Barry J Kay
Biographic Data
| ID | 787406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry J Kay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kay |
| SIGNATURE | KAY B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Voting Behaviour among the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Electorate
The gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) population is a good example of a demographic group that has been understudied because it is difficult to develop a subsample of sufficient size from typical national samples. Here we exploit the extraordinary size of a 2006 online election day survey (with about 35,000 respondents) to examine how the GLBT community behaves politically. While it will surprise no one that this community bestowed …
Revisiting Local Campaign Effects: An Experiment Involving Literature Mail Drops in the 2007 Ontario Election
An invariant feature of constituency election campaigns is the literature mail drop, usually a one-page leaflet or card left at the door profiling the candidate and appealing for electoral support. In this article, we report on a field experiment designed to assess the effects of such mail drops. The experiment was conducted during the 2007 Ontario provincial election campaign in the constituency of Cambridge and entailed distributing literature …
Voter Dealignment or Campaign Effects? Accounting for Political Preferences in Ontario
Elections in Canada are rarely subject to the delays in voting counts present in the United States. For Americans, the time required to count hundreds of millions of ballots has made exit polls an attractive option to political commentators hoping to fill the void between the close of polls and the confirmation of results. Often face-to-face surveys with individuals leaving the ballot box, exit polls not only allow for a quick prediction of elect…
Exit Polling in Canada: An Experiment
Although exit polling has not been used to study Canadian elections before, such polls have methodological features that make them a potentially useful complement to data collected through more conventional designs. This paper reports on an experiment with exit polling in one constituency in the 2003 Ontario provincial election. Using student volunteers, a research team at Wilfrid Laurier University conducted an exit poll in the bellwether consti…
Thirty Million Musketeers: One Canada, for All Canadians
On Lipset's Measurement of Voluntary Association Affiliation Differences between Canada and the United States
James E. Curtis, Ronald D. Lambert, Steven D. Brown, Barry J. Kay, On Lipset's Measurement of Voluntary Association Affiliation Differences between Canada and the United States, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 383-389
Affiliating with Voluntary Associations: Canadian-American Comparisons
James E. Curtis, Steven D. Brown, Ronald D. Lambert, Barry J. Kay, Affiliating with Voluntary Associations: Canadian-American Comparisons, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Spring, 1989), pp. 143-161
Feminist consciousness and the Canadian electorate: A review of national election studies 1965-1984
The Social Sources of Political Knowledge
The study explored the sources of political knowledge using data from the 1984 Canadian National Election Study. Two dimensions of political knowledge were measured: factual knowledge, in which respondents were asked to name the 10 provincial premiers; and conceptual knowledge, in terms of respondents’ abilities to define and use the concepts of left and right. The authors tested four explanations of people's levels of political knowledge; these …
In the Eye of the Beholder: Leader Images in Canada
The “leader factor” in Canadian voting has received surprisingly little research attention. In this article, the authors employ data from the 1974, 1979, 1980 and 1984 Canadian National Election Studies to examine the organization of respondents' images of the major political party leaders. The central thesis developed here is that respondents' images of the leaders are not typically idiosyncratic to the leader or to the election in question. The…
The Left/Right Factor in Party Identification
Ronald D. Lambert, James E. Curtis, Steven D. Brown, Barry J. Kay, The Left/Right Factor in Party Identification, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 385-406
Social class, lefthight political orientations, and subjective class voting in provincial and federal elections
Nous proposons ici une étude comparative des niveaux de vote de classe subjectif (vcs) au Canada, aux échelles provinciale et fédérale, au moyen des données de l'Etude électorale nationale de 1984. Sont considérées les différences interprovinciales, et l'influence du statut socio‐éonomique ( sse ) et de certaines variables psycho‐sociales sur le niveau du vcs. Notre analyse indique que le vcs est généralement plus élevé lors déections provinciale…
The Paradox of Mass PoliticsW. Russell Neuman Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986, pp. 241
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Gender and Political Activity in Canada, 1965–1984
