Catherine Ouellet
Biographic Data
| ID | 4123303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Ouellet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Ouellet |
| SIGNATURE | OUELLET C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8642-5442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The (In)Effectiveness of Political Advertising in Canada
In an effort to conceptually replicate prior work on persuasion and campaign effects, we conducted three randomized survey experiments to evaluate the persuasive effects of political advertisements during the 2025 Canadian federal election. We tested a total of 15 campaign advertisements on 3,346 respondents. Our results are consistent with what seems to be three robust findings about the effects of campaign advertising: (1) they can change candi…
Lifestyle as a Social Marker
The weakening of traditional social cleavages in predicting political preferences does not mean that group membership for detecting political behaviour no longer exists—it may only be the case that the boundaries of these groups need to be redefined. Using original and unique data, this article investigates the relevance of lifestyle for capturing and delineating social groups sharing political attitudes. Logistic regression machine learning mode…
Striking a major chord
Lessons Learned
Every four years, numerous election-forecasting models attempt to predict the results of the US presidential election. Regardless of the stability of any election system, such as the bipartisan system in the United States, conditions can arise (e.g., candidate resignations) that negatively impact forecasters’ ability to predict electoral outcomes. Citizen forecasting—that is, directly asking respondents who they think will win an election—has a l…
Electoral dynamics in Quebec
The Battle for the Soul of the Nation
This article examines the nationalist rhetoric of Biden and Trump in the 2020 presidential election, focusing on how the candidates represented, and contested, the meaning of American national identity. To do so, we construct a novel analytical framework to undertake a contextual content analysis of Biden and Trump’s campaign tweets (n = 4,321). We demonstrate that the meaning of national identity was a key source of contestation in the election,…
Linguistic threat
In Canada, federal institutions must provide governmental services to all citizens in the country's two official languages: French and English. This paper uses a survey experiment to test exposure to written English as a determinant of support for official bilingualism in the French‐speaking province of Quebec. The data emanate from an exit poll conducted in two Quebec electoral districts during the 2019 Canadian federal elections (n = 430). Resu…
Replicating “Language Matters
This study evaluates the visibility of French-speaking scholars in Canadian political science by analyzing the reading materials assigned in Canadian politics courses. Extending Daoust et al.'s (2022) research, we establish a baseline for their calculations and build an original dataset gathered from all political science departments’ websites and Google Scholar. Our analysis based on three assumptions about the expected academic representation o…
Exit Polls in Canada
Despite their numerous advantages, exit polls are not a common tool in the study of Canadian electoral behaviour. In this methodological note, we use data from two pilot projects to test small-scale exit polls’ accuracy when estimating party support. We mobilize exit-polling data collected in the 2018 Quebec provincial election (four voting locations) and the 2019 federal election in Quebec (two voting locations). We focus on chance error and bia…
Guns for Votes
This article contributes to the emerging literature on wedge issues and on electoral strategies in multiparty electoral systems by studying the implementation and effectiveness of a concerted electoral communication strategy deployed by the Conservative party of Canada around the elimination of the gun registry, in the late 2000s. First, using a quantitative content analysis of the Parliamentary debates from 2006 to 2011, it reveals how the Conse…
For Crown and country
The Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand publics have long been divided on the issue of whether their countries should remain constitutional monarchies or become republics. A maturing sense of nationhood in each country has spurred debate as to the continuing relevance of remaining constitutional ties with Britain. This article aims to test whether support toward monarchy is explained by ethnic nationalism, a conception of nationhood founded on …
MPs, digital world and the media. Have the patterns of mediatisation of French MPs changed with the digital age
Parliamentarians, as political personalities, are also media personalities insofar as political news is very present in the media. The objective of this article is to question the links between the political position, media presence and digital visibility of French deputies elected in 2017. Have the patterns of mediatisation changed with the digital age? What are the relations between the 'positions' occupied by political actors in the media as w…
Is the Death Penalty Debate Really Dead? Contrasting Capital Punishment Support in Canada and the United States
For decades, capital punishment has been a highly divisive topic. Today, most democratic governments have done away with capital punishment, with few exceptions which include the United States. Drawing from the Canadian Election Study (2015) and the American National Election Study (2016), this article explores the underlying value systems that shape contemporary pro‐death penalty opinions in Canada and in the United States. Findings suggest that…
