2025

Lucas, Jack, and Lior Sheffer. 2025. “What Explains Elite Affective Polarization? Evidence from Canadian Politicians.” Political Psychology 46 (1): 71-84.

2024

Artiles, Alexandra. 2024. The determinants of state and local preemption behavior (31329273). Doctoral dissertation, Florida State University.

Artiles, Alexandra, Sandra Breux, Meagan Cloutier, Susan Franceschet, and Jack Lucas. 2024. “Women’s Representation in Canadian Municipalities.” Urban Affairs Review 60 (5): 1577–1593.

Franceschet, Susan, Jack Lucas, and Erica Rayment. 2024. “Do Women Politicians Know More about Women’s Policy Preferences? Evidence from Canada.” Politics & Gender 20 (3): 579-597.

Linovski, Orly, Jeniffer Dean, Samantha Leger, Abigail McLaren, and Isabel Cascante. 2024. “How do elected officials think about transportation equity?” Policy Brief, Mobilizing Justice.

Lucas, Jack. 2024. “Are municipal politicians ideological moderates?” Cities, 155, 105350.

Lucas, Jack. 2024. Ideology in Canadian municipal politics. University of Toronto Press.

Lucas, Jack, Lior Sheffer, and Peter J. Loewen. 2024. “Pathways to Substantive Representation: Policy Congruence and Policy Knowledge Among Canadian Local Politicians.” Political Behavior, 1-20.

Lucas, Jack, Peter Loewen, and Lior Sheffer. 2024. “Are Politicians Democratic Realists?” European Journal of Political Research 63 (4): 1426-1444.

Sheffer, Lior, Jack Lucas, and Peter Loewen. 2024. “Long-Term Policymaking and Politicians’ Beliefs about Voters: Evidence from a Three-Year Panel Survey of Politicians.” Governance 37(2): 395-410.

2023

Breton, Charles, Jack Lucas, and Zack Taylor. 2023. “Local Autonomy: Unconditional Elites and Conditional Publics.” Local Government Studies 49 (6): 1263-1284.

Eidelman, Gabriel and Jack Lucas. 2023. “How Do Municipal Mayors and Councillors Communicate with other Levels of Government? Evidence from a Multi-level Survey of Canadian Elected Officials” Canadian Public Administration 66(1): 78-95.

Lucas, Jack. 2023. “The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology.” Urban Affairs Review 59 (1): 275-293.

Lucas, Jack, R. Michael McGregor, and Aengus Bridgman. 2023. “Spatial Voting in Non-Partisan Cities: A Case Study” Electoral Studies 82 (102599): 1-12.

Wynes, Seth, and H. Damon Matthews. 2023. “Missing density: assessing support for compact cities among Canadian municipal officials and members of the public.” Climate Policy 23(8), 1019–1032.

2022

Andrews, Ben, and Scott Pruysers. 2022. “Does Democracy Die in Darkness? An Examination of the Relationship between Local Newspaper Health and Turnout in Municipal Politics.” Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 55(4), 958-971.

Blidook, Kelly, Royce Koop, and Jack Lucas. 2022 “Municipal Representation Style and Focus: Evidence from Canadian Mayors and Councillors.” Representation 58(4): 603-622.

Breton, Charles, Jack Lucas, and Zack Taylor. 2022. “Local autonomy: unconditional elites and conditional publics.” Local Government Studies 49(6), 1263-1284.

Breux, Sandra. 2022. “Les maires et leur rémunération : une enquête pancanadienne.” Politique et sociétés 41 (1): 85.

Conrad, Laura. 2022. “It Takes a Village: Candidate Recruitment in Alberta’s Municipalities.” Master’s Thesis, University of Calgary.

Lucas, Jack. 2022. “Do Non-Partisan Politicians Match the Partisanship of their Constituents?” Urban Affairs Review 58 (1): 103-128.

Merrill, Reed. 2022. Population Size and Incumbency in Canadian Municipal Elections: Two Essays. Master’s thesis, University of Calgary.

Sayers, Anthony, Christopher Alcantara, and David A. Armstrong II. (2022). “Locating federalism: Non‐financial assets and public policy in Canada.” Canadian Public Administration 65(2), 314-332.

2021

Blidook, Kelly, Royce Koop & Jack Lucas. 2021. “Municipal Representation Style and Focus: Evidence from Canadian Mayors and Councillors.” Representation 58(4), 603-622.

Loewen, Peter. 2021. “Report 6: Three Areas in Which Pandemic Management Could Have Been Better: A Retrospective Report.” The COVID-19 Vaccine Skepticism in Canada Series. Public Policy Forum.

Lucas, Jack and David A. Armstrong II. 2021. “Policy Ideology and Local Ideological Representation in Canada.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 54(4): 959-976.

Lucas, Jack, Reed Merrill, Kelly Blidook, Sandra Breux, Laura Conrad, Gabriel Eidelman, Royce Koop, Daniella Marciano, Zack Taylor, Salomé Vallette. 2021. “Women’s Municipal Electoral Performance: An Introduction to the Canadian Municipal Elections Database.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 54(1): 125-133.

2020

Armstrong, David & Jack Lucas. 2020. “Measuring and Comparing Municipal Policy Responses to COVID-19.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 53(2): 227-238.