Department of Political Science

Fortier-Chouinard, Alexandre

Dissertation:

Gendered Political Socialization: Why Men and Women Still Differ in Political Interest

Biography

Alex is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. He specializes in Canadian politics, political engagement, campaign promise fulfillment, quantitative methods, citizenship education, and gender & politics. A data scientist for the Leadership Chair in the Teaching of Digital Social Sciences (CLESSN), he has been the Polimeter’s project manager since 2020. His work with the CLESSN has included developing R functions, Shiny apps and weighting formulas for the Vote Compass, Quorum Project and Radar+. His PhD dissertation studies the role of parents and peers in the transmission of political interest to children.

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles:
1. Fortier-Chouinard, Alexandre, Marc André Bodet, François Gélineau, Justin Savoie and Mathieu Ouimet. 2022. “Getting the Message Out: Why Mail-Delivered GOTV Interventions Succeed or Fail”. PS: Political Science & Politics. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096522000750.
2. Tolley, Erin, Andrea Lawlor and Alexandre Fortier-Chouinard. 2022. “‘Whiny, Fake, and I Don’t Like Her Hair’: Gendered Assessments of Mayoral Candidates”. Urban Affairs Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/10780874221090874.
3. Bibeau, Alexis, Adrien Cloutier, Alexandre Fortier-Chouinard, Nadjim Fréchet, Camille Tremblay-Antoine and Yannick Dufresne. 2021. “Positive Communication in a Catastrophic Crisis: The Mixed Effects of COVID-19 on the Tone of Governments’ Media Coverage”. International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, vol. 17, no 1, p. 67–79. https://doi.org/10.1386/macp_00039_7.
4. Fortier-Chouinard, Alexandre. 2020. “Éducation à la citoyenneté et politisation des jeunes au Québec : Perspectives d’enseignant·e·s”. Revue des sciences de l’éducation, vol. 46, no 3, p. 95–124. https://doi.org/10.7202/1075989ar.

Book chapters:
1. Duval, Dominic, Alexandre Fortier-Chouinard, Jérémy Gilbert and Lisa Birch. 2022. “Une progression lente, mais constante: le bilan de François Legault comme livreur de promesses”. In Birch, Lisa, Yannick Dufresne, Dominic Duval and Camille Tremblay-Antoine (dir.), “Bilan du gouvernement de la CAQ: Entre nationalisme et pandémie”. Quebec City, Presses de l’Université Laval.
– Fortier-Chouinard, Alexandre and Lisa Birch. 2022. “La vision de la CAQ: l’éducation au service de la réussite et du nationalisme entrepreneurial”. In Birch, Lisa, Yannick Dufresne, Dominic Duval and Camille Tremblay-Antoine (dir.), “Bilan du gouvernement de la CAQ: Entre nationalisme et pandémie”. Quebec City, Presses de l’Université Laval.
– Tremblay-Antoine, Camille, Yannick Dufresne, Alexandre Fortier-Chouinard, Adrien Cloutier and Alexandre Côté. 2022. “L’évolution de la saillance et le bilan du gouvernement de la CAQ: un éclairage nouveau”. In Birch, Lisa, Yannick Dufresne, Dominic Duval and Camille Tremblay-Antoine (dir.), “Bilan du gouvernement de la CAQ: Entre nationalisme et pandémie”. Quebec City, Presses de l’Université Laval.

Research Interests

Canadian politics
Political engagement
Campaign promise fulfillment
Quantitative methods
Citizenship education
Gender and politics

Previous Degrees

BA in Political Science, Université Laval
MA in Political Science, Université Laval

Teaching Experience

Teaching assistantships:
1. POL242Y5Y-LEC9101 Methods, University of Toronto – Mississauga (Fall-Winter 2021-2022)
2. POL232H1S-L5101 Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning II, University of Toronto (Winter 2020)
3. POL-2200 Institutions politiques américaines, Université Laval (Winter 2018)
4. POL-2324 Fédéralisme comparé, Université Laval (Winter 2018)
5. POL-1001 Politique et démocratie au Canada et au Québec, Université Laval (Fall 2017)