Publications

Canadian Election Studies have contributed to an impressive body of work on Canadian and comparative political behaviour.

On this page, you will find citiations and links (where available) to books, chapters, journal articles, and conference and working papers based on Canadian Election Study data. The list is focused mainly on work using the 1988 to 2011 studies; it is updated regularly.

Research is listed in reverse chronological order (with the most recent papers first), under each of the following broad and overlapping themes:

Note that recent working papers are also available on our working papers page.

[Published a paper not on this list? Send us a note, and we’ll include the paper here.]

Elections and Election Outcomes

The Canadian Election Studies, Assessing Four Decades of Influence. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012.
Kanji, Mebs, Antoine Bilodeau and Thomas Scotto (editors).

Quebec versus the Rest of Canada, 1965-2006.In Mebs Kanji, Antoine Bilodeau and Thomas J. Scotto (eds.), The Canadian Election Studies: Assessing Four Decades of Influence, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 136-153, 2012.
Nadeau, Richard and Éric Bélanger.

Enlightenment, Equalization or What? Campaigns, Learning and the Economy in Canadian Elections. In Perspectives on the Canadian Voter: Puzzles of Influence and Choice, edited by Laura Stephenson and Cameron Anderson. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.
Matthews, J. Scott.

Making Sense of Regional Voting in the 1997 Federal Election: Liberal and Reform Support Outside Quebec. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique (32): 247-272, 2009.
Elisabeth Gidengil, Patrick Fournier, Joanna Everitt, Neil Nevitte, and André Blais.

Survey Methodology. In Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Henry E. Brady, and David Collier, eds. Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology, Oxford University Press, 385-403, 2008.
Johnston, Richard.

Campaign Trial Heats as Election Forecasts: Evidence from the 2004 and 2006 Canadian Elections. Electoral Studies 26: 477-91, 2007.
Pickup, Mark and Richard Johnston.

Back to the Future? Making Sense of the 2004 Canadian Election Outside Quebec. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique (39): 1-25, 2006.
Gidengil, Elisabeth, André Blais, Joanna Everitt, Patrick Fournier, and Neil Nevitte.

Anatomy of a Liberal Victory: Making Sense of the Vote in the 2000 Canadian Election. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002.
Blais, André, Elisabeth Gidengil, Richard Nadeau, Neil Nevitte.

The Rolling Cross Section Design. Electoral Studies. 21: 283-295, 2002.
Johnston, Richard and Henry E. Brady.

Unsteady State: The 1997 Canadian Federal Election. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Nevitte, Neil, André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Richard Nadeau.

L’élection fédérale de 1993: le comportement électoral des québécois. Revue québécoise de science politique 27: 15-49, 1995.
Blais, André, Henry E Brady, Elisabeth Gidengil, Neil Nevitte and Richard Johnston.

Electoral Discontinuity: The 1993 Canadian Federal Election. International Social Science Journal 47: 583-99, 1995.
Nevitte, Neil, Richard Johnston, André Blais, Henry Brady and Elisabeth Gidengil.

Campaign Effects

The Campaign Dynamics of Economic Voting. Electoral Studies 29:13-24, 2010.
Matthews, J. Scott and Richard Johnston.

Testing Zaller’s Reception and Acceptance Model in an Intense Election Campaign Political Behavior 30 (2): 259-276, 2008.
Dobrzynska, Agnieszka, and André Blais.

Election Campaigns as Information Campaigns: Who Learns What and Does It Matter.Political Communication 25(3): 229-248, 2008.
Nadeau, Richard, Neil Nevitte, André Blais, and Elisabeth Gidengil.

The Study of Political Campaigns. In Henry E. Brady and Richard Johnston, eds. Capturing Campaign Effects. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1-26, 2006.
Brady, Henry E., Richard Johnston and John Sides.

Time-of-Voting Decision and Susceptibility to Campaign Effects. Electoral Studies, 2004.
Fournier, Patrick, André Blais, Richard Nadeau, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Neil Nevitte.

Campaign Dynamics in the 2000 Canadian Election: How the Leader Debates Salvaged the Conservative Party. PS: Political Science & Politics, January, 45-50, 2003.
Blais, André, Elisabeth Gidengil, Richard Nadeau, Neil Nevitte.

Priming and Campaign Context: Evidence from Recent Canadian Elections In David Farrell and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (eds.), Do Political Campaigns Matter? Campaign Effects in Elections and Referendums, London: Routledge, 2002.
Gidengil, Elisabeth, André Blais, Neil Nevitte, and Richard Nadeau.

