Philippe Chassé
Philippe Chassé is a PhD candidate in political science at Sciences Po and the Université de Montréal. He is a graduate of McGill University (BA, MA), where he was a Guy Drummond Scholar from 2018 to 2020. As part of his research activities, he is affiliated with both the CEVIPOF and the Centre pour l'étude de la citoyenneté démocratique (CECD).
His thesis supervisors are Professors Martial Foucault and Richard Nadeau.
His research focuses on the link between linguistic practices and political attitudes, the role of language in shaping the image of political figures and, more generally, political behaviours. He is also interested in issues related to political representation. His doctoral thesis examines voters' attitudes to the language style of those seeking their vote. Adopting an experimental approach, he aims to determine whether the way political candidates express themselves has an impact on voters' assessment of their ability to represent them. His work has been published in Electoral Studies: Publius. The Journal of Federalism, The Canadian Political Science Review and the sociolinguistics journal Glottopol.
Philippe Chassé is the recipient of a Doctoral Fellowship at the CEVIPOF and also has a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS
Thesis working title : Les électeurs et les styles langagiers des candidats politiques : une étude comparative entre le Québec et la France. (FR)
