McGill University
Department of Political Science
Dietlind Stolle

McGill University
Department of Political Science
Address: 855 Sherbrooke West
Tel: 514 398 4400, ext 089513
Fax: 514 398 1770
Email: dietlind.stolle@mcgill.ca
Twitter URL: DietlindS
Education
Ph.D. Princeton University (2000)
Research
Dietlind Stolle is a Professor of Political Science at McGill University. Her research looks at political mobilization, participation and knowledge, as well as social capital, ethnic and racial prejudice, and the consequences of ethnic diversity. She is also a Principal Investigator of the Canadian Election Study. Professor Stolle's projects include quantitative research looking into youth mobilization and participation on Facebook, the role of pregnancy on political behaviour, the impact of religious diversity in 11 different countries, and attitudes towards refugees in Germany. She is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. Research Interests Consequences of Immigrant diversity Experimental research Gender and politics Immigrant political and social incorporation Neurophysiology and politics New Communication Technology Non-electoral forms of Political Participation Political Knowledge Political psychology Public opinion and political preferences Social capital 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
Postdocs
theme Varieties and Transformation in Citizen engagement Perceiving the Public World Making Choice in Public Life Learning Social Solidarity Learning Across the Life Cycle Challenges for Learning Citizenship Adaptation and Integration of New Citizens involvement Director Member CSDC Steering Committee Working group: Media lab Working group: Newsletter Working group: Speaker series
Publications
Social Capital
Journal: Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior
Year: 2007 First Page: 655 Last Page: 674 Place: New York
The Gender Gap Reversed
Journal: Gender and Social Capital
Year: 2005 First Page: 45 Last Page: 72
Why Become a Political Consumer?
Journal: Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen
Volume: 4 Year: 2005 First Page: 1 Last Page: 14
Politics in the Super-Market-- Political Consumerism as a Form of Political Participation
Journal: International Review of Political Science
Volume: 26 issue: 3 Year: 2005 First Page: 245 Last Page: 269
Inaccurate, Exceptional, One-Sided or Irrelevant? The Debate About the Alleged Decline of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Western Societies
Journal: British Journal of Political Science
Volume: 35 issue: 1 Year: 2005 First Page: 149 Last Page: 167
Institutionelle Grundlagen des Sozialkapitals
Journal: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
Year: 2007
Youth Civic Engagement in Canada: Implications for Public Policy, Social Capital in Action: Thematic Policy Studies. Policy Research Initiative
Year: 2005
Boosting Women's Political Resources: The Power of Women's Social Networks. Final Report of Research Findings, Status of Women
Year: 2006
When Does Diversity Erode Trust? Neighbourhood Diversity, Interpersonal Trust, and Mediating Effect of Social Interactions
Journal: Political Studies
Volume: 56 issue: 1 Year: 2008 First Page: 57 Last Page: 75
Why become a political consumer? (German Language)
Journal: Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen
Volume: 4 Year: 2005 First Page: 1 Last Page: 14
What do women really know?
Journal: Perspectives on Politics
Volume: 8 Year: 2010 First Page: 93 Last Page: 109
Shifting Inequalities
Journal: European Societies
Volume: 13 issue: 1 Year: 2011 First Page: 1 Last Page: 24
Ethnic-Cultural Diversity, Migrant Integration Policies and Social Cohesion in Europe: Analyzing the Conditional Effect of Ethnic-Cultural Diversity on Generalized Trust.
