Pippa Norris

Paul. F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Kennedy School
Office Address
Littauer-110
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 57
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-1475
Fax: 617-496-2850
Email: pippa_norris@Harvard.Edu
Assistant
Camiliakumari Wankaner (617-495-5994)
Pippa Norris

Profile

Pippa Norris, the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, is a political scientist who focuses on democracy and development, public opinion and elections, political communications, and gender politics.She has recently returned from serving as the Director of Democratic Governance at the United Nations Development Program in New York.

A prolific prize-winning author and international public speaker, she has published many journal articles and more than three dozen books (many in translation), including (for Cambridge University Press),Radical Right: Voters and Parties in the Electoral Marketplace, Sacred and Secular(winner of the 2005 Virginia Hodgkinson Research Prize awarded by the Independent Sector),Electoral Engineering,Rising Tide,Democratic Phoenix,Digital Divide and A Virtuous Circle (winner of the Doris A. Graber prize on the best book in political communications in 2006). Others include Framing Terrorism; Comparing Democracies 2 (3rd edition under development); 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.Two books currently in press are Driving Democracy: Do Power-sharing Regimes Work? (for Cambridge, spring2008) and Making Democracy Deliver: Innovative Governance for Human Development (edited, UNDP, 2008).

She has served on the executive of APSA, IPSA, and the PSA, as a consultant to the UN, IDEA, UNESCO, the Council of Europe, NED, and UNDP, and held visiting appointments at many universities, including Otago, Oslo, Essex, Columbia, California-Berkeley, Cape Town, and the Australian National University. 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 also teaches in Harvard's Government Department and prior to Harvard she taught at Edinburgh University. Full details at: www.pippanorris.com.

Courses

Fall

  • API-413 Challenges of Democratization

Spring

Media Expertise

Pippa Norris welcomes media inquiries on the following subjects:

