Steven Weldon

Areas of interest

Research and Supervision Fields:

STATUS: ACCEPTING NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS

-Politics of Diversity, Multiculturalism, and Immigration
-Elections, Parties, and Public Opinion
-Far-right Parties and Movements
-Europe, Canada, and the United States

Teaching Streams:

-Research Methods and Analysis
-Diversity and Migration
-Public Policy and Democratic Governance

Education

• BA (honours), Wittenberg University
• MA, University of California, Irvine
• PhD, University of California, Irvine

Biography

My research focuses on the politics of diversity and immigration, particularly how the recent rise of radical right, anti-immigrant politics is reshaping and threatening democracy in places like Canada, the United States and across Europe. My research has appeared in such journals as the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, Party Politics, and West European Politics. Check out my Google Scholar page for more information (see link above).

I am the founding director of SFU’s Centre for Public Opinion and Political Representation, and I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in quantitative methods, data science and political behaviour. I am proud to have received the Cormack Teaching Award for excellence in teaching and mentoring in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Simon Fraser University in 2018, and I am happy to supervise students interested elections, representation and the politics of diversity and immigration.

I am the director of the Social Data Analytics minor*; the only degree program of its kind in Canada to provide the skills to effectively navigate, analyze and communicate “big data” in the social science context. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the program!

Publications

2018. “Pointing Fingers at the Media? Coverage of the 2017 Bundestag Election.” German Politics and Society, 36: 105-124 (with Alexander Beyer).

2014. “The 2011 Election and Beyond” in Reviving Social Democracy: The Near Death and Surprising Rise of the Federal NDP, David Laycock and Lynda Erickson (eds.), Vancouver: UBC Press.

2013. “A Crisis of Integration? The Development of Transnational Dyadic Trust in the European Union 1954-2004.” European Journal of Political Research, 52: 457-82 (with Hans-Dieter Klingemann).

2010. “The Individual-Institutional Nexus of Protest Behavior.” British Journal of Political Science, 40: 51-73 (with Russell Dalton and Alix van Sickle).

2006: “The Institutional Context of Tolerance for Ethnic Minorities: A Comparative, Multi-Level Analysis of Western Europe.” American Journal of Political Science, 50: 331-49.