I am Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. Most of my research focuses on the sources and/or structure of public preferences for policy, and on the relationships between public opinion, mass media and public policy. This site includes links to some of my recent work, as well the original datasets and software used in that work, and recent teaching.

My complete CV is available here.

My Google Scholar Profile is available here.

Affiliations
Co-investigator, Canadian Election Study
Co-director, Media Observatory, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
Member, Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship
Fellow, CIRANO
Past Director, Canadian Opinion Research Archive, Queen's University

Quick Links
- a recent conference paper extending institutional theories in Degrees of Democracy, and first reviews of Degrees of Democracy
- version 2.0 of Lexicoder has been released, as well as the Lexicoder Sentiment Dictionary
- a Sept 2010 EPOP conference paper, my first effort at physiological experimentation in political communications: Soroka and McAdams, "An Experimental Study of the Differential Effects of Positive versus Negative News Content"
- a first paper from a lab experiment on the effects of race on welfare policy support in Canada, "Race of Recipient and Support for Welfare in Canada"
- an overview paper of ongoing research on ethnic diversity and social solidarity in InRoads.
- two recent reports on public attitudes about the Canadian health care system: Public Perceptions and Media Coverage of the Canadian healthcare System: A Synthesis, and The Sources of Attitudes on the Canadian Health Care System.

Contact
Department of Political Science
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke St West
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
H3A 2T7
(514) 398-4400 ext. 094236
stuart.soroka at mcgill.ca

2011 Election
- Canadian Federal Election Newspaper Content Analysis
- World Press Freedom Day, Globe and Mail
- The Ethnic Conservative Myth, Toronto Star
- As It Happens, CBC Radio, May 23rd
- Policy Options, June 2011