Stuart Soroka

Stuart Soroka is a Professor in the Departments of Communication and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Stuart is a past co-investigator of the 2011 and 2015 Canadian Election Studies, past Director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive, and a current associate member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at McGill University. His research focuses on political communication, the sources and structure of public preferences for policy, and the relationships between public policy, public opinion, and mass media. He has written two books using Environics data, Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada (2002, UBC Press) and Degrees of Democracy (2010, Cambridge University press), and his most recent book is Negativity in Democratic Politics (2014, Cambridge University Press).

Stuart’s current work with Environics data focuses on the structure of Canadians’ attitudes towards immigration policy.