McGill University
Department of Political Science
Elisabeth Gidengil

McGill University
Department of Political Science
Address: 855 Sherbrooke Street West
Tel: 514 398-4400 x00581
Email: elisabeth.gidengil@mcgill.ca
Education
B.A. in History, London School of Economics
M.A. in Politics, New York University
PhD in Political Science, McGill University
Research
Elisabeth Gidengil is the Hiram Mills Professor at McGill University in the Department of Political Science. Her research focus is political engagement, voting behaviour, and public opinion. Primarily using surveys and media content analysis, Professor Gidengil's work examines issues of diversity, gender, immigration, and citizenship. She is also currently carrying out research on the impact of public policy on citizen engagement. Research Interests Content and media analysis Experimental research Gender and politics Immigrant and Minority Voting Patterns Immigrant political and social incorporation Media Analysis Neurophysiology and politics Non-electoral forms of Political Participation Political Communication Political Knowledge Public opinion and political preferences Survey research Voter Turnout and Other Forms of Electoral Participation Youth and politics Research Axis Axis 1: Learning Democratic Citizenship in an Unequal World - Cet axe se concentre sur l’acquisition de valeurs, d’attitudes et de comportements qui contribuent à une citoyenneté démocratique dynamique. La démocratie repose fondamentalement sur le principe de l’égalité politique, mais dans la pratique, le désavantage économique et social se traduit par un accès inégal au pouvoir politique et à la prise de décision (Schlozman et al 2012). L’inégalité a de profondes implications pour l’inclusion, la réactivité et, en fin de compte, la légitimité même de notre système démocratique. L’inégalité croissante détruit les fondements de la démocratie, entraînant une polarisation politique accrue et une désaffection de la politique (Kwon 2015). Plus que jamais, les démocraties efficaces exigent des citoyens engagés, responsables et bien informés. Comprendre les facteurs qui influent sur le développement de ce type de citoyenneté démocratique active est un objectif clé de l’axe 1.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
theme Responding to Citizens: Responsiveness, Representation and Accountability Perceiving the Public World Making Choice in Public Life Linking Citizens and Democratic Institutions in a reform Learning Across the Life Cycle Debating Citizens choices: Parties and Parliaments Challenges for Learning Citizenship
Publications
Missing the Message: Young Adults and the Election Issues / La sourde oreille: Les jeunes adultes et les enjeux électoraux
Journal: Electoral Insight / Perspectives Électorales
Volume: 7 issue: 1 Year: 2005 First Page: 6 Last Page: 11
Are Party Leaders Becoming More Important to Vote Choice in Canada
Journal: Political Leadership and Representation in Canada: Essays in Honour of John C. Courtney
Year: 2007 First Page: 39 Last Page: 59
Gender, Media Coverage and the Dynamics of Leader Evaluations: The Case of the 1993 Canadian Election
Journal: Capturing Campaign Effects
Year: 2006 First Page: 336 Last Page: 355
Removing Rose Colored Glasses: Examining Theories of Social Capital through a Gendered Lens
Journal: Gender and Social Capital
Year: 2006 First Page: 1 Last Page: 14
Gender, Social Capital, and Political Engagement
Journal: Gender and Social Capital
Year: 2006 First Page: 379 Last Page: 390
Gender, Knowledge, and Social Capital
Journal: Gender and Social Capital
Year: 2006 First Page: 241 Last Page: 272
Media Matters: Election Coverage in Canada
Journal: Handbook of Election Coverage Around the World
Year: 2008
Network Diversity and Vote Choice: Women's Social Ties and Left Voting in Canada
Journal: Politics & Gender
Volume: 3 Year: 2007 First Page: 151 Last Page: 77
Back to the Future? Making Sense of the 2004 Canadian Election outside Quebec
Journal: Revue canadienne de science politique/Canadian Journal of Political Science
Volume: 39 Year: 2006 First Page: 1 Last Page: 25
Explaining the Gender Gap in Support for the New Right: The Case of Canada
Journal: Comparative Political Studies
Volume: 38 Year: 2005 First Page: 1 Last Page: 25
Beyond the Gender Gap
Journal: Revue canadienne de science politique/Canadian Journal of Political Science
Volume: 40 issue: 4 Year: 2007 First Page: 815 Last Page: 831
Women to the Left, Men to the Right
Journal: The Globe and Mail
Year: 2006
Social Networks and Immigrant Women's Political Incorporation
Journal: INSNA XXVII International Social Network Conference
Year: 2007
Network Diversity and Views about Gay Marriage
Journal: The INSNA XXVII International Social Network Conference
Year: 2007
Gender and Vote Choice in the 2006 Canadian Election
Journal: Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
Year: 2006
Challenge and Change: Voting and Elections in Canada
Journal: Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics
Year: 2010
The Role of Social Networks in Immigrant Women's Political Incorporation
Journal: International Migration Review
Volume: 43 issue: 4 Year: 2009 First Page: 727 Last Page: 763
Dominance and Decline: Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections
Year: 2012 Place: Toronto Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Citizens
Journal: Auditing Canadian Democracy
Year: 2010 Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Do Polls Influence the Vote?
