I am a Professor of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. My research is at the intersection of political behaviour and political psychology. I am interested in how attitudes develop in diverse settings, especially how people’s identities, their relationships with other people, and attitudes about race, ethnicity, religion, immigration and gender shape their politics.
I am the co-director of the Consortium on Electoral Democracy (C-Dem) and the Laboratoire de communication politique et opinion publique (LACPOP). I am also the associate director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC) and a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) in their Boundaries, Membership and Belonging Program. In 2018, I was inducted in the the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
A full list of my publications can be found on my google scholar profile and on ORCiD. You can learn more about some of my on-going research below.
Recent Publications
- Allison Harell, Keith Banting & Will Kymlicka. 2025. Inclusive Redistribution and Perceptions of Membership: A Cross-National Comparison. Comparative Political Studies. (firstview). https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140251342924
- Quinn Albaugh, Allison Harell, Peter John Loewen, Daniel Rubenson & Laura Stephenson. 2025. From Gender Gap to Gender Gaps: Bringing Nonbinary People into Political Behavior Research.” Perspectives on Politics. 23(1): 286-304. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724000975
- Allison Harell & Christian Albrekt Larsen. 2025. Why are minorities poor? Cross-Atlantic explanations for poverty and public support for redistribution. Journal of European Social Policy, 35(3), 298-312. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287251331567
- Baowen Liang & Allison Harell. 2025. Understanding the Electoral Participation Gap: A Study of Racialized Minorities in Canada. Politics and Governance. Politics and Governance, 13, Article 9377. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.9377
- Seyoung Jung, Allison Harell, Karen Neilsen Briedahl & Laura Stephenson. Race, Immigration Status, and the Nature of Government Interactions. Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. pp. 1-23 https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2024.31
Research Interests
- Diversity and Solidarity: How do people think about their political community and the people who are part of it? My research focuses on how intergroup attitudes influence the types of policies people endorse.
- Elections and Voting: As a co-investigator of the 2019, 2021 and 2025 Canadian Election Studies, I am interested in exploring how electors in Canada engage with electoral democracy, with a special interest in how political identities and group politics shape elections in Canada.
- Gender and Politics: Gender identities and gender stereotypes shape how we think about ourselves and our relationship to others. My work focuses on how gender shapes attitudes toward politics and the political system.
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