American research has found that change in political identification is a possible outcome of a university education, particularly in the liberal arts. By contrast, Canadian survey data collected in 1963, 1967, 2013, and 2017 point to there being no change in political identification on the part of undergraduates in a Canadian university with a liberal arts curriculum. In contrast to the United States, by means of cluster analyses conducted on the results of surveys of the American federal elections of 1964 and 2016, and the Canadian national elections of 1965 and 2015, I show that the political identification of two cohorts of Canadian undergraduates is more likely an artifact of the national multi-party system in Canada than it is the result of a university education.

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加拿大和美国大学生政治身份的宏观政治结构、变化和停滞——一项比较历史分析

美国的研究发现，政治认同的改变是大学教育的一个可能结果，尤其是在文科方面。相比之下，加拿大在 1963 年、1967 年、2013 年和 2017 年收集的调查数据表明，加拿大文科大学本科生的政治认同没有变化。对比美国，通过对 1964 年和 2016 年美国联邦选举以及 1965 年和 2015 年加拿大全国大选的调查结果进行聚类分析，我表明两个队列的加拿大本科生的政治认同与其说它是大学教育的结果，不如说它更像是加拿大国家多党制的产物。