Political Marketing Canada network. Émilie holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration with marketing specialization from Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Her interest for marketing and her passion for politics lead her in obtaining a Master’s degree in Political Science at Université Laval. Her Master’s thesis focuses on the use of political marketing by interest groups. Émilie is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Information and Communication at Université Laval. Her research revolves around marketing practices in electoral context and the impacts on democracy. She examines the “marketing-malaise” hypothesis.

Valérie Lapointe
Valérie Lapointe is a master’s student in political science with a double concentration in feminist studies and international relations, foreign policy, cooperation and development at the University of Quebec in Montreal. She has also been a member of the Institut de Recherche en Études Féministes (IREF) since 2008. Her research interests include American politics and gender studies. Her master’s thesis looks at the performance of gender and the influence of body identity on presidential institutions, more specifically their role in the 2008 presidential election of Obama.

Brad Morrison
Brad Morrison is a Masters student in Political Science at McGill University. He completed his B.A. in Political Science at UBC. In his undergraduate thesis he tested the proposed centripetal effects of the STV electoral system in ethnic politics in Northern Ireland . He is a volunteer researcher for the Reactions to Extreme Stress and Trauma (REST) Lab in the UBC Department of Psychology. His research interests include conflict, the politics of divided societies, and political psychology.

Dennis Molina Tapia
Dennis Molina Tapia is an M.A. candidate in Political Science (Public Policy and Decision Making) at Concordia University. She completed her B.A. in International Business at the Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico. Her research interests include refugee and immigration policies, multiculturalism, trade and economic growth in developing countries. Her Master’s thesis will analyze the new visa requirement the Canadian government passed in July 2009 for people from the Czech Republic and Mexico.

Martin Quirion
Martin Quirion has been a student researcher with the Research Lab on Political Communication (GRCP) since January 2010. He is currently completing a Master’s degree in public communication at the Information and Communication Department of Université Laval. He holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science at the School of Applied Politics of the University of Sherbrooke. His thesis focuses on the development of communication strategies of political parties in Quebec in the context of creating a relationship of trust with the electorate.

Joseph Sannicandro
Joseph Sannicandro is an M.A. candidate in Communication Studies at McGill University. Born and raised in the suburbs of NYC, he completed his BA at Purchase College, SUNY, with a double major in History and Philosophy. He completed two separate Senior theses; "The Demographics of a County," which proposes the public works projects of the 19th century as the catalyst for immigration in Westchester County, NY, and "Truth Set to Work," which defends the intrinsic value of art against a postmodern critique, drawing relevant parallels between the work of Heidegger and Japanese aesthetics. His current research interests include Heideggerian phenomenolgy, inter-cultural communications, online education, philosophy of technology, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics.

Mélanie Verville
Mélanie Verville is currently doing a Master’s degree in public communication at the Information and Communication Department of Université Laval. She holds an undergraduate degree in Public Relations from Univerité du Québec à Montréal and an English Certificate from McGill University. As part of her thesis, Melanie will investigate how Quebec’s provincial political parties are using social media in order to promote the involvement and political engagement of citizens and their participation in public debates.

Doctoral Candidates

Chris Chhim
Chris Chhim is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at McGill University. He has a B.A. from the University of Chicago in International Studies, with an emphasis on East Asia. His research interests include language politics, as well as political parties, voting behaviour, and political communication within the context of linguistically divided societies.

Benjamin Ferland
Benjamin Ferland is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at McGill University. He has held a Joseph-Armand Bombardier (CGS) Master Scholarship from the SSHRC and he currently holds a doctoral fellowship from the Fonds Québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC). His research interests include political behaviour, political psychology, electoral and party systems and experimental methodology.

Daniel Goldberg
Daniel Goldberg is a doctoral candidate in communication studies at McGill University. A Montreal-based writer and researcher, he holds a grant from the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC). Research interests include environmental communications, philosophy of technology, critical theory of ‘nature’ and ‘the sustainable,’ and the politicization and co-option of ecological crises. His dissertation research examines the discursive struggle amongst competing models of sustainable design and urban community development. He is currently developing a play exploring these themes with Montreal’s Youtheatre. Dan is also Communications Manager for The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation.

Andrea Lawlor
Andrea Lawlor is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Political Science at McGill University. She holds a Master's degree from the University of British Columbia. Andrea’s research interests include the Canadian and comparative study of political parties, political behaviour, institutions, and methodology. Her doctoral research will focus on changes to campaign spending on party organisational behaviour in a Canadian and comparative context. Andrea holds a doctoral fellowship from the Fonds Québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC).

Valérie-Anne Mahéo
Valérie-Anne Mahéo is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). She has completed a M.Sc. in Political Science at University of Montreal and she has worked for several years as a research assistant/coordinator on various international research projects (including the Comparative Youth Study). Her research interests include political socialization, different types of political participation, social and political mobilization, non-engagement, and youth. She currently holds a doctoral fellowship from the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC).

Mike Medeiros
Mike Medeiros is a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of political science of the Université de Montréal. His main fields of research are political behaviour and Canadian politics. Mike’s research interests include identity politics, political psychology, electoral politics and ethnic conflicts. More specifically, he concentrates on exploring the influence of ethnic identity on political behaviour. Mike’s doctoral research focuses on the impact of linguistic vitality of Western linguistic minorities on conflict intensity and intergroup attitudes. He is also a research assistant with the Canadian Electoral Study.

