External Source of Opinion Formation and the Dynamics of Electoral Behavior Evidence from Canadian Voters

• In Event: Elite Cues, Issue Framing, and Public Opinion

Brief Overview

Using data from the Canadian Election Study for the election cycles of 1965-2019 and a novel survey experiment of our own, we show that Canadian voters take cues from political developments in the USA in forming their electoral preferences.

Authors

• Md Mujahedul Islam, University of Toronto

• Md Muhibbur Rahman, The University of Texas at Austin