Articles
Comparing Strategic Voting under FPTP and PR (with Paul Abramson, John Aldrich, André Blais, Matthew Diamond, Abraham Diskin, Indridi Indridason, and Daniel Lee), Comparative Political Studies (2010)
It is generally argued that strategic voting occurs in plurality-vote-win systems, but that the proportion...
Sources of Bias in Voter Expectations under Proportional Representation, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (2007)
Recent studies have found that voters use information about the latest polls when generating expectations...
Feast or Famine at the Federal Luau? Understanding Net Federal Spending under Bush (with Peter L. Francia), The Forum (2006)
During the 2000 election, 30 "red" states cast their Electoral College votes for Republican George...
Do Voters Vote For Government Coalitions? (with André Blais, John Aldrich, and Indridi Indridason), Party Politics (2006)
In many countries, elections produce coalition governments. Downs points out that in such cases the...
Contributions to Books
Canadian Voting Behaviour in Comparative Perspective (with James Farney), The Comparative Turn: The Canadian Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Comparative Politics (2007)
The existing comparative literature on voting behaviour and elections does not always succeed in including...
Coalition Considerations and the Vote (with Paul Abramson, John Aldrich, Andre Blais, and Daniel Lee), The Elections in Israel—2006 (2006)
The central finding of this paper is that a significant number of voters in the...
Unpublished Papers
Framing, Public Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism in Central Asia (with Edward Schatz), Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, ON, Canada (2009)
Increasingly, the US State Department is relying on efforts of public diplomacy to improve America's...
An Analysis of Source and Frame Interactions on Attitudes towards Stem Cell Research (with Laura Stephenson) (2008)
Despite the apparent acceptance of funding embryonic stem cell research in Canada, the public debate...
Choice Difficulty and the Compromise Effect in Candidate Choice (2008)
Hypotheses:
I: Compromise Effect. Adding a new, more extreme alternative or candidate to a choice...
Subadditivity and the Unpacking Effect in Political Opinions (2007)
To explain subadditivity in judgments of probabilities, support theory (Tversky and Koehler 1994) emphasizes the...
Do Polls Limit Wishful Thinking? (with Valery Kisilevsky) (2007)
Previous studies of election predictions have emphasized the effect wishful thinking has on predictions. Wishful...
Fringe Candidates Can Change Perceptions of Centrist Candidates (2007)
Two experiments demonstrate that adding an extreme third candidate to the choice set causes perceptions...
Message or Messenger? The Limits of Moral Leadership (with Laura B. Stephenson) (2007)
Media coverage of policies sometimes includes quotes from opinion leaders, including clergy and politicians. In...
Why are there so many parties? Understanding Changes in the Canadian Federal Party System (with James Farney) (2007)
At least three parties have contested every Canadian federal election since 1925. Yet, the existing...
Data
Internet Experiment data: Israel Pre-Election Predictions 2006 (with Valery Kisilevsky) (2007)
This is a STATA data file. These data were collected via the internet before the...