This note addresses questions relating to the level of women's political activity and specific obstacles that restrict it. The work of Black and McGlen, showing a decrease in the traditional participation differences between Canadian men and women, is replicated over an expanded series of six national election studies. The results challenge the suggestion that there has been a decline in difference over time, and there is an attempt to account fo…
Effects of Identification with Governing Parties on Feelings of Political Efficacy and Trust
The authors tested predictions concerning the effects of respondents' identification with governing versus opposition political parties on feelings of political efficacy and trust, using data from the 1984 Canadian National Election Study. Dependent variables were political competence, perceived system responsiveness, and political trust, each measured federally and provincially. Respondents who supported the party in power scored significantly h…
In Search of Left/Right Beliefs in the Canadian Electorate
We report on findings from alternative ways of assessing the meaning given to “left” and “right” by respondents in the 1984 National Election Study. Approximately 40 per cent of the sample supplied definitions of the concepts; in comparison, about 60 per cent stated their feelings toward left-wingers and right-wingers and described their political orientations using a seven-point left/right rating scale. Left signified socialism or communism for …
Canadians' Beliefs about Differences between Social Classes
Ronald D. Lambert, Steven D. Brown, James E. Curtis, Barry J. Kay, Canadians' Beliefs about Differences between Social Classes, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 379-399
Urban Decision-Making and the Legislative Environment: Toronto Council Re-examined
Recent years have witnessed an increased attention toward legislative decision-making in urban Canada. Various studies have been undertaken which attempt to analyze the fundamental patterns of city council voting in different Canadian centres. Although influenced theoretically by discussions in the American legislative voting literature, they have frequently detected trends at variance with findings in the United States. Nevertheless, the directi…
By-Elections as Indicators of Canadian Voting
Les élections partielles attirent fortement l'attention lorsqu' elles paraissent être annonciatrices d'événements prochains et elles suscitent de nombreuses spéculations sur leur pertinence pour les élections futures. Malgré cela, il y a peu de preuves systématiques du pouvoir prédictif des élections partielles.Parmi les hypothèses spécifiques étudiées dans cet article, il est suggéré que les élections partielles sont des idiosyncrasies échappant…
Rules and Racial EqualityEdwin Dorn New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979, pp. xii, 158
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Examination of Class and Left-Right Party Images in Canadian Voting
The systematic investigation of party-projected images is a relatively recent development in political science. Past studies into this subject have largely dealt with the perceptions of political parties held by various groups, and the perceived mobility of the parties over time with regard to selected dimensions. For the determination of party images held by individuals, most previous works in the field have made use of the semantic differential…
Voting Patterns in a Non-partisan Legislature: A Study of Toronto City Council
L'étude se veut une contribution à la recherche quelque peu négligée de la prise de décision en politique municipale au Canada. Elle est centrée sur le Conseil municipal de Toronto, pour la période antérieure à l'apparition de partis politiques municipaux; le Conseil est examiné à l'aide d'un modèle de jeu dans un corps législatif non-partisan. La problématique de l'étude emprunte à la littérature traitant du comportement législatif et de la théo…
Race and Residence in Wilmington, Delaware
Population Change and Its Concomitant Problems
The Social Sources of Political Knowledge
The study explored the sources of political knowledge using data from the 1984 Canadian National Election Study. Two dimensions of political knowledge were measured: factual knowledge, in which respondents were asked to name the 10 provincial premiers; and conceptual knowledge, in terms of respondents’ abilities to define and use the concepts of left and right. The authors tested four explanations of people's levels of political knowledge; these …
Effects of Identification with Governing Parties on Feelings of Political Efficacy and Trust
The authors tested predictions concerning the effects of respondents' identification with governing versus opposition political parties on feelings of political efficacy and trust, using data from the 1984 Canadian National Election Study. Dependent variables were political competence, perceived system responsiveness, and political trust, each measured federally and provincially. Respondents who supported the party in power scored significantly h…
In the Eye of the Beholder: Leader Images in Canada