Journal: Capturing Campaign Effects
Year: 2006 First Page: 263 Last Page: 279
Gender and Social Capital
Year: 2006 Place: Routledge
Boosting Women's Political Resources: The Power of Women's Social Networks. Final Report of Research Findings, Status of Women
Year: 2006
What do women really know?
Journal: Perspectives on Politics
Volume: 8 Year: 2010 First Page: 93 Last Page: 109
Political Judgments, Perceptions of Facts, and Partisan Effects
Journal: Electoral Studies
Volume: 29 issue: 1 Year: 2010 First Page: 1 Last Page: 12
Patterns of Party Identification in Canada
Journal: Election
Year: 2009 First Page: 147 Last Page: 152 Publisher: Emond Montgomery
Diversity and Democratic Politics
Volume: 43 issue: 2 Year: 2010
A Socio-economic Status and Non-Voting: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis
Journal: The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
Year: 2009
Corruption Was the Tipping Point
Journal: The Globe and Mail
Year: 2006
Harper Can Thank Federalist Voters
Journal: The Globe and Mail
Year: 2006
The Determinants of Youth Political Participation: Conventional versus Non-Conventional
Journal: The 4th ECPR Genera Conference
Year: 2007
How Voters Perceive and Evaluate the Prime Minister's Role in a Scandal: A Panel Study
Journal: The Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
Year: 2006
Does Low Turnout Matter? Evidence From the 2000 Canadian Election
Journal: Electoral Studies
Volume: 26 issue: 3 Year: 2007 First Page: 589 Last Page: 597
Foreign Policy: Harper's Soft Underbelly: Insights from the Canadian Election Study
Journal: Inroads
Volume: 20 Year: 2007 First Page: 117 Last Page: 21
Do Views about Minority Government Matter?
Journal: Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
Year: 2007
Deliberation et changement d'opinion lors d'un sondage
Journal: Methodes de sondage
Year: 2008 First Page: 147 Last Page: 152
Gender, Behavior, and Representation
Journal: Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science
Year: 2012 Place: New York Publisher: Oxford
Immigrants, Voting and Electoral Participation
Journal: Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
Year: 2013 Publisher: Wiley
An Overview of the Social Dimension of Vote Choice
Journal: The Canadian Election Studies, 1965 to 2008
Year: 2012 First Page: 101 Last Page: 120 Publisher: UBC
The Diversity of the Canadian Political Marketplace
Journal: Political Marketing in Canada
Year: 2012 Publisher: UBC
Voter Characteristics and Leader Effects
Journal: Voter Characteristics and Leader Effects
Year: 2012 Place: Oxford Publisher: OUP
Voter Characteristics and Leader Effects
Journal: Political Leaders and Democratic Elections
Year: 2011 Place: Oxford Publisher: Oxford University Press
Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up: Perceptions and Performance
Year: 2014 Publisher: UBC
The Political Integration of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women
Journal: Canadian Political Science Review
Volume: 6 issue: 2 Year: 2012 First Page: 185 Last Page: 196 Lisa Young Brenda O'Neil
L’abstention sélective, ou pourquoi les jeunes qui votent au federal boudent les elections municipales
Journal: Canadian Journal of Political Science
Volume: 45 issue: 4 Year: 2012 First Page: 909 Last Page: 927 Eugénie Dostie-Goulet
What Do Women Know About Government Services and Benefits?
