David Armstrong, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

Policy Attitudes of the Canadian Public, 1945-2023
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$74,500
The Canadian Municipal Barometer
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$344,775
Consortium on Electoral Democracy/Consortium de la démocratie électorale
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$1,543,190

All 5 grants and awards

No publications available.

Policy Attitudes of the Canadian Public, 1945-2023

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Lucas, Jack

Keywords: Public opinion; Policy attitudes; Canadian politics; Ideology; Ideological disagreement; Gender and public policy; Political geography; Political behaviour; Measurement and Scaling

$74,500

The Canadian Municipal Barometer

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Grants

Keywords: democracy; representation; municipal government; public policy; public opinion; multilevel governance

$344,775

Consortium on Electoral Democracy/Consortium de la démocratie électorale

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Partnership Grants

Keywords: electoral democracy; citizens; surveys; elections; voting; political participation; political knowledge; campaigns; Canadian election study; civic engagement

$1,543,190

Consortium on Electoral Democracy/Consortium de la démocratie électorale

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Partnership Grants

Keywords: electoral democracy; citizens; surveys; elections; voting; political participation; political knowledge; campaigns; Canadian election study; civic engagement

$723,330

Big Data, Hypothesis Testing and the Future of Quantitative Political Science

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Armstrong, David

Keywords: (1) quantitative methodology; (2) big data; (3) hypothesis testing; (4) statistical models; (5) regression analysis

$49,915

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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