Projects
I list below my main current research projects.
A Citizen’s Assembly in Longueuil
(with Jean-François Daoust, Ruth Dassonneville and Patrick Fournier)
We organized a citizen’s assembly in Longueuil in June 2023. A hundred citizens deliberated on four potential reforms to how municipal elections are held in Longueuil: internet voting, compulsory voting, giving permanent residents the right to vote, and holding municipal elections at the same time as provincial elections.
See: discutonsdemocratie2023.com
Electoral participation in Montreal
(with Jean-François Daoust, Ruth Dassonneville and Patrick Fournier)
This is a study conducted for the city of Montreal. The study has two components. The first is a comprehensive review of the literature that has examined the impact (on turnout) of various measures and information campaigns designed to increase turnout that have been adopted in the world. The second component is to propose, on the basis of the literature review and taking into account the specificities of the local context, steps that could be taken to increase turnout in the Montreal municipal elections.
The objective of the study is to determine which kinds of coalitions are and are not acceptable to what groups of citizens. The survey experiment is conducted among a sample of 5,000 German citizens. Each respondent will assess the degree of acceptability of five randomly produced scenarios, each scenario indicating the distribution of seats among the parties in parliament, which parties form a coalition (and the distribution of cabinet seats among these parties) and which party the Chancellor is from.
