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Education

BA Loyola Marymount, PhD British Columbia

Teaching Fields

American politics, Comparative (developing), International Relations and research methods

Research Interests

Democratization, public consultation and public opinion polling

Publications

Refereed Publications

Peter A. Ferguson and Cristine de Clercy. “Regulatory Compliance in Opinion Poll Reporting During the 2004 Canadian Election.” Canadian Public Policy, 31:3 (September 2005), 243-257.

Cristine de Clercy and Peter A. Ferguson. “The 2000 Election and the New Elections Act Poll Reporting Provisions: Contra Professor Durand, the Law has Merit.” Canadian Public Policy, 29:3 (September 2003), 367-371.

Book Chapters

Cristine de Clercy and Peter A. Ferguson. “Leadership and Economic Development in Saskatchewan’s Image-Building Policy.” Book chapter in the MCRI “Public Policy in Municipalities” publication on Image-Building Policies in Canadian Municipalities, forthcoming 2009.

Peter A. Ferguson. “Improving Citizens’ Access to Opinion Poll Information? Evaluating Canada’s New Election Act Amendments in the 2000 Campaign.” In Hans Michelmann, Don Story and Jeffery Steeves (eds), Elections, Representation and Leadership: Essays in Honour of John C. Courtney. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Peter A. Ferguson. “The Politics of Regime Change in a Global Era.” In Rand Dyck (ed), Introduction to Government and Politics (2E). Toronto: Thompson Nelson, 2005.

Peter A. Ferguson. “Political Change: Democratic Transitions, Consolidation and Failure.” In Rand Dyck (ed), Studying Politics: An Introduction to Political Science, 341-364. Toronto: Thompson Nelson, 2003.

Recent Conference Presentations

Invited Papers

Cristine de Clercy and Peter A. Ferguson. “Measuring the Benefits of Poll Reporting Regulations.” Paper presented to the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Boston, Mass., August 28-21, 2008.

Peter A. Ferguson and Cristine de Clercy. “Making the Grade? The Media and Polling in the 2004 Canadian Election.” Paper presented to the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy 2005 Workshop on “Public Opinion, the Media and Elections in Canada,” Waterloo, Ontario, May 31 – June 1, 2005.

Papers Presented

Peter A. Ferguson. “Examining Zones of Risk to Understand Democratic Breakdown.” Paper presented to the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 30 - June 1, 2007.

Peter A. Ferguson. “Endogenizing the Exogenous as a Means to Explain Democratic Breakdown.” Paper presented to the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, April 12-15, 2007.

Peter A. Ferguson. “It’s All Over Now: A Rational Choice Model of Democratic Survival and Breakdown.” Paper presented to the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting. London, Ontario, June 2-4, 2005.

Peter A. Ferguson and Cristine de Clercy. “Regulatory Compliance in Poll Reporting in the 2004 Canadian Election." Paper presented to the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting. London, Ontario, June 2-4, 2005.

Peter A. Ferguson."Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Incorporating Uncertainty into Rational Choice Accounts of Democratic Breakdown." Paper presented to the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 3-5, 2004.

Peter A. Ferguson. “Democracies at Risk: A Process-Oriented Examination of the Role of Civil Society.” Paper presented to the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Toronto, Ontario, May 30-June 1, 2002.

Peter A. Ferguson. “Democratic Consolidation, Breakdown, and Co-operatives: A New Look at Putnam’s Civil Society.” Paper presented to the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, May 28-29, 2002.

Peter A. Ferguson and Cristine de Clercy. “Policy-Induced Change in Mediated Campaign Information.” Paper presented to the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, San Antonio, TX, November 14-18, 2001.

Peter A. Ferguson and Cristine de Clercy. “Pollsters and Hucksters: A Comparative Analysis of Opinion Poll Reporting in the 2000 Canadian and American Elections.” Paper presented to the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA., August, 30 – September 2, 2001.

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