Professor
Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal
erick.lachapelle@gmail.com
About
Erick Lachapelle is a Professor of Political Science at the Université de Montréal. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto. His research focuses on political behaviour, public opinion, and climate policy, with particular attention to how beliefs, values, and institutional contexts shape support for climate action in democratic societies.
He has extensive experience in survey and experimental design and has led large-scale studies in North America and Europe. He is a CSSN Scholar, the principal investigator of the Canadian Surveys on Energy and the Environment (CSEE) and a principal researcher at EcoAnalytics.
Selected Publications
- Puelma-Touzel, M., and Lachapelle, E. 2024. “Ideology as Topic Correlation Structure: Inference Method and Example Application to Carbon Tax Public Opinion.” Environmental Data Science 3:e10.
- Mildenberger, M., Lachapelle, E., K. Harrison, and I. Stadelmann-Steffen. 2022. “Limited Evidence That Carbon Tax Rebates Have Increased Support for Carbon Pricing.” Nature Climate Change 12(2):121–122.
- Martel-Morin, M., and Lachapelle, E. 2022. “The Five Canada’s of Climate Change: Using Audience Segmentation to Inform Communication on Climate Policy.” PLOS One 17(11):e0273977.
- Lavigne, M., É. Bélanger, R. Nadeau, J.-F. Daoust, and Lachapelle, E. 2022. “Hide and Seek? How False Beliefs Shape Perceptions of Government Transparency.” Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review 3(2):1–47.
Current Research Projects
- Measuring and Responding to Climate Misinformation