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    Six ways B.C.’s new government could unfold

    The look of B.C.’s next government is as uncertain as it was before votes were tallied, but here are some possible outcomes

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    UBC’s Richard Johnston on a polarizing political year

    Richard Johnston, Canada research chair in public opinion, elections and representation at University of British Columbia, is a leading expert on how democracy works in Canada and abroad. He is co-author of 2007’s award-winning The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South, and co-editor of  2005’s Strengthening Canadian Democracy, a collection of essays on democratic reform issues. Johnston spoke to Maclean’s this week about how the federal political landscape changed this year.