Pippa Norris

Pippa Norris, the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, has taught at Harvard for a quarter century. She is also ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. A comparative political scientist, she focuses on democracy, public opinion and elections, political communications, and gender politics. She directs The Electoral Integrity Project,  established in 2012 at Sydney and Harvard universities. She serves as Vice-President of APSA. She is ranked 5th worldwide in political science citations by Google Scholar, with an H index of .90 and in the top 5% of scholars across all disciplines by the SSRN. She is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship.

Major honors include the Johan Skytte prize (known informally as the 'Nobel' prize in political science), the Karl Deutsch prize,  the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate, the Sir Isaiah Berlin Lifetime Achievement Award, fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Brown Medal for Democracy, and honorary doctorates from Edinburgh and Warwick, amongst other prizes and book awards.

She has published around fifty books (many subsequently translated into dozens of languages). These include Strengthening Electoral Integrity (CUP 2017),  Why Elections Fail (2015), Why Electoral Integrity Matters (2014), Making Democratic Governance Work: The Impact of Regimes on Prosperity, Welfare and Peace (2012), Democratic Deficits: Critical Citizens Revisited (2011), Cosmopolitan Communications (with Inglehart, 2009), Driving Democracy (2008), Radical Right (2005), Sacred and Secular (with Inglehart, 2004, 2010, winner of the 2005 Virginia Hodgkinson Research Prize), Electoral Engineering (2004), Rising Tide (with Inglehart, 2003), Democratic Phoenix (2002), Digital Divide (2001),  A Virtuous Circle (2000) (winner of the 2006 Doris A. Graber prize for the best book in political communications), and Political Recruiutment *winner of the George Hallet prize). Forthcoming books include Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Populist-Authoritarianism (CUP 2018, with Inglehart). 

Edited books include Electoral Integrity in America (OUP 2018), Checkbook Elections (OUP 2016), Watchdog Elections (2016), Contentious Elections (Edited, Routledge), Advancing Electoral Integrity (Edited with Frank and Martinez, OUP 2014), Comparing Democracies 4 (edited with Leduc and Niemi, Sage 2014), Public Sentinel: News Media and the Governance Reform Agenda (edited, World Bank,2009), Framing Terrorism; Comparing Democracies 2; Britain Votes 2001; Critical Citizens; On Message; Critical Elections; The Politics of News (2nd edition in press); Elections and Voting Behaviour; Britain Votes 1997; Electoral Change Since 1945; Women, Media and Politics; Comparing Democracies; Women in Politics; Political Recruitment; Different Voices, Different Lives; Gender and Party Politics; British Elections and Parties Yearbook; British By-elections; Politics and Sexual Equality.

She has served (on sabbatical leave) as the Director of Democratic Governance at the United Nations Development Program in New York and  on the executive of APSA, IPSA, and the PSA, as a consultant to the UN, OSCE, IDEA, UNESCO, the Council of Europe, NED, and UNDP. Her work has been published in more than a dozen languages. She holds a BA in Politics and Philosophy from Warwick University, and Master's and Doctoral degrees in politics from the London School of Economics. She is affiliated at Harvard with the  Center for European Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Center for International Development, the Ash Center, and the Shorenstein Center. Class offerings include DPI-616, DPI-416, and DPI-413.