Coming out of the 2000 Canadian federal election, the dominance of the Liberal Party
seemed assured. By 2011 the situation had completely reversed: the Liberals suffered a …

Strategic voting is an important explanation for aggregate political phenomena, but we know
little about how strategic voting varies across types of voters. Are richer voters more strategic …

The far right has never been a prominent force in Canadian politics or society. Traditionally,
they more resembled the North American than the West European model: ideologically …

Partisan attachment is a major source of group identity in democracies, accounting for a
strong in-group bias when citizens make judgments on trust, cooperation, and resource …

This paper uses laboratory experiments with induced values to address fundamental issues
related to the incentive compatibility of choice experiment value elicitation questions. In …

A central tenet of electoral systems' research is that more parties should get votes in districts
with large magnitudes than in districts with smaller magnitudes. This proposition is largely …

In districts where only one seat is contested, the electoral formula (plurality or majority)
should be a major determinant of the number of parties that receive votes. Specifically …

Do some types of voters vote more strategically than others? We examine this question
using a large survey in Canada that asked respondents to rate not just parties and party …

The stability of voters' partisan choices from election to election is a key feature of
democratic politics, but why it varies across advanced industrial democracies and elections …

This article examines the consequences of increased party system fragmentation for
oppositions, their respective governments and representation more generally, focusing on …