POL S 553
Political Behaviour
Winter 2023
Topics
- Understand and contribute to the main debates in public opinion and political behaviour
- Engage with the latest research on Canadian and comparative political behaviour
- Apply theoretical ideas from political behaviour research to real-world case studies and examples
- Understand how to work effectively in a team and manage collaborative academic projects
- Lead discussions and prepare high-quality presentations on academic research
Readings
- Downs, Anthony. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy (Chapter 3). New York, NY, USA: Harper and Row
- Anderson, Cameron D. 2011. “Economic Voting in Canada: Assessing the Effects of Subjective Perceptions and Electoral Context.” In Voting Behaviour in Canada, edited by Cameron D. Anderson and Laura B. Stephenson, 139–62. UBC Press
- Fournier, Patrick. 2002. “The Uninformed Canadian Voter.” In Citizen Politics: Research and Theory in Canadian Political Behaviour, edited by Joanna Everitt and Brenda O’Neill, 92–109. Oxford University Press
- Kuklinski, James H., and Paul J. Quirk. 2000. “Reconsidering the Rational Public: Cognition, Heuristics, and Mass Opinion.” In Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality, edited by Arthur Lupia, Mathew D. McCubbins, and Samuel Popkin, 153–82. Cambridge University Press Cambridge
- Gidengil, Elisabeth, André Blais, Richard Nadeau, and Neil Nevitte. 2003. “Women to the Left? Gender Differences in Political Beliefs and Policy Preferences.” In Women and Electoral Politics in Canada, edited by Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble, 140–59. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Oxford University Press
- Brown, Nadia E. 2014. “Political Participation of Women of Color: An Intersectional Analysis.” Journal of
- Bélanger, Éric, and Laura B. Stephenson. 2012. “Parties and Partisans: The Influence of Ideology and Brokerage on the Durability of Partisanship in Canada.” In Voting Behaviour in Canada, edited by Cameron D. Anderson and Laura B. Stephenson, 107–36. UBC Press
- ISBN 0199253099
- Bilodeau, Antoine, and Mebs Kanji. 2012. “The New Immigrant Voter, 1965-2004: The Emergence of a New Liberal Partisan?” In Voting Behaviour in Canada, edited by Cameron D. Anderson and Laura B. Stephenson, 65–85. UBC Press
- Ridge, Hannah M. 2020. “Enemy Mine: Negative Partisanship and Satisfaction with Democracy.” Political
- Deckman, Melissa, and Jared McDonald. 2022. “Uninspired by Old White Guys: The Mobilizing Factor of
- Prior, Markus. 2013. “Media and Political Polarization.” Annual Review of Political Science 16 (1): 101–
- McAllister, Ian. 2007. “The Personalization of Politics.” In The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior, edited by Russel Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann. Oxford University Press
- Bittner, Amanda. 2011. “Personality Matters: The Evaluation of Party Leaders in Canadian Elections.” In Voting Behaviour in Canada, edited by Cameron D. Anderson and Laura B. Stephenson, 183–210. UBC Press
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- 2023-Winter-POL-S-422-SEMINAR-B1 ↗2023
- 2023-Winter-POL-S-553-SEMINAR-B1 ↗2023
- Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.