Now that the Canadian federal election is well and truly underway, so is the research for The Canadian Federal Election of 2019 (McGill-Queen’s Press), the 11th Carleton University study in a series that has examined every federal election since 1984.
Elections are contests between political machines bent on public persuasion and fought in the arena of public address. From its beginning this book series has been a joint project between political scientists, media scholars, political journalists, and public opinion polling experts – all with a view to assessing how the course of the electoral campaign leads to its outcome, the formation of a government.
This is the seventh volume in the series to be edited by Jon H. Pammett of the Carleton Political Science Dept. and Christopher Dornan of the School of Journalism and Communication. It draws on the insight of scholars from eight universities and three major polling firms, including leading experts in voter behavior, analysts of party electoral machinery, and the most astute observers of the news media and social media platforms.
The series has always relied on the expertise of Carleton academics and Carleton-educated contributors. In this volume, Prof. Paul Adams, currently commenting on the news media and the election for Policy Options, will examine the journalistic coverage of the campaign. Profs. Susan Harada and Sarah Everts, CTV Chair in Digital Science Journalism, will chronicle the environment as an election issue and the campaign of the Green Party. Jon Pammett will analyze voting turnout, along with Lawrence LeDuc of the University of Toronto. David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, Carleton graduate and fellow of Carleton’s Arthur Kroeger College, will investigate the voting choices and behavior of Millennial Canadians. Carleton graduate Frank Graves, founder of EKOS Research Associates, will examine immigration as a campaign issue along with journalist Michael Valpy. Faron Ellis of the University of Lethbridge, who took his doctorate in Political Science at Carleton, will document the Conservative campaign while another Carleton doctorate, David McGrane of the University of Saskatchewan, does the same for the NDP. Christopher Dornan will provide an analysis of the overall dynamics of the campaign.
Other contributors include Tamara Small of the University of Guelph on the campaign in social media; Brooke Jeffrey of Concordia University on the Liberal campaign; Eric Montigny of Université Laval on the campaign in Quebec; Eric Grenier, CBC pollster and founder of ThreeHundredEight.com, on polling and the campaign; and Harold Clarke of the University of Texas on the behavior of the electorate.
The first volume in the series to be published by McGill-Queen’s Press, the production schedule has been set so that the volume will be available for use in Summer and Fall courses, 2020.
Friday, September 27, 2019 in General, Journalism News
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