Validation of Time of Voting Decision Recall. Public Opinion Quarterly, 65: 95-107, 2001.
Fournier, Patrick, André Blais, Richard Nadeau, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Neil Nevitte.

Capturing Campaigns in National Election Studies. In Elihu Katz with Yael Warshel, eds., Election Studies: What’s Their Use?. Boulder: Westview, 2001.
Johnston, Richard.

Campaign Dynamics in the 1997 Canadian Election. Canadian Public Policy 25: 197-205, 1999.
Blais, André, Richard Nadeau, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Neil Nevitte.

Gender

Gender Affinity Effects in Vote Choice in Westminster Systems: Assessing ‘Flexible’ Voters in Canada. Politics & Gender 7(2): 223-250. 2011.
Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth and Julie Croskill.

The Gender Gap in Self-Perceived Understanding of Politics in Canada and the United States. Politics & Gender 4 (04): 535-561, 2008.
Gidengil, Elisabeth, Janine Giles, and Melanee Thomas.

Beyond the Gender Gap: Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, Saskatoon, 2007. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 40 (04): 815-831, 2007.
Gidengil, Elisabeth.

Network Diversity and Vote Choice: Women’s Social Ties and Left Voting in Canada. Politics & Gender (3): 151-77, 2007.
Gidengil, Elisabeth, Allison Harell, and Bonnie Erickson.

Gender, Knowledge and Social Capital. In Gender and Social Capital, ed. Brenda O’Neill and Elisabeth Gidengil. New York: Routledge. 241-272, 2006.
Gidengil, Elisabeth, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Neil Nevitte, and André Blais.

Explaining the Gender Gap in Support for the New Right: The Case of Canada. Comparative Political Studies (38): 1-25, 2005.
Gidengil, Elisabeth, Matthew Hennigar, André Blais, Neil Nevitte, and Richard Nadeau.

Women to the Left? Gender Differences in Political Beliefs and Policy Preferences. In Gender and Electoral Representation in Canada, ed. Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Gidengil, Elisabeth, André Blais, Richard Nadeau, and Neil Nevitte.

Issues and the Economy

The Courts/Parliament Trade-off: Canadian Attitudes on Judicial Influence in Public Policy.Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 51-3: 377-397, 2013.
Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth, J. Scott Matthews and Janet Hiebert.

Environmentalism and Party Support in Canada: Recent Trends Outside Quebec. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 44(2): 341-366, 2011.
Anderson, Cameron D. and Laura B. Stephenson

Local Economies and National Economic Evaluations. Electoral Studies. 30 (4): 795-803, 2011.
Anderson, Cameron and Jason Roy.

The campaign dynamics of economic voting. Electoral Studies 29 (1): 13-24, 2010.
Matthews, John Scott, and Richard Johnston.

Issue-Based Strategies in Election Campaigns: The Case of Health Care in the 2000 Canadian Federal Election. Political Communication, 27 (4): 367-388, 2010.
Nadeau, Richard, François Pétry, and Éric Bélanger.

Economic Voting, Multilevel Governance and Information in Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 41 (02): 329-354, 2008.
Anderson, Cameron D.

Issue salience, issue ownership, and issue-based vote choice. Electoral Studies 27 (3): 477-491, 2008.
Bélanger, Éric, and Bonnie M. Meguid.

Media, Public Opinion and Health Care in Canada: How the Media Affect “The Way Things Are”. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 41 (02): 355-374, 2008.
Blidook, Kelly.

Economics, Party, and the Vote: Causality Issues and Panel Data. American Journal of Political Science 52 (1): 84-95, 2008.
Lewis-Beck, Michael S., Richard Nadeau, and Angelo Elias.

The Effects of Information and Social Cleavages: Explaining Issue Attitudes and Vote Choice in Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 40 (04): 935-968, 2007.
Bittner, Amanda.

Winning, Losing and Satisfaction with Democracy. Political Studies 55 (2): 425-441, 2007.
Blais, André, and François Gélineau.

Cognitive Heterogeneity and Economic Voting: A Comparative Analysis of Four Democratic Electorates. American Journal of Political Science 50 (1): 127-145, 2006.
Gomez, Brad T., and J. Matthew Wilson.

The Political Foundations of Support for Same-Sex Marriage in Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science 38-4: 841-866, 2005.
Matthews, J. Scott.

Globalization, Globalizacion, Globalisation: Public Opinion and NAFTA. Law and Business Review of the Americas. 11(3/4):573-596, 2005.
Merolla, Jennifer L. Laura B. Stephenson, Carole J. Wilson, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister.

