Posts | Simon J. Kiss

My colleague George Wootten and I have a new paper in the Canadian Journal of Political Science out in which we survey journalists, …

Nov 29, 2018 5 min read LISPOP

Introduction As Ontario voters consider their choices in municipal elections, a new report by the Laurier Institute for the Study of …

Oct 18, 2018 5 min read LISPOP

Now that August is upon us, academics around the world are sweating a little bit about getting back to the grind of teaching. I wanted …

Aug 13, 2018 2 min read R

It seems like one of the priorities of the new Ford government is to take a harder line dealing with refugees and asylum-seekers in …

Jul 21, 2018 3 min read

A friend was wondering whether or not The Toronto Star or the Toronto Sun newspapers reached more New Democrats. So I decided to take a …

Jul 18, 2018 1 min read

A lot of people will be watching the results of the Ontario general election tonight, me among them. While most people will be poring …

Jun 7, 2018 2 min read

The dataverse is an initiative associated with Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences. It establishes a …

May 2, 2018 3 min read

Yesterday, I showed some data that showed that Rob Ford was very popular among visible minorities, which cast some doubt on the …

Mar 13, 2018 4 min read

Ontario politics got a lot more interesting on the weekend. It’s timely for myself and another colleague as we are preparing to finally …

Mar 12, 2018 3 min read

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party is putting on quite a show these days. As a side project, a colleague and I decided to …

Mar 2, 2018 5 min read