"From Democratic Resilience to Recession"

The conference begins on Monday! Keynote addresses by Steven Levitsky, Ashley Jardina, and Robert Mickey.

Tuesday is sold out, but there are still a few registration spots available for Monday: alumni.mcgill.ca/aoc/events-t...

Check out Professor Yann Allard-Tremblay's new book, now available from Oxford University Press. You can read the introductory chapter for free here: academic.oup.com/book/60793/c...

See you tonight!

Amy Janzwood @amyjanzwood.bsky.social 's book _Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance_ is coming out soon from UBC Press. A book launch will be held Nov 26, 4:30-5:30 pm, Thomson House; she will be in conversation about the book with Darin Barney.

Open to all, RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...

A few alum tickets are still left for this Poli Sci Homecoming roundtable next week

with @excubs.bsky.social @danielbeland.bsky.social @popovaprof.bsky.social @debthompsonphd.bsky.social @jacobtlevy.bsky.social

Reserve: www.eventbrite.ca/e/democracy-...
Give: www.alumni.mcgill.ca/give/?new=1&...

Fall 2025 newsletter

(Now updated with the correction that *nine,* not eight, of the 343 seats in the parliament elected this year are held by alumni of the department.)

And (separately) registration is still open for the alumni Homecoming week roundtable "Democracy under Pressure: What’s at Stake for Canada and the World"

www.eventbrite.ca/e/democracy-...

Registration is open for the inaugural conference for the Diamond-Brown Chair in Democratic Studies!

"From Democratic Resilience to Recession: Global and Canadian Perspectives on Authoritarian Backsliding."

alumni.mcgill.ca/aoc/events-t...

Inaugural conference of the newly established Center for Global Chinese Studies at McGill

"Understanding the Future of China's Economy in Canada"

Friday, October 3, at the Faculty Club.

The conference is cosponsored by Global Affairs Canada.

The Department will participate in an online information session for students interested in applying for the MA in Poli Sci, held jointly w the McCall MacBain Scholarship Program, Economics, & the Max Bell School.

4 Sept noon

Register:
apply.mccallmacbainscholars.org/register/eco...

Congratulations to the McGill Political Science alumni serving in our next parliament: @AnnaMGainey.bsky.social, Secretary of State (Children and Youth); and MPs Raquel Dancho, @KarinaGould.bsky.social, @AIaconoMP.bsky.social, Patricia Lattanzio, Scott Reid, Jonathan Wilkinson, and John Williamson!

@jacobtlevy.bsky.social, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, has published a new op-ed in The Washington Post on the Qatari government's gift of a jumbo jet to President Trump and legal loopholes

👉 Read the full article here: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...