Do (Some) Voters Punish a Prime Minister for Calling an Early Election? . Political Studies 52 (2): 307-323, 2004.
Blais, André, Elisabeth Gidengil, Richard Nadeau, and Neil Nevitte.

Which Matters Most? Comparing the Impact of Issues and the Economy in American, British, and Canadian Elections . British Journal of Political Science 34 (3): 555-563, 2004.
Blais, André, Mathieu Turgeon, Elisabeth Gidengil, Neil Nevitte, and Richard Nadeau.

Issue Importance and Performance Voting. Political Behavior 25: 51-67, 2003.
Fournier, Patrick, Richard Nadeau, André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Neil Nevitte.

La dimension régionale du vote économique canadien aux élections fédérales de 1988 à 2000. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 35 (3): 567-588, 2002.
Bélanger, Éric, and Jean-François Godbout.

The Impact of Issues and the Economy in the 1997 Canadian Federal Election . Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 35: 409-421, 2002.
Blais, André, Richard Nadeau, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Neil Nevitte.

The Formation of Party Preferences: Testing the Proximity and Directional Models. European Journal of Political Research 40: 81-91, 2001.
Blais, André, Richard Nadeau, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Neil Nevitte.

It’s Unemployment, Stupid! Why Perceptions About the Job Situation Hurt the Liberals in the 1997 Election. Canadian Public Policy 26: 77-94, 2000.
Nadeau, Richard, André Blais, Neil Nevitte, and Elisabeth Gidengil.

Leaders and Candidates

Systemic Effects of Televised Candidates’ Debates. The International Journal of Press/Politics 13 (4): 451-464, 2008.
Blais, André, and Andrea M. L. Perrella.

Strengthening Canadian Democracy: The Views of Parliamentary Candidates. IRPP Policy Matters 7 (2), 2006.
Black, Jerome H., and Bruce Hicks.

Does the Local Candidate Matter? Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 36 (3), 2003.
Blais, André, Elisabeth Gidengil, Agnieszka Dobrzynska, Richard Nadeau, and Neil Nevitte.

Do People Have Feelings Towards Leaders About Whom They Say They Know Nothing? Public Opinion Quarterly 64: 452-463, 2000.
Blais, André, Neil Nevitte, Richard Nadeau, and Elisabeth Gidengil.

Parties and Party Identification

When Partisans are Attacked: Motivated Reasoning and the New Party System. In Amanda Bittner and Royce Koop, eds., Parties, Elections and the Future of Canadian Politics. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013.
Matthews, J. Scott.

Why Do Parties Merge? The Case of the Conservative Party of Canada. Parliamentary Affairs 63 (1): 41-65, 2010.
Bélanger, Éric, and Jean-François Godbout.

The Influence of Ideology and Brokerage on the Durability of Partisanship in Canada. In Cameron D. Anderson and Laura B. Stephenson (eds.), Voting Behaviour in Canada, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 107-136, 2010.
Bélanger, Éric and Laura Stephenson.

Political judgments, perceptions of facts, and partisan effects. Electoral Studies 29 (1): 1-12, 2010
Blais, André, Elisabeth Gidengil, Patrick Fournier, Neil Nevitte, Joanna Everitt, and Jiyoon Kim.

Left/Right Ideology and Canadian Politics. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 43 (03): 583-605, 2010.
Cochrane, Christopher.

Political Parties and the Electoral System. In John Courtney and David Smith, eds., Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics Oxford: Oxford University Press, 208-25, 2010.
Johnston, Richard.

The Catholic-Liberal Connection: A Test of Strength. In Voting Behaviour in Canada, ed. Cameron D. Anderson and Laura B. Stephenson, UBC Press, 2010.
Stephenson, Laura B.

Polarized Pluralism in the Canadian Party System: Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, June 5, 2008. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 41 (04): 815-834, 2008.
Johnston, Richard.

Can Canadians Take a Hint? The (In)Effectiveness of Party Labels as Information Shortcuts in Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 41 (03): 673-696, 2008.
Merolla, Jennifer L., Laura B. Stephenson, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister.

Third Party Success in Canada. In Alain-G. Gagnon and A. Brian Tanguay (eds.), Canadian Parties in Transition, 3rd edition, Peterborough: Broadview Press, 83-109, 2007.
Bélanger, Éric.

Two political worlds?: The influence of provincial party loyalty federal voting in Canada. Electoral Studies 26 (4): 787-796, 2007.
Clough, Emily.

Party Identification: Unmoved Mover or Sum of Preferences? Annual Review of Political Science. 9: 329-351, 2006.
Johnston, Richard.

