About Elisabeth Gidengil Elisabeth Gidengil is Hiram Mills Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at McGill University. Books by Elisabeth Gidengil Take a Number How Citizens' Encounters with Government Shape Political Engagement by (author) Elisabeth Gidengil Provincial Battles, National Prize? Elections in a Federal State by (author) Laura B. Stephenson, Andrea Lawlor, William P. Cross, Andre Blais & Elisabeth Gidengil Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up Perceptions and Performance edited by Elisabeth Gidengil & Heather Bastedo