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R. Kenneth Carty is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of British Columbia. One of the country's foremost experts on Canadian party politics, he was honoured with the Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Political Science Association in 2013. He is also a past president (2002) of the Canadian Political Science Association. Carty has served as a consultant to both national and provincial royal commissions on issues of electoral organization and was a member of the Federal Electoral Boundary Commission for British Columbia for the 2004 national redistribution. During 2003-04, he was the director of tesearch for the British Columbia Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform.

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Carty … is a leading authority on Canada's political parties. He traces the history of the party, paying attention to its cycles against important changes in Canada's demography (e.g., when increased immigration changed regional and national dynamics) and when parties entered the system.- G.A. McBeath (Choice)