Talk:Pippa Norris

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I have an interest in editing this page, and I wanted to make contact with the appropriate editor about doing it. I’m interested in Norris’s political views—she has written some fabulous books and apparently received the Isaiah Berlin Prize. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SFGMary (talk • contribs) 07:42, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Request edit on 12 August 2018
The page contains various comments so I am requesting the following amendments. Apologies in advance if this is an incorrect format. You can verify all this at https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/pippa-norris

Career

Replace... Her research compares public opinion and elections, democratic institutions and cultures, gender politics, and political communications in many countries worldwide. One of the most cited political scientists in the world,[1] ranked 4th most cited in political science by Google Scholar, she has published more than forty books and numerous articles. Her approach is essentially large-N problem-oriented evidence-based comparative political science which attempts to raise large theoretical ideas tackling theoretically interesting debates and addressing pressing real-world policy concerns around the world.

Her research started in the field of gender politics, seeking to compare the barriers to women in elected office (in her books on Politics and Sexual Equality[2] and Rising Tide[3]). This developed into the broader study of elections, public opinion, and voting behavior, especially in Britain and Europe (such as her co-authored book On Message[4]) and the edited book on Critical Citizens.[5] This, in turn, led naturally to her work on campaign communications and the impact of the traditional news media (A Virtuous Circle[6]) and internet (Digital Divide[7]). Interest in culture created research with Ron Inglehart using the World Values Survey,[8] including comparative studies of religion (Sacred and Secular) and global flows of information (Cosmopolitan Communications). A period heading democratic governance in the UNDP spurred books analyzing the underlying institutions most effective for development (including Driving Democracy and Making Democratic governance Work). Most recently, her interests have come together under the umbrella of the Electoral Integrity Project, generating a series of authored and edited books (such as Why Electoral Integrity Matters).

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Her research compares public opinion and elections, democratic institutions and cultures, gender politics, and political communications in many countries worldwide. She is ranked 5th most cited in political science by Google Scholar[1]. Based at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government for more than a quarter century, she has published almost fifty books and numerous articles in comparative political science. She is affiliated at Harvard with the Center for European Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Center for International Development, the Ash Center, and the Shorenstein Center

She has also served as the Director of Democratic Governance at the United Nations Development Program and as an advisor to many international agencies, including the OSCE, World Bank, UNESCO, International IDEA, OAS, and UN Women.

In the political science profession, she is Vice President of the American Political Science Association and she has served on the executive of the World Values Study, the International Political Science Association and the Political Studies Association of the UK, and been president of APSA's Political Communications, Gender Politics and EPOVB research sections.

An Anglo-American, she lives in Cambridge, Cape Cod, and Sydney.

Awards and recognition

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In 2014, she was received the Karl Deutsch Award[9] for her contribution to interdisciplinary research by the International Political Science Association. 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".[10] Other honors include a Doctor Honoris Causa awarded by the University of Edinburgh, an Australian Research Council Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship, and the Political Studies Association of the UK 'special recognition' award.

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She has received some of the highest honors in political science including been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, receiving the Johan Skytte Prize for "contributing innovative ideas about the relevance and roots of political culture in a global context, transcending previous mainstream approaches of research", the Karl Deutsch prize "to honour a prominent scholar engaged in the cross-disciplinary research",   the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize '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,'[11] and the Australian Research Council's Kathleen Fitzgerald Laureate Fellowship.[10] Other honors include Doctor Honoris Causa awarded by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Warwick. Book prizes include the George Hallet award for Political Recuitment, the Independent Sector prize for Sacred and Secular, and the Doris Graber award for A Virtuous Circle.

Pippa Norris (talk) 16:00, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for proposing edits, instead of editing directly.
 * This is supposed to be an article in Wikipedia. It is not, and never will or can be, an extension of your faculty page. That is simple corruption. It happens, but it is still corruption.
 * We build articles from independent sources. We simply summarize those independent sources here. That is how Wikipedia is built.
 * What would be extremely helpful, would be if you would cite here any good quality sources that are independent of you, that have substantial discussion about you. Would you please cite any of which you are aware?  (It is somewhat difficult to find sources about you; it is very easy to find things that you have written, or that have brief mentions of you)  Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 20:39, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Pippa Norris (talk) 01:45, 13 August 2018 (UTC) Many thanks for helping to improve the page. The mysteries of Wikipedia are gradually becoming clearer! Various points arising.

