Kenny William Ie is a sessional lecturer in the department of political science at the University of British Columbia and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Ottawa. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, from 2022 to 2024. His research and teaching interests are in Canadian and comparative politics, focusing on political leadership, executive politics and institutions, and racialized and minority political engagement and representation.

My research is in two different, but often related, areas of Canadian and comparative politics: executive politics and leadership, and racialized political engagement and representation. In the first area, I study prime ministers, ministers, and cabinet structure and process. I have done research on prime ministerial leadership, cabinet committees, and ministerial policy work; this work has appeared in journals such as the Canadian Journal of Political Science and European Political Science Review. My work in racialized political engagement and representation examines the role of voter-candidate affinities in generating civic engagement, political trust, and political ambition.

2024. Ministerial Policy Roles and Mandate Letters in the Justin Trudeau Government. Canadian Public Administration 67.1: 40-53.

2024. Candidate Diversity and Racialized and Indigenous Political Engagement in Canada.
Elections Canada Report, with the Consortium for Electoral Democracy. With Joanna Everitt, Karen Bird, Angelia Wagner, and Mireille Lalancette. https://tinyurl.com/4bd8t2x4

2023. Ministerial Mandate Letters and Coordination in the Canadian Executive. Canadian Journal of Political Science 56.4: 811-831.

2023. From gender equity to gendered assignments? Women and cabinet committees in Canada and the United Kingdom. Government & Opposition 60.1: 39-62. With Nora Siklodi and Nicholas Allen.

2022. Cabinet Composition, Collegiality and Collectivity: Examining Patterns in Cabinet Committee Structure. European Political Science Review 14.1: 115-133. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773921000345

2021. Representation and Ministerial Influence on Cabinet Committees in Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science 54.3: 615-636.

2020. Tweeting Power: The Communication of Leadership Roles on Prime Ministers’ Twitter. Politics and Governance 8.1: 158-170.

2019. Cabinet Committees as Strategies of Prime Ministerial Leadership in Canada, 2003-2019. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 57.4: 466-486.