Concordia University
Department of Political Science
Mebs Kanji

Concordia University
Department of Political Science
Address: Office S-H 1255-3 Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Tel: (514) 848-2424 ext. 5066
Email: Mebs.Kanji@concordia.ca
Research
Mebs Kanji is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. As a specialist of Canadian politics, he has an interest in questions of value diversity and social cohesion. His recent publications have explored support for politicians and democratic values in Quebec. Professor Kanji is also involved in research on religion and the state. Research Axis Axis 2: Practicing Citizenship in a Skeptical World - The practice of democratic citizenship is undergoing a multifaceted transition. There are fundamental changes in conceptions of democratic citizenship and in its practice as well as the targets of citizen action. Scepticism about representative democracy as a system of governance is growing and citizens across established democracies are withdrawing from politics. Their perception about the political world is impacted by transformations in the news media practices and by online content, including social media. Voting and party politics have been the basis of conventional interpretations of citizenship, but there is ample evidence that this conception is much too limited. New forms of communication are providing citizens with novel ways to gather information and to engage in politics.Axis 3: Representing and Governing Citizens in Critical Times - After learning and practicing democratic citizenship, the next critical steps are representation and governance. Democratic institutions are key elements. They shape the norms and incentives for active citizenship and they link citizens and their representatives in ways that foster accountability, legitimacy and representation. In Québec and Canada, as well as in other countries, confidence of citizens toward the institutions is low, as many dislike the way that members of parliaments behave and consider that politicians don’t honour their promises, hence various political endeavours to reform these institutions. Research on this axis will focus on the role of electoral systems, parliaments, parliamentary debates, and political parties.
Students
Publications
Priming Public Opinion Research: A Sustained and Systematic Approach (2nd Edition)
Year: 2006 Place: ITP Nelson
Value Diversity and Support for Electoral Reform in Canada
Journal: PS: Political Science and Politics
Volume: 39 issue: 4 Year: 2006 First Page: 829 Last Page: 836
The Generational Divide, Social Capital, and Political Support: Evidence from the World Values Surveys
Journal: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice
Volume: 10 issue: 2 Year: 2008 First Page: 47 Last Page: 74
The New Immigrant Voter 1965-2004: The Emergence of a New Liberal Partisan?
Journal: Voting Behaviour in Canada
Year: 2010 First Page: 65 Last Page: 85 Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
The Canadian Election Studies, Assessing Four Decades of Influence
Year: 2012 Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Alberta Bill 44 of 2009: All the Commotion May Just be the Start of What is Yet to Come
Journal: Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law
Volume: 3 issue: 2 Year: 2009 First Page: 383 Last Page: 389
Value Diversity and Support for Political Authorities in Canada
Journal: The American Review of Canadian Studies
Volume: 39 issue: 3 Year: 2009 First Page: 191 Last Page: 223
Economic Development, Value Diversity and Political Support
Journal: International Journal of Economics and Business Modeling
Volume: 2 issue: 2 Year: 2011 First Page: 92 Last Page: 107
Happiness in Toronto, Canada: Evidence from the 2008 Quality of Life Survey
Journal: Global Metropolitan Forum of Seoul
Year: 2009
Immigration, generation or what?
Journal: International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology
Volume: 4 issue: 3 Year: 2012 First Page: 74 Last Page: 99
Can Student Cheating be Weeded Out?
Journal: University Affairs
Year: 2012
Nouvelle recherche sur la probité intellectuelle - Peut-on éradiquer la tricherie chez les étudiants?
Journal: Le Devoir
Year: 2011
Outlooks toward government institutions in Quebec
Journal: L'élection québécoise de 2012
Year: 2013 Place: Montreal Publisher: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal
Why are young people disengaging from conventional politics?
Journal: Understanding 2011: The Manitoba Election
Year: 2013 Place: Regina Publisher: Canadian Plains Research Centre Press
The Immigrant and Generational Divides in Canada
Journal: paper presented for the Centre Métropolis du Québec - Immigration et métropoles
Year: 2011
Test Bank for Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science
Journal: Prepared for Oxford University Press
Year: 2011
Political Awareness among New Citizens in Anglo-Democracies
Journal: Electoral Insight / Perspectives Électorales
Volume: 8 issue: 2 Year: 2006 First Page: 43 Last Page: 49
Appendix: Four Decades of Publications Based on the Canadian Election Studies
Journal: The Canadian Election Studies: Assessing Four Decades of Influence
Year: 2012 First Page: 215 Last Page: 250 Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Tackling academic misconduct in university will not be easy
Journal: NOW
Year: 2012
Digging for Systematic Patterns in Code Data - Phase II
Journal: Report prepared for the Dean of Arts and Science and the Provost's Office, Concordia University
Year: 2013
Digging for Systematic Patterns in Code Data
Journal: Report prepared for the Dean of Arts and Science, Concordia University
Year: 2011
Rationale and the Implementation of the SLICK Project: Screening for Limb, I-Eye, Cardiovascular and Kidney (SLICK) Complications in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes in Alberta's First Nations Communi
Journal: Canadian Journal of Public Health
Volume: 97 issue: 3 Year: 2006 First Page: 241 Last Page: 47
Faith, Security and Secularization
Journal: Faith in Democracy? Religion and Politics in Canada
Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge
Cleavages, Value Gaps and Regime Support: Evidence from Canada and 26 Other Societies
Journal: Changing Values, Persisting Cultures: Comparative Findings from the World Values Surveys
Year: 2008 First Page: 45 Last Page: 73
Outlooks Toward Government Institutions in Quebec
Journal: Open Journal of Political Science
Volume: 3 issue: 4 Year: 2013
What are the Current Preoccupations of Economic Voting Research?
