Cristine de Clercy

Associate Professor, Director, Leadership and Democracy Laboratory

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Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
E-mail: c.declercy@uwo.ca

Research Interests

Professor de Clercy studies political leadership using several discrete methodological approaches to understand leadership in different contexts, and across contexts.  Her work relates to the fields of Canadian politics, comparative politics, political economy, and women and politics.

Selected Recent Publications

  • 2022. Cristine de Clercy. Trafficking in Uncertainty: How Leaders Move Citizens Toward Deep Change. Book manuscript, completed and under contract.
  • 2022. Gerard Seijts, Cristine de Clercy and Ryan Miller. "The Relationships Among Character, Identification-Based Trust, and Perceptions of Effectiveness in Political Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A One-Year Investigation." Journal of Applied Behavioural Sciences, 1-28. First print published online June 29th at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00218863221110627. 
  • 2022. Cristine de Clercy and Valere Gaspard. "Money, pavement and PEP: Assessing Canada's new pre-election regulations on third-party spending in 2019." Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law, accepted, forthcoming in volume XVI:3.
  • 2022. Cristine de Clercy. "The Recruitment of Star Candidates in Local Election Campaigns." In Alex Marland and Thierry Giasson (eds) Inside the Local Campaign: The 2021 Canadian Federal Election, 107-127. Vancouver: UBC Press.
  • 2022. Alex Marland and Cristine de Clercy. "Party Discipline in Canada: Former Members of Parliament Speak Up." In Charles Feldman and Geneviève Tellier (eds), Legislatures in Evolution: Changes, Challenges, Questions, 15-38. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press/Canadian Study of Parliament Group.
  • 2021. Gerard Seijts, Cristine de Clercy and Gouri Mohan. “Trust as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Character and Perceptions of Leader Effectiveness During the COVID-19 Crisis.”  Canadian Journal of Behavioural Sciences. 53 (3) 2021: 358-364.
  • 2021. Review of Doing Politics Differently? Women Premiers in Canada's Provinces and Territories, edited by Sylvia Bashevkin, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , September, pp. 742 – 744.
  • 2021. Cristine de Clercy, “The risks and rewards of star candidate recruitment in Canadian federal elections.” Policy Options, 16 September, at https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/septembe-2021/the-risks-and-rewards-of-star-candidate-recruitment-in-canadian-federal-elections/.
  • 2021. Valere Gaspard and Cristine de Clercy.  “Canada can look to Wales for key lessons in voter registration” The Hill Times, 20 May, at  https://www.hilltimes.com/2021/05/19/canada-can-look-to-wales-for-key-lessons-in-voter-registration/298124.
  • 2021. André Blais, Cristine de Clercy, Anna Esselment and Ronald Wintrobe (eds). Across Boundaries: Essays in Honour of Robert A. Young. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University.
  • 2021. André Blais, Cristine de Clercy, Anna Esselment and Ronald Wintrobe. “Introduction: The Work of Bob Young.” In André Blais, Cristine de Clercy, Anna Esselment and Ronald Wintrobe (eds), Across Boundaries:Essays in Honour of Robert A. Young, 3-12. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
  • 2020. Cristine de Clercy and Valere Gaspard. “Online voting for MPS should never become a permanent option.” Policy Options, April 6, at https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/april-2020/online-voting-for-mps-should-never-become-a-permanent-option/.
  • 2020. Cristine de Clercy, Brenda Nguyen and Gerard Seijts. “Do Canadians and Americans Evaluate Leader Character Similarly? Comparing Perceptions of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Justin Trudeau.” American Review of Canadian Studies, volume 50 (4) Winter 2020: 498-521.  
  • 2020. Cristine de Clercy. “On the Intersection of Leadership and Populism in North America and Europe.” Guest Editor, Politics and Governance, volume 8, no. 1 (2020): 107-110.
  • 2020. Gerard Seijts and Cristine de Clercy. “How do Populists Judge Leader Character? Comparing Citizen Assessments of Leader Character in the United States, Canada and Great Britain.” Politics and Governance, volume 8, no. 1 (2020): 138-145.
  • 2019. Review of Gendered Vulnerability: How Women Work Harder to Stay in Office, by Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 52 (2) September 2019: 618-619.
  • 2019. Bassam Farah, Rida Elias, Cristine de Clercy and Glenn Rowe. “Leadership Succession in Business and Politics: A Literature Analysis of Key Trends,” The Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review: 2020, volume 31 (1) February 2020: 1-21. First print available online June 2019
  • 2018. Gerard Seijts, Cristine de Clercy and Brenda Nguyen. "Exploring how Canadian Voters Evaluate Leader Character in Three Cases: Justin Trudeau, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump." Journal of Canadian Studies, 52, no 2 (Spring 2018): 427-450. Download at https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jcs.2017-0055.r1
  • 2018. Cristine de Clercy. “Communications as the Workhorse of Governmental Politics: The Liberal Party Leader and the Liberal Caucus." In Alex Marland and Thierry Giasson (eds.), Political Elites in Canada: Power and Influence in Instantanenous Times, 151-167. Vancouver: UBC Press.
  • 2016. Cristine de Clercy and Peter Ferguson. “Leadership in Precarious Contexts:  Studying Political Leaders after the Global Financial Crisis.” Politics and Governance  volume 4 no. 2 (2016): 104-114. Download open access PDF file.
  • 2015. Cristine de Clercy. “Leading the Party Troops on a Long Campaign: How the Party Leaders Managed the Message.”   In Alex Marland and Thierry Giasson (eds.) Election 2015: Communication, Strategy and Canadian Democracy, 41-42. Vancouver: UBC Press and Samsara Canada.
  • 2015. Cristine de Clercy.  “Uncertainty and the General Interest in the American Constitution: Testing the ‘Veil of Ignorance’ Hypothesis in Constitutional Choice.” In Louis Imbeau and Steve Jacob (eds.) Behind a Veil of Ignorance? Power and Uncertainty in Constitutional Design, 85-101. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 
  • 2015. Cristine de Clercy. “Conclusion.” In Louis Imbeau and Steve Jacob (eds.) Behind a Veil of Ignorance? Power and Uncertainty in Constitutional Design, 239-243. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Recent Conference Presentations

