Publications

Montsion, Jean Michel, Dominik Formanowicz, Christiane Canillo, William Fisher, Riya Trikha, Ann Kim, Alexandre Brassard, Sharifa Patel and Andrew Dawson (2025). “International Canadian Studies: A Survey of Teaching, Research, and Needed Support.” International Journal of Canadian Studies 63 (1): 87–113.

Dawson, Andrew (2025). “Political Trust and Democracy: Canada in Comparative Perspective.” Journal of Canadian Studies 59 (1): 179-187. DOI: 10.3138/jcs-2025-0212

Wu, Cary and Andrew Dawson (2024). “The Trump Effect? Right-wing Populism and Distrust in Voting by Mail in Canada.” Public Opinion Quarterly 88 (SI): 781-813. DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfae020

Dawson, Andrew and Isabel Krakoff (2024). “Political Trust and Democracy: The Critical Citizens Thesis Re-examined.” Democratization 31 (1): 90-112. DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2257607; SSRN Pre-print: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4307936

Wu, Cary and Andrew Dawson (2022). “Why is Trust Lower in Quebec? A Cultural Explanation.” Canadian Review of Sociology 59 (3): 309-329. DOI: 10.1111/cars.12385;

SSRN Pre-print: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3957969

Dawson, Andrew (2021). “The Achilles Heel of Democracy? A Macro Cross-National Assessment of the Correlates of State Legitimacy.” Social Science Research 97: 102574. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102574 

Dawson, Andrew and Liam Swiss (2020). “Foreign Aid and the Rule of Law: Institutional Diffusion versus Legal Reach.” British Journal of Sociology 71 (4): 761-784. DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12752 

Dawson, Andrew (2018). “Police Legitimacy and Homicide: A Macro-Comparative Analysis.” Social Forces 97 (2): 841-866. DOI: 10.1093/sf/soy043 

Dawson, Andrew (2017). “The Belief in State Legitimacy and Homicide: A Cross-National Analysis.” The Sociological Quarterly 58 (4): 552-575. DOI: 10.1080/00380253.2017.1354732 

Dawson, Andrew (2016). “Political Violence in Consolidated Democracies: The Development and Institutionalization of Partisan Violence in Late Colonial Jamaica (1938-1962).” Social Science History 40 (2): 185-218. DOI: 10.1017/ssh.2016.1 

Dawson, Andrew (2013). “The Social Determinants of the Rule of Law: A Comparison of Jamaica and Barbados.” World Development45: 314-324. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.12.016 

Dawson, Andrew (2010). “State Capacity and the Political Economy of Child Mortality in Developing Countries Revisited: From Fiscal Sociology towards the Rule of Law.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 51 (6): 403-422. DOI: 10.1177/0020715210387522 

Lange, Matthew and Andrew Dawson (2010). “Education and Ethnic Violence: A Cross-National Time-Series Analysis.” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 16 (2): 216-239. DOI: 10.1080/13537113.2010.490758 

Lange, Matthew and Andrew Dawson (2009). “Dividing and Ruling the World? A Statistical Test of the Effects of Colonialism on Postcolonial Civil Violence.” Social Forces 88 (2): 785-817. DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0255