Elisabeth Gidengil

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Elisabeth Gidengil
Born1946or1947(age 74–75) [1]
Nationality Canadian
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Political science
Institutions McGill University

Elisabeth Gidengil FRSC is a Canadian political scientist, currently the Hiram Mills Professor of political science at McGill University. She uses national and cross-national survey methods to study political participation and engagement, voter behaviour and voter turnout, and political communication, focusing on the role of gender and race in Canadian politics. The Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship has called her "Canada’s pre-eminent scholar on political behaviour, gender and diversity, and the media." [1]

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Education

Gidengil attended the London School of Economics and New York University. [2] She earned her PhD in political science from McGill University. [3]

Career

Gidengil has been an author on numerous books, as well as journal articles in venues like the Canadian Journal of Political Science, [4] Comparative Political Studies, [5] Political Behavior, [6] and Electoral Studies. [7] She and her co-authors received the American Political Science Association's 1997 prize for the best paper presented at the previous year's meeting for their paper "The 1993 Canadian Election: Realignment, Dealignment, or Something Else?" [8] Her co-authored books include The Unsteady State: The 1997 Canadian Federal Election (2000), Citizens (2004), and Dominance and Decline: Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections (2012).

Gidengil was a member of the Canadian Election Study team from 1992 until 2008, [9] and was the principal investigator of the study in 2008. [2] Gidengil has also been on the planning committee for the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. [9] In 2008, Gidengil became the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, a consortium of McGill University, Concordia University, Montreal, Université Laval, Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal and Université TÉLUQ to study democratic citizenship using interdisciplinary tools and perspectives. [10] She remained the Director until 2013, [10] and in 2017 the Centre held a symposium in her honour. [1] She is also a past president of the Canadian Political Science Association. [2] [11] [12] She has been an editor for selective political science journals, notably the European Political Science Review. [2]

In 2013, Gidengil was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in Academy II: the Academy of Social Sciences. [13] Gidengil received an honorary doctorate from the Université Laval in June 2014. [14] [15] [16]

Gidengil has been extensively cited in popular media reports on topics like Canadian politics and vote choice in venues like the FiveThirtyEight, [17] the CBC, [18] Maclean's, [19] the Ottawa Citizen, [20] and the Winnipeg Free Press, [21] and her work has been recommended by The Hill Times. [22]

Selected works

Selected honours and awards

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Trends and New Directions in Canadian Political Behaviour: A symposium in honour of Elisabeth Gidengil". Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. 23 November 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "New editorial appointments at the ECPR" (PDF). ECPR News. Vol. 5, no. 2. European Consortium for Political Research. 2015. p. 12. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  3. ↑ "Elisabeth Gidengil Faculty Profile". McGill University. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  4. ↑ Blais, André; Gidengil, Elisabeth; Dobrzynska, Agnieszka; Nevitte, Neil; Nadeau, Richard (July 2001). "Does the local candidate matter? Candidate effects in the Canadian election of 2000". Canadian Journal of Political Science. 36 (3): 657–664.
  5. ↑ Gidengil, Elisabeth (October 1995). "Economic man—social woman? The case of the gender gap in support for the Canada-United States free trade agreement". Comparative Political Studies. 28 (3): 384–408.
  6. ↑ Blais, André; Nadeau, Richard; Gidengil, Elisabeth; Nevitte, Neil (1 March 2003). "Measuring Party Identification: Britain, Canada, and the United States". Political Behavior. 23 (1): 5–22.
  7. ↑ Blais, André; Nadeau, Richard; Gidengil, Elisabeth; Nevitte, Neil (1 September 2001). "Measuring strategic voting in multiparty plurality elections". Electoral Studies. 20 (3): 343–352.
  8. 1 2 "Awards". American Political Science Association. 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  9. 1 2 "Author Elisabeth Gidengil". The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Sage Publishing. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  10. 1 2 "What is the CSDC?". Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  11. ↑ "Past Programs 2015-2016". Women in House. 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  12. ↑ Gidengil, Elisabeth (21 November 2007). "Beyond the Gender Gap: Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, Saskatoon, 2007". Canadian Journal of Political Science. Cambridge University Press. 40 (4).
  13. 1 2 "RSC Fellows". Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  14. ↑ "Annual Report 2014-2015" (PDF). Université Laval. 2015. p. 10. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  15. ↑ Meadwell, Hudson (2014). Annual Report. McGill Department of Political Science. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  16. ↑ "Congratulations Elisabeth Gidengil: honorary doctorate from Université Laval". Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. 16 June 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  17. ↑ Koerth, Maggie (3 October 2019). "Why Partisans Look At The Same Evidence On Ukraine And See Wildly Different Things". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  18. ↑ Gollom, Mark (4 October 2019). "Strategic voting may play a role in elections. But will it change the outcome?". CBC. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  19. ↑ Moscrop, David (24 September 2015). "What does politics look like to a partisan?". Maclean's Magazine. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  20. ↑ Axworthy, Thomas S. (14 September 2016). "Axworthy: No crisis in Canadian democracy – but we keep improving it and perhaps still can". The Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  21. ↑ Sanders, Carol (4 April 2011). "Forum tackles voter apathy". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  22. ↑ Malloy, Katie (16 December 2019). "The Hill Times' List of 100 Best Non-Fiction Canadian Books in 2019". The Hill Times. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
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