Pilon, Dennis
Dennis Pilon’s work touches on many aspects of comparative elections and democratization, including questions of institutional reform, voter turnout, citizen engagement, deliberation and media, and the role of economic inequality in these processes.
Research Interests: Canadian politics, BC politics, Comparative democratization and electoral reform, Media and citizen engagement, Class analysis, Working class politics, Sexuality politics, and Democratization and democratic reform in western countries
Listing Details
| Institution: | York University |
| Fields of Expertise: | Canadian Politics Civil Society Democracy and Political Participation Gender Politics and Policy Social Movements and Political Mobilization Social Policy, Welfare and Labour Market |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism,RG ECSA-C Democracy,The ECSA-C members |
| Email: | dpilon@yorku.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Wrestling with Democracy: Voting Systems as Politics in the Twentieth Century West, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013), 394pp. Politics and Government in British Columbia, (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2009), co-edited with Michael Howlett and Tracy Summerville, 404pp. The Politics of Voting: Reforming Canada’s Electoral System, (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2007), 209pp. “A Reconnaissance of Everyday Working Class Ideology in British Columbia,” in David Laycock (ed.), Political Ideologies in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society, (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2019), 187-204. “Electing LGBT Representatives and the Voting System in Canada,” in Manon Tremblay (ed.), Queering Representation: LGBTQ People and Electoral Politics in Canada, (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019), 124-53. “Assessing Gordon Campbell’s Uneven Democratic Legacy in British Columbia,” in Tracy Summerville and Jason Lacharite (eds.), The Campbell Revolution? Power, Politics and Policy in British Columbia from 2001 to 2011, (Kingston-Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017), 37-60. "The Struggle Over Actually Existing Democracy," Socialist Register 2018, (London: Merlin, 2018), 1-28 "Review Essay: Democratic Leviathan - Defending First Past the Post in Canada," Canadian Political Science Review, 12:1 (2018), 24-49. “The Contested Origins of Canadian Democracy,” Studies in Political Economy, 98: 2 (2017), 1-19. |
