Maxime Blanchard

McGill University | McGill · Department of Political Science

American scholarship claims that the racial make-up of interviews influences the attitudes disclosed in public opinion surveys. It remains unclear whether such an effect travels to other cases where racial cleavages are less salient, and whether it affects all respondents. We address these gaps by using a flexible approach focusing on skin tone rat...

Le présent rapport de recherche s’inscrit en continuité avec les travaux antérieurs qui tentent de comprendre les causes de la participation électorale aux élections québécoises. L’étude cherche parallèlement à identifier les sources de l’abstentionnisme d’un point de vue quantitatif. Le phénomène ayant déjà fait l’objet d’analyses antérieures chez...

What explains the sudden rise and fall of Latin America's leftist governments during the 21st century? Two competing interpretations have been put forward: either citizens vote positionally or retrospectively. This paper aims to shed light on this debate by analyzing the 2016 constitutional referendum in Bolivia. The results of our investigation of...