For a clear proposal on how to reform the official debates, see this piece by André Blais & myself: policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/octo… Guided by a crucial assumption: key objective should be helping least-informed voters The suggested format follows from that normative assumption #cdnpoli

📚🚨 I posted 11 new chapters of my upcoming book! Model to Meaning: How to Interpret Statistical Results with #marginaleffects for #RStats and Python. These are early drafts and I really need your feedback! Errors, content requests, improvements, etc. marginaleffects.com

Ma chronique Noovo Info sur la réforme des débats des chefs 🗳️ Une solution simple pour améliorer les débats (plus d’infos communiquées, ton plus positif) : + de temps pour les segments SOLOS sans interruption 👇👇 noovo.info/chronique/pour… #polcan #polqc #assnat

Celebrating ruth dassonneville’s remarkable achievement as CRC researcher in Electoral Democracy at Science politique UdeM! Surrounded by a full room of former and current students, and with a surprise appearance by her colleagues!

New pub🚨 "Reassessing the winner-loser gap in satisfaction with democracy" We isolate the causal effect of being included or not in the gov on citizens' satisfaction through a RDD🗳️ with Miroslav Nemčok @PhilippBronieck Peter Loewen PLOS One 👇 🔓journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

🚨Excited to share a revised version of our meta-reanalysis of conjoint experiments on immigration, featuring a new title! tldr; reviewing a decade of research, we find a broad-based consensus in preferences between countries and a near-consensus within countries. Link below...

📢Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 📷 1/7

An analysis of ~10,000 PhD students finds that: Having an advisor with a strong publication record + past students who have been successful predicts success, along with having a close student-advisor relationship and publications prior to starting one's PhD:

Call for scholars in political behavior (broadly understood) studying Central & Eastern Europe: workshop hosted by Political and Social Sciences at EUI, June 19-20. 2nd edition. Participants from CEE can have their travel & accommodation fully covered. Apply by 28/3. Info: eui.eu/en/projects/po… #polsci

We are very happy to publish the new National Elections Database, including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

A great project!

Can AI reduce prejudice? 🇺🇸 In our new preprint, GPT-4o moved the needle on trans rights in a national U.S. study using morally tailored messages. The shift was real and short-lived. For more, read 👇 Comments and feedback are welcome.

#OpenAccess from CJPS_RCSP - Losers’ Consent in a Deliberative Assembly -cup.org/444LqPu "In this research note, we examine losers’ reactions to the votes taken in a citizen deliberative assembly." - André Blais, J.-F. Daoust, ruth dassonneville & Patrick Fournier #FirstView

Just days after Canadians elected Liberal leader Mark Carney as Prime Minister, the mix of victories, upsets and expected outcomes reflects deeper trends that #UofTArtSci elections expert @SemraSevi has spent years analyzing. Read more: bit.ly/4lVQ7ld

This is an incredibly important paper that I think all professors TAs, curriculum designers, EdTech developers working on AI tutoring tools, educational policy makers, academic administrators and et al. should read it

Using Principal-Agent Theory, our new paper argues delegating governmental tasks to #AI reduces feelings of control, creating a "failure-by-success": Initial AI efficiency drives wider adoption, ultimately eroding citizens' sense of control, a cornerstone of democratic legitimacy

🚨NEW PAPER: Do incumbents really have an edge in elections? Research says yes. But what happens when party labels are added to the ballot? A natural experiment from Canadian elections tells an interesting story👇🧵

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🚨NEW PAPER: Do legislators trade favours? My latest with Donald Green uses a natural lottery in the Canadian Parliament to test whether MPs return favours when others support their proposals. Our findings may surprise you.👇 cambridge.org/core/journals/… PSRM Journal Political Science

From this new issue CJPS_RCSP: "Losers’ Consent in a Deliberative Assembly" We show that winners and losers do not differ in their levels of satisfaction in a deliberative setting André Blais 🇨🇦 CPSA-ACSP 🇨🇦 cambridge.org/core/journals/…