Ruth Dassonneville is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal, and holds a Canada Research Chair in Electoral Democracy. She has held visiting positions at the Australian National University and the GESIS Institute, and was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on voting behaviour, compulsory voting, political parties, and women and politics. Her work on these topics
has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, the European Journal of Political Research, and Journal of Politics, among others.