About

Welcome to my site! I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, where I am a member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC) and an Associate Member of the Centre on Population Dynamics (CPD). I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Broadly speaking, I am interested in democratization and democratic development. Much of my research addresses the role that information plays in developing democratic polities. I am also interested in advancing quantitative methods to measure the effect of information. I maintain active research projects in the former Soviet Union, Eastern and Southern Africa, and North America. My work has appeared in a broad range of journals in political science and adjacent fields, such as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, and Political Analysis, among others. You can see more about my academic work on my CV.

Before returning to academia, I worked for the National Democratic Institute covering Kenya and the Caucasus Research Resource Centers covering Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

I am an avid bicycle tourer.

Contact me

Aaron Erlich, Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
McGill University
3610 McTavish, Room 26-4
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1Y2
T: 514-398-4756
F: 514-398-4938
aaron.erlich [at] mcgill.ca

Affiliations

Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship
Centre on Population Dynamics
Center for Social Media and Politics