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Research

Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. "God, Guns and Gays: The Supply and Demand for Religion in the U.S. and Western Europe." Public Policy Research 12.4 (2006): 224-233.
    • Norris, Pippa, and Christopher Wlezien. "Introduction: The Third Blair Victory: How and Why?" Parliamentary Affairs 58.4 (October 2005): 657-683.
    • Wlezien, Christopher, and Pippa Norris. "Conclusion: Whether the Campaign Mattered and How." Parliamentary Affairs 58.4 (October 2005): 871-888.
    • Inglehart, Ronald, and Pippa Norris. "Modernization and Gender Equality: A Response to Adams and Orloff." Politics & Gender 1.3 (September 2005): 482-492.
    • Norris, Pippa, Stefaan Walgrave, and Peter Van Aelst. "Who Demonstrates? Antistate Rebels, Conventional Participants, or Everyone?" Comparative Politics 37.2 (January 2005).
    • Norris, Pippa. "The Impact of the Internet on Political Activism: Evidence From Europe." International Journal of Electronic Government Research" 1.1 (2005): 19-39.
    • Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. "Religious Organizations and Social Capital." International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law 6.4 (September 2004).
    • Norris, Pippa. "The True Clash of Civilizations?" (reprinted in Spanish). Foreign Policy, Spanish Edition (March/April 2004).
    • Lovenduski, Joni, and Pippa Norris. "Westminster Women: The Politics of Presence." Political Studies 51.1 (March 2003).
    • Norris, Pippa. "Preaching to the Converted." Party Politics 9.1 (January 2003).
    • Norris, Pippa. "Apathetic Landslide: The 2001 British General Election." Parliamentary Affairs 54.4 (October 2001).
    • Norris, Pippa. "All Spin and No Substance: The 2001 British General Election." Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 6.4 (October 2001): 3-10.
    • Norris, Pippa, ed. "Britain Votes 2001." Parliamentary Affairs 54.4 (October 2001).
    • Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. "Cultural Obstacles to Equal Representation." Journal of Democracy 12.3 (July 2001): 126-140.
    • Norris, Pippa. "U.S. Campaign 2000: Of Pregnant Chads, Butterfly Ballots and Partisan Vitriol." Government and Opposition 35.2 (January 2001): 1-24.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Too Close to Call: Opinion Polls in Campaign 2000." Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 6.1 (January 2001).
    • Norris, Pippa. "The Twilight of Westminster? Electoral Reform and its Consequences." Political Studies 49 (2001): 877-900.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Angyali Kö? A Politikai Kommunikáó Hatá a Postindusztriá Demokráá" (in Hungarian). Mediakutato 4 (2001): 6-22.
    • Norris, Pippa. "¿Un circulo virtuoso? El impacto de las comunicaciones politicas en las democracies postindustriales." Revista Espanola de Ciencia Politica 4.1 (2001): 7-33.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Back to Chicken Entrails? Problems of Opinion Polls in U.S. Campaign 2000." Representation 38.2 (2001): 160-114.
    • Norris, Pippa, and Christina Holtz-Bacha. "To Entertain, Inform and Educate: Still the Role of Public Television in the 1990s?" Political Communication 18.2 (2001).
    • Norris, Pippa. "Social Capital and the News Media." Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 7.2 (2002): 3-8.
    • Norris, Pippa. "The Bridging and Bonding of Online Communities." Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 7.3 (Fall 2002): 3-8.
    • Inglehart, Ronald, and Pippa Norris. "The True Clash of Civilizations." Foreign Policy 135 (March-April 2003).
    • Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. "Islamic Culture and Democracy: Testing the 'Clash of Civilizations' Thesis." Comparative Sociology 1.3-4 (2003): 235-265.
    • Inglehart, Ronald, Pippa Norris, and Christian Welzel. "Gender Equality and Democracy." Comparative Sociology 1.3-4 (2003): 321-346.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Social Capital and ICT's: Widening or Reinforcing Social Networks? (in Japanese)." Eco-Forum 22.1 (2003): 31-41.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Tuned Out Voters? Media Impact on Campaigns." Ethical Perspectives 9.3 (2003).
    • Norris, Pippa. "Message or Medium? Campaign Learning During the 2001 British General Election." Political Communications 20.3 (2003): 233-262.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Preaching to the Converted? Pluralism, Participation and Party Websites." Party Politics 9.1 (2003): 21-45.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Zappers in de politiek? De invloed van de media op verkiezingscampagnes." Ethische Perspectieven 12.2 (2003): 86-102.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Why Parties Fail to Learn: Electoral Defeat, Selective Perception, and British Party Politics." Party Politics 10.1 (2004): 85-104.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Comment: Does PR Promote Political Extremism, Redux." Representation 40.3 (2004).
    • Norris, Pippa, Christopher Wlezien. "The Third Blair Victory: How and Why?" Parliamentary Affairs 58.Supplement 1 (2005): 1-27.
    • Norris, Pippa, Christopher Wlezien. "Whether the Campaign Mattered and How." Parliamentary Affairs 58.Supplement 1 (2005): 214-231.
    • Norris, Pippa. "A tese da "nova clivagem" e a base social do apoio à direita radical." Opini&atildeo P&uacuteblica 11.1 (2005): 1-32.
    • Norris, Pippa. "The Impact of Electoral Reform on Women's Representation." Acta Politica (Special Issue) 41 (2006): 197-213.
    • Norris, Pippa, and John Cuticle. "If You Build a Political Website, Will They Come? The Internet and Political Activism in Britain." International Journal of Electronic Government Research 2.2 (2006): 1-21.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Did the Media Matter? Agenda-Setting, Persuasion and Mobilization Effects in the 2005 British General Election." British Politics 1.2 (2006): 195-221.
    • Sanders, David, and Pippa Norris. "The Impact of Political Advertising in the 2001 U.K. General Election." Political Research Quarterly 59.1 (2006): 525-536.
  • Book Chapters
