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In the mid-20th c. lower-income and less educated voters largely supported left-wing parties, while wealthier and more educated groups leaned right.

This pattern has fractured.

Broadbent Fellow @pgraefe.bsky.social w/ @mattpolacko.bsky.social & Simon Kiss explore the working-class vote in Canada.

16.01.2026 21:19 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

To reverse the trend of the working class moving to the Conservatives, we show that the #NDP should aim to combat alienation and disaffection among working class voters with stronger economic populist appeals and an economic strategy that promises direct material gains for workers

06.01.2026 14:26 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

🚨New Publication with @pgraefe.bsky.social & @sjkiss.bsky.social for @broadbent.bsky.social

We examine class voting in #Canada and show how the working class feels politically alienated and disaffected that their interests are not being pursued by politicians

perspectivesjournal.ca/changing-cla...

06.01.2026 14:26 — 👍 5    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

The Changing Class Basis of Canadian and Social Democratic Futures | Perspectives Journal Elements of a redistributive and working-class agenda are already in demand, but many voters and especially the working class, feel politically alienated and disaffected that their interests are not b...

Happy to share some recent research on the NDP and the working class (with @mattpolacko.bsky.social and @sjkiss.bsky.social) in the latest Perspectives magazine.
perspectivesjournal.ca/changing-cla...

06.01.2026 13:36 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

What Canada’s public sector voting divide could mean for future elections New research suggests the government’s intention to reduce the size of the federal public service could very likely drive some Liberal voters back to the NDP in the next federal election.

New piece with @pgraefe.bsky.social & @sjkiss.bsky.social for the @ca.theconversation.com asking:

"What Canada’s public sector voting divide could mean for future elections"

Based on our recent publication in the @csa-scs.bsky.social

#polisky #cdnpoli #canlab

theconversation.com/what-canadas...

05.01.2026 23:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

What Canada’s public sector voting divide could mean for future elections New research suggests the government’s intention to reduce the size of the federal public service could very likely drive some Liberal voters back to the NDP in the next federal election.

Will Carney’s public sector job cuts help the NDP get back off the mat? Or does Carney feel public sector workers have nowhere else to go? theconversation.com/what-canadas...

16.12.2025 02:41 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

14.12.2025 17:29 — 👍 130    🔁 58    💬 18    📌 20

What Canada’s public sector voting divide could mean for future elections New research suggests the government’s intention to reduce the size of the federal public service could very likely drive some Liberal voters back to the NDP in the next federal election.

Will Carney’s public sector job cuts help the NDP get back off the mat? Or does Carney feel public sector workers have nowhere else to go? theconversation.com/what-canadas...

16.12.2025 02:41 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

🚨 New publication 🚨

With @pgraefe.bsky.social & @sjkiss.bsky.social in @csa-scs.bsky.social

Does the public sector vote differently and hold differing political attitudes than the general public?

Available #OpenAccess
#polisky

doi.org/10.1111/cars...

18.08.2025 23:52 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

How Katy Perry and Blue Origin's all-female crew are preparing for space Katy Perry and an all-female crew will launch on the New Shepard rocket on April 14.

In the mood to overstate the significance of this but it does feel like wealth class has purchased collective achievement as a hobby and impoverished us all for vanity

abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/Livi...

11.04.2025 12:24 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

#25CPSA_CHAIRS Jan31 Day 1 Hybrid CHAIRS mtg
@carletonu.bsky.social opened w chairs sharing what they like most of the position! @kariroberts.bsky.social @jonathanmalloy.bsky.social @loraleamichaelis.bsky.social @dietlinds.bsky.social @alanjacobs.bsky.social @jsmatthews99.bsky.social

31.01.2025 19:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

In today’s Globe and Mail. An insightful op ed by the inimitable Kent Roach.

21.11.2024 10:53 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

New year, new article out with @pgraefe.bsky.social & @sjkiss.bsky.social in Social Science Quarterly

We find subjective economic insecurity is associated with voting for the Right in Canada, when interacting with immigration and feminist attitudes

Available #openaccess
doi.org/10.1111/ssqu...

03.01.2024 15:47 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Image of an email from a student asking if sources "from the late 1900s" are acceptable.

I will never recover from this student email.

27.11.2023 21:48 — 👍 9437    🔁 2349    💬 380    📌 455

Canada poised to create public company registry to curb financial secrecy - ICIJ The landmark reforms seek to mend Canada’s image as a “reputable” tax haven by revealing the real owners of companies.

If you need a primer on Canada's beneficial ownership registry, and why we need it, this is a good place to start:

09.11.2023 12:05 — 👍 12    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 2

Great summary of my class voting research with @sjkiss.bsky.social & @pgraefe.bsky.social in this Globe & Mail editorial www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

07.11.2023 18:18 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Nice summary of my recent Electoral Studies article with @sjkiss.bsky.social & @pgraefe.bsky.social in The Conversation. We find that educated voters in Canada tend to increasingly vote for left-leaning parties and richer voters go right. theconversation.com/educated-vot...

24.10.2023 21:59 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0