Journal: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Year: 2010
Trusting others - how parents shape the generalized trust of their children
Journal: Comparative Sociology
Volume: 10 issue: 2 Year: 2011 First Page: 281 Last Page: 314
Bridging Differences: Youth Diversity and Civic Values: Five Bilingual Reports for Survey Participants of the McGill Youth Survey Schools, Pupils, Online Group members, Association members, Protesters
Year: 2008 Place: Montréal Publisher: McGill University
McGill Youth Study, Wave One: Technical Report and Codebook
Year: 2008 Place: Montréal Publisher: McGill University
Do Not Trust Strangers: How Parents Shape the Generalized Trust of Their Children
Journal: Trust: Comparative Persperctives
Year: 2012 First Page: 133 Last Page: 171 Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
What Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff and Jack Harper can learn at the McGill daycare centre
Journal: The Montreal Gazette
Year: 2011 Place: Montreal
Political Consumerism - Global Responsibility in Action
Year: 2013 Place: Cambridge Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Een verschuiving van de politieke participatie. Politieke participatie en ongelijkheid, 1974-2002
Journal: Op zoek naar politiek. Democratie en de verplaatsing van de politiek
Year: 2006 First Page: 23 Last Page: 41
Youth Organisations within Political Parties. Political Recruitment and the Transformation of Party Systems
Journal: Revisiting Youth Political Participation
Year: 2005 First Page: 43 Last Page: 51
Concept of Political Consumerism
Journal: Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia
Year: 2005 First Page: 238 Last Page: 250
Kroniek van een aangekondigde oorlog. Een vergelijkend onderzoek naar de verslaggeving in de aanloop naar de oorlog in Irak
Journal: Nieuws op Televisie. Televisiejournaals als Venster op de Wereld. Jaarboek van het Electronische NieuwsArchief 1
Year: 2005 First Page: 175 Last Page: 194
Mobilizing Consumers to Take Responsibility for Global Social Justice
Journal: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Volume: 611 issue: 1 Year: 2007 First Page: 157 Last Page: 175
An Institutional Theory of Social Capital
Journal: Social Capital-A Reader
Year: 2008 First Page: 273 Last Page: 302
Swedish Political Consumers: Who they are and why they use the Market as an Arena for Politics
Journal: Political Consumerism: Its Motivations, Power, and Conditions in the Nordic Countries and Elsewhere, Proceedings from the 2nd International Seminar on Political Consumerism, Oslo August 26-29, 2005
Year: 2005 First Page: 145 Last Page: 164 Place: Oslo
A Case of Discursive Political Consumerism: The Nike e-mail exchange
Journal: Political Consumerism: Its Motivations, Power, and Conditions in the Nordic Countries and Elsewhere, Proceedings from the 2nd International Seminar on Political Consumerism, Oslo August 26-29, 2005
Year: 2005 First Page: 255 Last Page: 290 Place: Oslo
Fashioning Social Justice through Political Consumerism, Capitalism, and the Internet
Journal: Cultural Studies
Volume: 22 issue: 5 Year: 2008 First Page: 749 Last Page: 769
Social Networks and Immigrant Women's Political Incorporation
Journal: INSNA XXVII International Social Network Conference
Year: 2007
The State and Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust
Journal: Comparative Politics
Volume: 40 issue: 4 Year: 2008 First Page: 441 Last Page: 467
Why can't a Student be more like an Average Person? Sampling and Attrition Effects in Social Science Field and Laboratory Experiments
Journal: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Volume: 628 issue: 1 Year: 2010 First Page: 85 Last Page: 96
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
The Political Socialization of Young People in Canada: Is There a Differential Effect of Citizenship Education on Visible Minorities?
Journal: Canadian Journal of Political Science
Volume: 42 Year: 2009 First Page: 613 Last Page: 636
Vegetarianism - A Lifestyle Politics
Journal: Creative Participation
Year: 2009 First Page: 125 Last Page: 145 Place: Boulder Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Consumers as Political Actors
Journal: Critical Food Issues: Problems and State-of-the-Art Solutions
Year: 2009 First Page: 188 Last Page: 214 Place: Westport, Connecticut Publisher: Greenwod Publishing Group
Social Capital and Ethno-Racial Diversity: Learning to Trust in an Immigrant Society
Journal: Political Studies
Year: 2012
Politics in Peer Groups: Exploring the Causaul Relationship Between Network Diversity and Political Participation
Journal: Political Research Quarterly
Year: 2012
Civic engagement and civic attitudes in cross-national perspective. Special symposium in Political Studies
Volume: 56 Year: 2008
Reconciling Diversity and Community? Defining Social Cohesion in Democracies
Journal: Theoretical Perspectives on Social Cohesion and Social Capital
Year: 2011 Place: Brussels, Belgium Publisher: Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
Experiencing Political Diversity: The Mobilizing Effect of Disagreement Among Youth
Journal: Political Psychology
Year: 2010
Do Diverse Networks Demobilize Young People?
Journal: European Journal on Child and Youth Research
Volume: 3 issue: 7 Year: 2009 First Page: 86 Last Page: 92
Sustainable Citizenship and the New Politics of Consumption
Journal: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Volume: 644 issue: 1 Year: 2012 First Page: 80 Last Page: 120
Habits of Sustainable Citizenship: The Example of Political Consumerism
Journal: The Habits of Consumption
Volume: 12 Year: 2012 First Page: 142 Last Page: 164
Why fear them? Students are just tuning in to democracy
Journal: The Montreal Gazette
Year: 2012 Place: Montreal
Diversity, Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion: Trust and Ethnocentrism in European Societies
Journal: Belonging? Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada
Year: 2007 First Page: 387 Last Page: 410
Variaties in samenleven. Het samenleven in etnisch diverse gemeenschappen
Journal: Op zoek naar politiek. Democratie en de verplaatsing van de politiek
Year: 2006 First Page: 123 Last Page: 139
Etnische diversiteit, etnocentrisme en vertrouwen in Europa
Volume: 13 issue: 6 Year: 2006
Ethnic Diversity and Generalized Trust in Europe: A Cross-National Multilevel Study
Journal: Comparative Political Studies
Volume: 42 issue: 2 Year: 2009 First Page: 198 Last Page: 223
La non-participation des jeunes: les barrières de l'engagement et l'impact sur la participation future
Journal: Canadian Journal of Political Science
Volume: 45 issue: 2 Year: 2012 First Page: 405 Last Page: 425
Capturing Change (and Stability) in the 2011 Campaign
Journal: Policy Options
Year: 2011 First Page: 70 Last Page: 77
Politieke mobilisatie en nieuwe communicatietechnologie: een multilevel studie van de digital divide
Year: 2010 Place: Gent Publisher: Academia Press
Diversity and Democratic Politics
Volume: 43 issue: 2 Year: 2010
World Press Freedom Day: Could you speak out, please?
