Public opinion, parties, and elections

Key Publications: 

• "Voting Radical Right in Western Europe." Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• "The Radical Right and Immigration in an Era of Economic Crisis." Brown Journal of World Affairs, 2013.
• "Party Politics and Public Opinion on Immigration and Anti-Discrimination Policy: Implications for Immigrant Integration." in Immigration and Public Opinion, Routledge Press, 2013.
• "Crossing Political Divides: Media Use and Managing Complex Political Identities." in The World Says No to War: Demonstrations against the War on Iraq, Minnesota University Press, 2010.
• "Voting Radical Right in Western Europe ‘Rules of the Game’." in Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally: CARR Yearbook 2018/2019, ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart, 2019.

See Terri Givens' full profile here.  

Key Publications:

• “Policy Attitudes in Institutional Context: Rules, Uncertainty, and the Mass Politics of Public Investment,” Am J of Poli Sci, 2017
• “Inequality and Electoral Accountability: Class-Biased Economic Voting in Comparative Perspective,” Journal of Politics, 2016
• “Why Do Citizens Discount the Future? Public Opinion and the Timing of Policy Consequences,” British Journal of Political Science, 2012

Current Research Projects: 

• Citizen Support for Policy Tradeoffs
• Public Assessments of COVID-19 Economic Response

See Alan Jacobs' full profile here. 

Key Publications: 

• “The Gender Gap in Attitudes Toward Workplace Technological Change.” Socioeconomic Review, 2024.
• “Lay Theories of Place Effects.” Political Psychology, 2024.
• "Perceived Technological Threat, Populism, and Vote Choice: Evidence from 15 European Democracies." West European Politics, 2024.
• “Attitudes toward Automation and the Demand for Policies Addressing Job Loss: The effects of information about trade-offs.” Political Science Research & Methods, 2023.
• "National Standards or Territorial Autonomy? The Politics of Fiscal Federalism for Health Care in Canada." Territory, Politics, Governance, 2023

See Sophie Borwein's full profile here.  

  Key Publications: 

• The Economic Origins of Political Parties. Cambridge Elements in Political Economy. Cambridge University Press. 2021
•  “The Electoral System, the Party System, and Accountability in Parliamentary Government.”  American Political Science Review, 114 (3): 744-760.  2020
• “The Secret Ballot and the Market for Votes at 19th-Century British Elections.” Comparative Political Studies 50: 594–635. 2017

See Chris Kam's full profile here 

Current Research Project:  Polarization in multiparty systems

Key Publications: 

• "Satisfaction with Democracy: The Impact of Institutions, Contexts and Attitudes." Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2022.
• "Telephone versus Online Survey Modes for Election Studies: Comparing Canadian Public Opinion and Vote Choice in the 2015 Federal Election" Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2017
• "Riding the orange wave: Leadership, values, issues, and the 2011 Canadian election," Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2013.
• "Having their say: Authority, voice, and satisfaction with democracy," Journal of Politics, 2019.

See Fred Cutler's full profile here

Key Publications: 

• “Categorical Inequalities and Canadian Attitudes Toward Positive and Negative Rights”, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2024.
• “The Limits of Rights: Claims-making on Behalf of Immigrants”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2020.
• “Rights, Economics or Family? Frame Resonance, Political Ideology and the Immigrant Rights Movement”, Social Forces, 2016.
• “Accessing the Corridors of Power: Puzzles and Pathways to Understanding Minority Representation”, West European Politics, 2013.
• “Does Immigration Erode Social Capital? The Conditional Effects of Immigration-Generated Diversity on Trust, Membership, and Participation across 19 Countries, 1981-2000”, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2010.

See Irene Bloemraad's full profile here   

Key Publications:

• "Diversity Matters: The Election of Asian Americans to U.S. State and Federal Legislatures" American Political Science Review, 2023.
• "Multiculturalism and Muslim Accommodation: Policy and Predisposition Across Three Contexts" Comparative Political Studies, 2016
• "Diversity and the imagined community: Immigrant diversity and conceptions of national identity" Political Psychology, 2011
• "Alternative Measures of American National Identity: Implications for the Civic-Ethnic Distinction" Political Psychology, 2012

Current Research Projects: Changing American Hearts & Minds on Immigration Policy

See Matthew Wright's full profile here. 

  Key Publications: 

• "Having their say: Authority, voice, and satisfaction with democracy," Journal of Politics, 2019.
• “Polarized Populism: Masses, Elites, and Ideological Conflict,” in LaRaja, New Directions in American Politics, 2010
• “Misinformation and the Currency of Citizenship,” Journal of Politics, 2001
• “Reconsidering the Rational Public,” in Lupia, McCubbins, and Popkin, Elements of Reason, 2000

Current Research Project:  The Psychology of Opposition to Carbon Pricing

See Paul Quirk's full profile here