Richard Johnston
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Professor
Distinguished University Scholar
Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions
Office: Buchanan C424
Phone: 604-822-5456
Email: rjohnston(at)politics.ubc.ca
Richard Johnston (Ph.D, Stanford) is author or co-author of:
Public Opinion and Public Policy in Canada: Questions of Confidence
Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election (McGill-Queen's; Winner of the Innis Prize, 1993)
The Challenge of Direct Democracy: The 1992 Canadian Referendum (McGill-Queen's)
The 2000 Presidential Election and the Foundations of Party Politics (Cambridge)
The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South (Harvard; Winner of an APSA Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Prize 2007 and of the VO Key Prize of the Southern Political Science Association, 2008)
He is co-editor of Strengthening Canadian Democracy, of Capturing Campaign Effects, and Social Capital, Diversity, and the Welfare State.
He has published articles in CJPS, AJPS, BJPolS, JOP, Electoral Studies, and other journals, and chapters in numerous edited volumes.
He has won four APSA organized-section best paper prizes and three book prizes. He was principal investigator of the 1988 and 1992-93 Canadian Election Surveys, a consultant to the 1996 New Zealand Election Study, and an Advisory Board member for the 2001, 2005, and 2009 British Election Studies. He was on the Planning Committee for the 1998 US National Election Study Pilot. He was co-investigator on the major collaborative research initiative, "Equality, Security, and Community," at UBC (for access to the data, see below) and on the 2000 National Annenberg Election Study at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2006 to 2009, he was Research Director for the Annenberg Study and Professor of Political Science at Penn. He is the Visiting Scientist on ELECDEM, a collaborative venture for training young scholars in the area of elections and democracy. His central preoccupation is with public opinion, elections, and representation, with special reference to campaign dynamics and the role of information. He is also interested in connections among social capital, civil society, and support for the welfare state.
