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The Department of Political Studies presents...

A Graduate Studies Information Session

Thinking about what to do after graduation?  We will be holding a Graduate Studies Information Session on November 9th in Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room B201. The Graduate Studies Chair, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, will be there to answer your questions about pursuing graduate studies in Political Studies. The Undergrad Chair, Kyle Hanniman will also be in attendance for the event.

Thursday, November 9, 2023 

5:30-6:30 PM

Mackintosh-Corry Hall B201

The Department of Political Studies presents...

A Career Night Information Session

This Career Night Information Session on Zoom will feature a presentation from a Career Counsellor in Career Services at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥.  They will be discussing your options after graduation and strategies for job searching. The Undergrad Chair, Kyle Hanniman, will also be in attendance to answer any of your questions.

Tuesday, November 7, 2023 

5:00-6:00 PM

via Zoom

The Department of Political Studies presents the John Meisel Lecture Graduate Student Seminar with:

Elizabeth Dubois - University of Ottawa

"Figuring out how you work best and developing a research program around it" 

Friday, November 3, 2023 

10:00-11:30 PM

Robert Sutherland Hall | Room 334

*For Political Studies graduate students only

Refreshments served

Biography:

Dr. Elizabeth Dubois (PhD, University of Oxford) is an Associate Professor and University Research Chair in Politics, Communication and Technology at the University of Ottawa where she runs the and is a member of the Center for Law, Technology and Society. She is also a Faculty Associate and former Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard University and an Affiliate at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life at University of North Carolina. Her work examines political uses of digital media, including artificial intelligence, political social media influencers, and online harassment of public figures. In 2019, she co-led the which brought together 18 research teams to examine uses of digital media in the 2019 Federal Election in Canada. She leads the multi-disciplinary Pol Comm Tech Lab which includes political scientists, computer scientists, and communication students. She collaborates internationally with non-profits, technology companies, journalists, and academics. She also hosts the where political communication theory meets on the ground strategy. Her public writing has appeared in Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Policy Options, The Conversation, Salon and been featured in many others. Find her on Twitter , at  or check out her latest edited book, .

The Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA) and the Corry Colloquium Speaker Series of the Department of Political Studies presents:

Scott Matthews - Memorial University

"Quality Control: Unpacking the Microfoundations of Retrospective Voting" 

Friday, October 20, 2023 

12:00-1:30 PM

Robert Sutherland Hall | Room 334

Light lunch served

Abstract: 

The theory of retrospective voting – the idea that voters reward and punish incumbents at the ballot box according to their record of performance in office – is one of the dominant models in the study of voting behaviour. The model also aligns with common intuitions about how democracy ought to work. Yet, we have remarkably little credible evidence for the theory’s fundamental premises: that citizens integrate streams of performance information into manageable impressions of the state of the world during an incumbent’s term, and then form appraisals of incumbents based on those impressions. In this talk, I will advance a novel experimental framework for studying the microfoundations of retrospective voting. I will also report results from an extended series of experiments applying the framework to a range of critical questions regarding how, and how well, voters evaluate incumbent performance. I will conclude that the results suggest voters process performance information in a way that ably, if not always optimally, identifies competent incumbents.

Biography: 

Dr. Matthews (Ph.D., UBC) specializes in the study of elections, voting and public opinion in established democracies. While much of his work focuses on Canada or the United States, he is also a student of comparative political behaviour. His research focuses primarily on the effects of election campaigns on political decision making, the impact of institutional context on policy attitudes, and retrospective voting. He is past holder of the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at Vanderbilt University and a Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Mannheim.