Social capital, diversity and the welfare state. He is now embarked on a comparative study of campaigns, funded by a SSHRC Insight grant awarded in 2016 and by my 2017 Humboldt fellowship. Along the way, the basics of the Canadian design were incorporated in election studies in New Zealand, Austria, Italy, and the UK. The most important product of this initiative is The 2000 Presidential Election and the Foundations of Party Politics (with Michael G. The Canadian work attracted an international audience and led Johnston to the University of Pennsylvania, where he brought the National Annenberg Election Survey into existence. The 1992-93 study resulted in The Challenge of Direct Democracy: the 1992 Canadian Referendum (with Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Neil Nevitte). Brady, and Jean CrГЄte), which won the Harold Adams Innis Prize for the best book in the social sciences in Canada. The first product of this research was Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election (with AndrГ© Blais, Henry E. These were the first designs for national-scale fieldwork that enabled capturing the ephemera of campaigns and linking them to media quantities. This interest dates from his time as Principal Investigator of the 19-3 Canadian Election Studies. For examples, consult posts at the personal website.Д¬ommunications media and campaigns. This work also incorporates elements of his work on communications and diversity, as described in the next two paragraphs. His attention is now turned to the Canadian party system of the 21st century, to which the lessons of the 20th century apply only in part. This book won prizes from both APSA and the Southern Political Science Association. (For a synopsis of this book, click here.) On the US side, the major contribution is The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South (with Byron E. On the Canadian side, much of the work is captured in his 2017 book with UBC Press, The Canadian Party System: An Analytic History. This interest spans his entire career and involves close investigation of patterns in Canada and elsewhere, especially the US.

His research falls into three major areas:Д®lectoral systems, party systems, and parties. In 2017 he was awarded a career fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation. From 2009 to 2012, he was a Marie Curie Research Fellow attached to the European University Institute. He held visiting fellowships at QueenвЂ™s University at Kingston, the Mannheimer Zentrum fГјr EuropГ¤ische Sozialforschung (MZES), and the Australian National University. 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 continues to be affiliated with the Institute for European Studies.

Richard Johnston (PhD Stanford) held the Canada Research Chair in Public Opinion, Elections, and Representation until his retirement on 30 June 2020.

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