ABOUT ME
I am an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University in the Department of Political Science. Before joining Dal I was a postdoctoral fellow at Ryerson University as a member of the Canadian Municipal Election Study (CMES) and a Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher and Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University. Previously I served as a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary and have degrees from Carleton (PhD) and the University of Waterloo (MA and BA). I serve as a team member on a number of international research projects such as the Political Parties Database (PPDB), Members and Activists of Political Parties (Project MAPP), the Party Leaders Database (PLD), and the Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS).
My research interests include intra-party democracy, party organization, and political psychology; and in general my research focusses on questions of participation and representation in party and electoral politics. I have written on a variety of topics including multi-level party integration, party personnel selection, personality and politics, candidate recruitment, and political ambition. With more than 25 publications, my research has appeared in a variety of national and international journals such as Party Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Representation, Regional & Federal Studies, and Politics & Gender as well as chapters in a number of edited volumes.
I am also the co-author of The Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections: A Comparative Perspective (McGill-Queens University Press, 2016) and the co-editor of The Personalization of Democratic Politics and the Challenge for Political Parties (ECPR Press, 2018).
My research interests include intra-party democracy, party organization, and political psychology; and in general my research focusses on questions of participation and representation in party and electoral politics. I have written on a variety of topics including multi-level party integration, party personnel selection, personality and politics, candidate recruitment, and political ambition. With more than 25 publications, my research has appeared in a variety of national and international journals such as Party Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Representation, Regional & Federal Studies, and Politics & Gender as well as chapters in a number of edited volumes.
I am also the co-author of The Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections: A Comparative Perspective (McGill-Queens University Press, 2016) and the co-editor of The Personalization of Democratic Politics and the Challenge for Political Parties (ECPR Press, 2018).