Evelyne Brie
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evelyne Brie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evelyne |
| FAMILY NAME | Brie |
| SIGNATURE | BRIE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9549-1794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Myth of the Traditional Gender Gap? Evidence from Catholic Countries
In rich democracies today, women are less conservative than men. Yet for most of the twentieth century, politicians, pundits, and scholars believed that family life and religiosity tied women to conservative causes and parties. Recent scholarship has reexamined this traditional gender gap hypothesis but has done so in cases in which electorate-wide shifts to the left make it least likely that a conservative gender gap would emerge. This article s…
Who We Are and How We Came To Be
How do narratives regarding Canada’s founding nations/peoples differ across provincial citizenship education curricula? We analyze 84 currently active secondary-level curriculum documents (history, social studies, civics/citizenship, grades 5+) from all ten provinces. Using a keyword-guided content analysis, we code five indicators—(1) recognition of three founding nations/peoples, (2) their foundational influence on Canadian identity, (3) the fr…
Quebec National Symbolism and Its Effects on Political Attitudes
Attachment to symbols is a fundamental component of nationalism. In plurinational countries, however, competing historical narratives may uniquely influence the shaping of political identities. Drawing on data from an exclusive survey conducted in 2022 ( n = 1180), this research note explores a previously unobserved aspect of minority nationalism: multilevel symbolic webs, using the province of Quebec in Canada as a case study. Employing latent c…
Strained ties in plurinational states
Patterns of social networks in plurinational societies remain understudied in the inter‐group contact literature. In Canada, a significant number of authors have studied political divides between Quebecers and other Canadians, but little is still known about the scope and determinants of the social disconnect between both communities. This paper provides the first quantitative measure of the social networking gap between Canada's ‘two solitudes’ …
Can Latin American Voters see the Future
The present study examined whether Argentinian citizens could predict election results at the sub-national level. We targeted Argentinian Twitter users in seven provinces with polls using Twitter Ads. Argentinian Twitter users constitute a high-ability subgroup that possesses several characteristics that enhance citizen forecasting competence. The polls asked citizens to predict what party would win the first round of the upcoming presidential el…
Measuring Policy Diffusion in Federal Systems
Existing studies of policy diffusion rely on quantitative or qualitative methods depending on the number of cases and the policy at hand. Studies of diffusion in Canada, for instance, almost exclusively use qualitative techniques due to the limited number of subnational units. In this article, we explore whether machine learning techniques can complement qualitative approaches in these contexts. In 2015, the Canadian federal government decided to…
Linguistic Cleavages in Canadian Political Science
Academics across Canada, an officially bilingual and multicultural country, devote a lot of attention to diversity and representation. This is particularly true for political scientists. In this research note, we focus on the linguistic composition of panels and overall linguistic fragmentation of the most important in-person event for Canadian political science: the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA). To do so, w…
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…
Analyse des bulletins de vote rejetés et de l'effet du rallye pour l'unité canadienne lors du référendum québécois de 1995
À la lumière de récents développements en politique québécoise, le présent article jette un regard critique sur deux éléments controversés entourant la légitimité du référendum sur la souveraineté du Québec de 1995, soit (1) le rejet de bulletins de vote le jour du scrutin et (2) l'effet du rallye pour l'unité canadienne tenu le 27 octobre 1995. Cette analyse mobilise des données historiques agrégées d’Élections Québec ainsi que des données indiv…
Religiosity matters
Secularism—i.e., the separation between the state and religious institutions—is a fundamental characteristic of liberal democracies, yet support for secular arrangements varies significantly across Western countries. In Canada, such attitudinal divergences are observable at the regional level, with citizens from Quebec displaying higher levels of support for secularism than other Canadians. In this paper, we test three hypotheses to account for t…
Exposure to English as a determinant of support for Quebec independence in the 2018 Quebec elections
Tones from a Narrowing Race
The use of negative political communication is a predominant characteristic of modern politics. However, literature doesn't provide an answer to the following question: what explains fluctuations in the use of negative messages within political organisations during a given political campaign? The present paper examines this question in the context of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Data consists of all tweets distributed by the officia…
Exposure to English as a determinant of support for Quebec independence in the 2018 Quebec elections
Tones from a Narrowing Race
The use of negative political communication is a predominant characteristic of modern politics. However, literature doesn't provide an answer to the following question: what explains fluctuations in the use of negative messages within political organisations during a given political campaign? The present paper examines this question in the context of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Data consists of all tweets distributed by the officia…
Strained ties in plurinational states
