My research pre-occupations over the years have varied but have always been around the core of political communication.
Books, articles, chapters, and editorials spanning government advertising, deliberative democracy, and political communication.
View Publications → ExplorePh.D., M.A., and Honours thesis supervision across political communication, electoral reform, and citizen engagement.
View Theses →Jonathan Rose & Bob Pickard, "Better Safe and Sorry: Can Justin Trudeau Apologize Well Enough to Win?" Globe and Mail, September 20, 2019.
"Thoughts about the Demise of Electoral Reform or Why We Should Have Seen it Coming", Ottawa Citizen, February 3, 2017.
Oxford University Press, 2011
Winner of the Lipset Award. Co-authored with Blais, Carty, Fournier & van der Kolk.
Bristol University Press, 2021
An international collaboration on the essential elements of deliberative bodies.
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019
Co-edited with Hugh Mellon.
How do states construct and disseminate messages to their publics? What are the boundaries between legitimate public information and partisan persuasion?
Beginning with the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform (2006–07), and continuing through assemblies in Prince Edward County, Lethbridge, and the Yukon.
The role of the mass media in democracies, from attack ads to the visual politics of the photo-op.