Spencer McKay

My research focuses primarily on how democratic theory can inform the (re)design of democratic institutions. As Buchanan Post-Doctoral Fellow, I am beginning a new project that examines both continuity and change in democratic institutions by examining processes of democratic reform in Canada. My other ongoing projects, including a book manuscript entitled Democratizing Referendums, focus on referendums and ballot initiatives in the history of political thought and in contemporary democratic theory.

Before coming to Queen's, I held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University and was previously a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions at the University of British Columbia.