André Blais is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Montréal where he is the University Research Chair in Electoral Studies. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a research fellow with the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC), the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ), and the Center for Interuniversity Research Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO). He has received numerous research grants including the recent $2.5 million project Making Electoral Democracy Work. He is one of the world’s leading experts on voting behavior and electoral systems.