I am an Associate 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 SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary. I have degrees from Carleton (PhD) and the University of Waterloo (MA and BA).
My research interests include intra-party democracy, party organization, and political behaviour/psychology. In general, my research focuses 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. My research has appeared in a variety of national and international journals such as Party Politics, Political Research Quarterly (PRQ), Canadian Journal of Political Science (CJPS), Representation, Regional & Federal Studies, and Politics & Gender as well as chapters in a number of edited volumes. You can find my Google Scholar page here.
I am also the co-author of a number of books, including Voting Online. Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections (McGill-Queens, 2024), The Political Party in Canada (UBC Press, 2022), 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 behaviour/psychology. In general, my research focuses 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. My research has appeared in a variety of national and international journals such as Party Politics, Political Research Quarterly (PRQ), Canadian Journal of Political Science (CJPS), Representation, Regional & Federal Studies, and Politics & Gender as well as chapters in a number of edited volumes. You can find my Google Scholar page here.
I am also the co-author of a number of books, including Voting Online. Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections (McGill-Queens, 2024), The Political Party in Canada (UBC Press, 2022), 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).