Peter  Loewen

Peter Loewen

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto.

Contributor Biography

Peter is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto-Mississauga.

His current academic interests are in Canadian politics, political behaviour, behavioural economics, public opinion, genopolitics, and experimentation. He teaches in the fields of Canadian politics, political behaviour, and comparative politics.

For much of 2008 and all of 2009 Peter was a SSHRC and Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He worked under the direction of Paul Quirk (UBC) and James Fowler (University of California, San Diego).

In June 2008, he received his PhD from the Université de Montréal, where he worked under the direction of André Blais and Patrick Fournier.

You can read his academic work here, and follow his blog here.

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