The “leader factor” in Canadian voting has received surprisingly little research attention. In this article, the authors employ data from the 1974, 1979, 1980 and 1984 Canadian National Election Studies to examine the organization of respondents' images of the major political party leaders. The central thesis developed here is that respondents' images of the leaders are not typically idiosyncratic to the leader or to the election in question. The…
In Search of Left/Right Beliefs in the Canadian Electorate
We report on findings from alternative ways of assessing the meaning given to “left” and “right” by respondents in the 1984 National Election Study. Approximately 40 per cent of the sample supplied definitions of the concepts; in comparison, about 60 per cent stated their feelings toward left-wingers and right-wingers and described their political orientations using a seven-point left/right rating scale. Left signified socialism or communism for …
Voting Behaviour among the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Electorate
The gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) population is a good example of a demographic group that has been understudied because it is difficult to develop a subsample of sufficient size from typical national samples. Here we exploit the extraordinary size of a 2006 online election day survey (with about 35,000 respondents) to examine how the GLBT community behaves politically. While it will surprise no one that this community bestowed …
An Examination of Class and Left-Right Party Images in Canadian Voting
The systematic investigation of party-projected images is a relatively recent development in political science. Past studies into this subject have largely dealt with the perceptions of political parties held by various groups, and the perceived mobility of the parties over time with regard to selected dimensions. For the determination of party images held by individuals, most previous works in the field have made use of the semantic differential…
Gender and Political Activity in Canada, 1965–1984
This note addresses questions relating to the level of women's political activity and specific obstacles that restrict it. The work of Black and McGlen, showing a decrease in the traditional participation differences between Canadian men and women, is replicated over an expanded series of six national election studies. The results challenge the suggestion that there has been a decline in difference over time, and there is an attempt to account fo…
Exit Polling in Canada: An Experiment
Although exit polling has not been used to study Canadian elections before, such polls have methodological features that make them a potentially useful complement to data collected through more conventional designs. This paper reports on an experiment with exit polling in one constituency in the 2003 Ontario provincial election. Using student volunteers, a research team at Wilfrid Laurier University conducted an exit poll in the bellwether consti…
Revisiting Local Campaign Effects: An Experiment Involving Literature Mail Drops in the 2007 Ontario Election
An invariant feature of constituency election campaigns is the literature mail drop, usually a one-page leaflet or card left at the door profiling the candidate and appealing for electoral support. In this article, we report on a field experiment designed to assess the effects of such mail drops. The experiment was conducted during the 2007 Ontario provincial election campaign in the constituency of Cambridge and entailed distributing literature …
Social class, lefthight political orientations, and subjective class voting in provincial and federal elections
Nous proposons ici une étude comparative des niveaux de vote de classe subjectif (vcs) au Canada, aux échelles provinciale et fédérale, au moyen des données de l'Etude électorale nationale de 1984. Sont considérées les différences interprovinciales, et l'influence du statut socio‐éonomique ( sse ) et de certaines variables psycho‐sociales sur le niveau du vcs. Notre analyse indique que le vcs est généralement plus élevé lors déections provinciale…
By-Elections as Indicators of Canadian Voting
Les élections partielles attirent fortement l'attention lorsqu' elles paraissent être annonciatrices d'événements prochains et elles suscitent de nombreuses spéculations sur leur pertinence pour les élections futures. Malgré cela, il y a peu de preuves systématiques du pouvoir prédictif des élections partielles.Parmi les hypothèses spécifiques étudiées dans cet article, il est suggéré que les élections partielles sont des idiosyncrasies échappant…
Voting Patterns in a Non-partisan Legislature: A Study of Toronto City Council
L'étude se veut une contribution à la recherche quelque peu négligée de la prise de décision en politique municipale au Canada. Elle est centrée sur le Conseil municipal de Toronto, pour la période antérieure à l'apparition de partis politiques municipaux; le Conseil est examiné à l'aide d'un modèle de jeu dans un corps législatif non-partisan. La problématique de l'étude emprunte à la littérature traitant du comportement législatif et de la théo…
Affiliating with Voluntary Associations: Canadian-American Comparisons
James E. Curtis, Steven D. Brown, Ronald D. Lambert, Barry J. Kay, Affiliating with Voluntary Associations: Canadian-American Comparisons, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Spring, 1989), pp. 143-161
