Book Project: Across the Detroit River

Throughout the American Midwest, where manufacturing was once dominant, white working-class voters are increasingly supporting the Republican Party. This realignment is one of the most consequential developments in contemporary American electoral politics and is one of the key reasons why Trump has been elected twice. However, while these American voters have shifted to the right, white working-class voters to the north in the province of Ontario have remained much more supportive of left-wing parties. Across the Detroit River examines this cross-border electoral puzzle, leveraging the Canada-U.S. comparison to uncover novel inferences on voting behavior. Utilizing a qualitative study of two communities on either side of the Detroit River and quantitative data from original surveys and experiments, this project puts past accounts to the test and posits new claims about how and why white working-class voters differ on either side of the Canada-U.S. border.​

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Selected Publications 

Krashinsky, Lewis, and Christopher H. Achen. 2025. “Advice Not Taken: Canadian Citizen Assemblies and Subsequent Referendums.” Political Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-025-10104-9

 

Krashinsky, Lewis. 2025. “How Canada Compares: The Politics of White Identity, Racial Resentment, and Racial Attitudes in North America.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 58(3): 539–64. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000842392500006X.

 

Krashinsky, Lewis, Blake Lee-Whiting, and William Roelofs. 2025. “ Short Pants, Public Interest: The Appeal of Political Staff Positions to Young People in Canada.” Canadian Public Administration: 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.70003

 

Krashinsky, Lewis, and C. David Naylor. 2024. “Political partisanship, laissez-faire attitudes, and COVID-19 behaviours and viewpoints in Canada and the USA.” Canadian Journal of Public Health: 115, 15–25. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-023-00822-0

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Selected Ongoing Projects​

Gazmararian, Alexander F., and Lewis Krashinsky. 2024. “Driving Labor Apart: Climate Policy Backlash in the American Auto Corridor.”  http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4633502  ​​

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Krashinsky, Lewis. “Why They Vote Differently: Race, National Identity, and the Electoral Divergence of White Working-Class Voters in North America.” Link. 

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Krashinsky, Lewis. "The Contrasting Electoral Effects of National Identity: Evidence from White Working-Class Voters in Canada and the United States." Link. ​

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Harell, Allison, Lewis Krashinsky, Daniel Rubenson, and Laura Stephenson. "Exogenous Shocks and Identity Threats: Explaining the Unlikely Results of the 2025 Canadian Federal Election." ​

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