Johnston, Richard
Richard Johnston (PhD Stanford) is a Professor Emeritus from the University of British Columbia. He held the Canada Research Chair in Public Opinion, Elections, and Representation until his retirement on 30 June 2020. He continues to be affiliated with the Institute for European Studies. He also taught at the University of Toronto, the California Institute of Technology, Harvard University (Mackenzie King chair, 1994-5), and the University of Pennsylvania. He held visiting fellowships at Queen’s University at Kingston, the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), and the Australian National University. From 2009 to 2012, he was a Marie Curie Research Fellow attached to the European University Institute. In 2017 he was awarded a career fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation.
Research Interests: Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics, US Politics, Electoral systems, party systems, and parties, Communications media and campaigns, Social capital, diversity and the welfare state.
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of British Columbia |
| Fields of Expertise: | Canadian Politics Democracy and Political Participation Mass Media and Digital Communications Political Parties and Elections Social Policy, Welfare and Labour Market |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism |
| Email: | richard.johnston@ubc.ca |
| Media outreach: | No |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Liberal Leaders and Liberal Success: The Impact of Alternation. Canadian Journal of Political Science 52:3 (Autumn 2019): 423-442. Federalism and the Welfare State in a Multicultural World, Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018, pp. 260. With Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Will Kymlicka, and John Myles. And in this volume: The Progressive’s Dilemma, pp. 1-19. With Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Will Kymlicka, and John Myles. Multiculturalism Policy and Support for the Welfare State, pp. 263-289. With Stuart Soroka, Matthew Wright, and Irene Bloemraad. Multiculturalism and Muslim Accommodation: Policy and Predisposition Across Three Political Contexts. Comparative Political Studies 50:1 (January 2017): 102-132. With Matthew Wright, Jack Citrin, and Stuart Soroka. Vote compass in British Columbia: insights from and about published polls. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Policy 8:1 (January 2017): 97-109. Campaign Effects, in Kai Arzheimer, Jocelyn Evans, and Michael Lewis-Beck, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour. London: Sage, 2017, pp. 709-732. |
