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View article: Geographic Proximity Dampens Ideological Policy Disagreement in Urban Politics
Geographic Proximity Dampens Ideological Policy Disagreement in Urban Politics Open
Recent research in many countries has found that urban elections and policy debates are consistently structured by left-right ideological disagreement. Yet many urban scholars have long argued the opposite: that municipal politics in citie…
View article: Ballot Roll-Off in the 2021 Alberta Senate Nominee Election: Political Identities and Participation Patterns
Ballot Roll-Off in the 2021 Alberta Senate Nominee Election: Political Identities and Participation Patterns Open
In 2021, Alberta held Senate nominee elections for the fifth time in the province's history. Conducted concurrently with municipal elections and multiple referenda/plebiscites, the Senate race had a much lower participation rate than any o…
View article: Ballot Roll-Off in the 2021 Alberta Senate Nominee Election: Political Identities and Participation Patterns
Ballot Roll-Off in the 2021 Alberta Senate Nominee Election: Political Identities and Participation Patterns Open
In 2021, Alberta held Senate nominee elections for the fifth time in the province's history. Conducted concurrently with municipal elections and multiple referenda/plebiscites, the Senate race had a much lower participation rate than any o…
View article: Demographic Divides in Canadian Voting, 1945–2023: The Canadian Vote Intention Dataset
Demographic Divides in Canadian Voting, 1945–2023: The Canadian Vote Intention Dataset Open
This research note introduces the Canadian Vote Intention Dataset, a new, integrated, publicly available database of nearly eight decades of public opinion surveys from Gallup, Environics, Pollara, the Canadian Election Study and the Conso…
View article: Place Types
Place Types Open
In this research note, we propose a new typology of geographic places for use in advancing Canadian politics research on the political effects of place. We use hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) to inductively derive place types from Aggr…
View article: Geographic Proximity Dampens Ideological Disagreement on Municipal Policy Issues
Geographic Proximity Dampens Ideological Disagreement on Municipal Policy Issues Open
Increasing evidence suggests that municipal elections and policy debates are structured by left-right ideological disagreement. Yet others argue that municipal politics creates non-ideological coalitions of residents and local interests, t…
View article: Urban–rural policy disagreement
Urban–rural policy disagreement Open
Urban–rural divides are large and growing in many national elections, but the sources of this widening divide are not well understood. Recent research has pointed to policy disagreement as one possible mechanism for this growing divide; if…
View article: Municipal Politicians and Local Electoral Institutions in Canada: An Overview
Municipal Politicians and Local Electoral Institutions in Canada: An Overview Open
Across Canada, tens of thousands of municipal politicians govern thousands of municipalities, making important policy decisions in domains ranging from policing to planning to environmental policy. Despite a recent flowering of research on…
View article: Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior
Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior Open
While political scientists regularly engage in spirited theoretical debates about elections and voting behavior, few have noticed that elected politicians also have theories of elections and voting. Here, we investigate politicians’ positi…
View article: Beyond the Mean: How Thinking About The Distribution of Public Opinions Reduces Politicians' Perceptual Errors
Beyond the Mean: How Thinking About The Distribution of Public Opinions Reduces Politicians' Perceptual Errors Open
Recent studies find that elected politicians regularly over-estimate the conservatism of their constituents’ preferences. While these findings have potentially concern- ing implications for democratic representation, they depend on the mag…
View article: Are municipal politicians ideological moderates?
Are municipal politicians ideological moderates? Open
View article: Ballot Roll-Off in the 2021 Alberta Senate Nominee Election: Political Identities and Participation Patterns
Ballot Roll-Off in the 2021 Alberta Senate Nominee Election: Political Identities and Participation Patterns Open
In 2021, Alberta held Senate nominee elections for the fifth time in the province's history. Conducted concurrently with municipal elections and multiple referenda/plebiscites, the Senate race had a much lower participation rate than any o…
View article: Issue Accountability in Non-Partisan Municipalities: A Case Study
Issue Accountability in Non-Partisan Municipalities: A Case Study Open
Issue accountability – the extent to which elected representatives are rewarded or punished by voters for their legislative actions in office – is fundamental to many conceptions of healthy democratic accountability. It is not clear, howev…
View article: Municipal Political Representation and Housing Affordability
Municipal Political Representation and Housing Affordability Open
Housing affordability has become a pressing issue in many communities, and municipal governments play a critical role in shaping the character and quantity of local housing supply. At present, however, we know little about the extent to wh…
View article: Do Women Politicians Know More about Women’s Policy Preferences? Evidence from Canada
Do Women Politicians Know More about Women’s Policy Preferences? Evidence from Canada Open
This study draws together theories of women’s substantive representation and research on politicians’ knowledge of constituent preferences. We ask whether politicians are better at predicting their constituents’ policy preferences when the…
View article: Are Municipal Politicians Ideological Moderates?
