Elizabeth McCallion
@emgmccallion.bsky.social
Political scientist studying gender, representation, and 🇨🇦 parliament. PhD from Queen’s. Asst Prof, Teaching Stream (CLTA) at U of T. She/her
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For @policyoptions.irpp.org, I wrote about how Canada lags its European and Anglo peers in electing women to parliament, how that harms their reputation, and, drawing on research w/ @dzobrien.bsky.social & Amanda Clayton, why voters prefer gender parity. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/gend...
Canada ranks 71st for women in politics
Canada ranks 71st in the world for women in parliament. Voters support gender quotas to make politics more representative.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
For @policyoptions.irpp.org, I wrote about how Canada lags its European and Anglo peers in electing women to parliament, how that harms their reputation, and, drawing on research w/ @dzobrien.bsky.social & Amanda Clayton, why voters prefer gender parity. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/gend...
🚨 A fantastic opportunity for Canadian Politics grad students! Several of my colleagues and I have had the benefit of this fellowship - beyond the financial award (much appreciated by any grad student), you also get to mobilize your research for scholars, bureaucrats, and parliamentarians 🇨🇦🧑🎓📚
📣The Manon Tremblay Fellowship offers doctoral students the chance to win $10,000 to support their work. Deadline to apply is Friday, October 31, 2025. More details at cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/2025Doct....
October 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🚨 A fantastic opportunity for Canadian Politics grad students! Several of my colleagues and I have had the benefit of this fellowship - beyond the financial award (much appreciated by any grad student), you also get to mobilize your research for scholars, bureaucrats, and parliamentarians 🇨🇦🧑🎓📚
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The deadline for submissions to the Manon Tremblay doctoral fellowship is fast approaching! Make sure to apply by Friday, October 31, 2025. More details: cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/2025Doct...
📣The Manon Tremblay Fellowship offers doctoral students the chance to win $10,000 to support their work. Deadline to apply is Friday, October 31, 2025. More details at cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/2025Doct....
October 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The deadline for submissions to the Manon Tremblay doctoral fellowship is fast approaching! Make sure to apply by Friday, October 31, 2025. More details: cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/2025Doct...
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La date limite pour les soumissions à la Bourse doctorale Manon Tremblay approche à grands pas! Assurez-vous de postuler au plus tard le vendredi 31 octobre 2025. Pour plus de détails: cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/2025Doct...
La Bourse doctorale Manon Tremblay offre la chance aux étudiants et étudiantes au doctorat de gagner 10 000 $ pour soutenir leur travail. La date limite est le vendredi 31 octobre 2025. Plus de détails au cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/2025Doct....
October 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
La date limite pour les soumissions à la Bourse doctorale Manon Tremblay approche à grands pas! Assurez-vous de postuler au plus tard le vendredi 31 octobre 2025. Pour plus de détails: cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/2025Doct...
I’m co-organizing the Opening Parliament event - looking forward to learning about new ideas and hearing some excellent discussion. Register for CSPG events now! 🤩
Our 2025-26 program is here!
Explore Parliamentary Committees (Nov 14), Opening Parliament (Feb 20), and AI/Misinformation (Apr 10).
For more info and to register, click here 👇
cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/Events-2...
Explore Parliamentary Committees (Nov 14), Opening Parliament (Feb 20), and AI/Misinformation (Apr 10).
For more info and to register, click here 👇
cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/Events-2...
July 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I’m co-organizing the Opening Parliament event - looking forward to learning about new ideas and hearing some excellent discussion. Register for CSPG events now! 🤩
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Our 2025-26 program is here!
Explore Parliamentary Committees (Nov 14), Opening Parliament (Feb 20), and AI/Misinformation (Apr 10).
For more info and to register, click here 👇
cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/Events-2...
Explore Parliamentary Committees (Nov 14), Opening Parliament (Feb 20), and AI/Misinformation (Apr 10).
For more info and to register, click here 👇
cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/Events-2...
July 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Our 2025-26 program is here!
Explore Parliamentary Committees (Nov 14), Opening Parliament (Feb 20), and AI/Misinformation (Apr 10).
For more info and to register, click here 👇
cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/Events-2...
Explore Parliamentary Committees (Nov 14), Opening Parliament (Feb 20), and AI/Misinformation (Apr 10).
For more info and to register, click here 👇
cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/Events-2...
Just found the results of my first-ever political science interview: my great-aunt Hazel, who was generous with her time on a Sunday night for my school project when I was 10 years old.
I’m just confused as to why no newspapers published this as her obituary???
I’m just confused as to why no newspapers published this as her obituary???
July 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Just found the results of my first-ever political science interview: my great-aunt Hazel, who was generous with her time on a Sunday night for my school project when I was 10 years old.
I’m just confused as to why no newspapers published this as her obituary???
I’m just confused as to why no newspapers published this as her obituary???
Voice votes are common in the Senate and a key reason why it’s difficult to analyze senators’ behaviour based on just the voting record - majorly important bills are passed and we don’t know how they voted. Speeches (and amendments, if any) give us a clue as to their priorities.
12/105 senators have Indigenous origins. And many of those Indigenous senators played a central role in today's #C5 debate. Many argued against the bill. But several spoke in favour. There was no roll call vote. C5 passed on a voice vote so no record of how each voted.
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Parliamentarians
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June 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Voice votes are common in the Senate and a key reason why it’s difficult to analyze senators’ behaviour based on just the voting record - majorly important bills are passed and we don’t know how they voted. Speeches (and amendments, if any) give us a clue as to their priorities.
New paper in IPSR with @traceyraney.bsky.social! Drawing on the reforms in the Canadian Senate, we argue that institutions in flux can be regendered by the people within them: amidst all the changes, Canadian senators successfully cemented new feminist rules.
