Elisabeth Gidengil uses national and cross-national survey methods to study political participation and engagement, voter behaviour and voter turnout, and political communication, focusing on the role of gender and race in Canadian politics.
12 Facts About Elisabeth Gidengil
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Elisabeth Gidengil earned her PhD in political science from McGill University.
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Elisabeth Gidengil has been an author on numerous books, as well as journal articles in venues like the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Political Behavior, and Electoral Studies.
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Elisabeth Gidengil was a member of the Canadian Election Study team from 1992 until 2008, and was the principal investigator of the study in 2008.
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Elisabeth Gidengil has been on the planning committee for the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems.
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In 2008, Elisabeth Gidengil became the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, a consortium of McGill University, Concordia University, Montreal, Universite Laval, Universite de Montreal, Universite du Quebec a Montreal and Universite TELUQ to study democratic citizenship using interdisciplinary tools and perspectives.
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Elisabeth Gidengil remained the Director until 2013, and in 2017 the Centre held a symposium in her honour.
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Elisabeth Gidengil is a past president of the Canadian Political Science Association.
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Elisabeth Gidengil has been an editor for selective political science journals, notably the European Political Science Review.
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In 2013, Elisabeth Gidengil was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in Academy II: the Academy of Social Sciences.
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Elisabeth Gidengil received an honorary doctorate from the Universite Laval in June 2014.
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Elisabeth Gidengil has been extensively cited in popular media reports on topics like Canadian politics and vote choice in venues like the FiveThirtyEight, the CBC, Maclean's, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Winnipeg Free Press, and her work has been recommended by The Hill Times.