Faculty members and students in the Department of Political Science are affiliated with a number of research centres and programs, including the following:
Institute for the Study of International Development
Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC)
Institute for European Studies (IES)
Inter-University Consortium for Arab and Middle East Studies
Centre for International Peace and Security Studies
McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
Research Group on Constitutional Studies
Montreal Research Group on Ethnic Conflict
Groupe de Recherche Inter-universitaire en Philosophie Politique