Elisabeth Gidengil

Elisabeth Gidengil (born ) She earned her PhD in political science from McGill University.

Career Gidengil has been an author on numerous books, as well as journal articles in venues like the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Political Behavior, and Electoral Studies. She and her co-authors received the American Political Science Association's 1997 prize for the best paper presented at the previous year's meeting for their paper "The 1993 Canadian Election: Realignment, Dealignment, or Something Else?" Her co-authored books include The Unsteady State: The 1997 Canadian Federal Election (2000), Citizens (2004), and Dominance and Decline: Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections (2012).

Gidengil was a member of the Canadian Election Study team from 1992 until 2008, and was the principal investigator of the study in 2008. She remained the Director until 2013, She has been an editor for selective political science journals, notably the European Political Science Review. Gidengil received an honorary doctorate from the Université Laval in June 2014.

Gidengil has been extensively cited in popular media reports on topics like Canadian politics and vote choice in venues like the FiveThirtyEight, the CBC, Maclean's, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Winnipeg Free Press, and her work has been recommended by The Hill Times.

Selected works Citizens. With André Blais, Neil Nevitte, and Richard Nadeau. 2004 "Where does turnout decline come from?" With André Blais and Neil Nevitte, European journal of political research. 2004 Dominance and Decline: Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections. With Neil Nevitte, Andre Blais, Joanna Everitt, and Patrick Fournier. 2012

Selected honours and awards Best Paper Award, American Political Science Association, 1997 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2013