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Mathieu Turgeon

Mathieu Turgeon
Professor

Contact Information
Office: SSC 7223
Tel: 519 661-2111 XZ 84929
E-mail: mturgeo4@uwo.ca 

Education

PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests

Dr. Turgeon's research interests center on political behaviour, including voting and elections, public opinion, political psychology, political participation, and on statistical, experimental and survey methodology.  His work is comparative and extends to Brazil, the U.S., France, Canada, and Latin America, more generally. His work has been published in English, Portuguese, French and Spanish.

Current Research Projects

Mathieu Turgeon is currently working on two large research projects. The first project looks at support for conspiracy theories in Brazil and in a comparative perspective. In particular, it looks at how support is affected by elite endorsement, how it relates to people’s interests, values and predispositions, and what can be done to correct such beliefs. The second project examines climate change misinformation. The project focuses on the measurement of climate change misinformation, how it relates to people’s sociodemographic and psychological, how it explains support (or lack thereof) for climate change policies, and how said misinformation can be corrected.

Scholarly Books (Authored & Co-Authored)

  • 2023. Dassonneville, Ruth, Thiago Barbosa, André Blais, Ian McAllister, and Mathieu Turgeon. How Does Compulsory Voting Work? Cambridge Elements in Campaigns, Elections, and Political Behavior.
  • 2022. Anderson, Cameron, and Mathieu Turgeon (Eds.). Comparative Public Opinion. Routledge
  • 2017. Nadeau, Richard, Éric Bélanger, Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Mathieu Turgeon, and François Gélineau. Latin American Elections: Choice and Change. University of Michigan Press.

Refereed Journal Articles (Selected, Last 5 Years)

  • 2024. Turgeon, Mathieu, and Alessandro Freire. “Do political endorsements affect support for conspiracy theories?” Social Science Quarterly.
  • 2024. Barbosa, Thiago, and Mathieu Turgeon. “When everyone is corrupt, no one is?” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
  • 2024. Gélineau, François, Mathieu Turgeon, Yannick Dufresne, and Axel Déry. “Electoral accountability in a multilevel governance context: economic voting and gubernatorial support in Latin America.” Journal of Politics in Latin America.
  • 2024. Pereira, Alvaro, Laura Stephenson, and Mathieu Turgeon. “Loyalties and Interests: How Political Motivations Influence Voters’ Responses to Scandals.” Electoral Studies 89: 102792.
  • 2024. Gramacho, Wladimir, Mathieu Turgeon, Pedro Santo Mundim, and Isadora Pereira. “Why did Brazil fail to vaccinate children against COVID-19 during the pandemic? An assessment of attitudinal and behavioral determinants.” Vaccine 42(2): 315-321.
  • 2024. Gramacho, Wladimir, Mathieu Turgeon, and Michelle Vieira Fernandez de Oliveira. “What if there is still no vaccine? The importance of media behavior in adherence to non-pharmacological interventions (npis) during covid-19 in Brazil.” JCOMAL: Journal of Science Comunication - América Latina, 7(02), A01.
  • 2023. Caplan, Michelle, Christopher Alcantara, and Mathieu Turgeon. “Institutional Change and Partisanship in the Canadian Senate.” The Journal of Legislative Studies.
  • 2023. Turgeon, Mathieu, and André Blais. “I am obliged to vote? A regression discontinuity analysis of compulsory voting with ill-informed voters.” Political Science Research and Methods 11(1): 207-213.
  • 2022. Bélanger, Éric, Fernando Feitosa, and Mathieu Turgeon. “Which Historical Forecast Model Performs Best? An Analysis of the 1965-2017 French Presidential Elections.” PS: Political Science and Politics 55(4): 692-696.
  • 2022. Turgeon, Mathieu, and Philip Habel. “Prejudice, political ideology, and interest: under- standing attitudes toward affirmative action in Brazil.” Political Psychology 43(3): 489-510.
  • 2021. Gramacho, Wladimir, Mathieu Turgeon, John Kennedy, Max Stabile, and Pedro Santo Mundim. “Political preferences, knowledge and misinformation about COVID-19: the case of Brazil.” Frontiers in Political Science
  • 2021. Gramacho, Wladimir, and Mathieu Turgeon. “When politics collides with public health: COVID-19 vaccine country of origin and vaccination acceptance in Brazil.” Vaccine 39(19): 2608- 2612.
  • 2021. Lloyd, Ryan, and Mathieu Turgeon. “Polling in new democracies and electoral malpractice: the case of Brazil.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 33(4): 1039-1049.
  • 2020. Borges, Andre ́, Mathieu Turgeon, and Adria ́n Albala. “Electoral incentives to coalition formation in multiparty presidential systems.” Party Politics 27(6): 1279-1289.

Awards & Distinctions

  • 2024. FY2024 JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan (Long-Term). Research Fellowship. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
  • 2023-2028. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant/Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Humaines Subvention Savoir. Principal Investigator. Project title: “Climate change misinformation in Canada: Its prevalence, determinants, and potential for inoculation and correction.”
  • 2019. Facebook Integrity Foundational Research Grant. Principal Investigator. Project title: “Misinformation, Self-Interest and Cognitive Style.”
  • 2007. AAPOR Seymor Sudman Student Paper Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR).