Publications

Lapointe, Valérie, Benjamin Ferland, and Luc Turgeon. 2023. “Still Sacrificial Lambs? Yes! Minority Groups in Canadian Federal Elections, 2015-2021“. Electoral Studies.

Cronert, Axel, Olivier Jacques, and Benjamin Ferland. 2023. “Minding the Time Gap: Politicians’ Perspectives on Inter-Temporal Trade-Offs in Policy and Politics.” Journal of European Public Policy.

Ferland, Benjamin, and Éric Desrochers. 2023. “Les (in)égalités de représentation en politique québécoise“. Revue canadienne de science politique 56 (3), pp. 525-549.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2022. “The Role of Women’s Descriptive Representation on Same-Gender and Proximity Voting among Women“. European Journal of Politics and Gender 5 (2), pp. 232-249.

Jacques, Olivier, and Benjamin Ferland. 2021. “Distributive Politics in Canada: the Case of Infrastructure Spending in Rural and Suburban Districts“. Canadian Journal of Political Science 54 (1), pp. 96-117.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2021. “Policy Congruence and its Impact on Satisfaction with Democracy“. Electoral Studies 69, 102204.

Ferland, Benjamin, and Matt Golder. 2021. “Citizen Representation and Electoral Systems“. In William R. Thompson, and Russell Dalton (eds.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2021. “Electoral Systems and Policy Congruence“. Political Studies 69 (2), pp. 344-365.

Ferland, Benjamin, and Ruth Dassonneville. 2021. “Shifting parties, rational switchers: Are voters responding to ideological shifts by political parties?” Party Politics 27 (1), pp. 114-124.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2020. “Party Responsiveness to Public Opinion and Party Supporters: Revisiting the Mechanisms and Motivations“. Party Politics 26 (4), pp. 366-378.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2020. “Government Responsiveness under Majoritarian and (within) Proportional Electoral Systems“. Government and Opposition 55 (4), pp. 595-616.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2020. “A Gender Gap in Party Congruence and Responsiveness?“. Politics & Gender 16 (1), pp. 174-198.

Ferland, Benjamin, and Luc Turgeon. 2020. “Understanding Majority Attitudes toward Minority Nations in Multinational Federations: the Case of Canada“. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 50 (2), pp. 188-212.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2018. “Ideological Congruence Over Government Mandates under Majoritarian and Proportional Representation Electoral Systems“. West European Politics 41 (2), pp. 350-383.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2018. “L’impact des minorités visibles sur l’appui à la Charte des valeurs et l’interdiction des signes religieux“. Revue canadienne de science politique 51 (1), pp. 23-59.

Golder, Matt, and Benjamin Ferland. 2017. “Electoral Rules and Citizen-Elite Ideological Congruence.” In Erik Herron, Robert Pekkanen, & Matthew Shugart (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2017. “The Alternative Specification of Interaction Models With a Discrete Modifying Variable“. The Political Methodologist 25 (1), pp.11-15.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2017. “Retrospective Ideological Representation and its Impact on Democratic Satisfaction“. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties 27 (2), pp. 192-212.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2016. “Revisiting the Ideological Congruence Controversy”. European Journal of Political Research 55 (2), pp. 358-373.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2015. “A Rational or Virtuous Citizenry? – The Asymmetric Impact of Biases in Votes-Seats Translation on Citizens’ Satisfaction with Democracy”. Electoral Studies 40, pp. 394-408.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2014. “How Do Voters’ Strategic Behaviors Mediate the Impact of Electoral Systems on the Effective Number of Electoral Parties? An Experimental Study”. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties 24 (3), pp. 265-290. Winner of the 2014 Best Article Award for best article published in JEPOP

Other Publications

Ferland, Benjamin, et Olivier Jacques. 2019. “Un député au gouvernement, c’est souvent payant“. La Presse.

Ferland, Benjamin. 2017. “De Québec solidaire aux gouvernements de coalition“. Options politiques.

Ferland, Benjamin, et Claire Durand. 2017. “Léger vs CROP: les deux côtés de la médaille“. Options politiques.

CSES Blog. 2016. “Do Citizens Value Fairness in the Electoral Competition?“.

Democratic Audit UK. 2016. “Citizen Assessment of the Political System Is Fostered by Rational Considerations rather than Virtuousness“.