Canadians' Beliefs about Differences between Social Classes
Ronald D. Lambert, Steven D. Brown, James E. Curtis, Barry J. Kay, Canadians' Beliefs about Differences between Social Classes, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 379-399
Urban Decision-Making and the Legislative Environment: Toronto Council Re-examined
Recent years have witnessed an increased attention toward legislative decision-making in urban Canada. Various studies have been undertaken which attempt to analyze the fundamental patterns of city council voting in different Canadian centres. Although influenced theoretically by discussions in the American legislative voting literature, they have frequently detected trends at variance with findings in the United States. Nevertheless, the directi…
On Lipset's Measurement of Voluntary Association Affiliation Differences between Canada and the United States
James E. Curtis, Ronald D. Lambert, Steven D. Brown, Barry J. Kay, On Lipset's Measurement of Voluntary Association Affiliation Differences between Canada and the United States, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 383-389
The Left/Right Factor in Party Identification
Ronald D. Lambert, James E. Curtis, Steven D. Brown, Barry J. Kay, The Left/Right Factor in Party Identification, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 385-406
Population Change and Its Concomitant Problems
Race and Residence in Wilmington, Delaware
Voting Patterns in a Non-partisan Legislature: A Study of Toronto City Council
L'étude se veut une contribution à la recherche quelque peu négligée de la prise de décision en politique municipale au Canada. Elle est centrée sur le Conseil municipal de Toronto, pour la période antérieure à l'apparition de partis politiques municipaux; le Conseil est examiné à l'aide d'un modèle de jeu dans un corps législatif non-partisan. La problématique de l'étude emprunte à la littérature traitant du comportement législatif et de la théo…
An Examination of Class and Left-Right Party Images in Canadian Voting
The systematic investigation of party-projected images is a relatively recent development in political science. Past studies into this subject have largely dealt with the perceptions of political parties held by various groups, and the perceived mobility of the parties over time with regard to selected dimensions. For the determination of party images held by individuals, most previous works in the field have made use of the semantic differential…
Rules and Racial EqualityEdwin Dorn New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979, pp. xii, 158
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
By-Elections as Indicators of Canadian Voting
Les élections partielles attirent fortement l'attention lorsqu' elles paraissent être annonciatrices d'événements prochains et elles suscitent de nombreuses spéculations sur leur pertinence pour les élections futures. Malgré cela, il y a peu de preuves systématiques du pouvoir prédictif des élections partielles.Parmi les hypothèses spécifiques étudiées dans cet article, il est suggéré que les élections partielles sont des idiosyncrasies échappant…
Urban Decision-Making and the Legislative Environment: Toronto Council Re-examined
Recent years have witnessed an increased attention toward legislative decision-making in urban Canada. Various studies have been undertaken which attempt to analyze the fundamental patterns of city council voting in different Canadian centres. Although influenced theoretically by discussions in the American legislative voting literature, they have frequently detected trends at variance with findings in the United States. Nevertheless, the directi…
Effects of Identification with Governing Parties on Feelings of Political Efficacy and Trust
The authors tested predictions concerning the effects of respondents' identification with governing versus opposition political parties on feelings of political efficacy and trust, using data from the 1984 Canadian National Election Study. Dependent variables were political competence, perceived system responsiveness, and political trust, each measured federally and provincially. Respondents who supported the party in power scored significantly h…
In Search of Left/Right Beliefs in the Canadian Electorate
We report on findings from alternative ways of assessing the meaning given to “left” and “right” by respondents in the 1984 National Election Study. Approximately 40 per cent of the sample supplied definitions of the concepts; in comparison, about 60 per cent stated their feelings toward left-wingers and right-wingers and described their political orientations using a seven-point left/right rating scale. Left signified socialism or communism for …
Canadians' Beliefs about Differences between Social Classes
Ronald D. Lambert, Steven D. Brown, James E. Curtis, Barry J. Kay, Canadians' Beliefs about Differences between Social Classes, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 379-399
Social class, lefthight political orientations, and subjective class voting in provincial and federal elections