Exposure to English as a determinant of support for Quebec independence in the 2018 Quebec elections
(Un)Covering the Covid-19 Pandemic
The current COVID-19 crisis is unprecedented in recent history. On April 1, 2020, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, warned that the world was facing the most challenging crisis since World War II (Associated Press, 2020). With the pandemic taking on an unprecedented magnitude in the twenty-first century, it quickly monopolized media attention. As of early April, Radar+'s large dataset showed that about 65 per cent of …
Public issues or issue publics? The distribution of genuine political attitudes
There is an inherent conflict between the political marketing model of humans and pioneering theories in electoral behavior research. While political marketing logic implies an issue-based and highly volatile voting behavior, voting theories conventionally assume that positional issues have little effect on how individuals vote, and so parties have little incentive to develop issue-based electoral strategies. However, few people would challenge t…
(Un)Covering the Covid-19 Pandemic
The current COVID-19 crisis is unprecedented in recent history. On April 1, 2020, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, warned that the world was facing the most challenging crisis since World War II (Associated Press, 2020). With the pandemic taking on an unprecedented magnitude in the twenty-first century, it quickly monopolized media attention. As of early April, Radar+'s large dataset showed that about 65 per cent of …
Exposure to English as a determinant of support for Quebec independence in the 2018 Quebec elections
The Battle for the Soul of the Nation
This article examines the nationalist rhetoric of Biden and Trump in the 2020 presidential election, focusing on how the candidates represented, and contested, the meaning of American national identity. To do so, we construct a novel analytical framework to undertake a contextual content analysis of Biden and Trump’s campaign tweets (n = 4,321). We demonstrate that the meaning of national identity was a key source of contestation in the election,…
Guns for Votes
This article contributes to the emerging literature on wedge issues and on electoral strategies in multiparty electoral systems by studying the implementation and effectiveness of a concerted electoral communication strategy deployed by the Conservative party of Canada around the elimination of the gun registry, in the late 2000s. First, using a quantitative content analysis of the Parliamentary debates from 2006 to 2011, it reveals how the Conse…
Replicating “Language Matters
This study evaluates the visibility of French-speaking scholars in Canadian political science by analyzing the reading materials assigned in Canadian politics courses. Extending Daoust et al.'s (2022) research, we establish a baseline for their calculations and build an original dataset gathered from all political science departments’ websites and Google Scholar. Our analysis based on three assumptions about the expected academic representation o…
MPs, digital world and the media. Have the patterns of mediatisation of French MPs changed with the digital age
Parliamentarians, as political personalities, are also media personalities insofar as political news is very present in the media. The objective of this article is to question the links between the political position, media presence and digital visibility of French deputies elected in 2017. Have the patterns of mediatisation changed with the digital age? What are the relations between the 'positions' occupied by political actors in the media as w…
For Crown and country
The Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand publics have long been divided on the issue of whether their countries should remain constitutional monarchies or become republics. A maturing sense of nationhood in each country has spurred debate as to the continuing relevance of remaining constitutional ties with Britain. This article aims to test whether support toward monarchy is explained by ethnic nationalism, a conception of nationhood founded on …
Public issues or issue publics? The distribution of genuine political attitudes
There is an inherent conflict between the political marketing model of humans and pioneering theories in electoral behavior research. While political marketing logic implies an issue-based and highly volatile voting behavior, voting theories conventionally assume that positional issues have little effect on how individuals vote, and so parties have little incentive to develop issue-based electoral strategies. However, few people would challenge t…
Public issues or issue publics? The distribution of genuine political attitudes
There is an inherent conflict between the political marketing model of humans and pioneering theories in electoral behavior research. While political marketing logic implies an issue-based and highly volatile voting behavior, voting theories conventionally assume that positional issues have little effect on how individuals vote, and so parties have little incentive to develop issue-based electoral strategies. However, few people would challenge t…
Is the Death Penalty Debate Really Dead? Contrasting Capital Punishment Support in Canada and the United States
For decades, capital punishment has been a highly divisive topic. Today, most democratic governments have done away with capital punishment, with few exceptions which include the United States. Drawing from the Canadian Election Study (2015) and the American National Election Study (2016), this article explores the underlying value systems that shape contemporary pro‐death penalty opinions in Canada and in the United States. Findings suggest that…