    • Norris, Pippa. "Revoluation, What Revolution? The Internet and U.S. Elections, 1992-2000." Governance.com: Democracy in the Information Age. Ed. Elaine Kamarck and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Brookings Institution Press, 2002.
    • Norris, Pippa. "A Virtuous Circle? The Impact of Political Communications in Post-Industrial Democracies." Challenges to Democracy. Ed. Keith Dowding, James Hughes, and Helen Margetts. Palgrave Publishers, 2001, 100-117.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Political Communication: Technological Diffusion and Democracy." International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. .Pergamon/Elsevier Science, 2001.
    • Norris, Pippa. "The News Media and Democracy." Political Communications Transformed: From Morrison to Mandelson. Ed. John Bartle and Dylan Griffiths. Palgrave Publishers, 2001, 163-180.
    • Norris, Pippa. "The Accidental President: Fuzzy Math, Florida Lawsuits and Campaign 2000." British Elections and Parties Review. Ed. Jonathan Tonge, Lynn Bennie, David Denver, and Lisa Harrison. Frank Cass Publishers, 2001, 174-191.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Confidence in Australia's Democracy." Elections: Full, Free and Fair. Ed. Marian Sawer. Federation, 2001, 202-215.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Global Governance and Cosmopolitan Citizens." Governance in a Globalizing World. Ed. Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and John D. Donahue. Brookings Institution, 2001, 155-177.
    • Norris, Pippa. "New Labour and Public Opinion: The Third Way as Centrism?" New Labour: The Progressive Future? Ed. Stuart White. Macmillan, 2001, 32-44.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Women's Power at the Ballot Box." Voter Turnout from 1945 to 2000: A Global Report on Political Participation. .International IDEA, 2001.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Breaking the Barriers: British Labour Party Quotas for Women." Has Liberalism Failed Women? Assuring Equal Representation in Europe and the United States. Ed. Jyette Klausen and Charles S. Maier. Palgrave, 2001, 89-110.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Un circolo virtuoso? L’impatto di partiti e mezzi di informazione sulla partecipazione politica nelle campagne postmoderne." Il circuito politico-mediale. Ed. Angelo Mellone. Rubbettino editore, 2002.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Political Communications." Comparing Democracies 2: Elections and Voting in Global Perspective. Ed. Pippa Norris, Lawrence LeDuc, and Richard Niemi. Sage, 2002.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Do Campaigns Matter for Civic Engagement? U.S. Elections 1952-2000." Do Political Campaigns Matter? Ed. David Farrell and Rudiger Schmitt-Beck. Routledge, 2002.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Ballots Not Bullets: Electoral Systems, Ethnic Minorities and Democratization." The Architecture of Democracy. Ed. Andrew Reynolds and Scott Mainwaring. Oxford University Press, 2002.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Gender and Contemporary British Politics." British Politics Today. Ed. Colin Hay. Polity Press, 2002, 38-59.
    • Norris, Pippa. "The Gender Gap: Theoretical Frameworks and New Approaches." Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions. Ed. Susan Carroll. Oxford University Press, 2002.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Is There Still a Public Service Ethos? Work Values, Experience and Job Satisfaction Among Government Workers." For the People: Public Service in the 21st Century. Ed. John D. Donahue, and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Brookings Institution, August 2003.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Global Governance and Cosmopolitan Cities." Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate (2nd edition). Ed. David Held and Anthony McGrew. Polity, 2003.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Do Institutions Matter? The Consequences of Electoral Reform for Political Participation." Rethinking the Vote. Ed. Ann N. Crigler, Marion R. Just, and Edward J. McCaffery. Oxford University Press, 2003.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Il Divario Digitale Globale: Poverta Informative, Internet e Sviluppo." Quale Futuro per il Commercio Electtronico? Ed. Giorgio Gottardi and Ettore Bolisani. Franco Angeli, 2003.
    • Norris, Pippa. "The Worldwide Digital Divide: Information Poverty, the Internet and Development." I Mercati Elettronici hanno reali prospettive? Ed. Ettore Bolisani. Franco Angeli, 2003.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Digital Divide." The Information Society Reader. Ed. Frank Webster. Routledge, 2003.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Globale Politische Kommunikation: Freie Medien, Gutes Regieren und Wohlstandsentwicklung." Politische Kommunikation Im Internationalen Vergleich. Ed. Frank Esser and Barbara Pfetsch. Westdeutscher-Verlag, 2003.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Representation and the Democratic Deficit." The Democracy Sourcebook. Ed. Robert A. Dahl, Ian Shapiro, and Jose Antonio Cheibub. MIT Press, 2003.
    • Norris, Pippa. "The Bridging and Bonding Role of Online Communities." Society Online: The Internet in Context. Ed. Philip N. Howard and Steve Jones. Sage, 2003.
    • Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. "Teoria rozwojowa rõznic miedzy plciami: zachowania wyborcze kobiet I mezczyzn w ujeciu globalnym." Aktorzy zycia publicznego: Plec jako czynnik roznicyjacy. Ed. Renata Siemienska. Scholar Press, 2003.
    • Curtice, John, and Pippa Norris. "E-politics? The Impact of the Internet on Political Trust and Participation." British Social Attitudes, 21st Report. Ed. Alison Park, John Curtice, et al. Sage, 2004.
    • Graber, Doris A., Bruce Bimber, W. Lance Bennett, Richard Davis, and Pippa Norris. "The Internet and Politics: Emerging Perspectives." Academy and the Internet. Ed. Helen Fay Nissenbaum and Monroe E. Price. Peter Lang, 2004, 90-119.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Global Political Communication: Good Governance, Human Development, and Mass Communication." Comparing Political Communication: Theories, Cases, and Challenges. Ed. Frank Esser and Barbara Pfetsch. Cambridge University Press, 2004, 115-150.
