Fournier Patrick
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Montreal
Canada
Biography
Fournier Patrick is a Professor Contact : T elephone 514-343-6111 # 54437 Pav. PAV.M.CARON-L.GROULX-3200 JB \ bur. C4044 at University of Montreal, Department of Political Science, Canada.
Research Interest
His research focuses on the political psychology of citizens. In a democracy, political power rests on popular sovereignty. Citizens designate governments in regular elections and their demands contribute to political debates constantly. It is important to understand the behavior and political opinions of citizens. My work is done both in the context of electoral contests and at more normal times, in Canada and elsewhere. I am the principal investigator of the Canadian Election Study for the 2011 election and the next federal election. I also study large-scale deliberation at citizen assemblies. Some questions are of particular interest to me: How do people form their political preferences? Why do they sometimes change their minds? What is the quality of the political opinions of citizens?
Publications
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Patrick Fournier, Mathieu Turgeon, André Blais, Joanna Everitt, Elisabeth Gidengil & Neil Nevitte. (2011). "Deliberation from Within: Changing One's Mind During An Interview", Political Psychology, 32: 885-919.
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Elisabeth Gidengil, Neil Nevitte, Andre Blais, Joanna Everitt & Patrick Fournier. (2012). Dominance and Decline: Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections, University of Toronto Press.
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Patrick Fournier, Henk van der Kolk, Andre Blais, Kenneth Carty & Jonathan Rose. (2011). When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizen Assemblies on Electoral Reform, Oxford University Press.
