Github Page 
Lipad Website (Digitized Hansard)

​Current Projects:

1. Public Opinion in the Digital Age

• A SSHRC-funded research project examining media effects in the digital age, with the goal of understanding which actors influence public opinion in the digital media landscape.   

2. The Detection of Affect in Speech

• An interdisciplinary research program with a co-investigator from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, in which we seek to improve the detection of specific emotional states from multimodal signals, using artificial neural networks.

3. Digitization of Parliamentary Debates

• I am an ongoing collaborator to the Lipad project, which aims at the digitization and analysis of historical parliamentary records from the Canadian House of Commons.    


Recent Publications:

• 2020.  "Word Embeddings for the Analysis of Ideological Placement in Parliamentary Corpora" (with Christopher Cochrane).  Political Analysis 28(1): 112-133.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2019.26
  • [Pre-print version (PDF)]
  • [Online Appendix (PDF)]
  • GitHub.​
  • Dataverse.
• 2019. "Voters Punish Politicians with Depression" (with Peter Loewen).   British Journal of Political Science.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123419000127
  • ​[Pre-print version (PDF)]
• 2019. "Why Are Canadians Reluctant to Leave Their Province?"  American Review of Canadian Studies 49(3): 428-448.
  • ​[Pre-print version (PDF)]
• 2019. "Politicians in the Line of Fire: Incivility and the Treatment of Women on Social Media" (with Erica Rayment and Andreea Musulan).  Research and Politics 6(1): 1-7.
  • ​[PDF]
  • [Supplementary Materials]
  • Data Files
• 2018. "Understanding People's Choice When They Have Two Votes" (with André Blais, John Aldrich and Thomas Gschwend).  Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.   Published online on December 26, 2018.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17457289.2018.1560301​
  • ​[PDF]
  • ​Data Files (tar.gz archive)
• 2017. "Digitization of the Canadian Parliamentary Debates" (with Kaspar Beelen, Tim Alberdingk Thijm, Christopher Cochrane, Kees Halvemaan, Graeme Hirst, Mike Kimmins, Sander Lijbrink, Maarten Marx, Nona Naderi, Roman Polyanovsky and Tanya Whyte).  Canadian Journal of Political Science 50(3): 849-864.
  • ​[PDF]
  • Lipad website (Hansard Corpus)
• 2016. "Measuring Emotion in Parliamentary Debates with Automated Textual Analysis" (with Kaspar Beelen, Christopher Cochrane and Graeme Hirst).  PLoS ONE 11(12): e0168843.​
  • [PDF]​
  • ​GitHub
• 2016. "Expressions of Anxiety in Political Texts." Proceedings of the 2016 EMNLP Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science: 92-101.
  • [PDF] 
  • GitHub
  • Full Canadian Hansard Corpus
  • Data Files (tar.gz archive)
• 2015. "Low-Technology Industries and the Skill Composition of Immigration." Journal of Public Policy 35, 3: 387-420.
  • [PDF] 
• 2014. "​​Strategic Voting and Coordination Problems in Proportional Systems: An Experimental Study" (with André Blais and Cengiz Erisen). Political Research Quarterly 67(2): 386-97.​
  • [PDF]
  • Data
• 2014. "The Impact of Labour Resources on Business R&D." Journal of Innovation Economics & Management 13(1): 205-229.
• 2013. "Corporate Lobbying and Immigration Policies in Canada." Canadian Journal of Political Science 46(3): 691-722.
  • [PDF]
  • Data File (GAUSS)
  • Codebook
• 2011. "​Making Sense of an Unstable Legislature: Committee Assignments in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, 1946-2001" (with Silvina L. Danesi). Journal of Politics in Latin America 3(3): 35-64. 
• 2011. "Optimists and Skeptics: Why Do People Believe in the Value of their Single Vote?" (with André Blais). Electoral Studies 30(1): 77-82.