Kelly Blidook
Associate Professor
SN 2042
Department of Political Science, Science Building
糖心视频 University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1B 3X9 Canada
Telephone: (709) 864-8184
Email: kblidook[at]mun[dot]ca
Academics
BA (Trinity Western); MA (Simon Fraser); PhD (McGill)
Areas for Student Research Supervision
- Political and legislative behaviour
- Political institutions
- Political representation
- Public opinion
Examples of Recent Courses Taught
1000 Intro to Politics and Government
2800 Intro to Canadian Government & Politics
3010 Empirical Methods
6010 Political Science Methods
6700 Canadian Politics
Selected Publications
Books
Representation in Action: Canadian MPs in the Constituencies. With Royce Koop and Heather Bastedo. (2018). UBC Press.
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Constituency Influence in Parliament: Countering the Centre. (2012). UBC Press.
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Selected Articles, Reports, Chapters
鈥淥bserving Representation: Participant Observation with Elected Officials.鈥 With Royce Koop. (Forthcoming). SAGE Research Methods Cases 鈥 Politics and International Relations.
"Party Policy Positions in Newfoundland and Labrador: Expert Survey Results in the Buildup to the 2011 Provincial Election." With Matthew Kerby. (2014) American Review of Canadian Studies, 44 (4): 400-414.
鈥淒emocratic Responsiveness in the House of Commons.鈥 Chapter in Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up. Elisabeth Gidengil and Heather Bastedo, eds. UBC Press (2014).
鈥淚t鈥檚 Not You, It鈥檚 Me: Determinants of Voluntary Legislative Turnover in Canada.鈥 With Matthew Kerby. (2011) Legislative Studies Quarterly, 36 (4): 621鈥643.
鈥淓xploring the role of 鈥榣egislators鈥 in Canada: Do Members of Parliament influence policy?鈥 (2010) Journal of Legislative Studies, 16 (1): 32-56.
鈥淐onstituency Influence in Parliament鈥. Co-authored with Stuart Soroka and Erin Penner. (2009) Canadian Journal of Political Science, 42 (3): 563-591.
Textbook
Canadian Politics: Critical Approaches (8th ed). With Christopher Cochrane & Rand Dyck. (2016). Nelson.
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