Jonathan Rose B.A. (Toronto); M.A., Ph.D. (Queen's)
Associate Professor

Jonathan Rose was educated at the University of Toronto and Queen’s University, and has taught at Queen’s and  St. Lawrence University in New York.  In 2008 he was Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.  He was also Visiting Fellow, International Studies Centre (Herstmonceux), UK in 2005 and Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan in 2001.  

His research areas are Canadian politics and the mass media.  He is the author of a book on government advertising called Making Pictures in our Heads, Government Advertising in Canada  (New York:  Praeger Press, 2000).  He is also the co-editor of Canada:  the State of the Federation, 1998 and is the lead author of First Ministers’ Conference, the Art of Negotiation, a simulation exercise published by Broadview Press and translated into three languages.  With other colleagues, Jonathan is currently working on  a book examining  citizens' assemblies as models of deliberative bodies.  A full list of his publications is available here. 

Jonathan's administrative responsibilities include graduate field convener for the Canadian politics sub-field, a partial secondment to the university's Centre for Teaching and Learning, Residence Mentor for the International floor at Victoria Hall Residence, and Chair of the Queen’s University International Centre Council.

He has also provided advice to the Auditor General of Canada on government advertising and sponsorship, and on-going advice to the Auditor General of Ontario related to legislation regulating government advertising in Ontario.  

From 2006 to June 2007, he had the privilege of being the Academic Director of the Ontario Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform, the first such body in the province and the second in the world.  

Selected publications

 “Political Advertising and the rise of Infotainment” (with Hugh Mellon) in Linda Trimble & Shannon Sampert (eds.), Mediating Canadian Politics (Pearson, 2009)

“Institutionalizing Participation Through Citizen Assemblies” in Bill Cross and Jon Pammett (eds.) Activating the Citizen: Dilemmas of Citizen Participation in Europe and Canada (forthcoming)

"The Media” (with Paul Nesbitt-Larking) in John Courtney and David Smith (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics (Oxford Press, 2009)

"The Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform", Canadian Parliamentary Review, 30:3, Autumn 2007  

Making Pictures in Our Heads:  Government Advertising in Canada (New York:  Praeger, 2000)

"The Liberals Reap What they Sow: Why Their Negative Ads Failed", Policy Options, March 2006.

“Boundaries Blurred: Mass Media and Politics in a Hyper-Media Age” (with Simon Kiss) in Leslie Regan Shade and Paul Attallah [eds.], Mediascape: New Patterns in Canadian Communication (Toronto: Thompson, 2005)

"Television Attack Ads: Planting the Seeds of Doubt," Policy Options, September 2004.

Paul Nesbitt-Larking & Jonathan Rose, "Political Advertising in Canada," in David Schultz (ed.), Lights, Camera, Campaign!  Media Politics and Political Advertising (New York: Peter Lang, 2004)