Elisabeth Gidengil
{{short description|Canadian political scientist}}
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Elisabeth Gidengil {{post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC}} (born {{Birth based on age as of date|70|2017|11|30|noage=y}}) is a Canadian political scientist, currently the Hiram Mills Professor of political science at McGill University. She uses national and cross-national survey methods to study political participation and engagement, voter behaviour and voter turnout, and political communication, focusing on the role of gender and race in Canadian politics. The Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship has called her "Canada’s pre-eminent scholar on political behaviour, gender and diversity, and the media."
Education
Gidengil attended the London School of Economics and New York University.{{cite news |work=ECPR News |title=New editorial appointments at the ECPR |publisher=European Consortium for Political Research |volume=5 |issue=2 |url=https://ecpr.eu/Filestore/Files/Publications/ECPRNews/ECPRNews_5.2.pdf |year=2015 |access-date=18 January 2020 |page=12}} She earned her PhD in political science from McGill University.{{cite web |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/politicalscience/elisabeth-gidengil |title=Elisabeth Gidengil Faculty Profile |publisher=McGill University |access-date=18 January 2020}}
Career
Gidengil has been an author on numerous books, as well as journal articles in venues like the Canadian Journal of Political Science,{{cite journal |title=Does the local candidate matter? Candidate effects in the Canadian election of 2000 |journal=Canadian Journal of Political Science |first1=André |last1=Blais |first5=Richard |last5=Nadeau |first2=Elisabeth |last2=Gidengil |first4=Neil |last4=Nevitte |first3=Agnieszka |last3=Dobrzynska |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=657–664 |date=July 2001}} Comparative Political Studies,{{cite journal |last=Gidengil |first=Elisabeth |journal=Comparative Political Studies |date=October 1995 |title=Economic man—social woman? The case of the gender gap in support for the Canada-United States free trade agreement |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=384–408}} Political Behavior,{{cite journal |title=Measuring Party Identification: Britain, Canada, and the United States |journal=Political Behavior |first1=André |last1=Blais |first2=Richard |last2=Nadeau |first3=Elisabeth |last3=Gidengil |first4=Neil |last4=Nevitte |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=5–22 |date=1 March 2003}} and Electoral Studies.{{cite journal |title=Measuring strategic voting in multiparty plurality elections |journal=Electoral Studies |first1=André |last1=Blais |first2=Richard |last2=Nadeau |first3=Elisabeth |last3=Gidengil |first4=Neil |last4=Nevitte |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=343–352 |date=1 September 2001}} She and her co-authors received the American Political Science Association's 1997 prize for the best paper presented at the previous year's meeting for their paper "The 1993 Canadian Election: Realignment, Dealignment, or Something Else?"{{cite web |url=https://connect.apsanet.org/s32/awards/ |title=Awards |publisher=American Political Science Association |access-date=18 January 2020 |year=2019}} Her co-authored books include The Unsteady State: The 1997 Canadian Federal Election (2000), Citizens (2004), and Dominance and Decline: Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections (2012).
Gidengil was a member of the Canadian Election Study team from 1992 until 2008,{{cite web |url=http://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/author/elizabeth-gidengil |title=Author Elisabeth Gidengil |publisher=Sage Publishing |work=The British Journal of Politics and International Relations |access-date=18 January 2020}} and was the principal investigator of the study in 2008. Gidengil has also been on the planning committee for the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. In 2008, Gidengil became the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, a consortium of McGill University, Concordia University, Montreal, Université Laval, Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal and Université TÉLUQ to study democratic citizenship using interdisciplinary tools and perspectives.{{cite web |url=https://csdc-cecd.ca/about/about-in-details/ |title=What is the CSDC? |publisher=Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship |access-date=18 January 2020}} She remained the Director until 2013, and in 2017 the Centre held a symposium in her honour. She is also a past president of the Canadian Political Science Association.{{cite web |url=https://womeninhouse.com/past-program/ |title=Past Programs 2015-2016 |year=2016 |access-date=18 January 2020 |publisher=Women in House}}{{cite journal |title=Beyond the Gender Gap: Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, Saskatoon, 2007 |last=Gidengil |first=Elisabeth |date=21 November 2007 |journal=Canadian Journal of Political Science |volume=40 |issue=4 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}} She has been an editor for selective political science journals, notably the European Political Science Review.
