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Pippa Norris, the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, is a political scientist focusing on democracy and development, public opinion and elections, political communications, and gender politics. She joined the Harvard faculty in 1992 and also served more recently (on sabbatical leave) 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, chapters,and almost forty books (many in translation). Books for Cambridge University Press) include Cosmopolitan Communications (with Inglehart, 2009), Driving Democracy (2008), Radical Right(2005), Sacred and Secular(with Inglehart, 2004)(winner of the 2005Virginia Hodgkinson Research Prize),Electoral Engineering(2004),Rising Tide(with Inglehart, 2003),Democratic Phoenix(2002),Digital Divide (2001), and A Virtuous Circle (2000) (winner of the 2006 Doris A. Graber prize for the best book in political communications).

Edited books 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.

Recent and forthcoming books include Critical Citizens Revisited (Cambridge 2011), Comparing Democracies 3 (edited with Leduc and Niemi, Sage 2010),andPublic Sentinel: News Media and the Governance Reform Agenda (edited, World Bank,2009).

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. Her weblog is at:http://pippanorris.typepad.com/Full details are available at her website: www.pippanorris.com.