Journal: The Globe and Mail
Year: 2011
Contextual effects of intergroup contact on prejudice against Outgroups
Journal: PNAS
Volume: 111 issue: 11 Year: 2014 First Page: 3996 Last Page: 4000 Oliver Christ Katharina Schmid Miles Hewstone Steven Vertovec
Riding the Orange Wave: Leadership, Values, Issues, and the 2011 Canadian Election
Journal: Canadian Journal of Political Science
Volume: 46 issue: 4 Year: 2013 First Page: 863 Last Page: 897 Fred Cutler Stuart Soroka
How Political Institutions Create and Destroy Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust
Journal: Comparative Politics
Year: 2002 Conference Name: American Political Science Association
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
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
The Internet and new modes of political participation: Online versus offline participation?
Journal: Information, Communication and Society
Volume: 17 issue: 8 Year: 2013
Spill-over effects between Facebook and on/offline political participation? Evidence from a two-wave panel study
Journal: R&R Journal of Information Technology and Politics
Volume: 11 issue: 3 Year: 2014
Political Mobilization, Cultural Diversity and Social Cohesion
Journal: Political Studies
Year: 2013 Tim Reeskens Marc Helbling
Immigration-related Diversity and Trust in German Cities: The Role of Intergroup Contact
Journal: Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties,
Volume: 28 Year: 2013 First Page: 279 Last Page: 298 Sören Peterman Katharina Schmid Karen Schönwälder Miles Hewstone
Civic Engagement and Civic Attitudes in Cross-National Perspective: Introduction to the Symposium.
Journal: Political Studies
Volume: 56 issue: 1 Year: 2008 First Page: 1 Last Page: 11 Marc Howard
Diversity and Democratic Politics: An Introduction.
Journal: Canadian Journal of Political Science
Volume: 43 issue: 2 Year: 2010 First Page: 235 Last Page: 256
Shifting Inequalities: Patterns of Exclusion and Inclusion in Expanding Forms of Political Participation
Journal: WZB-Arbeitspapier 2009 - 2014
Year: 2009 Marc Hooghe.
Le « printemps érable » et l’élection québécoise de 2012.
Journal: Les Québécois aux urnes: les partis, les médias et les citoyens en campagne,
Year: 2013 Eva Falk-Pedersen Pascale Dufour
Sustainable Citizenship: The Role of Citizens and Consumers as Agents of the Environmental State
Journal: State and Environment The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance
Year: 2014 Michele Micheletti Katarina Eckerberg
Consumer Strategies in Social Movements
Journal: The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements
Year: 2014 Michele Micheletti
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
Maple Spring Up Close: The Role of Self-Interest and Socio-Economic Resources for Youth Protest
Year: 2013 Eva Falk Pedersen Pascale Dufour Conference Name: Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Diversity and Democratic Politics: An Introduction
Journal: Revue canadienne de science politique
Volume: 43 issue: 2 Year: 2010 First Page: 235 Last Page: 256
The Consequences of Ethnic Diversity : Advancing the Debate.
Journal: Social Cohesion and Immigration in Europe and North America: Mechanisms, Conditions and Causality.
Year: 2015 Publisher: Routledge
Diversity and Democratic Politics
Journal: Canadian Political Science Review
Volume: 43 issue: 2 Year: 2010 First Page: 235 Last Page: 256 Stuart Soroka
Religious Symbols, Multiculturalism and Policy Attitudes
Year: 2012 Stuart Soroka Jessica Behnke Place: Edmonton Conference Name: Association canadienne de science politique
Convergence générationnelle ? : Les jeunes & la confiance généralisée au Québec & au Canada
Year: 2011 Place: Montréal Conference Name: Association québécoise de science politique
Le « printemps érables » & l’élection québécoise de 2012
Year: 2013 Eva Falk Pedersen Pascale Dufour Place: Québec Conference Name: Colloque « Élection québécoises 2012 »
Ethnic Identity in Multinational States: Ethnic Ties and the Development of Generalized Trust
Year: 2008 Place: Boston Conference Name: American Political Science Association
Network Diversity and Political Participation: A Complication or an Asset?
