This article examines the prevalence and nature of negativity in news content. Using
dictionary-based sentiment analysis, we examine roughly fifty-five thousand front-page news …

Populism's electoral success has been linked to socio-economic crises and to inflammatory
political discourse. However, little is known of populist attitudes in contexts in which these …

Objective While Canada is commonly portrayed as a bastion of political moderation, two
influential right‐wing populist (RWP) movements appeared in the past decade. This study …

Recent decades have been marked by increasingly divided partisan opinion in the US. This
study investigates whether a similar trend might be occurring in Canada. It does so by …

In Quebec and Scotland, questions of constitutional change, national identity, and national
grievance play an important role in the electoral calculations of political parties and voters …

Election studies must optimize on sample size, cost and data quality. The 2015 Canadian
Election Study was the first CES to employ a full mixed-mode design, aiming to take …

In recent years centrist-liberal parties, such as the German Free Democratic Party (FDP) in
2013 and the British Liberal Democrats in 2015 and 2017, suffered enormous electoral …

The issue of Quebec independence was, until recently, considered the most important factor
motivating Quebeckers' vote choice in federal elections. However, the conventional wisdom …

Policy entrepreneurship is often used to explain agenda setting through reference to the
behavior of individual “change agents.” But there are still gaps in our understanding of what …

Profound changes in the nature of class cleavages in advanced capitalist economies have
been documented in recent years. Some have posited that the increasingly educated nature …