Justin Savoie
Welcome! I am a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Toronto. Previously, I was at Université Laval for my undergraduate degree (Economics and Politics) and master’s degree (Political Science).
I am primarily interested in the design and analysis of large-scale surveys and applied computational methods in social and behavioural science. Some of my work has appeared in the International Journal of Forecasting, PS: Political Science & Politics, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, French Politics, the Journal of Experimental Political Science and the Journal of European Public Policy.
My dissertation uses word embeddings and other vector space models to study the evolution and changing meanings of key concepts in Canadian politics.
In addition to my academic work, I have been involved for four years in industry, first as Data Scientist and then as Lead Data Science with Vox Pop Labs, a social enterprise that builds survey-based applications that organizes political and social data in meaningful ways. I also have experience as a consultant for projects involving the statistical analysis of survey data.
Currently, I am behavioral science fellow at Impact Canada.
My CV is available here. My Google Scholar page is available here. Various statistical notes here. Teaching material here.
Research
Peer-reviewed papers
Ouimet M., Savoie, J., Montigny, E., 2023 How did the disclosure of lobbying targeting Quebec’s hospitals become mandatory and with what effect? Canadian Public Administration
Fortier-Chouinard A., Bodet, MA., Gélineau, F., Savoie, J. Getting the Message Out: Why Mail-Delivered GOTV Interventions Succeed or Fail PS: Political Science & Politics
Hix, S., van der Linden, C., Massie, J., Pickup, M., Savoie, J. Where is the EU–UK relationship heading? A conjoint survey experiment of Brexit trade-offs European Union Politics
Dufresne, Y., Jérôme, B. Lewis-Beck, M. Murr, A.,Savoie, J. 2022. Citizen Forecasting: The 2022 French Presidential Elections. PS: Political Science & Politics.
Daoust, J-F., Nadeau, R., Dassonneville, R., Lachapelle, E., Bélanger, E. Savoie, J., van der Linden, C. 2020. How to Survey Citizens’ Compliance with COVID-19 Public Health Measures: Evidence from Three Survey Experiments Journal of Experimental Political Science
Donnelly, M., Islam, MMD., Savoie, J., 2020. “The public face of interest group lobbying on immigration: who responds to and who ignores what they say” European Journal of Social Policy
van der Linden, C. Savoie, J., 2020. “Does collective interest or self-interest motivate mask usage as a preventive measure against COVID-19?” Canadian Journal of Political Science.
Savoie, J., van der Linden, C., Breton, C. 2020. “Realignment and voter issue preferences in Quebec’s 2018 provincial election: A conjoint experiment French Politics
Temporão, M., Dufresne, Y., Savoie, J., van der Linden, C. 2019. Crowdsourcing the Vote: New Horizons in Citizen Forecasting International Journal of Forecasting
Fréchet, N., Savoie, J., Dufresne, Y. 2019. Analysis of Text-Analysis Syllabi: Building a Text-Analysis Syllabus Using Scaling PS: Political Science and Politics.
Book chapters
Elder, E., Lees-Marshment, J., Chant L., Osborne, D., Savoie, J., van der Linden, C. 2021 What the Market Wanted: Vote Compass 2020 and Public Views on Issues and Leadership in Political Marketing and Management in the 2020 New Zealand General Election. Palgrave Pivot
Elder, E., Lees-Marshment, J., Chant L., Osborne, D., Savoie, J., van der Linden, C. 2021 Targeting Party Supporters, Key Demographics and Undecided Voters in Political Marketing and Management in the 2020 New Zealand General Election. Palgrave Pivot
Lees-Marshment, J., Elder, E., Chant L., Osborne, D., Savoie, J., van der Linden, C. 2018. Vote Compass NZ 2017: Marketing Insights into Public Views on Policy and Leaders in Political Marketing and Management in the 2017 New Zealand Election. Palgrave Pivot
Lees-Marshment, J., Elder, E., Chant L., Osborne, D., Savoie, J., van der Linden, C. 2018. Political Parties and Their Customers: The Alignment of Party Policies with Supporter, Target and Undecided Market Preferences in Political Marketing and Management in the 2017 New Zealand Election. Palgrave Pivot