Alexandre Morin Chassé
Alexandre began his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Montreal during the winter of 2010. His main areas of interests are mesurement biaises in public opinion polls, along with the determinants of election turnout. Alexandre also works at the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies under the direction of Professor André Blais.

Ludovic Rheault
Ludovic Rheault is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Montreal, and is recipient of a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship from the SSHRC. His research interests encompass topics such as political economy and political behaviour. His thesis focuses on how the preferences of voters and of special interest groups regarding immigration are translated into public policies. Such an inquiry line implies a thorough examination of the economic impacts of immigration on recipient countries. Besides, Ludovic is contributing to ongoing research projects at the Chair, about elections and political behaviour.

Simon Labbé St-Vincent
Simon Labbé St-Vincent is a doctoral student in political science at Université de Montréal. He holds a Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) from the Social science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). His research interests include experimental methods, public opinion, political psychology, political thought, voter participation and the study of electoral systems. His dissertation research employs experimental methods to examine the perceptions and behavior of voters under alternative electoral systems.

Simon Thibault
Journalist and consultant Simon Thibault earned a bachelor's of political science at Laval University and a master's in international relations at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. After his studies, he worked as a consultant in Washington, D.C., for the Organization of American States and for the evaluation unit of the World Bank Institute, carrying out studies in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. In 2003, he left his job to complete a graduate degree in journalism at Laval University and City University, in London. From 2005 to 2009, he worked as an independent journalist, travelling to different areas around the world. In Latin America, he produced reports on the fall of the Bolivian and Ecuadorian presidents. In the Middle East, reporting for L'actualité, he covered the war between Israel and Hezbollah and the crisis in Palestine after the election of Hamas. He also created two documentaries for Télé-Québec, one of which dealt with the Taliban insurrection and the opium trade in Afghanistan. Then he worked as a reporter for Radio-Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is interested in international efforts to foster freedom of the press in countries in transition or crisis. His doctoral project focuses on media reform in Bosnia and Herzevovina and Kosovo.

Melanee Thomas
Melanee Thomas is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at McGill University. She has held a Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) at both the Master's and doctoral level. Melanee is interested in political behaviour, gender and politics, Canadian politics, and methodology. Her doctoral research examines why women in post-industrial democracies consistently report lower levels of political self-confidence and political interest than their male peers, despite the tremendous changes in women’s lives since the mid-20th century. This project ambitiously examines these gender differences across post-industrial democracies, as well as across time and qualitatively in selected cases. Melanee's website can be found here.

Isabelle Valois
Isabelle Valois is a Ph. D. student in sociology at the University of Montreal. She has received a Joseph-Armand Bombardier (CGS) Master Scholarship from the SSHRC and did an accelerated passage to doctoral studies. Her main research interests concern confidence in Canadian institutions including the government, courts, the police, schools, and media, as well as interpersonal trust. Her thesis aims to evaluate the evolution of trust in Canada and to determine the social factors associated with different levels of trust in order to understand the social mechanism behind trust and its role in society.

Former Members

Sheena Bell
Sheena Bell is a Master's student in the department of Political Science at McGill University. She holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC). Her research interests include the theories and policies of interculturalism and multiculturalism, Quebec politics, federalism and Canadian institutions. Her Master's final paper will focus on a quantitative analysis of the Ethnic Diversity Survey (Statistics Canada) to assess the outcomes of interculturalism policy on first and second generation immigrants in Quebec.

Marc André Bodet
Marc André Bodet is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at McGill University. He has also completed a M.Sc in Economics at l'Université de Montréal. His research interests include electoral behaviour, statistical analysis in social sciences, and budgetary policymaking in parliamentary democracies. He has notably published co-authored articles in Comparative Political Studies and Social Science Quarterly.

Peter Thisted Dinesen
Peter Thisted Dinesen is a visiting doctoral student in Political Science from the University of Aarhus in Denmark. His main research interests lie within political sociology and political behaviour. The topic of his dissertation is the causes of generalized trust focusing primarily on immigrants in a Danish and a European context. In the Danish context, the causes of trust are examined using a survey he conducted among young immigrants and Danes in Danish schools.

Jason Roy
Jason is a recent recipient of a Ph.D. in political science from McGill University. He currently holds a Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) post-doctoral fellowship as well as a fellowship with the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies (CRCES) at the Université de Montréal. His research interests include Canadian and comparative politics, political behaviour and participation, research methodology (quantitative methods), electoral systems, and public opinion. Jason’s current research employs experimental methods to examine the relationships between political information, the vote decision process and the vote choices that are made given varying levels of decision-environment complexity.

Shane Singh
Shane is a recent recipient of a Ph.D. in political science from Michigan State University. His interests are in comparative politics, with a focus on electoral systems and their behavioural consequences. Shane’s dissertation explored the links between electoral institutions, the dimensionality of politics, and political behaviour. He is currently developing portions of his dissertation for publication, as well as conducting research on voter participation, political representation, and methodology.

Cameron Stark
Cameron Stark is an M.A. candidate in Political Science (Social Statistics) at McGill University. He completed his B.A. in Political Science at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include political behaviour, parties and campaigns, federalism, and statistical methodology in the social sciences. His Master's research paper will analyze issue-ownership and issue-campaigning among national and provincial political parties in the context of the Canadian federation's divided jurisdictions.