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Elisabeth Gidengil

Elisabeth Gidengil

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Political Science

D-Index
41
Citations
6719
World Ranking
468
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Elisabeth Gidengil is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and primarily conducts research within the social sciences. Their scholarly output includes work that intersects gender studies, political science, sociology, social psychology, and health.

The main areas of study encompass:

  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks
  • Canadian Journal of Political Science
  • European Journal of Politics and Gender
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • European Journal of Political Research

Among their recent papers are:

  • The partisan nature of support for democratic backsliding: A comparative perspective, 2021, European Journal of Political Research
  • Comparing self-categorisation approaches to measuring gender identity, 2020, European Journal of Politics and Gender
  • Voting Behaviour in Canada: The State of the Discipline, 2022, Canadian Journal of Political Science
  • Healthy citizens, healthy democracies? A review of the literature, 2023, International Political Science Review
  • Beyond the Gender Gap: The Role of Gender Identity, 2020, The Journal of Politics

They have also authored books, including the title Take a Number published in 2020 with McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks.

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their research activities, working frequently with colleagues such as Dietlind Stolle, Olivier Bergeron-Boutin, Hanna Wass, Mary F. Williamson, and Robin W. Winks.

The academic recognition includes being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013 by the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Where does turnout decline come from

    André Blais;Elisabeth Gidengil;Neil Nevitte

  • Measuring strategic voting in multiparty plurality elections

    André Blais;Richard Nadeau;Elisabeth Gidengil;Neil Nevitte

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

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

  • ISSUE IMPORTANCE AND PERFORMANCE VOTING

    Patrick Fournier;André Blais;Richard Nadeau;Elisabeth Gidengil

  • Talking Tough: Gender and Reported Speech in Campaign News Coverage

    Elisabeth Gidengil;Joanna Everitt

  • Time-of-voting decision and susceptibility to campaign effects

    Patrick Fournier;Richard Nadeau;André Blais;Elisabeth Gidengil

  • Measuring Party Identification: Britain, Canada, and the United States

    André Blais;Elisabeth Gidengil;Richard Nadeau;Neil Nevitte

  • Accounting for the Age Gap in Turnout

    Daniel Rubenson;Daniel Rubenson;André Blais;Patrick Fournier;Elisabeth Gidengil

  • Does the Local Candidate Matter? Candidate Effects in the Canadian Election of 2000

    André Blais;Elisabeth Gidengil;Agnieszka Dobrzynska;Neil Nevitte

  • Economic Man—Social Woman?: The Case of the Gender Gap in Support for the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement

    Elisabeth Gidengil

  • Making Sense of Regional Voting in the 1997 Canadian Federal Election: Liberal and Reform Support Outside Quebec

    Elisabeth Gidengil;André Blais;Richard Nadeau;Neil Nevitte

  • The partisan nature of support for democratic backsliding: A comparative perspective

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  • Gender and Social Capital

    Brenda O'Neill;Elisabeth Gidengil

  • Metaphors and Misrepresentation: Gendered Mediation in News Coverage of the 1993 Canadian Leaders' Debates

    Elisabeth Gidengil;Joanna Everitt

  • Conventional Coverage/Unconventional Politicians: Gender and Media Coverage of Canadian Leaders' Debates, 1993, 1997, 2000

    Elisabeth Gidengil;Joanna Everitt

  • Explaining The Gender Gap in Support for the New Right: The Case of Canada

    Elisabeth Gidengil;Matthew Hennigar;AndrÉ Blais;Neil Nevitte

  • Election Campaigns as Information Campaigns: Who Learns What and Does it Matter?

    Richard Nadeau;Neil Nevitte;Elisabeth Gidengil;André Blais

  • What do Women Really Know? A Gendered Analysis of Varieties of Political Knowledge

    Dietlind Stolle;Elisabeth Gidengil

  • Political Socialization and Voting: The Parent–Child Link in Turnout

    Elisabeth Gidengil;Hanna Maria Wass;Maria Susanna Valaste

  • Filtering the female: Television news coverage of the 1993 Canadian leaders' debates

    Elisabeth Gidengil;Joanna Everitt

  • Entertaining the Citizen: When Politics and Popular Culture Converge

    Elisabeth Gidengil

Frequent Co-Authors

André Blais
André Blais University of Montreal
Neil Nevitte
Neil Nevitte University of Toronto
Richard Nadeau
Richard Nadeau University of Montreal
Dietlind Stolle
Dietlind Stolle McGill University
Lesley K. Fellows
Lesley K. Fellows Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Stuart Soroka
Stuart Soroka University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Johnston
Richard Johnston University of British Columbia
Joseph W. Kable
Joseph W. Kable University of Pennsylvania
Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Thomas Gschwend
Thomas Gschwend University of Mannheim

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