PIPPA NORRIS is a comparative political scientist who has taught at Harvard for three decades. She is the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Founding Director of the Electoral Integrity Project, Director of the Global Party Survey, Co-Director of the TrustGov Project, Co-Principal Investigator for Trust in European Democracies (TrueDem), and Vice-President of the World Values Survey.

Her research compares public opinion and elections, political institutions and cultures, gender politics, and political communications in many countries worldwide.  She is ranked the 2nd most cited political scientist worldwide, according to Google scholar. Major career honors include, amongst others, the Skytte prize, IPSA’s Karl Deutsch award, fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, APSA’s Charles Merriam award, Warren E. Miller award, and Samuel Eldersfeld award, George H. Hallet award, and the PSA’s Sir Isaiah Berlin award, as well as several book awards and honorary doctorates. Recent books include Electoral Integrity in America, Cultural Backlash and In Praise of Skepticism: Trust but Verify. Her latest book is forthcoming with Oxford University Press on The Cultural Roots of Democratic Backsliding.  For full details, see her biography.