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 American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, and Political Analysis, among others. You can see more about my academic work on my C.V.

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