Journal: Electoral Studies
Volume: 32 issue: 3 Year: 2013
Support for political community in Quebec
Journal: Battlegrounds: Elections, Electors and Electioneering in Canadian Provinces
Year: 2014
Le malaise des Québécois: la confiance envers les institutions gouvernementales au Québec,
Journal: Les Québécois aux urnes: Les partis, les médias et les citoyens en campagne
Year: 2013 Place: Montréal
System Responsiveness and Political Support
Journal: Battlegrounds: Electors, Elections, and Electioneering in the Canadian Provinces
Year: 2014 Vincent Hopking]s Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Advancements in Methodology: A Recurring Process
Journal: The Canadian Election Studies: Assessing Four Decades of Influence
Year: 2012 First Page: 69 Last Page: 87 Thomas Scotto Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Introduction: Four Decades of Canadian Election Studies
Journal: The Canadian Election Studies: Assessing Four Decades of Influence
Year: 2012 First Page: 1 Last Page: 15 Thomas Scotto Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
A Complicated Story: Exploring the Contours of Secularization and Persisting Religiosity in Advanced Industrial Democracies like Canada
Journal: Religion and Politics in Canada
Year: 2009 First Page: 13 Last Page: 35 Ronald Kuipers Place: United Kingdom Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Probing the Links between Security and Secularization
Journal: After Modernity? Secularity, Globalization and the re-enchantment of the World
Year: 2008 First Page: 67 Last Page: 97 Ronald Kuipers Place: Texas Publisher: Baylor University Press
Cleavages, Value Gaps and Regime Support: Evidence from Canada and 26 Other Societies.
Journal: Changing Values, Persisting Cultures: Case Studies in Value Change
Year: 2008 First Page: 45 Last Page: 73 Neil Nevitte Place: Netherlands Publisher: Koninklijke Brill NV
Public Perceptions of Health Care in Alberta: Health Care Sustainability and the Role of Public Health
Journal: Report prepared for Alberta Health and Wellness.
Year: 2006
Economic Development, Value Diversity and Specific Political Support
Year: 2008 Nicki Doyle Conference Name: Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference, New Orleans
Economic Development, Value Diversity, and Specific Political Support,
Year: 2008 Nicki Doyle Conference Name: 8th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations. Montreal.
What can we learn about cheaters from past academic misconduct files?
Year: 2013 Catherine Bolton Soheyla Salari Conference Name: ICAI Conference, Texas
Elites and Political Parties vs. Citizens: EU Identity contra Value Differences
Year: 2011 Axel Huelsemeyer Conference Name: ECPR, Iceland
Les attitudes envers les institutions gouvernementales au Québec
Year: 2013 Conference Name: Colloque sur l’élection Québécoise 2012,
Support for Political Community in Quebec
Year: 2013 Conference Name: CPSA, Victoria
Political Efficacy and Young People in Canada, 1965-2011
Year: 2013 Vincent Hopkins Conference Name: CPSA, Victoria
Support for Political Authorities in Quebec
Year: 2013 Conference Name: PPSA , Banff
Support for Political Regime in Quebec
Year: 2013 Conference Name: APPSA, Charlottetown
Digging for Systematic Patterns in Code Data
Year: 2011 Catherine Bolton Soheyla Salari Conference Name: ICAI conference, Toronto
Cheating in Political Science: What can we learn from academic misconduct cases at Concordia University
Year: 2012 Soheyla Salari Catherine Bolton Conference Name: CPSA, Edmonton
The Future of the Canadian Election Studies
Journal: The Canadian Election Studies: Assessing Four Decades of Influence
Year: 2012 First Page: 209 Last Page: 214 Thomas Scotto Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Québec : Je me souviens
Journal: Ten Worlds
Year: 2015 Editors: J. Wesley Publisher: UBC Press
Québec
Journal: Big Worlds: Politics and Elections in the Canadian Provinces
Year: 2015 Editors: J. Wesley Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Support for Political Community in Quebec: Some Evidence from Quebec and Canada
Journal: Canadian Political Science Review
Volume: 9 issue: 1 Year: 2015
Cheating in University: Some evidence from past academic misconduct files
Journal: Global Journal of Juridical Sciences
Year: 2014 Catherine Bolton Soheyla Salari
Support for Political Leaders and Elected Representatives in Quebec
Journal: Journal of Political Science and Public Affairs
Volume: 2 issue: 116 Year: 2014
Outlooks toward Democracy in Quebec
Journal: Open Journal of Political Science
Volume: 4 issue: 4 Year: 2014
Adaptation to Democracy among Immigrants in Australia
Journal: International Political Science Review
Volume: 31 issue: 2 Year: 2010 First Page: 141 Last Page: 165
Exploring the State of Democracy
Year: 2019 Place: McGill-Quee
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