"Place Types." Excited that this paper with @sborwein.bsky.social is now available. We develop a new typology of place types in Canada at a fairly fine-grained level of geography, and then show how these place types relate to Canadian politics. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

#OpenAccess from @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social - Place Types - cup.org/44cNqVq "...we propose a new typology of geographic places for use in advancing Canadian politics research on the political effects of place..." - @sborwein.bsky.social & @jacklucas.bsky.social #FirstView

Happy to report that this article is now available: doi.org/10.1017/S000.... See Tyler's thread below for more detail on the associated R package and interactive online app.

Excited to share a new working paper, co-authored with students in my undergraduate course on city politics. As part of the course, we did a field experiment to explore if (a) 311 calls increase issue responsiveness and (b) if this varies by neighbourhood. lucasjacklucas.github.io/calgary311.pdf

Hot off the heels of yesterday's Canadian federal election Jack Lucas @jacklucas.bsky.social and I have updated our estimate of the size of the urban-rural divide in party support. The punchline: it hasn't gone away!

Tonight’s most important question: will the anecdote that opens our article on the urban-rural divide survive another election cycle?

Canadian Municipal Barometer online research talk next week. Should be fun! If you'd like to attend, send me an email and I'll share the link.

"Geographic Proximity Dampens Ideological Disagreement on Municipal Policy Issues." New working paper with Martin Horak, Shanaya Vanhooren, and Dave Armstrong. Comments and feedback welcome! A brief description of what we're up to… osf.io/preprints/os...

Very sad to hear of the passing yesterday of Warren Magnusson. He was a generous scholar, a brilliant political theorist, a captivating speaker, and deep believer in the emancipatory possibilities of the city. @uvic.ca #urbanpoltics

This new R package makes it easy to extract weighted annual estimates of vote intention for the major parties going back to the 1940s. For instance, here's annual vote intention for the Liberals, with a red line marking where they currently stand in the polls according to the 338 aggregator.

With the federal election approaching, I’m excited to share insights on how Canadians' vote intentions have shifted since 1945. This forthcoming CJPS paper, with @jacklucas.bsky.social, Dave Armstrong, and @eplusgg.bsky.social, features a public dataset, R package, and Shiny app—more details below!

New interactive app: explore Canadians' policy attitudes across many geographic and demographic characteristics on 40 distinct municipal policy statements, including housing, policing, active transportation, social policy, and much more: cmb-bmc-municipal-policy-attitudes.share.connect.posit.cloud

Really enjoyed this conversation with @jerusalem.bsky.social about our new paper on politicians' theories of voting behaviour. Such a thrill to be a guest on one of my favourite podcasts! www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

Swedish historical municipal council database, by Abrar Bawati et al. This is really something. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper on urban-rural policy divides. We use 456 unique issue questions from 1993-present to show (1) large & persistent urban-rural issue divides, (2) especially large divides in cultural policy, and (3) no evidence that divides have grown over time. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Canadian Municipal Barometer now has a newsletter - if you're interested in occasional (three or four times per year) updates on the academic research and other work we're doing, please sign up at the link below. Thanks! www.cmb-bmc.ca/newsletter/

Coming up next week in the CMB Online Research series: Very interesting paper by @kaylynjschiff.bsky.social on AI in local government. Email me if you'd like to attend, and I'll share a link!

Another terrific talk coming up on Friday in the Canadian Municipal Barometer online research workshop, featuring @erintolley.bsky.social and @tariajadi.bsky.social. Send me an email if you'd like to attend and I'll share the link.

Job alert! University of Calgary is hiring for a tenure-track position in the area of “Gender and Diversity in Politics,” subfield open. Please share widely! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1555649...

We’re looking forward to welcoming @jacklucas.bsky.social for our Departmental seminar tmrw at 3.30 pm Bush House NE 9.03 @kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for his talk: Beyond the Mean: How Thinking About The Distribution of Public Opinions Reduces Politicians' Perceptual Errors

Call for papers now open for the Seventh Annual Toronto Political Development Workshop - May 5-6, 2025. For more information about the workshop, visit tpdw.ca, and use the link below to submit a proposal. Please share with anyone who might be interested. Thanks! survey.ucalgary.ca/jfe/form/SV_...

Excited for this talk next week by @katherineeinst.bsky.social in the Canadian Municipal Barometer's online research workshop. Sure to be extremely interesting! Email me if you'd like to attend and I'll send the link.

📢New issue of #PAG20 is out!📢 In 'Do Women Politicians Know More about Women’s Policy Preferences?' @sfranceschet.bsky.social, @jacklucas.bsky.social, & Erica Rayment investigate the underlying mechanisms of substantive representation in 🇨🇦. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very excited to be hosting Dan Hopkins (@dhopkins1776.bsky.social) next week for the first talk in our new "Local Democracy: Comparative Perspectives" series. If you're in the area and you'd like to attend, email me for the details. Many thanks to UofC Faculty of Arts for supporting this series!

Excited about this upcoming talk on November 29th by Simon Otjes (@simonotjes.bsky.social) in the Canadian Municipal Barometer’s Online Research Workshop series. Discussant is Daniel Béland (@danielbeland.bsky.social). Send me an email if you’d like to attend, and we’ll share a link!

For the #urbanism folks in K-W and beyond: Noticed this morning that @jacklucas.bsky.social (UCalgary) is here. Jack's latest book "Ideology in Canadian Municipal Politics" (UTP 2024) should be of interest to anyone working on municipal politics in Canada. Very well written, and lots of data:

Now in APSR: What do politicians think about their voters? Fielding face-to-face surveys to 982 sitting politicians in 11 countries, and accompanying surveys of 12,000 citizens, we find that politicians have remarkably consistent - and cynical - theories of voters: /1 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

New paper with @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Peter Loewen in Political Behavior about politicians’ congruence with citizens, their knowledge of citizens, and – especially – the relationship between the two pathways to representation. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🏅In one of our most read articles this week, 'Do Women Politicians Know More about Women’s Policy Preferences?', @sfranceschet.bsky.social, Jack Lucas, & Erica Rayment survey voters and politicians in 🇨🇦 to investigate mechanisms of substantive representation polisky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New working paper with Nic Dias and @liorsheffer.bsky.social. We show that politicians' over-estimation of constituents' conservatism is reduced by half when politicians are allowed to characterize their constituents' attitudes as a distribution, rather than a point estimate. doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Applications open for the inaugural Mark Grosjean Postdoctoral Fellowship. An attractive and well-funded postdoc named in honour of an extraordinary young man. Application deadline is November 1st. Please share! arts.ucalgary.ca/political-sc...