Elizabeth Baisley

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In "Are LGBTQ+ Candidates Disadvantaged in Financing Their Campaigns?" @qalbaugh.bsky.social, @kebaisley.bsky.social & Kate Burke Pellizzari explore financing gaps in 🇨🇦 federal elections to understand the LGBTQ+ underrepresentation.

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After years of hard work, I am happy to announce that my book The Candidacy Calculation has been published by UTP. The book takes a nuanced view of traditional barriers to candidacy such as money & family as well as emerging ones such as online harassment & social media scandals. lnkd.in/gKDkMHqs

I'm delighted to share a new article at Politics & Gender with @kebaisley.bsky.social and Kate Burke Pellizzari examining whether LGBTQ+ candidates face challenges financing their campaigns: doi.org/10.1017/S174....

Unequal by Design: Ministerial Policy Roles in the Canadian Executive, 2015‐2021 Cabinet ministers are formally equal but unequal in practice: for example, ministers may differ significantly in how they undertake policy activity. I use federal mandate letter data from 2015 to 202....

New article! In @canadianpublicadmn.bsky.social examines ministerial policy roles during the Trudeau govt, extending prior work. Using mandate letter data, manual and automated classification, and Bayesian models, I examine factors associated with ministers' policy activity. doi.org/10.1111/capa...

Research article entitled "Gender and LGBT Affinity: The Case of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne" by Quinn M. Albaugh and Elizabeth Baisley. Abstract: "When a party selects an out lesbian as its leader, do women and LGBT people evaluate that leader more positively? And do they become more likely to vote for that party? We answer these questions using the case of Kathleen Wynne, premier of Ontario, Canada, from 2013 to 2018. We draw on four large-sample surveys conducted by Ipsos before and after the 2011 and 2014 Ontario elections. We compare shifts in best premier choice and vote choice among non-LGBT men, non-LGBT women, LGBT men, and LGBT women from 2011 to 2014. We find gender and LGBT affinity in leader evaluations. However, we find that only non-LGBT women and LGBT men were more likely to vote Liberal after Wynne became leader. This article contributes to research on affinity by examining LGBT affinity in a real-world election and the intersection of gender and LGBT affinity."

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In "Gender and LGBT Affinity" @qalbaugh.bsky.social‬ & @kebaisley.bsky.social‬ compare support for Kathleen Wynne, the first out LGBT first minister in 🇨🇦 , across voter gender and sexuality.

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Thanks for sharing, @politicsgenderj.bsky.social!

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Thanks! And thanks for letting me know about the link. If you're eager, it should be on JOP's Just Accepted page, but I keep having issues trying to share a link ...

In recent research with @qalbaugh.bsky.social, we use a survey experiment to explore how gender stereotypes shape voters' perceptions of transgender and nonbinary candidates' traits. The results are not the most encouraging, but you can read more here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Thanks for sharing!

In recent work with @qalbaugh.bsky.social, we find that in 2019 and 2021 parties nominated LGBTQ2S+ candidates in districts they were over 16 percentage points less likely to win than straight cis candidates. About 2/3 of the gap is due to which parties and 1/3 is due to which districts.

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Abortion fight won, conservative Christians mimic Dobbs tactics to go after same-sex marriage (RNS) — A multistate effort is spitting out legislation and lawsuits aimed at testing the Supreme Court justices’ commitment to Obergefell v. Hodges.

At @religionnews.com.web.brid.gy, @jackjenkins.me examines how conservative Christian activists are adopting legal strategies similar to those used in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision to challenge same-sex marriage rights in the country.

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New paper on urban-rural policy divides. We use 456 unique issue questions from 1993-present to show (1) large & persistent urban-rural issue divides, (2) especially large divides in cultural policy, and (3) no evidence that divides have grown over time. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Still not controlling for sexuality in your turnout models?