Journal: Canadian Public Policy
Volume: 38 issue: 1 Year: 2012 First Page: 31 Last Page: 54
Assessing the Psychological and Mechanical Impact of Electoral Rules: A Quasi-Experiment
Journal: Electoral Studies
Volume: 31 issue: 4 Year: 2012 First Page: 829 Last Page: 837 Maxime Héroux-Legault Laura Stephenson William Cross
Deliberation from within: Changing one's mind during an interview
Journal: Political Psychology
Volume: 32 issue: 5 Year: 2011 First Page: 885 Last Page: 919 Mathieu Turgeon Joanna Everitt Neil Nevitte
Her Mother's Daughter? The Influence of Childhood Socializaiton on Women's Political Engagement
Journal: Journal of Women, Politics & Policy
Volume: 31 issue: 4 Year: 2010 First Page: 334 Last Page: 355 Brenda O'Neill Lisa Young
The Gender Gap in Self-Perceived Understanding of Politics in Canada and the United States
Journal: Politics & Gender
Volume: 4 issue: 4 Year: 2008 First Page: 535 Last Page: 561 Janine Giles Melanee Thomas
The Political Resocialization of Immigrants: Resistance or Lifelong Learning?
Journal: Political Research Quarterly
Volume: 61 issue: 2 Year: 2008 First Page: 268 Last Page: 281 Neil Nevitte
Election campaigns as Information Campaigns: Who Learns What and Does it Matter?
Journal: Political Communication
Volume: 25 issue: 3 Year: 2008 First Page: 229 Last Page: 248 Neil Nevitte
Measuring expectations: Comparing alternative approaches
Journal: Electoral Studies
Volume: 27 issue: 2 Year: 2008 First Page: 337 Last Page: 343 Neil Nevitte Bruce M. Hicks
L’appui des Québécoises aux partis politiques provinciaux
Journal: Les Québécois aux urnes: les partis, les médias et les citoyens en champagne
Year: 2013 Place: Montreal Publisher: PUM
Women as Political Communicators: Candidates and Campaigns
Journal: The Sage Handbook of Political Communication
Year: 2012 Susan Banducci Joanna Everitt Place: London
Do Voters Stereotype Female Party Leaders? Evidence from Canada and New Zealand
Journal: Are Doors Opening Wider? Studies of Women's Political Engagement in Canada
Year: 2009 Joanna Everitt Susan Banducci
Candidate Confidence and Electoral Appeal: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Nonverbal Confidence on Voter Evaluations
Journal: Political Science Research
Volume: 3 issue: 1 Year: 2015 First Page: 43 Last Page: 52 Delia Dumitrescu
Gender and electoral communication: How differences in non-verbal and verbal behavior lead to different evaluations of male and female politicians
Year: 2013 Delia Dumitrescu Conference Name: Annual American Political Science Meeting
Les Québécoises & les élections provinciales
Year: 2013 Place: Québec Conference Name: Colloque « Élection québécoises 2012 »
Women’s Political Behaviour: Opinions, Participation and Protest in English-Speaking Canada,
Year: 2009 Brenda O’Neill Lisa Young Place: Toronto Publisher: UofT Press
Anatomy of A Liberal Victory: Making Sense of the 2000 Canadian Election
Year: 2002 Neil Nevitte Place: Peterboroug Publisher: Broadview P
Making Up for Lost Time: Immigrant Voter Turnout in Canada / Rattraper le temps perdu: Le taux de vote des immigrants au Canada
Volume: 8 issue: 2 Year: 2006 First Page: 10 Last Page: 16
Do Political and Economic Choices Rely on Common Neural Substrates? A Systematic Review of the Emerging Neuropolitics Literature
Journal: Frontiers in Psychology (Decision Neuroscience)
Volume: 7 issue: 264 Year: 2016 Sekoul Krastev Joseph T. McGuire Denver McNeney Joseph W. Kable
Do Women and Men Respond Differently to Negative Views
Journal: Politics & Gender
Volume: 12 issue: 2 Year: 2016 First Page: 344 Last Page: 368 Stuart Soroka Lilach Nir
Political Socialization and Voting: The Parent-Child Link in Turnout
Journal: Political Research Quartely
Volume: 69 issue: 2 Year: 2016 First Page: 373 Last Page: 383 Hanna Wass Maria Vlaste
Which Matters More in the Electoral Success of Islamist (Successor) Parties: Religion or Performance?
