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Kenny William Ie
@kennywilliamie.bsky.social
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Political Scientist. U Ottawa postdoc, adjunct at UNB-Saint John & teaching at UBC. I research executive politics and institutions, leadership, and racialized minority engagement and representation.
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Kenny William Ie @kennywilliamie.bsky.social · 26d
Thanks @uoftpress.bsky.social for the copy of "Statecraft: Canadian Prime Ministers and their Cabinets"!
A very welcome book which will be the authoritative account of prime ministers' cabinet leadership. I look forward to diving in, and getting students to explore these fascinating case studies.
Statecraft - University of Toronto Press
Canadian Prime Ministers and Their Cabinets
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · Aug 27
The Prestige Cartel is real. We also need to talk abt the hiring biases in Canadian Poli Sci depts. There is a tendency to assume Ivy League/US & Oxbridge grad job candidates are inherently “better” applicants, while those from amazing Canadian *programs* are cast onto the NO pile way too quickly.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · Aug 26
In poli sci, "the top 20% of departments produced 75% of all faculty and the bottom 50% accounted for less than 5% of all tenure track faculty members at a research university. 49 programs did not have a single graduate placed in a TT position at a PhD-granting department in the past 10 years."
Where You Earn Your PhD Matters | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Where You Earn Your PhD Matters
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Dr. Angelia Wagner @angeliawagner.bsky.social · Jul 29
After years of hard work, I am happy to announce that my book The Candidacy Calculation has been published by UTP. The book takes a nuanced view of traditional barriers to candidacy such as money & family as well as emerging ones such as online harassment & social media scandals. lnkd.in/gKDkMHqs
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CPA-APC @canadianpublicadmn.bsky.social · Jul 10
Welcome to our incoming Editor, Robert Shepherd! Here is his Editor's Introduction to our June issue:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Kenny William Ie @kennywilliamie.bsky.social · Jun 24
New article! In @canadianpublicadmn.bsky.social examines ministerial policy roles during the Trudeau govt, extending prior work. Using mandate letter data, manual and automated classification, and Bayesian models, I examine factors associated with ministers' policy activity. doi.org/10.1111/capa...
Unequal by Design: Ministerial Policy Roles in the Canadian Executive, 2015‐2021
Cabinet ministers are formally equal but unequal in practice: for example, ministers may differ significantly in how they undertake policy activity. I use federal mandate letter data from 2015 to 202....
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Kenny William Ie @kennywilliamie.bsky.social · Jun 26
Happy to have contributed to this new, important study on 2SLGBTQI+ voter-candidate affinities and turnout: doi.org/10.1177/1065...
Examining the Effects of 2SLGBTQI+ Candidates on 2SLGBTQI+ Voter Turnout in Canada - Joanna Everitt, Kenny William Ie, Karen Bird, Angelia Wagner, Mireille Lalancette, 2025
Affinity theory suggests that 2SLGBTQI+ candidates might empower and motivate 2SLGBTQI+ voters to become more politically engaged because they demonstrate that ...
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Joanna Everitt @joannaeveritt.bsky.social · Jun 26
Thrilled to have a new article in PRQ in time for the end of Pride month. doi.org/10.1177/1065... It demonstrates that having 2SLGBTQI+ candidates running in an electoral district is correlated to higher turnout among 2SLGBTQI+ voters - even in a relatively accepting place like 🇨🇦. #affinityeffects.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · Jun 25
Who, exactly, are these immigrants that have made Danielle so angry? Filipino nurses who provide our healthcare? American computer scientists who make Edmonton an AI centre of excellence? Ukrainian refugees who've opened new restaurants? West Africans who have revitalized our francophone community?
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Kenny William Ie @kennywilliamie.bsky.social · Jun 24
New article! In @canadianpublicadmn.bsky.social examines ministerial policy roles during the Trudeau govt, extending prior work. Using mandate letter data, manual and automated classification, and Bayesian models, I examine factors associated with ministers' policy activity. doi.org/10.1111/capa...
Unequal by Design: Ministerial Policy Roles in the Canadian Executive, 2015‐2021
Cabinet ministers are formally equal but unequal in practice: for example, ministers may differ significantly in how they undertake policy activity. I use federal mandate letter data from 2015 to 202....
doi.org
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · Jun 14
Alberta - "Would you vote for Alberta to leave Canada and become its own country, or to stay a province within Canada?"

