“I think Canadians look like all sorts of people”
Ethnicity, political leadership, and the case of Jagmeet Singh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18929271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanie Bouchard (0000-0002-5348-0269, Western University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 316-347 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2056-6085 • E-ISSN: 2056-6085 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/rep.2020.51 |
| OpenAlex | W3177078417 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 63 |
Research into the impact of a politician's sociodemographic profile on vote choice in Westminster-style systems has been hindered by the relative sociodemographic homogeneity of party leaders. Past research has focused mainly on the evaluation of local candidates in the American context, but given that elections in plurality systems are far less candidate-oriented , the evaluation of local candidates tells us little about the prevalence of affinity or discrimination in other contexts. This article investigates the effect of political leaders' ethnicity on political behavior by looking at the case of Jagmeet Singh in Canada, the first federal party leader of color in the country's history. While the literature has shown that the gender of leaders in Canada can matter, little is known about the attitudes of Canadians toward party leaders of color specifically. We are interested in the evaluations of Singh and his party, as well as the shifts in voting intentions between elections in 2015 and 2019. We uncover affinity-based behaviors from individuals who identify as Sikh, as well as a negative reception of Singh's candidacy in Quebec
Candidacy · Ethnic group · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration
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How Xenophobia Shapes Political Party Support
Getting the Picture
Racial discrimination at the polls? The Canadian case of Jagmeet Singh
Where to run? Racialized minority affinities for in-group candidate districts in Canada
Gender Is Not a Proxy
Racial Spillover in Political Attitudes
How Canada Compares
White Identity Activation and Attitudes toward Diversity and Immigration in Canada
New Voters and Old Voters
Racial Attitudes and Vote Choice in National Canadian Elections
Ethnic Cues
The relation between personality and prejudice
Generalized Prejudice
La commission Bouchard-Taylor et la perception des rapports entre « Québécois » et « musulmans » au Québec
The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition
The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination
More Diverse Yet Less Tolerant? How the Increasingly Diverse Racial Landscape Affects White Americans’ Racial Attitudes
The Sage Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination
Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination
Québec Nationalism and the Production of Difference
Barack Obama and the Politics of Blackness
Chameleon politics
Untangling myths and facts
Does Ethnicity Matter? Descriptive Representation in Legislatures and Political Alienation Among Latinos
Talking Tough
A Latino on the Ballot
Anxieties of an Ethnic Transition
Black Candidates and Black Voters
Bloc Voting, Polarization, and the Panethnic Hypothesis
"Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent "Yes
The Simplest Shortcut of All
Follow the (Issue) Leader? The Leader-Led Nexus Revisited
True Colors
Gender Affinity Effects in Vote Choice in Westminster Systems
When Gender and Party Collide
Representation Despite Discrimination
Revisiting Latino Voting
Voters, Emotions, and Race in 2008
Ballot Photographs as Cues in Low‐Information Elections
How Exposure to the Confederate Flag Affects Willingness to Vote for Barack Obama
How Explicit Racial Prejudice Hurt Obama in the 2008 Election
White Voters and African American Candidates for Congress
Fear and Loathing in California
Friendly fire
The electoral effects of the descriptive representation of ethnic minority groups in Australia and the UK
Ethno-Racial Origins of Candidates and Electoral Performance
The Developmental Theory of the Gender Gap
Making Sense of Regional Voting in the 1997 Canadian Federal Election
Opinion Structure of Party Activists
Local Candidate Effects in Canadian Elections
Regional Political Cultures in Canada
Rainbow Coalitions or Inter-minority Conflict? Racial Affinity and Diverse Minority Voters
Back to the Future? Making Sense of the 2004 Canadian Election outside Quebec
Does the Local Candidate Matter? Candidate Effects in the Canadian Election of 2000
Sex (And Ethnicity) in the City
When White Voters Evaluate Black Candidates
Spirals of Trust? The Effect of Descriptive Representation on the Relationship between Citizens and Their Government
Black Candidates, White Voters
Descriptive Representation and the Composition of African American Turnout
Candidate Ethnicity and Vote Choice in Britain
Solidarity through shared disadvantage
Ethnic voting patterns
Les discours sur la laïcité pendant le débat sur la « Charte des valeurs de la laïcité ». Une analyse lexicométrique de la presse francophone québécoise
Who you know
Strategic voting in Canada
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The Ben Carson Effect
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |