Kenny William Ie, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of History & Politics
University of New Brunswick, Saint John
Saint John, NB, Canada
Lecturer, Department of Political Science
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Email: kenny.ie@ubc.ca
Phone: 1-519-777-6798
Research and Teaching Specializations
Political Leadership in Democracies
Executive Politics and Institutions
Canadian Government and Politics
Racialized Political Representation
Education
Ph.D. University of Western Ontario (2018)
Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics
M.A. McGill University (2011)
Comparative Politics, Canadian Politics
B.A. Simon Fraser University (2008)
Political Science, Philosophy
Publications
Ie, K.W. 2024. Ministerial Policy Roles and Mandate Letters in the Justin Trudeau Government. Canadian Public Administration. Forthcoming.
Ie, K.W. 2023. Ministerial Mandate Letters and Coordination in the Canadian Executive. Canadian Journal of Political Science 56.4: 811-831.
Siklodi, N., K.W. Ie, & N. Allen. 2023. From gender equity to gendered assignments? Women and cabinet committees in Canada and the United Kingdom. Government & Opposition: 1-24.
Ie, K.W. 2022. Cabinet Composition, Collegiality and Collectivity: Examining Patterns in Cabinet Committee Structure. European Political Science Review 14.1: 115-133.
Ie, K.W. 2021. Representation and Ministerial Influence on Cabinet Committees in Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science 54.3: 615-636.
Ie, K.W. 2020. Tweeting Power: The Communication of Leadership Roles on Prime Ministers’ Twitter. Politics and Governance 8.1: 158-170.
Ie, K.W. 2019. Cabinet Committees as Strategies of Prime Ministerial Leadership in Canada, 2003-2019. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 57.4: 466-486.
Work Under Review
Ie, K.W. What do Canadians want in their politicians? Examining candidate characteristics and voter assessments through a conjoint experiment.
Book chapter submitted for Identity Appeals and Dynamics in Canadian Electoral Politics, eds. Joanna Everitt, Karen Bird, Angelia Wagner and Mireille Lalancette.
Ie, K.W., K. Bird, J. Everitt, A. Wagner, & M. Lalancette. Ethnic Affinities and Civic Engagement: An Experimental Study of Chinese-Canadian Candidates and Voters. Under review at Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Everitt, J., K. Bird, K.W. Ie, A. Wagner, & M. Lalancette. District demographics and affinity effects: Measuring the impact of district heterogeneity on candidate-voter affinity and political engagement in Canada. Being revised for submission to Electoral Studies.
Work in Progress
Ie, K.W. Pillars of Power: Building the Westminster Prime Ministerial Branches, 1945-2020. Book manuscript under contract with UBC Press.
Siklodi, N., K.W. Ie, & N. Allen. Gender and the collegial face of cabinet government: formal structures and collective presence, priorities, and power. Prepared for Political Studies Association (UK) Conference, March 2024.
Ie, K.W., J. Everitt, K. Bird, A. Wagner, & M. Lalancette. “It’s hard to be it if you can’t see it”: Racialized Affinity and Interest in Running for Office in Canada. Prepared for Political Studies Association (UK) Conference, March 2024, and Canadian Political Science Association Conference, June 2024.
Ie, K.W., J. Everitt, K. Bird, A. Wagner, & M. Lalancette. Who trusts and who is trusted? Results from an Experiment on Assessments of Candidate Trustworthiness. Prepared for British Columbia Political Studies Association Conference, May 2024.
Ie, K.W., J. Everitt, K. Bird, A. Wagner, & M. Lalancette. Intersectionalities, Affinities, and Stereotypes of Political Candidate Trustworthiness in Canada: Analyzing a Conjoint Survey Experiment. Prepared for European Consortium on Politics and Gender, July 2024.
Non-Peer Reviewed Contributions
Ie, K.W., J. Everitt, K. Bird, A. Wagner, & M. Lalancette. Candidate Diversity and Racialized and Indigenous Political Engagement in Canada.