  • Cristine de Clercy and Valere Gaspard. "Money, pavement and PEP: Assessing Canada's new pre-election regulations on third-party spending." Presented to the annual meetings of the Canadian Political Science Association, virtual conference, May 30-June 3, 2022.
  • Cristine de Clercy and Valere Gaspard. "Ensuring Integrity in Third-Party Election Spending: The Case of Canada's New Spending Rules." Presented to the Electoral Integrity Project's virtual conference on "Delivering Trusted Elections: New Challenges in Electoral Integrity," July 5-9, 2021.
  • Cristine de Clercy, Brenda Nguyen and Gerard Seijts. “Leadership and Populism in 2018 through the Lens of Character.” Presented to the annual meetings of the Canadian Political Science Association, June 4-6, 2019, Vancouver, Canada.
  • “Uncertainty Dynamics in Social Media Leadership: The 2017 Case of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”  Paper presented to the meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, June 20-24, 2018, Eugene, Oregon.
  • “The Assurances of Female Political Leaders: Hillary Clinton on the Campaign Trail.” Paper presented to the annual meetings of the Canadian Political Science Association, Regina, Saskatchewan, May 30-June 1, 2018.
  • “Group Solidarity and Cohesion in Justin Trudeau’s New Liberal Party.” Paper  presented to the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 30-June 1, 2017.
  • “The Rise of the BTM Crisis Leadership School.” Paper presented to the Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association Annual Meeting, October 14-15, 2016, Saint John, New Brunswick.
  • “Party Leaders and Modern Mediated Communications in the House of Commons.”  Paper presented to the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Calgary, Canada, June 2-4, 2016.
  • “Nine Key Characteristics of Modern Political Leaders.” Paper presented to the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, June 2-4, 2015.
  • “The Ambiguity of Uncertainty.” Paper presented to the 2014 International Political Science Association 23rd World Congress, July 19-23 2014, Montréal, Canada.

Roles and Distinctions

  • Political analyst for regional, national and international media outlets including CBC, CTV, Bloomberg News Service, Al Jazeera, Canadian Press Newswire, Maclean’s magazine, Reuters, The London Free Press, and the Globe and Mail.
  • Director, LEADR Group, Western University
  • Co-Director, the Leadership and Democracy Laboratory, Western University
  • Past President, Western's Caucus on Women's Issues
  • Centre Scholar, Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan, 2012-2015.

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Dr. de Clercy provides commentary concerning: political leaders and leadership; federal politics; provincial politics; the House of Commons and the Senate; political parties; women and politics; federal and provincial elections; public opinion polling; Canadian election law.

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