Nadjim Fréchet

Nadjim Fréchet is a postdoctoral researcher supervised by Professor Antoine Bilodeau. He completed his PhD in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal and his master’s degree in political science from Université Laval. He is also a member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC) and the Leadership Chair in the Teaching of Digital Social Sciences at Université Laval. His research interests include group identities, racialized minorities’ political behaviour in Western democracies, public opinion, political parties, and quantitative methods. 

Selected publications

• Ouellet, C., Fréchet, N., & Coulombe, S. (2025). Striking a major chord: music preferences as predictors of vote intentions in Canada. Acta Politica, 1-37.
• Mongrain, P., Fréchet, N., Collart, B. T., & Dufresne, Y. (2025). Working the Crowd: Citizen Forecasting, Sophistication and Diversity in Canadian Federal and Provincial Elections. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 58(1), 68-94.
• Dassonneville, R., Fréchet, N., Jabbour, A., Ferland, B., & Homola, J. (2025). Party responsiveness over time: from left-right to issue-specific dimensions. Party politics, 31(4), 751-760.
• Dassonneville, R., Fréchet, N., & Liang, B. (2022). Linguistic cleavages in public opinion. In Comparative public opinion (pp. 284-309). Routledge.
• Dufresne, Y., Fréchet, N., Ouellet, C., & Van Der Linden, C. (2022). For Crown and country: ethnic nationalism and support for the monarchy in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. British Journal of Canadian Studies, 34(2), 143-170.

Teaching activities

• Lecturer for the course FAS 1001 - Introduction aux mégadonnées en sciences sociales (Introduction to big data in social science in English) at Université de Montréal. The course aims to introduce undergraduate students in the social sciences to data science, data collection, and data analysis (January - April 2024).
• Workshop in text as data methods in social science at l’École interdisciplinaire outils & méthodes of Université Laval (EIOM) - January 2022