    • Norris, Pippa. "La Participacion Ciudadana: Mexico Desde Una Perspectiva Comparativa." Deconstruyendo la Ciusasanía: Advances y Retos en el Desarrollo de la Cultura Democrática en Mexico. .Instituto Federal Electoral, 2002.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Echar la culpa al mensajero? Los nuevos medios de comunicacion y la desafeccion politica en las democracies europeas." Construccion de Europa, Democracia y Globalizacion. Ed. Ramon Maiz. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2001.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Will New Technology Boost Turnout?" Electronic Voting and Democracy: A Comparative Analysis. Ed. Norbert Kersting and Harald Baldersheim. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 193-225.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Preaching to the Converted? Pluralism, Participation and Party Websites" (reprinted in Spanish). E-Democracia: Retos y Oportunidades para el Fortalecimiento de la Participación Ciudadana y la Democracia en la Sociedad de la Información. Ed. José I. Porras and Rubén Araya. Santiago, Chile: Universidad Bolivariana, 2004.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide." Intersecting Inequalities: Class, Race, Sex and Sexuality. Ed. Peter Kivisto and Elizabeth Hartung. Prentice Hall/Pearson Education, 2005, 77-92.
    • Norris, Pippa. "E-voting as the magic bullet for European parliamentary elections?" The European Union and E-Voting. Ed. Alexander Trechsel and Fernando Mendez. Routledge, 2005, 60-91.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Elections and Public Opinion." The Blair Effect II 2001-5. Ed. Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon. Cambridge University Press, 2005, 43-67.
    • Norris, Pippa. "It's the Women, Stupid." Women's Rights - Reference Shelf; vol 77 No. 4. Ed. Jennifer Curry. H.W. Wilson Co., 2005.
    • Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. "Gendering Social Capital: Bowling in the Women's Leagues?" Gender and Social Capital. Ed. Brenda O'Neill. Routledge, 2005, Ch. 4, 73-98.
    • Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. "Women as Political Leaders Worldwide: Cultural Barriers and Opportunities." Women and Elective Office, 2nd edition. Ed. Sue Thomas and Clyde Wilcox. Oxford University Press, 2005, ch 13.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Ballot Structures and Legislative Behavior: Changing Role Orientations via Electoral Reform." Exporting Congress?: The Influence of the U.S. Congress on World Legislatures. Ed. Timothy J. Power and Nicol C. Rae. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006, 157-184.
    • Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. "Kulturelle Barrieren bei der Erlangung gleichberechtigter Repraesentation" (German version of Cultural Obstacles to Equal Representation). Demokratisches Regieren und politische Kultur: Post-staatlich, Post-parlamentarisch, Post-patriarchal? Ed. Kathrin Ruhl, Jan Schneider, Jutta Träger, and Claudia Wiesner. LIT Verlag, 2006.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Die Überzeugten überzeugen? Pluralismus, Partizipation und Parteien im Internet." Regieren und Kommunikation (Government and Communications). Ed. Klaus Kamps and Jörg-Uwe Nieland. Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2006, 261-284.
    • Norris, Pippa, Stefaan Walgrave, and Peter van Aelst. "Does Protest Signify Disaffection? Demonstrators in a Postindustrial Democracy." Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies. Social Capital, Institutions and Politics. Ed. Mariano Torcal and José Ramón Montero. Routledge, 2006, 279-307.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Recruitment." Handbook of Party Politics. Ed. Richard S. Katz and William J. Crotty. London: Sage Publications, 2006.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Skeptical Patients: Performance, Social Capital and Culture." The Trust Crisis in Healthcare. Ed. David A. Shore. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
    • Norris, Pippa. "Gender and Social Capital." The Oxford Handbook of Social Capital. Ed. Dario Castiglione, Jan van Deth, and Guglielmo Wolleb. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
    • Curtice, John, and Pippa Norris. "Isolates or Socialites? The Social Ties of Internet Users." British Social Attitudes: 23rd Report. Ed. Alison Park. Sage Publications, 2007.
    • Inglehart, Ronald, and Pippa Norris. "Why Religion Didn't Disappear: Re-examining the Secularization Thesis." Cultures and Globalization Series: Conflicts and Tensions. Ed. Helmut K. Anheier and Yudhushthir Raj Isar. Sage, 2007, 253-258.
  • Books
    • Norris, Pippa. Digital Divide? Civic Engagement, Information Poverty and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge University Press (subsequently published in Korean), 2001.
    • Norris, Pippa. Democratic Phoenix: Reinventing Political Activism. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
    • Norris, Pippa. Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the World. Cambridge University Press (subsequently published in Polish), 2003.
    • Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. Sacred and Secular: Politics and Religion Worldwide. Cambridge University Press (subsequently published in Italian), 2004.
    • Norris, Pippa. Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
    • Norris, Pippa. Radical Right: Voters and Parties in the Electoral Market. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
    • Norris, Pippa, and Christopher Wlezien. Britain Votes 2005. Oxford University Press, 2005.
  • Edited Volumes
    • Norris, Pippa, ed. Britain Votes 2001. Oxford University Press, 2001.
    • LeDuc, Lawrence, Richard G. Niemi, and Pippa Norris, eds. Comparing Democracies 2: Elections and Voting in Global Perspective. Sage, 2002.
    • Norris, Pippa, Montague Kern, and Marion Just, eds. Framing Terrorism: The News Media, the Government and the Public. Routledge, 2003.