Journal: Party Politics
Volume: 22 issue: 3 Year: 2016 First Page: 325 Last Page: 338 Ekrem Karakoc
Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortex Links Social Impressions to Political Choices
Journal: Journal of Neuroscience
Volume: 35 issue: 22 Year: 2015 First Page: 8507 Last Page: 8514 Chenjie Xia Lesley Fellows
Freedom of Religion, Women’s Agency and Banning the Face Veil: The Role of Feminist Beliefs in Shaping Women’s Opinion
Journal: Ethnic & Racial Studies
Volume: 38 issue: 11 Year: 2015 First Page: 1886 Last Page: 1901 Brenda O'Neill Catherine Côté Lisa Young
Perceptions and Performance: How Do MPs Shape Up?
Journal: Canadian Parliamentary Review
Volume: 37 issue: 2 Year: 2014 First Page: 25 Last Page: 30 Heather Bastedo
The Decision to Vote or to Abstain
Journal: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
Year: 2016 Editors: R Dalton
Setting the Agenda? A Case Study of Newspaper Coverage of the 2006 Canadian Election Campaign
Journal: Political Communication in Canada
Year: 2014 First Page: 127 Last Page: 43 Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Introduction
Journal: Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up: Perceptions and Performance
Year: 2014 Heather Bastedo Publisher: UBC Press
Canadian Democracy in the 21st Century: Taking Stock
Journal: Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up: Perceptions and Performance
Year: 2014 Heather Bastedo Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Public Attitudes Towards Increasing Women’s Political Representation in Canada
Journal: Mind the Gap: Canadian Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Year: 2013 First Page: 34 Last Page: 47 Joanna Everitt Publisher: Fernwood
Explaining the Modern Gender Gap
Journal: Mind the Gap: Canadian Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Year: 2013 First Page: 48 Last Page: 63 Joanna Everitt Neil Nevitte Publisher: Fernwood
Is There a Racial Divide? Immigrants of Visible Minority Background in Canada
Journal: Just Ordinary Citizens? Toward a Comparative Portrait of the Political Immigrant
Year: 2016 Jason Roy Editors: A. Bilodeau Place: Toronto Publisher: UofT Press
Information, visibility and elections: Why electoral outcomes differ when voters are better informed
Journal: European Journal of Political Research
Volume: 48 issue: 2 Year: 2009 First Page: 256 Last Page: 280 Eugénie Dostie-Goulet Neil Nevitte
Motherhood's Role in Shaping Political and Civic Participation
Journal: Mothers and Others
Year: 2016 Brenda O'Neill
Perceptions and Performance: How Do MPs Shape Up
Journal: Canadian Parliamentary Review
Volume: 27 issue: 2 Year: 2014 First Page: 25 Last Page: 30 Heather Bastedo
Addressing Representational Deficits in Canadian Legislatures
Journal: Should We Change How We Vote? Evaluating Canada's Electoral System
Year: 2017 First Page: 139 Last Page: 152 Angelina Wagner
Information on Party Strength and Strategic Voting: Evidence of Non-Effects from a Randomized Experiment
Journal: The many faces of strategic voting
Year: 2018 Laura Stephenson Daniel Rubenson Place: Ann Arbor Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Voting Strategically in Two-Vote Elections
Journal: The many faces of strategic voting
Year: 2018 Laura Stephenson Daniel Rubenson Place: Ann Arbor Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Gender and Candidate Communication: Is There a “Double Bind"
Journal: The Mediation of Gendered Identities in Canadian Politics
Year: 2019 Place: Vancouver Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Using Linked Parent-Child Data and Causal Mediation Analysis to Study Parental Influence on Turnout
Journal: Sage Research Methods Cases
Year: 2019 Hanna Wass Maria Valaste Publisher: Sage
Has the Gender Gap in Voter Turnout Really Disappeared? Evidence from Subnational, National and Supranational Elections
Journal: West European Politics
Volume: 42 issue: 3 Year: 2019 First Page: 437 Last Page: 463 Filip Kostelka
The National Question and Electoral Politics in Quebec and Scotland
Year: 2019 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Provincial Battles, National Prize? Elections in a Federal State
Year: 2019
The Complexity of Gendered Identities in Canadian Politics
Journal: The Mediation of Gendered Identities in Canadian Politics
Year: 2019 Publisher: UBC Press
Turnout and Education: Is Education Proxying for Pre-Adult Experiences Within the Family?
Journal: Political Science Research and Methods
Volume: 7 issue: 2 Year: 2019 First Page: 349 Last Page: 365
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