Pippa Norris
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- Karl Deutsch Award (2014)
- Johan Skytte Prize (2011)
Pippa Norris | |
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 Norris in 2022 | |
| Born | 10 July 1953 London, England |
| Board member of | Electoral Integrity Project |
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| Education | |
| Influences | Ronald F. Inglehart |
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| Discipline | Political science |
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| Institutions | University of Edinburgh Harvard University |
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Pippa Norris (born 10 July 1953) is a British American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. She is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, and she has served as the Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Electoral Integrity Project.
Norris holds a Bachelor of Arts in politics and philosophy with joint honors from Warwick University, as well as a masters and doctoral degree in politics from the London School of Economics, and Honorary Doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, University of Bergen, Leuphana University, and Warwick University. Prior to joining Harvard in 1993, she taught Politics at University of Edinburgh.[1]
Awards and recognition
Norris is a fellow of the British Academy and she has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for her achievements in the field of political science.[2]
Norris and Joni Lovenduski's book on Political Recruitment: Gender, Race and Class (Cambridge University Press, 1995) was awarded the 2018 George H. Hallett prize by APSA "for a book published at least ten years ago which has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems".[3] She has also received the Doris Graber book award for A Virtuous Circle, honored as the best book in political communications.
She was honored by award of the Sir Isaiah Berlin Lifetime Achievement award by the Political Studies Association of the UK "for the significant contribution she has made as a major political thinker and in helping to shape academic research on democracy, electoral integrity, and populism–all issues that are relevant now more than ever."[4]
She has also received the Karl Deutsch Award for her contribution to interdisciplinary research from the International Political Science Association.[5]
In 2011 Norris and Ronald Inglehart were awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for "contributing innovative ideas about the relevance and roots of political culture in a global context, transcending previous mainstream approaches of research".[6]
Norris was awarded the inaugural Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2011.[7]