Antipartyism and Third-Party Vote Choice: A Comparison of Canada, Britain, and Australia. Comparative Political Studies, 37 (9): 1054-1078, 2004.
Bélanger, Éric.

The Rise of Third Parties in the 1993 Canadian Federal Election: Pinard Revisited. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 37 (3): 581-594, 2004.
Bélanger, Éric.

From a two-party-plus to a one-party-plus? Ideology, vote choice, and prospects for a competitive party system in Canada. Electoral Studies. 23(3):463-483, 2004.
Scotto, Thomas J., Laura B. Stephenson and Allan Kornberg.

Slip, Sliding Away or Le Plus Ça Change.: Canadian and American Partisanship in Comparative Perspective. American Review of Canadian Studies. 34(2):283-312, 2004.
Stephenson, Laura B., Thomas J. Scotto and Allan Kornberg.

Do Party Supporters Differ? In Citizen Politics: Research and Theory in Canadian Political Behaviour, ed. Joanna Everitt and Brenda O’Neill. Don Mills: Oxford University Press. 184-201, 2002.
Blais, André, Elisabeth Gidengil, Richard Nadeau, and Neil Nevitte.

Changes in the Party System and Anti-Party Sentiment. In Political Parties, Representation, and Electoral Democracy in Canada, ed. William Cross. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 68-86, 2002.
Gidengil, Elisabeth, André Blais, Richard Nadeau, and Neil Nevitte.

Measuring Party Identification: Britain, Canada, and the United States. Political Behavior 23: 5-22, 2001.
Blais, André, Elisabeth Gidengil, Richard Nadeau, and Neil Nevitte.

The Correlates and Consequences of Anti-Partyism in the 1997 Canadian Election. Party Politics 7: 491-513, 2001.
Gidengil, Elisabeth, André Blais, Neil Nevitte, and Richard Nadeau.

Perceptions of Party Competence in the 1997 Election . Party Politics in Canada 8th ed., ed. Hugh Thorburn and Alan Whitehorn. Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 413-430, 2001.
Nadeau, Richard, André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Neil Nevitte.

Party Location and Party Support: Unpacking Competing Models. Journal of Politics. 62: 1145-1160, 2000.
Johnston, Richard, Patrick Fournier and Richard Jenkins.

Party Identification and Campaign Dynamics. Political Behavior 14: 311-31, 1992.
Johnston, Richard.

Strategic Voting

Voting Strategically. Canada and Britain In, eds. Bernard Grofman, André Blais and Shaun Bowler. Duverger’s Law of Plurality Voting. Springer: New York, 13-25, 2009.
Blais, André, Eugénie Dostie-Goulet, and Marc André Bodet.

Strategic voting in Canada: A Cross Time Analysis. Electoral Studies 26 (2): 235-246, 2007.
Merolla, Jennifer L., and Laura B. Stephenson.

How Do Voters Form Expectations about the Parties’ Chances of Winning the Election?. Social Science Quarterly 87 (3): 477-493, 2006.
Blais, André, and Marc André Bodet.

Measuring Strategic Voting in Multiparty Plurality Elections. Electoral Studies 20: 343-352, 2001.
Blais, André, Richard Nadeau, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Neil Nevitte.

Voter Turnout and Political Engagement

The Comparative Study of Canadian Voting Behaviour. In Luc Turgeon, Martin Papillon, Jennifer Wallner and Stephen White (eds.), Comparing Canada: Citizens, Government, and Policy, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, in press.
Bélanger, Éric, and Laura B. Stephenson.

Regionalism in Political Attitudes, 1993 to 2010. In Matthew Mendelsohn, Joshua Hjartarson and James Pearce, eds., Canada: The State of the Federation 2010 – Shifting Power: The New Ontario and What it Means for Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013.
Matthews, J. Scott, Matthew Mendelsohn and Randy Besco

Youth Electoral Engagement in Canada, 2011. 
Blais, André, and Peter John Loewen.

Electoral Complexity, Information Heterogeneity and the Vote Calculus. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 21(1): 29-56, 2011.
Roy, Jason

Why are Highly Informed Citizens Sceptical of Referenda? Electoral Studies. 29(2): 227-238. 2010.
Anderson, Cameron and Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant.

Affinity, Antipathy and Political Participation: How Our Concern For Others Makes Us Vote. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 43 (03): 661-687, 2010.
Loewen, Peter John.

Voter Heterogeneity: Informational Differences and Voting. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 42 (01): 117-137, 2009.
Roy, Jason.

