Political Behaviour Reading Group

August: 
Bisgaard, M. (2019). How getting the facts right can fuel partisan‐motivated reasoning. American Journal of Political Science, 63(4), 824-839.

September:
Dobber, T., Metoui, N., Trilling, D., Helberger, N., & de Vreese, C. (2019). Do (Microtargeted) Deepfakes Have Real Effects on Political Attitudes?. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 1940161220944364.

October:
Mansell, J. (2020). Causation and Behavior: The Necessity and Benefits of Incorporating Evolutionary Thinking into Political Science. Social Science Quarterly, 101(5), 1677-1698.

November:
Huddy, L., & Yair, O. Reducing Affective Polarization: Warm Group Relations or Policy Compromise?

December:
David E. Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht. 2020. “The Resistance as Role Model: Disillusionment and Protest Among American Adolescents After 2016.” Political Behavior 42: 1143-1168.

January:
Ehrlinger, J., Plant, E.A., Eibach, R.P., Columb, C.J., Goplen, J.L., Kunstman, J.W. and Butz, D.A. (2011), How Exposure to the Confederate Flag Affects Willingness to Vote for Barack Obama. Political Psychology, 32: 131-146. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2010.00797.x

February:
Pickup, M., Kimbrough, E.O. & de Rooij, E.A. (2022) Expressive Politics as (Costly) Norm Following. Polit Behav 44, 1611–1631 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-020-09667-6

March:
Bakker, Bert N., Lelkes, Yphtach and Malka, Ariel. (2020). Understanding Partisan Cue Receptivity: Tests of Predictions from the Bounded Rationality and Expressive Utility Perspectives. The Journal of Politics 82:3, 1061-1077.  https://doi.org/10.1086/707616

April:
Graham, Matthew H., and Svolik, Milan W. (2020). Democracy in America? Partisanship, Polarization, and the Robustness of Support for Democracy in the United States. American Political Science Review 114 (2). Cambridge University Press: 392–409. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420000052

June:
Sirin, Cigdem V., Valentino, Nicholas A., and Villalobos, José D. (2021) Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/seeing-us-in-them/FBED18A0A8763DDDB8627C9787649475

October:
Bos, Angela L., Greenlee, Jill S., Holman, Mirya R., Oxley, Zoe M., and Lay, J. Celeste. (2022). “This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest.” American Political Science Review 116 (2): 484–501. doi:10.1017/S0003055421001027.

November:
Uscinski, J.E., Enders, A.M., Seelig, M.I., Klofstad, C.A., Funchion, J.R., Everett, C., Wuchty, S., Premaratne, K. and Murthi, M.N. (2021). American politics in two dimensions: Partisan and ideological identities versus anti‐establishment orientations. American Journal of Political Science 65(4): 877-895.

December:
Friesen, Amanda. “Context and Methods.”

March:
Halali, Eliran, Dorfman, Anna, Jun, Sora and Halvey, Nir. (2018). More for Us or More for Me? Social Dominance as Parochial Egoism.” Social Psychological and Personality Science 9(2): 254 – 262.

April:
Chan Ka Ming and Stephenson, Laura B. “Acquiesce to authoritarianism in a multi-party system: in-party love or out-party hate?”

October:
Armstrong, Dave, Stephenson, Laura and Alcantara, Christopher. "Understanding Party Competition: Perspectives, Different Views?"

November:
Friesen, Amanda, Cozza, Joseph Francesco, and Blake, William D. “Social Capital and the ERA: Analyzing Support for the Substantive and Procedural Dimension of Constitutional Reform.”

December:
French Bourgeois, Laura, Harell, Allison, Stephenson, Laura, Guay, Philippe and Lysy, Martin. “Always a Bridesmaid: A Machine Learning Approach to Minor Party Identity in Multi-Party Systems.”

January:
Chan Ka Ming, "Autocratization spillover: When electing an authoritarian erode election trust across borders"

February:
Evelyne Brie, "Glottophobia in the Great White North: Investigating Prejudice towards French and English Speakers in Canada"

March:
Matt Lebo, "Congress's Role in Concentrating Wealth in America"

April:
Matthew Polacko (UQAM), "Turning off the base: Social democracy's neoliberal turn, income inequality and turnout"

May:
Lisa Tarquinio, "Segregation and the March Right: Extreme Right Politics in England and Wales”

June:
Chiara Valli (University of Bern), "The Big Five and Political News Consumption: An Investigation of the Underlying News Use Motives"

October:
Maxime Coulombe, "Catalysts or conduits? Unpacking how personality traits shape perceptions and responses to social pressure to vote"

November:
Sebastián Vallejo Vera, "Gendered party strategies and gender quotas"

January:
Tetsuya Matsubayashi (Osaka University), “Generational gap in voter turnout”

February:
Edward Bell (Brescia), "Personality traits and political orientations: What's the connection?"

April:
Seyoung Jung (UQAM), “Identity, Entitlement, and Policy Preferences in Canada”

October 4:
Alvaro Pereira Filho, Western, “Branded vs. Unbranded: Disentangling Leader from Party Cues in Mass Democracy”

November 1:
Dr. Baowen Liang, Université du Québec à Montréal, "Mindsets Matter: Understanding Variations in Affective Polarization Through Cultural Thinking Styles"

January 17:
Amanda Friesen, Axel Déry, Jamie Chow and Erin Heerey, “Understanding Young Adult Political Participation Through In-Person Conversations.”

February 7:
Howard Ramos, Western, “Perceptions of Environmental Change and their impact on Pro-Environmental Actions in Atlantic Canada.”

March:
Dr. Bob Anderson, Ivey, “Economic inequality and confidence in a free market: Attitudinal differences across 85 countries”

April 11:
Canadian Election Open Session