Dr. John Meisel

John Meisel stands out among the generation of Canadian political scientists of the post-war generation. From the publication of his first major book, "The Canadian General Election of 1957" (1962), he rapidly took his place as the outstanding practitioner in Canada of the new science of election studies, known as psephology. The most recent of his works is the brilliant "Working Papers on Canadian Politics", which appeared in 1973. He combines exceptional analytical insight with an urbane and graceful style. For many years he has served as general editor of the one of the Social Science Research Council of Canada's most outstanding series of studies - Decision Making in Canada". A graduate of the University of Toronto, he received his doctorate from the University of London in 1959. He has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council of Canada, the Canada Council, and the Rockefeller Foundation. More recently, he has been the holder of a Killam Fellowship. In 1973, he was elected President of the Canadian Political Science Association.