February 10, 2021
Co-authored by the Munk School’s Peter Loewen, the 2019 Canadian Election Study (CES) consists of two separate surveys with campaign-period rolling cross-sections and post-election follow-ups. The parallel studies were conducted online and through a random-digit-dial (RDD) telephone survey. Both continue...
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How does the public want a COVID-19 vaccine to be allocated? We conducted a conjoint experiment asking 15,536 adults in 13 countries to evaluate 248,576 profiles of potential vaccine recipients that varied randomly on five attributes. Our sample includes diverse...
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Political polarization is growing across the globe. In this first report on the urban-rural divide in Canada, Sean Speer teams up with Peter Loewen and the University of Toronto’s Policy, Elections and Representation Lab (PEARL) to explore the theory that...
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February 2, 2021
Political polarization is growing across the globe. In this first report on the urban-rural divide in Canada, Sean Speer teams up with Peter Loewen and the University of Toronto’s Policy, Elections and Representation Lab (PEARL) to explore the theory that...
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January 27, 2021
Attacks on journalists and freedom of the press have increased markedly over the past several years around the globe, yet most journalists are not adopting online security practices that could help defend against such attacks. This new report from Citizen...
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January 27, 2021
In this new Ontario 360 report, authors Sean Speer, Drew Fagan, and Luka Glozic examine current economic efforts by Canadian policymakers, how they compare to other jurisdictions, and how to best plan for the post pandemic future. The recent spike...
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January 22, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared 10 months ago, in March 2020. For many, this seems like a lifetime ago. The virus has taken a substantial toll, not only in deaths, but also in the costs people around the world...
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January 11, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to refocus scholarly attention on the politics of crisis. Crises that abruptly upend political and economic relations are important and increasing in frequency. However, the division of international relations into international political economy (IPE)...
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January 11, 2021
Reach Faculty Mentor Erica Di Ruggiero co-wrote an article for The Conversation which was picked up by the National Post. Canada’s foreign policy efforts are fragmented, a jumble of trade and aid deals that fail to adequately consider that our...
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January 6, 2021
Anita McGahan co-authors this report from PLOS ONE investigates the efficacy of control policies for COVID-19 in around 40 jurisdictions, which include countries and states in the United States. The purpose is to provide policymakers and the general public with...
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