Dietlind Stolle

Dietlind Stolle is a recognized expert on political participation, youth engagement, social capital and diversity. She has conducted or contributed to numerous national, local and comparative surveys. Most importantly, she has been the principal investigator of the Canadian Youth Survey. She is currently the principal investigator, co-investigator or collaborator on eight other national and international funded projects, including the 2011 and 2015 Canadian Election Studies. She is also the...See more

Dietlind Stolle is a recognized expert on political participation, youth engagement, social capital and diversity. She has conducted or contributed to numerous national, local and comparative surveys. Most importantly, she has been the principal investigator of the Canadian Youth Survey. She is currently the principal investigator, co-investigator or collaborator on eight other national and international funded projects, including the 2011 and 2015 Canadian Election Studies. She is also the principal investigator of the Student Issues and Protest Survey in Quebec. She has previously served as the Associate Director of the US Citizenship, Involvement and Democracy Survey. Stolle is a past co-winner of the American Political Science Association's Award for the best paper on European politics. Her scholarly achievements have been recognized in recent invitations to serve as an affiliated researcher at Stockholm University's Department of Political Science and as a senior research partner at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Gottingen, Germany. She has also been invited to serve on the advisory board of the Institute for the Study of Democracy in Aarau, Switzerland. She was recently a guest at the NCCR Institute at the University of Zurich and has been invited as guest professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, where she received the prestigious Karl W. Deutsch Professorship. See less