Patterns of social networks in plurinational societies remain understudied in the inter‐group contact literature. In Canada, a significant number of authors have studied political divides between Quebecers and other Canadians, but little is still known about the scope and determinants of the social disconnect between both communities. This paper provides the first quantitative measure of the social networking gap between Canada's ‘two solitudes’ …
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…
Religiosity matters
Secularism—i.e., the separation between the state and religious institutions—is a fundamental characteristic of liberal democracies, yet support for secular arrangements varies significantly across Western countries. In Canada, such attitudinal divergences are observable at the regional level, with citizens from Quebec displaying higher levels of support for secularism than other Canadians. In this paper, we test three hypotheses to account for t…
Exposure to English as a determinant of support for Quebec independence in the 2018 Quebec elections
Tones from a Narrowing Race
The use of negative political communication is a predominant characteristic of modern politics. However, literature doesn't provide an answer to the following question: what explains fluctuations in the use of negative messages within political organisations during a given political campaign? The present paper examines this question in the context of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Data consists of all tweets distributed by the officia…
Analyse des bulletins de vote rejetés et de l'effet du rallye pour l'unité canadienne lors du référendum québécois de 1995
À la lumière de récents développements en politique québécoise, le présent article jette un regard critique sur deux éléments controversés entourant la légitimité du référendum sur la souveraineté du Québec de 1995, soit (1) le rejet de bulletins de vote le jour du scrutin et (2) l'effet du rallye pour l'unité canadienne tenu le 27 octobre 1995. Cette analyse mobilise des données historiques agrégées d’Élections Québec ainsi que des données indiv…
Religiosity matters
Secularism—i.e., the separation between the state and religious institutions—is a fundamental characteristic of liberal democracies, yet support for secular arrangements varies significantly across Western countries. In Canada, such attitudinal divergences are observable at the regional level, with citizens from Quebec displaying higher levels of support for secularism than other Canadians. In this paper, we test three hypotheses to account for t…
Can Latin American Voters see the Future
The present study examined whether Argentinian citizens could predict election results at the sub-national level. We targeted Argentinian Twitter users in seven provinces with polls using Twitter Ads. Argentinian Twitter users constitute a high-ability subgroup that possesses several characteristics that enhance citizen forecasting competence. The polls asked citizens to predict what party would win the first round of the upcoming presidential el…
Measuring Policy Diffusion in Federal Systems
Existing studies of policy diffusion rely on quantitative or qualitative methods depending on the number of cases and the policy at hand. Studies of diffusion in Canada, for instance, almost exclusively use qualitative techniques due to the limited number of subnational units. In this article, we explore whether machine learning techniques can complement qualitative approaches in these contexts. In 2015, the Canadian federal government decided to…
Linguistic Cleavages in Canadian Political Science
Academics across Canada, an officially bilingual and multicultural country, devote a lot of attention to diversity and representation. This is particularly true for political scientists. In this research note, we focus on the linguistic composition of panels and overall linguistic fragmentation of the most important in-person event for Canadian political science: the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA). To do so, w…
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…
Quebec National Symbolism and Its Effects on Political Attitudes
Attachment to symbols is a fundamental component of nationalism. In plurinational countries, however, competing historical narratives may uniquely influence the shaping of political identities. Drawing on data from an exclusive survey conducted in 2022 ( n = 1180), this research note explores a previously unobserved aspect of minority nationalism: multilevel symbolic webs, using the province of Quebec in Canada as a case study. Employing latent c…
Strained ties in plurinational states
Patterns of social networks in plurinational societies remain understudied in the inter‐group contact literature. In Canada, a significant number of authors have studied political divides between Quebecers and other Canadians, but little is still known about the scope and determinants of the social disconnect between both communities. This paper provides the first quantitative measure of the social networking gap between Canada's ‘two solitudes’ …
The Myth of the Traditional Gender Gap? Evidence from Catholic Countries
In rich democracies today, women are less conservative than men. Yet for most of the twentieth century, politicians, pundits, and scholars believed that family life and religiosity tied women to conservative causes and parties. Recent scholarship has reexamined this traditional gender gap hypothesis but has done so in cases in which electorate-wide shifts to the left make it least likely that a conservative gender gap would emerge. This article s…
Who We Are and How We Came To Be
How do narratives regarding Canada’s founding nations/peoples differ across provincial citizenship education curricula? We analyze 84 currently active secondary-level curriculum documents (history, social studies, civics/citizenship, grades 5+) from all ten provinces. Using a keyword-guided content analysis, we code five indicators—(1) recognition of three founding nations/peoples, (2) their foundational influence on Canadian identity, (3) the fr…
Political science (11 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Independence (probability theory (3 works) · Political Systems and Governance (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)