Year: 2008 Ellen Quintelier Conference Name: Conférence du Youth and Politics (Bruges) & Conférence de l’European Consortium of Political Research (Pisa)
What Does Politics Mean to You? Young Citizens and Emerging Forms of Political Action
Year: 2008 Ellen Quintelier Laura Nishikawa Place: Bruges Conference Name: Youth and Politics : Strange Bedfellows?
Reconciling Diversity and Community? Defining Social Cohesion in Developed Democracies
Year: 2008 Place: Brussels Conference Name: « Theoretical Perspectives on Social Cohesion and Social Capital International »
The Potential of Internet Mobilization. An Experimental Study on the Effect of Internet and Face-to-Face Mobilization Efforts
Journal: Political Communication
Volume: 27 issue: 4 Year: 2010 Sara Vissers
“Bridging Differences: Youth Diversity and Civic Values: Five Bilingual Reports for Survey Participants of the McGill Youth Survey (Schools, Pupils, Online Group members, Association members, Proteste
Year: 2008
“Bridging Differences: Youth Diversity and Civic Values: Five Bilingual Reports for Survey Participants of the McGill Youth Survey (Schools, Pupils, Online Group members, Association members, Proteste
Year: 2008
The Impact of Mobilization Tools on Offline Life and Online Participation: Are mobilization effects medium specific?
Journal: Social Science Computer Review
Volume: 30 issue: 2 Year: 2012
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
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
Enabling Immigrant Participation: Do Integration Regimes Make a Difference
Journal: Just Ordinary Citizens
Year: 2016 Marc Helbling Tim Reeskens Cameron Stark Matthew Wright Editors: A Bilodeau
The Niqab Debate & the 2015 Election Canadian
Year: 2016 Conference Name: Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Otherness and Electoral Fortunes: The Niqab Debate in the 2015 Election
Year: 2016 Conference Name: Congrès national Metropolis
Acceptance of the Muslim Veil among Canadian Youth
Year: 2016 Chris Liu Conference Name: Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Diversity and the Acceptance of Religious Symbols in Public Life
Year: 2016 Valerie-Anne Maheo Conference Name: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Diversity and Social Cohesion
Journal: Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies
Year: 2015 Publisher: Routledge
Sustainable Citizenship: The Role of Citizens and Consumers in Protecting the Common Good
Journal: State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance
Year: 2014 Daniel Berlin Michele Micheletti Publisher: MIT Press
Political Mobilisation, Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion: The Conditional Effect of Political Parties
Journal: Political Studies
Volume: 63 issue: 1 Year: 2015 First Page: 101 Last Page: 122 Marc Helbling Tim Reeskens
The Decision to Vote or Abstain in the 2014 European Election
Journal: Revue Européenne des sciences sociales
Volume: 53 issue: 1 Year: 2015 First Page: 340
Does out-group size in neighborhoods drive down associational life of Whites in the U.S.? Testing constrict, conflict and contact theories
Journal: Social Science Research
Volume: 52 Year: 2015 First Page: 236 Last Page: 252 Michael Savelkoula Miles Hewstoneb Peer Scheepersa
Religious Symbols, Multiculturalism and Policy Attitudes
Journal: Canadian Journal of Political Science
Volume: 49 issue: 2 Year: 2016 First Page: 335 Last Page: 358 Stuart Soroka Jessica Behnke
Social Capital, Civic Culture and Political Trust
Journal: Handbook on Political Trust
Year: 2017 Christopher Liu Place: London Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Toying Around with the Future: Sustainability within Families
Journal: Mothers and Others: The Role of Parenthood in Politics
Year: 2017 First Page: 288 Last Page: 310 Michele Micheletti Place: Vancouver Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Social and Political Trust
Journal: The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust
Year: 2017 Kenneth Newton Sonja Zmerli Place: Oxford Publisher: Oxford University Press
Undemocratic Political Consumerism
Journal: Handbook of Political Consumerism
Year: 2018 Lucas Huissoud Place: Oxford Publisher: Oxford University 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
Can You Deliver a Baby and Vote? The Effect of the First Stages of Parenthood on Voter Turnout
Journal: Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties
Volume: 29 issue: 1 Year: 2019 Yosef Bhatti Hanna Wass Elin Naurin Kasper M. Hansen
Experiencing Political Diversity: The Mobilizing Effect Among Youth
Journal: Acta Politica
Year: 2018 Ellen Quintelier
Experiencing Political Diversity: The Mobilizing Effect Among Youth
Journal: Acta Politica
Volume: 54 issue: 4 Year: 2019 First Page: 684 Last Page: 712
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