Are Municipal Politicians Ideological Moderates? Open
For more than a century, practitioners and researchers have often argued that municipal politicians are more ideologically moderate than their national counterparts. Testing this claim requires direct comparison of politicians who represen…
View article: What explains elite affective polarization? Evidence from Canadian politicians
What explains elite affective polarization? Evidence from Canadian politicians Open
Concerns about affective polarization are on the rise globally, and it has been associated with negative outcomes such as diminished trust in government and discrimination against out‐partisans. While elected politicians are typically thou…
View article: Lay theories of place effects
Lay theories of place effects Open
Combining research in political geography and social psychology, this article investigates lay theories of “place effects”—that is, ordinary citizens' beliefs about the effects that urban or rural places have on the individuals who live in…
View article: Understanding Support for Municipal Political Parties: Evidence from Canada
Understanding Support for Municipal Political Parties: Evidence from Canada Open
The province of Ontario, Canada, has a longstanding history of non-partisanship in municipal elections. In this distinctive context, we report results on citizen attitudes toward municipal partisanship using a survey of eligible voters in …
View article: 2022 Ontario Election Study
2022 Ontario Election Study Open
This election study survey is based upon questions asked in the Canadian Election Study, but tailored for the Ontario context. It was conducted by the Consortium on Electoral Democracy (C-Dem).
View article: The Development of the Urban-Rural Cleavage in Anglo-American Democracies
The Development of the Urban-Rural Cleavage in Anglo-American Democracies Open
We provide a mixed-methods, comparative analysis of the development of the urban-rural electoral cleavage in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States from the early 20th century to the present. Using aggregate election results, elector…
View article: Urban-Rural Policy Disagreement in Canada, 2000-Present
Urban-Rural Policy Disagreement in Canada, 2000-Present Open
The urban-rural political divide is large and growing in many countries, but the sources of this widening divide are not well understood. Recent research has pointed to policy disagreement as one possible mechanism for this growing divide;…
View article: Replication Data for: "The Development of the Urban-Rural Cleavage in Anglo-American Democracies"
Replication Data for: "The Development of the Urban-Rural Cleavage in Anglo-American Democracies" Open
Replication code and data for "The Development of the Urban-Rural Cleavage in Anglo-American Democracies" (Comparative Political Studies) Authors: Zack Taylor, University of Western Ontario, Canada Jack Lucas, University of Calgary, Canada…
View article: Resentment and Admiration: Public Opinion Toward Teachers and Public Sector Employees in Ontario
Resentment and Admiration: Public Opinion Toward Teachers and Public Sector Employees in Ontario Open
Public opinion toward teachers and other public sector workers is an important factor in Ontario provincial politics. This article uses public opinion data to measure, and identify the correlates of, resentment and admiration of these grou…
View article: Canada's Federal Electoral Districts, 1867–2021: New Digital Boundary Files and a Comparative Investigation of District Compactness
Canada's Federal Electoral Districts, 1867–2021: New Digital Boundary Files and a Comparative Investigation of District Compactness Open
We introduce new data resources to enable spatial and nonspatial research on Canadian elections, electoral history and political geography. These include a comprehensive set of distinct identification codes for every federal electoral dist…
View article: What Explains Elite Affective Polarization? Evidence from Canadian Politicians
What Explains Elite Affective Polarization? Evidence from Canadian Politicians Open
Affective polarization is on the rise globally, and has been associated with diminished trust in government and discrimination against out-partisans. While elected politicians are typically thought to be a major source of mass-level affect…
View article: Lay Theories of Place Effects
Lay Theories of Place Effects Open
Combining research in political geography and social psychology, this paper inves- tigates lay theories of “place effects” – that is, ordinary citizens’ beliefs about the effects that urban or rural places have on the individuals who live …
View article: Long‐term policymaking and politicians' beliefs about voters: Evidence from a 3‐year panel study of politicians
Long‐term policymaking and politicians' beliefs about voters: Evidence from a 3‐year panel study of politicians Open
Politicians are required to make policy decisions that involve short‐term and long‐term tradeoffs, and existing theory largely expects election‐driven myopic thinking to dominate their reasoning when they do so. Direct evidence on this is …
View article: Asymmetries in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Place-Based Resentment
Asymmetries in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Place-Based Resentment Open
This paper investigates the size, socio-demographic correlates, and political implications of place-based resentment in urban, suburban, and rural areas, with a particular focus on similarities and differences in high-resentment individual…
View article: Do Politicians and Citizens Agree on How to Combat COVID-19? Evidence from Three Studies
Do Politicians and Citizens Agree on How to Combat COVID-19? Evidence from Three Studies Open
Government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have involved important tradeoffs between shutting down services, businesses, and other activities, and saving lives. To maintain public support for these policy decisions, it is important that…