The sexuality gap in is not just statistically significant (we shouldn't just fetishise p<.05) but also *politically* significant as this top-cited paper shows

Participation scholars should take it more seriously
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Policing the Uptown: A Historical Narrative Analyzing Black-Led Coalitions in Response to Police Brutality in Halifax in 1991 | Journal of Canadian Studies This article delves into the historical context of Black resistance to racial oppression in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It focuses on a critical juncture in the ongoing struggle against anti-Black racism in the city—the “Uptown Riots” of 1991. Through archival research and interviews with community members, the article explores how Black activists organized and responded to the municipality, province, and federal government’s complicity in racial oppression during and after the Uptown Riots. The concept of racial institutional orders is employed to analyze the complex relationships between Black communities advocating for self-determination and the governing institutions perpetuating racial concepts of Black inferiority and victimhood. By examining the continuity of resistance and the reconstitution of the dominant racial institutional order, this article sheds light on the enduring impacts of this incident on the affected communities.

I'm proud to announce that my article "Policing The Uptown" has been released in the Journal of Canadian Studies @utpjournals.bsky.social - this is an adapted chapter from my upcoming monograph with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social & a piece I'm really proud of. Check it out!

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Thrilled to see this piece with Douglas Page & Sam Whitt) published in PRQ! We examine how LGBT+ activists can counter backlash by discrediting anti-LGBT+ messengers.

Huge thanks to the PRQ editors and reviewers for their thoughtful feedback.

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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ... Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

Come work with us! We're looking for a colleague specializing in Gender and Diversity in Politics. Subfield open, but IR and Conparativists are especially encouraged to apply.

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Gender and Emotional Reactions to Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Councillors: An Experimental Study in a Low-information, Non-partisan Context Public accounts of gender-based violence by elected officials have become increasingly common at all levels of government. Given that media and public attention to the problem are also on the rise,...

💥Excited to share my new publication co-authored w/ Cameron Anderson (UWO) and Mike McGregor (TMU) on gender and emotional reactions to sexual misconduct allegations against municipal councillors.

The first 50 downloads are available for free:
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I've got 3 funded studentships for oustanding applicants to join Acadia University's 12-month MA in Political Science program for 2025-26. Students will write a thesis on Canadian political leadership. Apply by February 1!
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I like it for office hours appointments, interviews of potential research assistants, and for conducting research interviews. It saves back-and-forth emails for scheduling and automatically generates the Zoom links when a Zoom meeting is selected. I found it less good for group meetings, though.

Pride and Pressure: Exploring Mental Health Among LGBTQ+ Elected Officials In this first-of-its-kind survey by LGBTQ+ Victory Institute and Loyola Marymount University’s LGBTQ+ Politics Research Initiative, more than 160 LGBTQ+ elected officials shared their experiences with...

Proud of this study that I conducted with the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute.

In this first-of-its-kind survey, more than 160 LGBTQ+ elected officials shared their experiences with mental health while serving in political office.

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I'd like to invite applications to do an MA or PhD in Political Studies with me at @queenspols.bsky.social (deadline: January 22). I work on Canadian politics, gender & politics, 2SLGBTQ+ politics, the representation of marginalized groups, political parties, and political behaviour.

Congrats! It's great to see this in print.

When partisanship and technocratic credibility collide: mass attitudes and central bank endorsements of fiscal policy in Canada and the USA Abstract. Developments over the past decade have made it increasingly difficult for central banks to achieve their macroeconomic objectives without the hel

New paper out at Socio-Economic Review with Kyle Hanniman, Elizabeth Goodyear Grant, Chris Abbbott and @jsmatthews99.bsky.social, presented long ago at @sasemeeting.bsky.social
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On mass attitudes and central bank endorsements of fiscal policy in Canada and the USA

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This is always a difficult time of year as university presses run their clearance sales of unwanted stock. The University of Toronto Press is running a 75% discount on all my books. Get them while they last!

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Public Servant-in-Residence Initiative - CSPS The Public Servant-in-Residence (PSIR) Initiative allows mid-career public servants to spend a minimum of 6 months and a maximum of 2 years at a Canadian university.

Know any Government of Canada public servants who want to get off the dancefloor and onto the balcony? Here's a great opportunity to join our Department of Political Science to conduct some research and do some teaching!

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I'm advising a student applying to grad school in political science in Canada. Do departments have policies on using generative AI in writing samples (e.g., for editing)? I haven't seen any yet, but it would shape my guidance on AI use in honours theses, seminar papers, etc.

Tenure-track Faculty Position in Municipal and Local Politics

Univ Laval is hiring at the junior prof level in municipal and local politics. This fall we became the dept with the largest doctoral program in the faculty. Québec City is the provincial capital and home to the largest civil service in Canada :)
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