Members of the Canadian Election Study (CES) team took part in a panel hosted by the Centre for the Study of Political Behaviour and the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario on Friday, September 17. Moderated by Cristine de Clercy (Western), the panelists discussed how the 2021 CES will make it […]

The Canadian Election Study team is committed to open science practices. In this spirit, we are inviting researchers to submit 500-word proposals to the Election Snapshots Challenge. As Canada emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and struggles with issues of national identity in light of emerging information about the genocide in residential schools and existing racism and […]

C-Dem has a new postdoctoral opportunity available at the University of Western Ontario under the supervision of Laura Stephenson. Deadline for applications is May 15. Details are available here.

Great news for users of the 2019 CES! An introduction to working with the 2019 CES data in R, SPSS, or Stata is available here: https://learninglink.oup.com/access/berdahl4e-student-resources#tag_lab-manual We wish to thank Loleen Berdahl and Jason Roy  for creating these outstanding handbooks to accompany their 2021 release of: Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. 4th […]

The Canadian Election Study (CES) is calling for expressions of interest in purchasing survey modules for a potential spring 2021 election. As in previous elections, the CES will be fielding a large scale online survey during the campaign period as well as a post-election survey. In the past we have offered space on the survey […]

The 2021 C-Dem Module Competition is now open. We’re looking for survey question module proposals to be fielded in the 2021 Democracy Checkup. There will be two winners – one student and one faculty/postdoc/researcher. The deadline for proposals is January 31, 2021. More details can be found here and ici.

1. Postdoctoral opportunity available at Ryerson University under the supervision of Daniel Rubenson (Ryerson). Deadline is Aug. 1, and the details are available here. 2. C-Dem is working with the Centre for Global Pluralism on a MITACs research internship under the supervision of Allison Harell (UQAM). The internship pays up to $15,000 and is open […]

C-Dem is currently wrapping up data collection for the 2019 Canadian Election Study. We gathered data from over 40,000 Canadians both online (n=34,000) and over the phone (n=4000) in the weeks leading-up to the election, as well as a three-wave online panel (n=5000) started prior to the election. This data will be publicly released in […]