Bradley Wood-MacLean
PhD Student, Political Science, University of Toronto
I am a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where I am also a research fellow at the Policy, Elections, and Representation Lab (PEARL). My research focuses on Canadian and comparative political behaviour, with particular attention to how economic and geographic context shape political attitudes and choices.
My primary research interest sits at the crossroads of political behaviour and political economy, with a focus on the urban-rural divide. I examine how place-based economic conditions and identities shape voting patterns, partisan attachment, and policy preferences, and how the growing urban-rural gap is reshaping party systems and political coalitions in Canada and other advanced democracies.
A second strand of my research examines immigration-related political behaviour, including how attitudes toward immigration and immigrants influence vote choice, party competition, and public opinion more broadly, and how these dynamics interact with other social and economic cleavages.
Beyond these areas, I work more broadly on Canadian and comparative political behaviour, including questions of public opinion, elections, and representation.