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June 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
New paper in IPSR with @traceyraney.bsky.social! Drawing on the reforms in the Canadian Senate, we argue that institutions in flux can be regendered by the people within them: amidst all the changes, Canadian senators successfully cemented new feminist rules.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨
Opportunities and influence: women’s representation and advocacy in the Canadian Parliament
@emgmccallion.bsky.social & Erica Rayment use lobbying records to show women's groups advocacy efforts are greater in Canadian Senate than in the Commons 📊
📖 doi.org/10.1332/2515...
Opportunities and influence: women’s representation and advocacy in the Canadian Parliament
@emgmccallion.bsky.social & Erica Rayment use lobbying records to show women's groups advocacy efforts are greater in Canadian Senate than in the Commons 📊
📖 doi.org/10.1332/2515...
June 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨
Opportunities and influence: women’s representation and advocacy in the Canadian Parliament
@emgmccallion.bsky.social & Erica Rayment use lobbying records to show women's groups advocacy efforts are greater in Canadian Senate than in the Commons 📊
📖 doi.org/10.1332/2515...
Opportunities and influence: women’s representation and advocacy in the Canadian Parliament
@emgmccallion.bsky.social & Erica Rayment use lobbying records to show women's groups advocacy efforts are greater in Canadian Senate than in the Commons 📊
📖 doi.org/10.1332/2515...
New article with Erica Rayment in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social! We observe that women’s groups disproportionately shifted their lobbying attn to the Cdn Senate following reforms, suggesting that they understand institutional context and act accordingly.
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June 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
New article with Erica Rayment in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social! We observe that women’s groups disproportionately shifted their lobbying attn to the Cdn Senate following reforms, suggesting that they understand institutional context and act accordingly.
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Doing a happy dance because two @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social books are shortlisted for @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social's 2025 Smiley Prize! 💃
What Women Represent: a "superb book", say the endorsers.
The Great White North: "this kind of work is very rare" and "required reading", they attest.
What Women Represent: a "superb book", say the endorsers.
The Great White North: "this kind of work is very rare" and "required reading", they attest.
May 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Doing a happy dance because two @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social books are shortlisted for @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social's 2025 Smiley Prize! 💃
What Women Represent: a "superb book", say the endorsers.
The Great White North: "this kind of work is very rare" and "required reading", they attest.
What Women Represent: a "superb book", say the endorsers.
The Great White North: "this kind of work is very rare" and "required reading", they attest.
Big day for me - I finally have an answer to my students’ perennial question “what happens if the party does well but the leader loses their seat?”
April 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Big day for me - I finally have an answer to my students’ perennial question “what happens if the party does well but the leader loses their seat?”
Me, a poli sci prof, watching the leaders debate: “A fourth Liberal term?! Governments in Canada don’t have terms! We count by tenure in office over the course of parliaments!”
I think I might be stuck in exam grading mode.
I think I might be stuck in exam grading mode.
April 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Me, a poli sci prof, watching the leaders debate: “A fourth Liberal term?! Governments in Canada don’t have terms! We count by tenure in office over the course of parliaments!”
I think I might be stuck in exam grading mode.
I think I might be stuck in exam grading mode.
My new op-ed with Rebecca Wallace about the lack of gender parity in Carney’s new cabinet. We hope gender-equal cabinets will be expected by Canadians, not just a one-off under Trudeau. #InformedOpinions is calling for us to #BalanceThePower
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
Why gender parity matters in cabinet
Almost a decade of gender-balanced federal cabinets have paved the way for new women appointees.
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March 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My new op-ed with Rebecca Wallace about the lack of gender parity in Carney’s new cabinet. We hope gender-equal cabinets will be expected by Canadians, not just a one-off under Trudeau. #InformedOpinions is calling for us to #BalanceThePower
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
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NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
Toward a Qualitative Study of the American Voter
By Anna Berg & @stephanieternullo.bsky.social
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Toward a Qualitative Study of the American Voter
By Anna Berg & @stephanieternullo.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/4gN6cFR
February 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
Toward a Qualitative Study of the American Voter
By Anna Berg & @stephanieternullo.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/4gN6cFR
Toward a Qualitative Study of the American Voter
By Anna Berg & @stephanieternullo.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/4gN6cFR
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My new piece in @pspolisci.bsky.social: % of gender & LGBTQIA+ articles in 6 polisci journals. Takeaway: gender articles abt ~6%; LGBTQIA+ articles, <1%. Nearly all use quant methods & men are greater % authors than their % membership in respective APSA sections. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals
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January 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
My new piece in @pspolisci.bsky.social: % of gender & LGBTQIA+ articles in 6 polisci journals. Takeaway: gender articles abt ~6%; LGBTQIA+ articles, <1%. Nearly all use quant methods & men are greater % authors than their % membership in respective APSA sections. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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📢New issue of #PAG20 is out!📢
@emgmccallion.bsky.social investigates the conditions under which legislators talk about gender in the 🇨🇦 Senate in "Partisanship, Independence, and the Constitutive Representation of Women in the Canadian Senate"
polisky gendersky
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@emgmccallion.bsky.social investigates the conditions under which legislators talk about gender in the 🇨🇦 Senate in "Partisanship, Independence, and the Constitutive Representation of Women in the Canadian Senate"
polisky gendersky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📢New issue of #PAG20 is out!📢
@emgmccallion.bsky.social investigates the conditions under which legislators talk about gender in the 🇨🇦 Senate in "Partisanship, Independence, and the Constitutive Representation of Women in the Canadian Senate"
polisky gendersky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@emgmccallion.bsky.social investigates the conditions under which legislators talk about gender in the 🇨🇦 Senate in "Partisanship, Independence, and the Constitutive Representation of Women in the Canadian Senate"
polisky gendersky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...