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:

• Chris Alcantara, Jason Roy,  and John Kennedy. 2023. “Don’t Blame the Messenger? An assessment of public regulations announcements and support for public policy and the governing party”. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties.
  
  
• Jesse Mehravar, Chris Alcantara, and Jason Roy. 2023. “Does Simulating Financial Equality Reduce the Political Donations Gender Gap” Political Studies Review.
  
  
• 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.