Researcher Report for Elections Canada and the Consortium for Electoral Democracy.
Ie, K.W. Minority representation in the House won’t improve without better data. Policy Options, March 14, 2023. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/march-2023/minority-representation-house-of-commons/
Other Work or Projects
Diversity, Identity Framing and the Personalized Candidacy: A Survey Experiment. With Karen Bird and Joanna Everitt. An online survey experiment conducted in March-May 2023. Dataset of approximately 4500 Canadians measuring the impact of affinities between racialized individuals and candidates on voter political engagement.
Teaching Experience
Sessional Lecturer
Department of Political Science
University of British Columbia
2017 - Present
Courses: Government of Canada, Federalism in Canada, Executive Leadership in Canadian Politics
Limited-Term Lecturer
Department of Political Science
Simon Fraser University
2018-2019
Courses: Canadian Government, Quantitative Methods, Comparative Parties, Elections, and Governments, US Politics and Government
Awards and Funding
2023. Elections Canada / C-Dem Research Grant
2016-17. Canadian Study of Parliament Group Doctoral Fellowship
2015-16. Social Science and Humanities Research Council Canada Doctoral Scholarship
2013-15. Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2012-13. Faculty of Social Science Graduate Alumni Award
2011-12. Social Science Dean’s Entrance Scholarship
Recent Conference Presentations
2023. A Shadow of Doubt? Attitudes and Affinities toward Chinese-Canadian Candidates in the Midst of the China Election Interference Investigation. American Political Science Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
2023. District Demographics and Affinity Effects: Measuring the impact of district heterogeneity on candidate-voter affinity and political engagement in Canada. International Society of Political Psychology Conference, Montreal, QC.
2023. A Shadow of Doubt? Attitudes and Affinities toward Chinese-Canadian Candidates in the Midst of the China Election Interference Investigation. International Society of Political Psychology Conference, Montreal, QC.
2023. Mandate Letters and Ministers as Policy Actors in the Canadian federal executive. Canadian Political Science Association Conference, Toronto, ON
2023. Does Context Matter? Effects of District Heterogeneity on Voter Affinity and Political Engagement. With Karen Bird, Joanna Everitt, Mireille Lalancette and Angelia Wagner. Canadian Political Science Association Conference, Toronto, ON
2023. Candidate Diversity and Racialized and Indigenous Political Engagement in Canada. Forum on Democratic Citizenship, Consortium for Electoral Democracy and Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. Montreal, QC
2022. Who Studies Canadian Politics? Faculty Diversity in a Political Science Subfield. Invited Speaker, Bell Chair in Parliamentary Democracy Lecture Series.
2021. Ministerial Mandate Letters: Policy Priorities and Coordination in the Canadian Executive. Canadian Political Science Association Conference. Online.
2019. Cabinet Committees as Strategies of Prime Ministerial Leadership in Canada, 2003-2019. Canadian Political Science Association Conference, Vancouver, BC.
2019. Tweeting Power: The Communication of Leadership Roles on Prime Ministers’ Twitter. Canadian Political Science Association Conference, Vancouver, BC.
2017. Justin Trudeau and the Centre of Government: Reform or Business as Usual?. Canadian Political Science Association Conference, Toronto, ON.
Professional and Departmental Service
2022-present. Member, UBC Faculty Association Equity Committee and BIPOC Working Group.
2015. Panel Discussant. Recessions, Inequality, and Regime Survival. Midwest Political Science
Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
2015. Panel Chair. Political Trust (or Distrust). Midwest Political Science Association
Conference, Chicago, IL.
2015. Co-organizer. Western Political Science Research Forum (graduate student conference).
2013-2015. Chair and PhD Representative. Graduate Association of Political Science.
Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario.
Methods Training
Quantitative Methodology and Statistics, Game Theory, Network Analysis
Proficiency in R, Stata, SPSS and econometric packages Gretl and Eviews
Professional Affiliations
Canadian Political Science Association
American Political Science Association
International Society of Political Psychology
UK Political Studies Association
References
References available upon request, or see PDF version.