B.A. (University of Calgary)
M.A. (University of Calgary)
Ph.D. (University of British Columbia)
Office: AQ 6039
Telephone: 778-782-8640
E-mail: mark_pickup@sfu.ca
Mark Pickup is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. He is also a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford, where he runs the Oxford Polling Observatory website.
Mark is a specialist in Comparative politics, with a particular interest in public opinion and democratic representation within North American and European countries. His research focuses on political information, public opinion, the media, election campaigns and electoral institutions .
Selected Publications
Evans, Geoff and Mark Pickup. “Reversing the Causal Arrow: The Political Conditioning of Economic Perceptions in the 2000-2004
US Presidential Election Cycle.” Journal of Politics. (2010) Forthcoming.
Pickup, Mark. “Better Know Your Dependent Variable: A Multination Analysis of Government Support Measures in Economic Popularity Models.” British Journal of Political Science (2010) Forthcoming.
Pickup, Mark. “Measure Twice, Model Once: Introduction to Methods for Better Longitudinal Measurement.” Electoral Studies (2009) 28: 354-367.
Pickup, Mark and Christopher Wlezien. “On Filtering Longitudinal Public Opinion Data: Issues in Identification and Representation of the True Change.” Electoral Studies (2009) 28: 349-53.
Pickup, Mark. “Testing for Fractional Integration in Party Popularity in the Presence of Structural Breaks.” Journal of Elections, Parties and Public Opinion (2009) 19: 105-16.
Pickup, Mark and Richard Johnston. “Campaign Trial Heats as Election Forecasts: Measurement Error and Bias in 2004 Presidential Campaign Polls.” International Journal of Forecasting (2008) 24:270-82.
Pickup, Mark and Richard Johnston. “Campaign Trial Heats as Election Forecasts: Evidence from the 2004 and 2006 Canadian Elections.” Electoral Studies (2007) 26: 460-76.
Pickup, Mark. “Globalisation, Politics, and Provincial Government Spending in Canada.” Canadian Journal of Political Science (2006) 39: 883-917. (Shortlisted for the John McMenemy Prize for the best article published in volume 39 of the Canadian Journal of Political Science.)
Pickup, Mark, Anthony Sayers, Rainer Knopff and Keith Archer. “Social Capital and Civic Community in Alberta.” Canadian Journal of Political Science (2004) 37: 617-45
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