Jack Lucas
Jack Lucas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary, and a Board Member of the Parkland Institute. His research is focused on democracy and representation in Canadian local governments as well as urban-rural divides in Canadian politics. He is the author or editor of two books and more than thirty refereed journal articles, including Big City Elections in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2021), an analysis of elections and voting in eight Canadian cities, and “The Urban-Rural Divide in Canadian Federal Elections, 1896-2019,” a long-term analysis of the size and character of urban-rural divides in Canadian elections. He is Project Director for the Canadian Municipal Barometer, an annual survey of mayors and councillors across Canada.
