Founding Director – Pippa Norris
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The founding Director of the EIP project was Professor Pippa Norris, an Anglo-American comparative political scientist who has taught at Harvard for more than two decades. She is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Director of the Electoral Integrity Project. She also served from 2012-2019 as the ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and in 2006-7 as the Director of the Democratic Governance Group at the United Nations Development Program in New York.
Career honors include the 2020 Samuel Eldersveld prize by APSA’s political parties research section, the 2019 Charles E. Merriam award by APSA, election in 2018 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 2018 Joe C. Baxter Award from IFES, the 2017 Sir Isaiah Berlin award for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies, the 2017 International Engagement Award for the EIP project, the 2014 Karl Deutsch award for cross-disciplinary research, the 2011 Johan Skytte prize in political science, with Ronald Inglehart, the 2011 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship, the 2015 Brown Democracy Medal, a ‘special recognition’ award by the UK Political Science Association, and a Doctor honoris causa by the University of Edinburgh, Warwick University, Leuphana University and Bergen University, as well as book prizes.
Her research compares electoral integrity, public opinion and voting behavior, democratic institutions and cultures, gender politics, and political communications in many countries worldwide.
Recent books published include Strengthening Electoral Integrity (CUP 2017), Election Watchdogs (edited with Alessandro Nai, OUP 2017), Checkbook Elections: Political Finance in Comparative Perspective (ed. with Andrea Abel van Es, OUP 2016), Why Elections Fail (Cambridge University Press 2015), Contentious Elections: From Ballots to Barricades (Routledge, ed. with Richard W. Frank and Ferran Martinez i Coma, 2015). Why Electoral Integrity Matters (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Advancing Electoral Integrity (Oxford University Press, ed. with Richard W. Frank and Ferran Martinez i Coma, 2014).
Recent books include Cultural Backlash: The Rise of Authoritarian-Populism (with Ron Inglehart, Cambridge University Press, 2018), and Electoral Integrity in America (2018, with Sarah Cameron and Thomas Wynter).
A well-known public speaker and prolific author, she has published almost fifty books. This includes a series for Cambridge University Press: A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Postindustrial Societies (2000, winner of the 2006 Doris A. Graber award for the best book in political communications), Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty and the Internet Worldwide (2001), Democratic Phoenix: Political Activism Worldwide(2002) and Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the Globe (with Ronald Inglehart, 2003), Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior (2004), Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (with Ronald Inglehart, 2004, winner of the Virginia Hodgkinson prize from the Independent Sector, 2nd edition 2010), Radical Right: Voters and Parties in the Electoral Market (2005), Driving Democracy: Do power-sharing institutions work? (2008) and Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalizing World (2009, with Ronald Inglehart), Democratic Deficit: Critical Citizens Revisited (2011) and Making Democratic Governance Work: The Impact of Regimes on Prosperity, Welfare and Peace (Cambridge University Press Fall 2012).
Other authored or coauthored books include On Message (1999), Electoral Change Since 1945 (1997), Political Recruitment (1995), British By-elections (1990), Politics and Sexual Equality (1986).
Edited books include Public Sentinel: News Media and the Governance Agenda (World Bank 2010), Britain Votes 2005 (co-edited with Christopher Wlezien, 2005), Framing Terrorism(2003), Britain Votes 2001 (2001), Critical Citizens (1999), Critical Elections(1999), The Politics of News (1998, 2nd edition 2007), Elections and Voting Behaviour(1998), Britain Votes 1997 (1997), Women, Media and Politics (1997),Politics and the Press (1997),Passages to Power (1997), Comparing Democracies (1996, 2nd ed. 2002, 3rd edition 2009, 4th ed 2014), Women in Politics (1996), Different Voices, Different Lives(1994), Gender and Party Politics (1993), British Elections & Parties Yearbook (1991, 1992, 1993).
She has served as an expert consultant for many international bodies including the UN, UNESCO, NDI, the Council of Europe, International IDEA, the OSCE, the World Bank, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the UK Electoral Commission. Her work has been published in more than a dozen languages (French, German, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Pashtu, Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian, Korean, and Japanese).
Journals articles include those in the British Journal for Political Science, Political Studies, Political Communication, the European Journal of Political Research, the International Political Science Review, Electoral Studies and Legislative Studies, and she co-founded The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics.
She is Vice President of APSA and she has served previously on executive bodies for the American Political Science Association (APSA), the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the Political Science Association of the UK (PSA), the World Values Survey Association, the British Politics Group of APSA. She was President of the Political Communications section of APSA and of the Women and Politics Research Group of APSA, and Co-Founding Chair of the Elections, Parties, and Public Opinion Group (EPOP) of the PSA.
She has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, the University of California-Berkeley, the University of East Anglia, the University of Oslo, the University of Cape Town, Otago University, the University of Sydney, and the Australian National University. Prior to joining Harvard in 1992, she taught at Edinburgh University.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Philosophy from Warwick University, and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Politics from the London School of Economics (LSE).
At Harvard she has taught DPI 413 Challenges of Democratization, DPI 416 Public Opinion, DPI415 Electoral Integrity, and DPI 415 Comparative Politics in Global Perspective at the Kennedy School, and Gov1109 Comparative Institutional Design in Harvard’s Government Department.
Full details and publications can be found at: www.pippanorris.com.