Jason Roy

My primary areas of interest include political participation and behaviour, electoral politics, public opinion, and Canadian politics. I am currently engaged in research projects that employ online experiments to assess how individuals form political preferences. I have been especially interested in the interaction between political cognition, political interest and contextual factors that influence the effort allotted to the deliberation process and the preferences that are formed.

I am willing to supervise students interested in political participation and behaviour, electoral politics, public opinion, and Canadian politics.

Books:

• Jason Roy, Shane Singh and Patrick Fournier. 2021. The Power of Polls? A Cross-National Experimental Analysis of the Effects of Campaign Polls. Cambridge University Press.
  
  
• Jason Roy and Chris Alcantara. 2020. Winning and Keeping Power in Canadian Politics. University of Toronto Press.

Journal Articles:

• Joel Marcus and Jason Roy. 2019. “In Search of Sustainable Behaviour: The Role of Core Values and Personality Traits”. Journal of Business Ethics. 158(1), 63-79.
  
  
• Shane Singh and Jason Roy. 2018. “Compulsory Voting and Voter Information Seeking”. Research and Politics. 5(1).
  
  
• Jason Roy and Chris Alcantara. 2016. “Fighting fire with fire: the implications of (not) going negative in a multiparty election campaign”. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 49(3): 473-497.
  
  
• Jason Roy and Anna Esselment. 2016. "Partisans without Parties: Party Systems as Partisan Inhibitors". Canadian Journal of Political Science. 49(1): 21-39.
  
  
• Jason Roy, Shane Singh, Patrick Fournier, and Blake Andrew. 2015. “An Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Campaign Polls on Electoral Information Seeking”. Electoral Studies. 40: pp. 146-157.
  
  
• Jason Roy and David McGrane. 2015. “Explaining Canadian Provincial Voting Behaviour: Nuance or Parsimony?” Canadian Political Science Review. 9(1).
  
  
• Jason Roy, Andrea Perrella, and Joshua Borden. 2015. “Rural, Suburban and Urban Voters: Dissecting Residence Based Voter Cleavages in Provincial Elections”. Canadian Political Science Review. 9(1).
  
  
• Jason Roy and Christopher Alcantara. 2015. “The Candidate Effect: Does the Local Candidate Matter?”.  Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 25(2): 195-214.
  
  
• Shane Singh and Jason Roy. 2014. “Political Knowledge, the Decision Calculus, and Proximity Voting”. Electoral Studies. 34(3): 89-99.
  
  
• Christopher Alcantara and Jason Roy. 2014. “Reforming Election Dates in Canada: Towards an Explanatory Framework”. Canadian Public Administration/Administration publique du Canada. 57(2): 256-274.
  
  
• Jason Roy and Christopher Alcantara. 2012. “The Election Timing Advantage: Empirical Fact or Fiction?”. Electoral Studies. 31(4): 774-781.
  
  
• Jason Roy and Shane Singh. 2012. “Canadian and American Voting Strategies: Does Institutional Socialization Matter?”. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 45(2): 289-312.
  
  
• Cameron Anderson and Jason Roy. 2011. “Local Economies and National Economic Evaluations”. Electoral Studies. 30(4): 795-803.
  
  
• Jason Roy. 2011. “Information Heterogeneity, Complexity and the Vote Calculus”. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 21(1): 29-56.
  
  
• Jason Roy. 2009. “Voter Heterogeneity: Informational Differences and Voting”. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 42(1):117-137.

Research Methods Textbook:

• Loleen Berdahl and Jason Roy. 2021. Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science. 4^th Ed. Oxford University Press.

 Statistical Software Handbooks:

• Jason Roy and Loleen Berdahl. 2021. Explorations: IBM SPSS Statistics Handbook. Oxford University Press.
  
  
• Jason Roy and Loleen Berdahl. 2021. Explorations: Stata Statistics Handbook. Oxford University Press.
  
  
• David Armstrong, Jason Roy, and Loleen Berdahl. 2021. Explorations: R Statistics Handbook. Oxford University Press.