Political Science Guest Speaker Maxime Coulombe

Department of Political Science Speaker Series Presents a lecture by

Maxime Coulombe, Affiliate Professor, Institute for Research on Migration and Society, Concordia University

The Right Choice of Words: How Question Wording Shapes What We Know about Civic Duty and Democracy

Friday, November 14, 2025

12:00-1:30pm

Hall Building, Room H-1220

Maxime Coulombe’s research lies at the intersection of political behaviour and social psychology, with a specific focus on how attitudes and behaviour processes play in Canada and comparative contexts. He is broadly interested in questions on elections, public opinion, immigration, political participation, social norms, Canadian politics, voting rules, and electoral reform.

Maxime’s Ph.D. dissertation focuses on the mechanism linking social pressure to vote and electoral participation. Two of the empirical chapters have been published as journal articles in Electoral Studies and the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties. He is working on several other projects based on the data he collected forhis dissertation.