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Daniel Rubenson is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research is largely concentrated in three related areas at the intersection of comparative politics and political economy: 1) Political participation and vote choice; 2) political campaigns, political communication and persuasion; and 3) the governance of natural resources.
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Motivated to forgive? Partisan scandals and party supporters Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2023-08-01 Kick Off Roundtable: The State of Migration in Canada This public roundtable launches the series “International Migration: From Root Causes to Drivers” by exploring the current and future state of migration in Canada. The discussion highlights shifting domestic policies and evolving global migration trends, examining their impacts on Canadian society, the economy, and politics. The session is chaired by Naomi Alboim, with an expert panel comprising leading academics and senior government officials in migration policy and research.
Other University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, Toronto Metropolitan University Activity 2025-05-13 Other Measuring Transgender and Nonbinary Identities in Online Surveys: Evidence from Two National Election Studies ABSTRACT Survey researchers increasingly recognize the need to update their gender questions to recognize the existence of transgender and nonbinary people. In this research note, we evaluate changes to the Canadian Election Study (CES) gender questions from 2019 to 2021. Our analyses suggest researchers should add “nonbinary” as a close-ended option and an open-ended response option to gender identity questions. They also suggest that researchers should not include “transgender” in a separate, mutually exclusive response option alongside men and women in gender identity questions but instead identify transgender men and women through a follow-up question. These recommendations can help guide the design of future surveys. Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2025-03-18 Quinn M Albaugh, Allison Harell, Peter John Loewen,
Rubenson, D. , Laura B Stephenson
From Gender Gap to Gender Gaps: Bringing Nonbinary People into Political Behavior Research The “gender gap” in voting is one of the most well-documented findings in survey research across democracies. However, gender gap research has traditionally assumed that everyone is either a man or a woman, which does not account for the growing number of people who identify as nonbinary. How do nonbinary people differ from men and women in their party identification and voting behavior? We answer this question using data from the 2021 Canadian Election Study online panel, which has a large enough subsample of nonbinary respondents to identify gaps in party identification and voting behavior. Nonbinary people are much less likely to identify with and vote for the Liberal Party or Conservative Party and much more likely to identify with and vote for the social democratic New Democratic Party (NDP) than both men and women. Many of these gaps persist even when restricting the analysis to LGBTQ respondents, adjusting for demographic variables that predict nonbinary identity, and adjusting for issue attitudes. Nonbinary people’s distinctiveness from men and women suggests that researchers need to add nonbinary response options to gender questions and, wherever possible, incorporate nonbinary people into analyses of gender and politics. Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2024-08-07 Quinn M Albaugh, Allison Harell, Peter John Loewen,
Rubenson, D. , Laura B Stephenson
Executive Director of Evidence in Governance and Politics Toronto Metropolitan University Award 2024-06-19 TMU IT Conference – Digital Methods for TikTok Research Other Toronto Metropolitan University, Concordia University Event 2025-05-21 Other Research Dialogue Series TRS4 3.2 Toronto Metropolitan University, University of Toronto Event 2026-05-13 TRS4 3.2 Research Dialogue Series TRS4 3.2 Toronto Metropolitan University, University of Toronto Event 2026-04-22 TRS4 3.2 EGAP: Evidence in Governance and Politics Network TRS4 1.1 Toronto Metropolitan University Grant 2024-09-02 TRS4 1.1 Evidence in Governance and Politics TRS4 3.2 Toronto Metropolitan University Grant 2023-08-01 TRS4 3.2
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