Introduction
A. Bittner, J. S. Matthews, and S. Soroka
Parties and Party Systems: Canada in Comparative Context
1. The Two Faces of Canadian Party Competition
R.K. Carty
2. Modern American Politics: The Analytic History
Byron E. Shafer
3. Generalizing the Engine of Fragmentation: Quantitatively Modeling the Observed Contra-Duvergerian Patterns
Matthew S. Shugart and Cory L. Struthers
Social Foundations: Understanding Traditional Questions through the Lens of Contemporary Contexts
4. Families and the Fate of Party Systems
Richard Johnston
5. Gods and Votes: A Granular Look at the Relationship between Religion and Voting Behaviour in Canada
Alexis Bibeau, Marc André Bodet, and Yannick Dufresne
6. Is Quebec’s Distinctiveness an Artefact?
Patrick Fournier and André Blais
7. Concepts and Methods: How Definitions and Techniques Matter for Women’s Political Participation
Brenda O’Neill
8. Multiculturalism Policy in the Vernacular: Public Opinion the Canada and the US
Matthew Wright
9. Who Leads? The Delicate Dances of Party Elites and Partisans: Immigration Attitudes and Partisanship in Canada, 1980–2019
Stuart Soroka and Keith Banting
Campaigns and Persuasion
10. Do Election Campaigns Tighten the Margin of Victory? A Cross-National Analysis
Julia Partheymüller
11. Voters, Media Biases, and Rolling Cross-Sections: Persuasive Effects of TV News on Party Evaluations at the 2005 to 2017 German Federal Elections
Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Alexander Staudt
12. Media Image and Voter Perception of Candidates in the 2015 Canadian Election
Amanda Bittner and David A.M. Peterson
13. Cognitive Preconditions for Direct Poll Effects on Voters: Evidence on Attention, Retention, and Judgments of Applicability
Fred Cutler, J. Scott Matthews, and Mark Pickup
