Academic Partners
PATRON's academic partnerships connect our research to institutions and scholars studying electoral integrity, governance, and democratic institutions in Canada and around the world.
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The Electoral Integrity Project is an independent academic project, founded in 2012 and based at the Royal Military College of Canada / Queen's University and the University of East Anglia, that asks why elections fail and what can be done about it, producing policy-relevant research comparing the quality of elections worldwide.
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The Local News Research Project combines content analysis and digital mapping to document the state of local news in Canada. Led by April Lindgren at Toronto Metropolitan University, its work — including the crowd-sourced Local News Map — tracks the closures, consolidation, and local news poverty that follow as print and broadcast outlets contract.
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The Tech Lobby tracks how technology companies lobby the Canadian federal government. Led by Sara Bannerman at McMaster University, it draws on the federal lobbying registry and a large corpus of access-to-information records to show who is lobbied, on which issues, and to what effect.
Civil Society Organizations
PATRON partners with civic organizations whose work on transparency, accountability, and democratic participation in Canada complements and benefits from our data and computational tools.
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Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) is a civic non-profit for training and launching the careers of data-based investigative journalists focused on transparency in Canadian politics. Their mission is to strengthen democracy by investigating how money and power intersect in Canada, build the public interest databases that make those systems transparent, and equip citizens and other journalists to hold the powerful to account.
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The Samara Centre for Democracy is a non-partisan organization focused on strengthening and protecting Canadian democracy. It is a registered charity with a mission to secure a
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Open North is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the common good. Working alongside governments and civic-minded organizations of all sizes, we provide data expertise to enhance decision-making, drive innovation, improve public and civic services, and address society’s most pressing challenges.
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Transparency International Canada’s mission is to combat corruption and foster a culture of integrity in all sectors of Canadian society by conducting research, policy development, capacity-building, and advocacy.
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