Ph.D. Dissertations
Andrew MacLean — "Promoting Whose Interest? Regulatory Activity and Accountability in Canada's Broadcasting and Telecommunications Regulator" (in progress)
Tim Abray — "Unconsciously Misinformed? Attack Ads and Autonomy in Canadian Democracy" (2024)
Elisha Corbett — "Media Framing and Public Opinion of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada" (co-supervised with Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, 2024)
Patricia Mockler — "Learning to be Good Citizens: Long-form Deliberative Processes and Democratic Citizenship in a Comparative Perspective" (2022)
Jacob Robbins-Kantor — "The Franchise Model Reframed: Asymmetry, Autonomy, and Local Responsiveness in Canadian Federal Parties" (co-supervised with Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, 2021)
Laura Levick — "Recasting Electoral Reform: An Analysis of Electoral Reform Initiatives in Fourteen Parliamentary Democracies" (co-supervised with Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, 2017)
Kristin Hulme — "Supreme Court and Rhetoric: A Study of Judicial Decision-Making" (2011)
Simon Kiss — "Selling Government: The Evolution of Government Public Relations in Alberta from 1971–2006" (2008)
Tamara Small — "Elections.ca: Political Parties and Candidates on the Net" (2006)
MA Thesis and Research Projects
Miles Brackenbury — "From Integrity to Integral: An Examination of the Deliberative Process in the Victoria-Saanich Citizens' Assembly on Amalgamation" (2025)
Zoha Khalid — "Assessing the Tandem Information Model on Canada's Crisis Communications Response to COVID-19" (MRP, 2021)
Joanna Massie — "The Policymaking Public: What Factors Account for the Success of Deliberative Mini-publics?"
Patricia Mockler — "Challenges to Deliberation: An Examination of Structural Inequality, Capacity and Influence in Ireland's Convention on the Constitution" (MRP, 2016)
Justin Mathews — "So that Every Canadian Has Enough to Eat at Home: Obstacles and Prospects for a Universal Basic Income in Canada" (MRP, 2015)
Matthew Cohen — "Get it Wrong or Don't Get it at All: A Content Analysis of the Media's Representation of Responsible Government During the 2008 Parliamentary Crisis" (MRP, 2014)
Alex Steffan — "An Empirical Analysis of Leadership in Mini-Publics" (MRP, 2012)
Tim Abray-Nyman — "Inside the Black Box: Cognitive Confounds and Voter Error in Orthodox Models of Voter Behaviour" (MRP, 2012)
Alexander Steffen — "An Analysis of Leadership within Mini-publics in Canada and Australia: Describing Democratic Leadership in Deliberative Democracy" (MRP, 2012)
Holly Garnett — "Referendum Resource Officers in the 2007 Ontario Referendum on Electoral Reform" (MRP, 2011)
Rob Trewartha — "Political Advertising in the 2004 and 2006 Federal Elections" (MRP, 2007)
David Thuss — "Rephrasing Politics" (2006)
Mark Lyons — "Media and Democracy: The Case of the War in Iraq" (MRP, 2006)
Cristina Howorun — "Who Leads the Pack: The Effects of Ownership on the Coverage of Federal Budgets and Throne Speeches" (MA, 2005)
Juliana Trichilo — "Your Privacy, Please: Considering A National Identity Card in the Context of Privacy Rights" (MRP, 2005)
Peter MacLeod — "Notes Toward a Civic Design: Coming To a Political-Aesthetic Consciousness" (2002)
Alexis Conrad — "Evaluating the Adequacy of Intergovernmental Cooperation as an Organizing Principle for Environmental Protection: A Case Study of the Canada-Wide Accord on Environmental Harmonization" (1999)
Mike Krywy — "Re-Imagining 'Canada', Consensus, Resistance and the Construction of a Multicultural National Discourse: A Case Study of North of 60" (1996)
B.A. Honours Theses
Ariana Wilson-McDermid — "The Influence of Indigenous Ecological Practices on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): Comparing Canada and New Zealand" (2025)
Sydney Robinson — "Stakeholder Influence and Policy Outcomes of Canadian Climate Legislation: A Case Study of Bill C-12" (2025)
Rachel Starkman — "Strategic Demagoguery: Donald Trump's Rhetoric in U.S. Presidential Debates (2016–2024)" (2025)
Katharine McCoy — "X-It Strategy: Exploring the Implementation of Design Methodologies in the Context of Ballot Design" (2020)
Mark Penner — "A Tale of Two Frames: Comparing Incumbent and Challenger Framing in Recent Canadian Electoral Party Platforms with Content Analysis" (2020)
Meredith Wilson-Smith — "'Gendered News' and the Media as the Message: How Canadian National News Outlets Shape Public Perception of Female-Focused Supreme Court Cases" (2020)
Aidan Russell — "Why Don't Aboriginal People Vote in Canadian Federal Elections?" (2019)
Rene Zou — "Nation Branding: Re-orienting the Field from External to Internal National Identity Formation" (2018)
Michael Walsh — "Media Framing: Mortality Salience and its Role in the Framing of Election Issues" (2018)
Nina Dauvergne — "The Politics of Regulatory Capture and Canada's Food Guide: How Industry Power Shapes Canadian Health" (2017)
Anna Danyliuk — "Rape Myths in the Newspaper Coverage of the Jian Ghomeshi Trial" (2017)
Elisha Corbett — "Language Framing in the 2015 Canadian Leaders' Debates" (2016)
Taylor Mann — "Obama, Romney and Twitter in 2012" (2014)
Joanna Plucinska — "E-Democracy and Echo Chambers: Examining Political Pundits on Twitter" (2013)
Vicky Fenwick-Sehl — "Explaining the Failure of the Green Party in Canada: A Comparative Study" (2013)
Ashley Harms-Wiebe — "Dilma Rousseff: Lula's Bride in High Heels or the Brazilian President? A Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of the 2010 Brazilian Presidential Election Campaign" (2010)
Joshua Clark — "Logging On: Assessing the Relationship between the Internet and Politics" (2009)
Lyndsey Hannigan — "The Effectiveness of Public Consultation: A Case Study of the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform" (2007)
Michael Lindsay — "The Death of the Revolution was Televised: An Examination of Global and CTV's Coverage of the 2003 Ontario General Election" (2004)
Shelley Lepp — "Political Socialization of Children and the Role of Television" (2003)
Hartley Lefton — "The Long & the Short of It: Negativity and Sentence Length in the 1997 and 2000 Canadian English Federal Leaders' Debates" (2002)
