André Blais is professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal. He is a holder of the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a research fellow with the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ), and the Center for Interuniversity Research Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO). He is past president of the Canadian Political Science Association.
Agnieszka Dobrzynska (Ph.D., Political Science) in 2008 joined the Office of Institutional Research at the University of Montreal where she is a Research and Planning Analyst. A former postdoctoral fellow with the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies at the University of Montreal, she was also a consultant for Elections Canada. Her most recent publications are on the topics of elections and voting behaviour, public opinion, media coverage of politics, electoral systems and research methodology.