Royce Koop

Science Building Room 2028 Phone: (647) 348-5383

Memorial University of Newfoundland Email:
St. John’s NL A1B 3X9 Homepage:
Citizenship: Canadian

Current Position
University Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Education
Ph.D. Political Science, University of British Columbia, 2008.
Dissertation: Multi-Level Party Politics: The Liberal Party from the Ground Up.
Supervisor: R.K. Carty
External Examiner: Susan Scarrow (University of Houston)
M.A. Political Science, University of Calgary, 2003.
Thesis: Consistency in Federal-Provincial Party Identification: Canada since 1993.
Supervisor: Anthony Sayers
B.A. (Honours Thesis), University of Lethbridge, 2002.

Teaching Experience
Instructor
Summer 2009: Politics of the European Union. Simon Fraser University. 23 students.
Winter 2009: Canadian Government and Politics (two sections). University of British Columbia. 300
students in total.
Summer 2008: Canadian Political Parties. University of British Columbia. 25 students.
Summer 2007: Canadian Political Parties. University of British Columbia. 32 students.

Teaching assistant/Course grader

Winter 2007 and 2008: Quantitative Methods in Political Science (F. Cutler), University of British
Columbia.
Spring 2008: Canadian Government and Politics (C. Kam), University of British Columbia.
Winter 2007: Parliament and Party: The Strategy of Politics (C. Kam), University of British Columbia.
Spring 2003: Research Methods (L. Tossutti), University of Calgary.
Winter 2002: The Politics of Advanced Industrial States (A. Sayers), University of Calgary.
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Small Group Facilitator

2004: British Columbia Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform.

Research Contributions
Articles
Royce Koop. Forthcoming. "Professionalism, Sociability, and the Liberal Party in the Constituencies."
Canadian Journal of Political Science.
Royce Koop and Peter John Loewen. Forthcoming. "When to go local, when to go national: Determi-
nants of Private Members’ Legislation in the 38th and 39th Parliaments. Journal of Parliamentary and
Political Law.
Royce Koop and Harold J. Jansen. 2009. "Political Blogs and Blogrolls in Canada: Forums for Demo-
cratic Deliberation?" Social Science Computer Review. 27:2:155-173.
Harold J. Jansen and Royce Koop. 2005. "Pundits, Ideologues, and Ranters: The British Columbia
Election Online." Canadian Journal of Communication. 30:4:613-632.
Royce Koop. 2004. "Federal-Provincial Voting and Federal Integration in the Fourth Canadian Party
System." Federal Governance. 4:1.

Other publications and reviews

Royce Koop. 2007. Review of Policy Horizons and Parliamentary Government by Paul V. Warwick.
Canadian Journal of Political Science. 40:4:1089-90.
Barry Cooper and Royce Koop. 2003. "Policing Alberta: An Analysis of the Alternatives to the Federal
Provision of Police Services." Public Policy Sources. 73.

Work in progress
Book Manuscript
Royce Koop. Grassroots Liberals: Organizing for Federal Politics in Canada. The manuscript is in the final
stage of review at UBC Press.

Working papers
Peter John Loewen, Royce Koop, and James H. Fowler. "The Power to Propose: A Natural Experiment
in Politics." Revise and resubmit at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Royce Koop. "Devolution and Constituency Party Adaptation in the UK."

Works in preparation
Peter John Loewen and Royce Koop. "Panel Composition and Leave to Appeal Success in the Supreme
Court of Canada, 2006 to 2009."
Royce Koop and Amanda Bittner. "Do ’parachuted’ candidate become more active legislators?"
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Research Grants
2010 SSHRC, "A Cartography of the Canadian Political Blogosphere" (collaborator; Thierry Giasson,
Principal Investigator). $52,000
2010 SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Workshops Grant "Political Parties and Elections in Canada" (co-applicant
with Amanda Bittner). $24,981

Honours, Awards, and Fellowships

2009-2010 University Postdoctoral Fellowship, Memorial University of Newfoundland
2004-2007 CGS Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
2003-2004 Province of Alberta Scholarship (declined), University of Calgary
2001 George Ellis Research Scholarship, University of Lethbridge
2000 Chinook Summer Research Scholarship, University of Lethbridge

Research Experience
Database Manager and Researcher
Policy.ca and Mapleleafweb.ca, 2007-2008

Researcher
Alberta Gaming Research Institute, 2004-2005
Human Early Learning Partnership, University of British Columbia, 2004
Centre for Cyber Citizenship, 2000-2002

Conference Presentations (last three years)

Royce Koop. "Devolution and Constituency Party Adaptation in the UK."
2010. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal.
Royce Koop and Amanda Bittner. "Do ’parachuted’ candidates become more active legislators?"
2010. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal.
Royce Koop and Peter John Loewen. "When to go local, when to go national: Determinants of private
members’ legislation."
2009. Third Law and Parliament Conference, Toronto.
Peter John Loewen, Royce Koop, and James H. Fowler. "The Power to Propose: A Natural Experiment
in Politics."
2009. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Toronto.
2009. West Coast Experimental Political Science Conference, La Jolla.
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Peter John Loewen, and Royce Koop. "Panel Composition and Leave to Appeal Success in the Supreme
Court of Canada."
2009. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Toronto.
Royce Koop and Campbell Sharman. "The Elusive Nature of National Party Organization in Canada
and Australia."
2008. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Vancouver.
Royce Koop and R.K. Carty. "Integrating Multi-Level Party Politics from the Ground Up: The Local
Organizations of Canada’s Liberal Parties."
2007. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Saskatoon.
2007. Joint Sessions of the European Consortium for Political Research, Helsinki.

Invited Presentations
November 2009. "Political Parties in Federal Context." Workshop on Political Parties and Civil Society
in Federal Countries, Forum of Federations.

October 2009. "Professionalism, Sociability, and the Liberal Party in the Constituencies." Department
of Political Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Service (Academic)
Manuscript reviewer, Canadian Journal of Political Science (3).
Manuscript reviewer, Canadian Political Science Review (1).
Book Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Political Science (1).
Graduate Representative, UBC Comparative Politics Curriculum Committee. 2007-2008.
Graduate Representative, UBC Canadian Politics Curriculum Committee. 2006-2007.
Reviewing Editor, Innovations: A Journal of Politics. 2004.

Service (Other)
Pro Bono Legal Clinic Coordinator, Access Justice Vancouver. February 2008-August 2009.
General Volunteer, Calgary Multiculturalism Society. 2004-2005.
Volunteer Researcher, British Columbia John Howard Society. 2004.
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References
R.K. Carty
Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
, (604) 822-6825
Allan Tupper
Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
, (604) 827-3387
Christopher Kam
Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
, (604) 822-6606

Last updated: April 12, 2010