Early May:
🔵 Stay: 61%
🟠 Leave: 34%

Early June:
🔵 Stay: 65%
🟠 Leave: 26%

> open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
Western Canada Cools on Separation as Support for Unity Grows
New polling shows declining separatist sentiment in Alberta, while it plateaus in the central prairies
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Elizabeth Baisley @kebaisley.bsky.social · Jun 13
In recent research with @qalbaugh.bsky.social, we use a survey experiment to explore how gender stereotypes shape voters' perceptions of transgender and nonbinary candidates' traits. The results are not the most encouraging, but you can read more here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Elizabeth Baisley @kebaisley.bsky.social · Jun 10
In recent work with @qalbaugh.bsky.social, we find that in 2019 and 2021 parties nominated LGBTQ2S+ candidates in districts they were over 16 percentage points less likely to win than straight cis candidates. About 2/3 of the gap is due to which parties and 1/3 is due to which districts.
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Melissa R. Michelson @melissamichelson.bsky.social · Jun 10
Day 10: Are LGBTQ candidates sacrificial lambs? @kebaisley.bsky.social‬ & @qalbaugh.bsky.social‬ find, well… yeah. “Wrong Place or Wrong Party? LGBTQ2S+ Candidates and District Competitiveness.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Dr. Angelia Wagner @angeliawagner.bsky.social · Jun 9
Getting closer to seeing my book published. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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Kenny William Ie @kennywilliamie.bsky.social · Jun 7
Summer project: prime ministers in historical fiction. First up is Asquith. Sadly not a lot of Canadian choices. Recs welcome!
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Kenny William Ie @kennywilliamie.bsky.social · Jun 7
Had a great time at @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social conference. Post-conference visit to pay respects.
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Duane Bratt @duanebratt.bsky.social · Jun 5
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | Albertans for Carney? They're as impressed with new PM as they are with Poilievre: poll | CBC News
They mostly didn't vote for him, but even many western Conservative voters say the new liberal leader has made a decent impression on them.
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Political Studies Review @psrjournal.bsky.social · Jun 6
We are delighted to announce that Nok Hin Au, Chan Ka Ming and Ka Lun NG have won the PSR Best Original Research Article Award!

For:

Cooperate But Divided at Heart: Analysis of an Opposition Elite Survey During Autocratization

Read (OA) here:

lnkd.in/enZA3yEY

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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · May 29
📢 How do children view political leadership where men dominate politics? Okedele et al. find that 90% of Nigerian children imagine political leaders as men, revealing early gendered norms. Evidence on ambition gaps by gender is mixed.

🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Gendered perceptions of leadership and children’s political ambition: evidence from Nigeria
Scholarship on political representation shows persistent inequality between women and men. Recent work theorizes that children internalize norms of gendered inequality to affect their images of the...
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · May 12
If the Moon landing happened today, the headline wouldn’t be “MAN LANDS ON MOON!” it would be “NASA Claims Successful Moon Landing, Others Not So Sure”
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Micah @rincewind.run · May 12
you want to know one reason people are losing trust in the media? it’s the total inability to call things what they are

some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen”

the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety”

who are people going to take seriously?
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · May 7
Danielle Smith describes Albertans as being divided into three camps: federalists, autonomists, and separatists.

How big are these groups, and how do they differ?

@jlisayoung.bsky.social and I examined this a few years ago.

🔗 www.commongroundpolitics.ca/albertan-ori...
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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · May 7
“Today we stand united. We’re not going anywhere. And if you feel that you have problems with First Nations, YOU could leave.”
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Kenny William Ie @kennywilliamie.bsky.social · May 7
Ugh. Love the CBC but continually disappointed. What's the point here? Framing is terrible. All borders are artificially drawn lines: countries and nations are socially constructed. It's harmful to reinforce the presumption that artificial means anything. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Joanna Everitt @joannaeveritt.bsky.social · May 7
So excited to see this paper finally out! It has a long history that began over 20 years ago. It is a testament to publishing persistence. Susan Banducci and Elisabeth Gidengill are amazing collaborators!
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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · May 7
🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨

"Studying gender stereotypes of political candidates over four decades"

In this 🔥 new meta-analysis, Susan Banducci, @joannaeveritt.bsky.social & Elisabeth Gidengil analyse 63 studies of candidate gender stereotyping over 40 years

✨OPEN ACCESS✨

doi.org/10.1332/2515...
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Kenny William Ie @kennywilliamie.bsky.social · May 4
Not to say there aren't valid regional concerns that need to better articulated by the west and better recognized by Ottawa.
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Kenny William Ie @kennywilliamie.bsky.social · May 4
Doesn't help that credible media like the CBC constantly frame AB stories around grievance and separatism of a small minority. And constantly refer to "Western alienation", as though the west was a monolith and apparently BC and MB don't count.
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