Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Borwein, Sophie, Jack Lucas, and Bradley Wood-MacLean. 2026. “Place Consciousness and Voting in Canada.” Canadian Journal of Political Science: 1-14. Link.

Working Papers

  • Wood-MacLean, Bradley. “Public Resource Provision and the Objective Correlates of Place-Based Affective Polarization in Canada.” SSRN. Link.

Reports

  • Ross, Chris, Ben Steel, David Hobson, Saewon Park, Esli Chan, Bradley Wood-MacLean, Mika Desblancs-Patel, Samuel Goertz, Danielle Bohonos, Aengus Bridgman. 2026. “Alberta’s Referendum, Online: Election Fraud Claims Ahead of the October 19 Vote.” Centre for Media Technology and Democracy. Link.

  • Ross, Chris, Ben Steel, David Hobson, Saewon Park, Esli Chan, Bradley Wood-MacLean, Mika Desblancs-Patel, and Aengus Bridgman. 2026. “Alberta’s Referendum, Online: Influencers, AI Content, Foreign Interest, and the Attention Economy Ahead of the October 19 Vote.” Centre for Media Technology and Democracy. Link.

  • Jiang, Diya, Esli Chan, Bradley Wood-MacLean, Chris Ross, Eric Merkley, Jérémie Drouin, Saewon Park, Zeynep Pehlivan, and Aengus Bridgman. 2026. “An Independent Digital Media Ecosystem? Canada’s Online Discourse in the Shadow of the United States” Centre for Media Technology and Democracy. Link.

  • Chan, Esli, Bradley Wood-MacLean, Taylor Owen, and Mathieu Lavigne. 2026. “Survey on Canadians’ Preference for Social Media Age Verification Policies.” Media Ecosystem Observatory. Link.

Media

  • Wood-MacLean, Bradley, and Semra Sevi. 2026. “Young Canadians aren’t drifting toward conservative and far‑right parties.” The Conversation Canada. Link.