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81
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World Ranking
25
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2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2019 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council

Overview

André Blais is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada and specializes in social sciences with a focus on political science and related interdisciplinary fields. Their publication record comprises 113 works primarily in social sciences, with substantial contributions spanning several subfields including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, communication, and gender studies.

The main topics addressed in André Blais's research include electoral systems and political participation, social media and politics, populism and right-wing movements, gender politics and representation, media influence and politics, social policy and reform studies, and game theory and voting systems.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with André Blais are:

  • Semra Sevi
  • Carolina Plescia
  • Damien Bol
  • Jean-François Daoust
  • Peter John Loewen

André Blais has a notable presence in multiple academic publication venues, with recurring contributions to:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Canadian Journal of Political Science
  • Party Politics
  • Political Science Research and Methods
  • American Politics Research

Their recent papers include:

  • "The effect of COVID-19 lockdowns on political support: Some good news for democracy?" (2020), European Journal of Political Research
  • "The Generational and Institutional Sources of the Global Decline in Voter Turnout" (2021), World Politics
  • "How Citizens Want Their Legislator to Vote" (2020), Legislative Studies Quarterly
  • "Logarithmic versus Linear Visualizations of COVID-19 Cases Do Not Affect Citizens' Support for Confinement" (2020), Canadian Journal of Political Science
  • "Are People More Satisfied with Democracy When They Feel They Won the Election? No" (2021), Political Studies Review

André Blais has also authored books published by notable institutions. These include "Citizens Under Compulsory Voting: A Three-Country Study" (2023) published by Cambridge University Press and "The Motivation to Vote" (2020) published by the University of British Columbia.

Recognition of their academic contributions includes the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize awarded by the Canada Council in 2019.

Best Publications

  • To Vote or Not to Vote: The Merits and Limits of Rational Choice Theory

    André Blais

  • Turnout in electoral democracies

    André Blais;Agnieszka Dobrzynska

  • Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election

    J. Paul Johnston;Richard Johnston;Andre Blais;Henry E. Brady

  • WHAT AFFECTS VOTER TURNOUT

    André Blais

  • Losers' Consent

    Unknown

  • The effect of COVID-19 lockdowns on political support: Some good news for democracy?

    Damien Bol;Marco Giani;André Blais;Peter John Loewen

  • Do Parties Make a Difference? Parties and the Size of Government in Liberal Democracies*

    Andre Blais;Donald Blake;Stephane Dion

  • Where does turnout decline come from

    André Blais;Elisabeth Gidengil;Neil Nevitte

  • Anatomy of a Liberal Victory: Making Sense of the Vote in the 2000 Canadian Election

    André Blais

  • Does proportional representation foster voter turnout

    André Blais;R. K. Carty

  • Mixed electoral systems: a conceptual and empirical survey

    Louis Massicotte;André Blais

  • The electoral budget cycle

    André Blais;Richard Nadeau

  • Political Leaders and Democratic Elections

    Kees Aarts;André Blais;Hermann Schmitt

  • Winning, Losing and Satisfaction with Democracy

    André Blais;François Gélineau

  • The Psychological Impact of Electoral Laws: Measuring Duverger's Elusive Factor

    André Blais;R. K. Carty

  • The Source of Turnout Decline: New Values or New Contexts?

    André Blais;Daniel Rubenson

  • Does Proportional Representation Foster Closer Congruence Between Citizens and Policy Makers

    André Blais;Marc André Bodet

  • Measuring strategic voting in multiparty plurality elections

    André Blais;Richard Nadeau;Elisabeth Gidengil;Neil Nevitte

  • Measuring strategic voting: A two-step procedure

    André Blais;Richard Nadeau

  • When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizen Assemblies on Electoral Reform

    Patrick Fournier;Henk van der Kolk;R. Kenneth Carty;Andre Blais

  • Establishing the Rules of the Game: Election Laws in Democracies

    André Blais;Louis Massicotte;Antoine Yoshinaka

  • The Political Resocialization of Immigrants: Resistance or Lifelong Learning?

    Stephen K. White;Neil Nevitte;André Blais;Elisabeth Gidengil

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisabeth Gidengil
Elisabeth Gidengil McGill University
Neil Nevitte
Neil Nevitte University of Toronto
Richard Nadeau
Richard Nadeau University of Montreal
Shaun Bowler
Shaun Bowler University of California, Riverside
Christopher J. Anderson
Christopher J. Anderson London School of Economics and Political Science
Todd Donovan
Todd Donovan Western Washington University
Richard Johnston
Richard Johnston University of British Columbia
John H. Aldrich
John H. Aldrich Duke University
Martial Foucault
Martial Foucault Sciences Po

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