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Overview

Richard Johnston is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and is an active researcher in the field of social sciences. Their primary contributions lie within political science and international relations, with additional work touching on general health professions, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, as well as strategy and management.

Their research topics cover a range of areas, including social policy and reform studies, employment and welfare studies, electoral systems and political participation, populism and right-wing movements, migration and labor dynamics, political influence and corporate strategies, and regional resilience and development.

Recent publications by Richard Johnston include:

  • Affective Polarization in the Canadian Party System, 1988-2021 (2023), Canadian Journal of Political Science
  • The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence (2021), Electoral Studies
  • Who is Most Vulnerable? Exploring Job Vulnerability, Social Distancing and Demand During COVID-19 (2021), The Irish Journal of Management
  • Reenacting the Pamphlet War in an Age of Turmoil (2021), Essays in Romanticism
  • Book Review: Inside the Local Campaign: Constituency Elections in Canada by Alex Marland & Thierry Giasson (Eds.) MarlandAlexGiassonThierry (eds.) Inside the Local Campaign: Constituency Elections in Canada. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2022. 448 pp., CA$39.95 (paperback). ISBN 9780774868198. (2023), The International Journal of Press/Politics

Richard Johnston has published work in a variety of venues, including:

  • Canadian Journal of Political Science
  • Electoral Studies
  • The Irish Journal of Management
  • Essays in Romanticism
  • The International Journal of Press/Politics

The researcher frequently collaborates with several co-authors, such as:

  • Stuart Soroka
  • Keith Banting
  • Sarah Lachance
  • Ryan Hogg
  • Kristel Miller

Best Publications

  • When Does Diversity Erode Trust? Neighborhood Diversity, Interpersonal Trust and the Mediating Effect of Social Interactions

    Dietlind Stolle;Stuart Soroka;Richard Johnston

  • Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election

    J. Paul Johnston;Richard Johnston;Andre Blais;Henry E. Brady

  • Do Multiculturalism policies erode the welfare state? An empirical analysis

    Keith Banting;Richard Johnston;Will Kymlicka;Stuart Soroka

  • The 2000 Presidential Election and the Foundations of Party Politics

    Richard Johnston;Michael Gray Hagen;Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  • PARTY IDENTIFICATION: Unmoved Mover or Sum of Preferences?

    Richard Johnston

  • The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South

    Byron E Shafer;Richard Johnston

  • The rolling cross-section design

    Richard Johnston;Henry E. Brady

  • National Identity and Support for the Welfare State

    Richard Johnston;Keith Banting;Will Kymlicka;Stuart Soroka

  • Immigration and Redistribution in a Global Era

    Stuart Soroka;Keith Banting;Richard Johnston

  • Ethnicity, Trust, and the Welfare State

    Stuart Soroka;Keith Banting;Richard Johnston

  • The Challenge of Direct Democracy: The 1992 Canadian Referendum

    Andre Blais;Richard Johnston

  • Capturing Campaign Effects

    Richard G. C. Johnston;Brady

  • Deliberation, information, and trust: the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly as agenda setter

    Fred Cutler;Richard Johnston;R. Kenneth Carty;André Blais

  • Social capital in a multicultural society : The case of Canada

    Richard Johnston;Stuart N. Soroka

  • Do Patriotism and Multiculturalism Collide? Competing Perspectives from Canada and the United States

    Jack Citrin;Richard Johnston;Matthew Wright

  • Turnout and the party system in Canada, 1988–2004

    Richard Johnston;J. Scott Matthews;Amanda Bittner

  • Are Voters to Blame? Voter Competence and Elite Maneuvers in Referendums

    Arthur Lupia;Richard Johnston

  • The Canadian Party System: An Analytic History

    Richard Johnston

  • The Reproduction of the Religious Cleavage in Canadian Elections

    Richard Johnston

  • The Transformation of Southern Politics Revisited: The House of Representatives as a Window

    Byron E. Shafer;Richard G. C. Johnston

  • Campaign trial heats as election forecasts: Measurement error and bias in 2004 presidential campaign polls

    Mark Pickup;Mark Pickup;Richard Johnston

  • Campaign trial heats as electoral information: Evidence from the 2004 and 2006 Canadian federal elections

    Mark Pickup;Richard Johnston

  • The End of Southern Exceptionalism

    Byron E. Shafer;Richard Johnston

  • The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election

    Richard Johnston

  • Strengthening Canadian Democracy

    Paul Howe;Richard Johnston;André Blais

  • The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South

    Glenn Feldman;Byron E. Shafer;Richard Johnston

  • Letting the people decide : dynamics of a Canadian election

    Richard Johnston

  • Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election

    Patrick J. Smith;Richard Johnston;André Blais;Henry E. Brady

  • The Dynamics of Party Support: Cohort Analyzing Party Identification Philip E. Converse Beverly Hills: Sage, 1976, pp. 175

    Richard Johnston

  • The Decline of American Political Parties, 1952–1988 Martin P. Wattenberg 3rd ed.; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990, pp. xviii, 203The Loyalties of Voters: A Lifetime Learning Model Richard Rose and Ian McAllister London: Sage, 1990, pp. xiv, 219

    Richard Johnston

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart Soroka
Stuart Soroka University of California, Los Angeles
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Kathleen Hall Jamieson University of Pennsylvania
Keith G. Banting
Keith G. Banting Queen's University
André Blais
André Blais University of Montreal
Will Kymlicka
Will Kymlicka Queen's University
Henry E. Brady
Henry E. Brady University of California, Berkeley
Jack Citrin
Jack Citrin University of California, Berkeley
Neil Nevitte
Neil Nevitte University of Toronto
Elisabeth Gidengil
Elisabeth Gidengil McGill University
Dietlind Stolle
Dietlind Stolle McGill University

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