Nous proposons ici une étude comparative des niveaux de vote de classe subjectif (vcs) au Canada, aux échelles provinciale et fédérale, au moyen des données de l'Etude électorale nationale de 1984. Sont considérées les différences interprovinciales, et l'influence du statut socio‐éonomique ( sse ) et de certaines variables psycho‐sociales sur le niveau du vcs. Notre analyse indique que le vcs est généralement plus élevé lors déections provinciale…
The Paradox of Mass PoliticsW. Russell Neuman Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986, pp. 241
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Gender and Political Activity in Canada, 1965–1984
This note addresses questions relating to the level of women's political activity and specific obstacles that restrict it. The work of Black and McGlen, showing a decrease in the traditional participation differences between Canadian men and women, is replicated over an expanded series of six national election studies. The results challenge the suggestion that there has been a decline in difference over time, and there is an attempt to account fo…
Feminist consciousness and the Canadian electorate: A review of national election studies 1965-1984
The Social Sources of Political Knowledge
The study explored the sources of political knowledge using data from the 1984 Canadian National Election Study. Two dimensions of political knowledge were measured: factual knowledge, in which respondents were asked to name the 10 provincial premiers; and conceptual knowledge, in terms of respondents’ abilities to define and use the concepts of left and right. The authors tested four explanations of people's levels of political knowledge; these …
In the Eye of the Beholder: Leader Images in Canada
The “leader factor” in Canadian voting has received surprisingly little research attention. In this article, the authors employ data from the 1974, 1979, 1980 and 1984 Canadian National Election Studies to examine the organization of respondents' images of the major political party leaders. The central thesis developed here is that respondents' images of the leaders are not typically idiosyncratic to the leader or to the election in question. The…
The Left/Right Factor in Party Identification
Ronald D. Lambert, James E. Curtis, Steven D. Brown, Barry J. Kay, The Left/Right Factor in Party Identification, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 385-406
On Lipset's Measurement of Voluntary Association Affiliation Differences between Canada and the United States
James E. Curtis, Ronald D. Lambert, Steven D. Brown, Barry J. Kay, On Lipset's Measurement of Voluntary Association Affiliation Differences between Canada and the United States, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 383-389
Affiliating with Voluntary Associations: Canadian-American Comparisons
James E. Curtis, Steven D. Brown, Ronald D. Lambert, Barry J. Kay, Affiliating with Voluntary Associations: Canadian-American Comparisons, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Spring, 1989), pp. 143-161
Thirty Million Musketeers: One Canada, for All Canadians
Voter Dealignment or Campaign Effects? Accounting for Political Preferences in Ontario
Elections in Canada are rarely subject to the delays in voting counts present in the United States. For Americans, the time required to count hundreds of millions of ballots has made exit polls an attractive option to political commentators hoping to fill the void between the close of polls and the confirmation of results. Often face-to-face surveys with individuals leaving the ballot box, exit polls not only allow for a quick prediction of elect…
Exit Polling in Canada: An Experiment
Although exit polling has not been used to study Canadian elections before, such polls have methodological features that make them a potentially useful complement to data collected through more conventional designs. This paper reports on an experiment with exit polling in one constituency in the 2003 Ontario provincial election. Using student volunteers, a research team at Wilfrid Laurier University conducted an exit poll in the bellwether consti…
Revisiting Local Campaign Effects: An Experiment Involving Literature Mail Drops in the 2007 Ontario Election
An invariant feature of constituency election campaigns is the literature mail drop, usually a one-page leaflet or card left at the door profiling the candidate and appealing for electoral support. In this article, we report on a field experiment designed to assess the effects of such mail drops. The experiment was conducted during the 2007 Ontario provincial election campaign in the constituency of Cambridge and entailed distributing literature …
Voting Behaviour among the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Electorate
The gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) population is a good example of a demographic group that has been understudied because it is difficult to develop a subsample of sufficient size from typical national samples. Here we exploit the extraordinary size of a 2006 online election day survey (with about 35,000 respondents) to examine how the GLBT community behaves politically. While it will surprise no one that this community bestowed …
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