I’m co-organizing the Opening Parliament event - looking forward to learning about new ideas and hearing some excellent discussion. Register for CSPG events now! 🤩

Our 2025-26 program is here! Explore Parliamentary Committees (Nov 14), Opening Parliament (Feb 20), and AI/Misinformation (Apr 10). For more info and to register, click here 👇 cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/Events-2...

Just found the results of my first-ever political science interview: my great-aunt Hazel, who was generous with her time on a Sunday night for my school project when I was 10 years old. I’m just confused as to why no newspapers published this as her obituary???

Voice votes are common in the Senate and a key reason why it’s difficult to analyze senators’ behaviour based on just the voting record - majorly important bills are passed and we don’t know how they voted. Speeches (and amendments, if any) give us a clue as to their priorities.

New paper in IPSR with @traceyraney.bsky.social! Drawing on the reforms in the Canadian Senate, we argue that institutions in flux can be regendered by the people within them: amidst all the changes, Canadian senators successfully cemented new feminist rules. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Opportunities and influence: women’s representation and advocacy in the Canadian Parliament @emgmccallion.bsky.social & Erica Rayment use lobbying records to show women's groups advocacy efforts are greater in Canadian Senate than in the Commons 📊 📖 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

New article with Erica Rayment in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social! We observe that women’s groups disproportionately shifted their lobbying attn to the Cdn Senate following reforms, suggesting that they understand institutional context and act accordingly. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Doing a happy dance because two @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social books are shortlisted for @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social's 2025 Smiley Prize! 💃 What Women Represent: a "superb book", say the endorsers. The Great White North: "this kind of work is very rare" and "required reading", they attest.

Big day for me - I finally have an answer to my students’ perennial question “what happens if the party does well but the leader loses their seat?”

Me, a poli sci prof, watching the leaders debate: “A fourth Liberal term?! Governments in Canada don’t have terms! We count by tenure in office over the course of parliaments!” I think I might be stuck in exam grading mode.

My new op-ed with Rebecca Wallace about the lack of gender parity in Carney’s new cabinet. We hope gender-equal cabinets will be expected by Canadians, not just a one-off under Trudeau. #InformedOpinions is calling for us to #BalanceThePower www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Toward a Qualitative Study of the American Voter By Anna Berg & @stephanieternullo.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4gN6cFR

My new piece in @pspolisci.bsky.social: % of gender & LGBTQIA+ articles in 6 polisci journals. Takeaway: gender articles abt ~6%; LGBTQIA+ articles, <1%. Nearly all use quant methods & men are greater % authors than their % membership in respective APSA sections. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New issue of #PAG20 is out!📢 @emgmccallion.bsky.social investigates the conditions under which legislators talk about gender in the 🇨🇦 Senate in "Partisanship, Independence, and the Constitutive Representation of Women in the Canadian Senate" polisky gendersky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...