In 2013, Gidengil was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in Academy II: the Academy of Social Sciences.{{cite web |url=https://rsc-src.ca/en/search-fellows?keywords_44=&first_name=&last_name=&display_name=&election_year_21=&academy_25=All&division_24=All&discipline_23=All&is_deceased=0&page=34&sort_by=last_name&sort_order=ASC |access-date=18 January 2020 |title=RSC Fellows |publisher=Royal Society of Canada}} Gidengil received an honorary doctorate from the Université Laval in June 2014.{{cite web |url=https://www.ulaval.ca/fileadmin/Secretaire_general/Rapports/universite-laval-annual-report-2014-2015.pdf |title=Annual Report 2014-2015 |publisher=Université Laval |access-date=18 January 2020 |year=2015 |page=10}}{{cite work |title=Annual Report |publisher=McGill Department of Political Science |year=2014 |access-date=18 January 2020 |url=https://docplayer.net/102578587-Department-of-political-science-2014-annual-report-submitted-by-professor-hudson-meadwell-chair.html |first=Hudson |last=Meadwell}}{{cite web |url=https://csdc-cecd.ca/congratulations-elisabeth-gidengil-for-her-honorary-doctorate-from-universite-laval/ |title=Congratulations Elisabeth Gidengil: honorary doctorate from Université Laval |publisher=Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship |date=16 June 2014 |access-date=18 January 2020}}
Gidengil has been extensively cited in popular media reports on topics like Canadian politics and vote choice in venues like the FiveThirtyEight,{{cite web |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-partisans-look-at-the-same-evidence-on-ukraine-and-see-wildly-different-things/ |title=Why Partisans Look At The Same Evidence On Ukraine And See Wildly Different Things |last=Koerth |first=Maggie |date=3 October 2019 |access-date=18 January 2020 |work=FiveThirtyEight}} the CBC,{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/strategic-voting-election-harper-conservatives-leadnow-1.5307235 |title=Strategic voting may play a role in elections. But will it change the outcome? |first=Mark |last=Gollom |date=4 October 2019 |access-date=18 January 2020 |work=CBC}} Maclean's,{{cite news |url=https://www.macleans.ca/politics/what-does-politics-look-like-to-a-partisan/ |title=What does politics look like to a partisan? |last=Moscrop |first=David |date=24 September 2015 |access-date=18 January 2020 |work=Maclean's Magazine}} the Ottawa Citizen,{{cite news |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/axworthy-no-crisis-in-canadian-democracy-but-we-keep-improving-it-and-perhaps-still-can |title=Axworthy: No crisis in Canadian democracy – but we keep improving it and perhaps still can |last=Axworthy |first=Thomas S. |date=14 September 2016 |access-date=18 January 2020 |work=The Ottawa Citizen}} and the Winnipeg Free Press,{{cite news |url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/forum-tackles-voter-apathy-119167569.html |title=Forum tackles voter apathy |last=Sanders |first=Carol |date=4 April 2011 |work=Winnipeg Free Press |access-date=18 January 2020}} and her work has been recommended by The Hill Times.{{cite news |url=https://www.hilltimes.com/2019/12/16/the-hill-times-100-best-non-fiction-canadian-books-2019/228174 |title=The Hill Times’ List of 100 Best Non-Fiction Canadian Books in 2019 |last=Malloy |first=Katie |date=16 December 2019 |access-date=18 January 2020 |publisher=The Hill Times}}
Selected works
- Citizens. With André Blais, Neil Nevitte, and Richard Nadeau. 2004
- "Where does turnout decline come from?" With André Blais and Neil Nevitte, European journal of political research. 2004
- Dominance and Decline: Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections. With Neil Nevitte, Andre Blais, Joanna Everitt, and Patrick Fournier. 2012
- {{cite book |last1=Nevitte |first1=Neil |last2=Blais |author2-link=André Blais |first2=André |last3=Gidengil |first3=Elisabeth |author3-link=Elisabeth Gidengil |last4=Nadeau |first4=Richard |author4-link=Richard Nadeau |title=Unsteady State: The 1997 Canadian Federal Election |date=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Don Mills, Ontario |isbn=978-0-19-541466-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/unsteadystate1990000unse |url-access=registration}}
Selected honours and awards
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