Exposure to English as a determinant of support for Quebec independence in the 2018 Quebec elections
(Un)Covering the Covid-19 Pandemic
The current COVID-19 crisis is unprecedented in recent history. On April 1, 2020, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, warned that the world was facing the most challenging crisis since World War II (Associated Press, 2020). With the pandemic taking on an unprecedented magnitude in the twenty-first century, it quickly monopolized media attention. As of early April, Radar+'s large dataset showed that about 65 per cent of …
For Crown and country
The Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand publics have long been divided on the issue of whether their countries should remain constitutional monarchies or become republics. A maturing sense of nationhood in each country has spurred debate as to the continuing relevance of remaining constitutional ties with Britain. This article aims to test whether support toward monarchy is explained by ethnic nationalism, a conception of nationhood founded on …
MPs, digital world and the media. Have the patterns of mediatisation of French MPs changed with the digital age
Parliamentarians, as political personalities, are also media personalities insofar as political news is very present in the media. The objective of this article is to question the links between the political position, media presence and digital visibility of French deputies elected in 2017. Have the patterns of mediatisation changed with the digital age? What are the relations between the 'positions' occupied by political actors in the media as w…
Guns for Votes
This article contributes to the emerging literature on wedge issues and on electoral strategies in multiparty electoral systems by studying the implementation and effectiveness of a concerted electoral communication strategy deployed by the Conservative party of Canada around the elimination of the gun registry, in the late 2000s. First, using a quantitative content analysis of the Parliamentary debates from 2006 to 2011, it reveals how the Conse…
Lessons Learned
Every four years, numerous election-forecasting models attempt to predict the results of the US presidential election. Regardless of the stability of any election system, such as the bipartisan system in the United States, conditions can arise (e.g., candidate resignations) that negatively impact forecasters’ ability to predict electoral outcomes. Citizen forecasting—that is, directly asking respondents who they think will win an election—has a l…
Electoral dynamics in Quebec
The Battle for the Soul of the Nation
This article examines the nationalist rhetoric of Biden and Trump in the 2020 presidential election, focusing on how the candidates represented, and contested, the meaning of American national identity. To do so, we construct a novel analytical framework to undertake a contextual content analysis of Biden and Trump’s campaign tweets (n = 4,321). We demonstrate that the meaning of national identity was a key source of contestation in the election,…
Linguistic threat
In Canada, federal institutions must provide governmental services to all citizens in the country's two official languages: French and English. This paper uses a survey experiment to test exposure to written English as a determinant of support for official bilingualism in the French‐speaking province of Quebec. The data emanate from an exit poll conducted in two Quebec electoral districts during the 2019 Canadian federal elections (n = 430). Resu…
Replicating “Language Matters
This study evaluates the visibility of French-speaking scholars in Canadian political science by analyzing the reading materials assigned in Canadian politics courses. Extending Daoust et al.'s (2022) research, we establish a baseline for their calculations and build an original dataset gathered from all political science departments’ websites and Google Scholar. Our analysis based on three assumptions about the expected academic representation o…
Exit Polls in Canada
Despite their numerous advantages, exit polls are not a common tool in the study of Canadian electoral behaviour. In this methodological note, we use data from two pilot projects to test small-scale exit polls’ accuracy when estimating party support. We mobilize exit-polling data collected in the 2018 Quebec provincial election (four voting locations) and the 2019 federal election in Quebec (two voting locations). We focus on chance error and bia…
Striking a major chord
The (In)Effectiveness of Political Advertising in Canada
In an effort to conceptually replicate prior work on persuasion and campaign effects, we conducted three randomized survey experiments to evaluate the persuasive effects of political advertisements during the 2025 Canadian federal election. We tested a total of 15 campaign advertisements on 3,346 respondents. Our results are consistent with what seems to be three robust findings about the effects of campaign advertising: (1) they can change candi…
Lifestyle as a Social Marker
The weakening of traditional social cleavages in predicting political preferences does not mean that group membership for detecting political behaviour no longer exists—it may only be the case that the boundaries of these groups need to be redefined. Using original and unique data, this article investigates the relevance of lifestyle for capturing and delineating social groups sharing political attitudes. Logistic regression machine learning mode…
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