Turnout and the party system in Canada, 1988–2004. Electoral Studies 26 (4): 735-745, 2007.
Johnston, Richard, J. Scott Matthews, and Amanda Bittner.

Indifferent or Just Different? The Political and Civic Engagement of Young People in Canada, 2007.
O’Neill, Brenda.

Does Low turnout Matter? Evidence from the 2000 Canadian General Election. Electoral Studies 26 (3): 589-597, 2007.
Rubenson, Daniel, André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, Neil Nevitte, and Patrick Fournier

Does Turnout Decline Matter? Electoral Turnout and Partisan Choice in the 1997 Canadian Federal Election. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 39 (02): 343-362, 2006.
Martinez, Michael D., and Jeff Gill.

Political Trust and the Vote in Multiparty Elections: The Canadian Case. European Journal of Political Research, 44 (1): 121-146, 2005.
Bélanger, Éric and Richard Nadeau.

Missing the Message: Young Adults and the Election Issues. Electoral Insight January 2005.
Gidengil, Elisabeth, André Blais, Joanna Everitt, Patrick Fournier, and Neil Nevitte.

Where Does Turnout Decline Come From? . European Journal of Political Research 43 (2): 221-236, 2004.
Blais, André, Elisabeth Gidengil, Neil Nevitte, and Richard Nadeau.

Citizens. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004.
Gidengil, Elisabeth, André Blais, Neil Nevitte, and Richard Nadeau.

Turned Off or Tuned Out? Youth Participation in Politics. Electoral Insight July 2003
Gidengil, Elisabeth, André Blais, Neil Nevitte, and Richard Nadeau.

Are Voters to Blame? Voter Competence and Elite Maneuvers in Public Referendums. In Matthew Mendelsohn and Andrew Parkin, eds., Maturity or Malaise?: The Growing Use of Referendums in Liberal-Democratic Societies. London: Macmillan, 2001.
Johnston, Richard and Arthur Lupia.

The Geography of Class and Religion in Canadian Elections” in Joseph Wearing, ed., Voting in Canada. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1991.
Johnston, Richard.

The Reproduction of the Religious Cleavage in Canadian Elections. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 18: 99-113, 1985.
Johnston, Richard.

Social Capital, Immigration and the Welfare State

Small Worlds of Diversity? Views Toward Immigration and Racial Diversity in Canadian Provinces. Canadian Journal of Political Science 45 (3): 579-605, 2012.
Bilodeau, Antoine., L. Turgeon, and E. Karakoc.

Is There a Progressive’s Dilemma in Canada? Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 43 (04): 797-820, 2010.
Banting, Keith G.

The Development of Dual Loyalties: Immigrants¹ Integration to Regional Canadian Dynamics.² Canadian Journal of Political Science 43 (03): 515-544, 2010.
Bilodeau, Antoine, Stephen White and Neil Nevitte.

Untangling the Roots of Tolerance. American Behavioral Scientist 52 (12): 1664-1689, 2009.
Côté, Rochelle R., and Bonnie H. Erickson.

Electoral Politics and Immigration in Canada: How Does Immigration Matter?. Journal of International Migration and Integration 9 (3): 241-267, 2008.
Black, Jerome, and Bruce Hicks.

Welfare State Structures and the Structure of Welfare State Support: Attitudes Towards Social Spending in Canada, 1993-2000. European Journal of Political Research 47: 411-435, 2008.
Matthews, J. Scott and Lynda Erickson.

Ties That Bind? Social Cohesion and Diversity in Canada. In Belonging? Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada, eds. Keith Banting, Thomas J. Courchene and F. Leslie Seidle. Montreal: Institute for Research in Public Policy, 2008.
Soroka, Stuart N., Richard Johnston, and Keith Banting.

The Political Resocialization of Immigrants: Resistance or Life-Long Learning? Political Research Quarterly 61 (2): 268-281, 2008.
White, Stephen, Neil Nevitte, André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Patrick Fournier.

Canadian Perceptions of the Health Care System, 2007.
Soroka, Stuart N.

Value Diversity and Support for Electoral Reform in Canada PS. Political Science & Politics 39 (04): 829-836, 2006.
Kanji, Mebs, and Antoine Bilodeau.

Making Up for Lost Time Immigrant Voter Turnout in Canada. Electoral Insight December 2006.
White, Stephen, Neil Nevitte, André Blais, Joanna Everitt, Patrick Fournier, and Elisabeth Gidengil.

Public Opinion and Social Citizenship in Canada. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 42-4: 373-401, 2005.
Matthews, J. Scott and Lynda Erickson.