1. There is now a major error. It says "in April 2018 Norris was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for her work on the Electoral Integrity Project.[1]" These are two separate matters. My election to the Academy has nothing to do with directing the Electoral Integrity Project.

2. Moreover here are 58,000 citations to my research where thousands of independent scholars have published peer reviewed articles which provide a substantive discussion of the meaning of my work or dispute its conclusions, all listed and verified in Google Scholar, which is why I referenced it. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tLialq4AAAAJ&hl=en

3. The page under political science shows, from this independent source, that I am the 5th most cited political scientists on Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations? view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:political_science

Both these matters are verified. These citations discuss my research and ideas, which is what scholars are known for. These ARE the sources about me. What else would be appropriate?

4. I also have complete records of all the reviews of my books - would you want these?

5. In addition, I notice that in the short list of honors and awards in the right hand box, a lot of my awards have now disappeared!! These are, again, the ways that scholars are recognized by independent authorities.

6. Finally I must say also that when I look at equivalent male colleagues, like Joe Nye, Ronald Inglehart, Bob Putnam or many others, these are not treated in this way. They have entries with extensive descriptions of their major books and research. It is odd and deeply unfair that these colleagues list these matters extensively in the wiki while my own contribution has been reduced to a few lines. It does suggest a double standard may be going on which does not do justice to female scholars. Here is an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Inglehart Here is another https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nye I am not sure why their entries are seen as appropriate whereas my similar information is seen as somehow 'corrupt'. Sexism at work?

Pippa Norris (talk) 01:45, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Lots of people come here to try to hijack a WP page. Has nothing to do with gender. It has to do with treating the openness of Wikipedia as an invitation to abuse it. A fundamental error. Please read WP:PROMO and all of WP:NOT -- that provides our mission statement. You might also find WP:EXPERT helpful.
 * About the award: subtitle of source: "Honour for the founder of the Electoral Integrity Project".  But I'll go refine that.
 * Thanks for the links to google scholar etc, but we don't use search results as sources in Wikipedia.
 * Again if you are aware of any independent writeups (substantial narrative) about yourself, that would be very helpful. Book reviews often talk at some length about the author, so citations for those would be great. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 02:13, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks again. I can certainly send you lots of book reviews which refer to my ideas and research,and a couple of news interviews, if that's what you need.Hope this helps. Pippa
 * https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/3/27/15037232/trump-populist-appeal-culture-economy
 * https://www.npr.org/2017/01/24/511468421/election-experts-dismiss-trumps-repeated-claims-of-illegal-voting
 * http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/09/17/book-review-advancing-electoral-integrity-edited-by-pippa-norris-richard-w-frank-and-ferran-martinez-i-coma/
 * http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1354068807080089
 * https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/210170
 * https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/deve.12037
 * https://scholar.uib.no/ivarsflaten/publications/book-review-radical-right-voters-and-parties-electoral-market-pippa-norris
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270478625_Book_review_Democratic_Phoenix_Reinventing_Political_Activism_Pippa_Norris
 * http://www.democraticaudit.com/2014/09/28/8244/
 * journals.fcla.edu/demcom/article/download/82254/79360
 * https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/cjs/index.php/CJS/article/download/25490/18897
 * https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13510347.2015.1109637
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/491678?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
 * https://www.doublexeconomy.com/2015/01/28/rising-tide-book-review/
 * https://academic.oup.com/ijpor/article-abstract/13/4/442/724682?redirectedFrom=fulltext
 * https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2004-11-01/sacred-and-secular-religion-and-politics-worldwide
 * https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-362961934/pippa-norris-making-democratic-governance-work-how
 * https://atheistpapers.com/2014/12/30/book-review-sacred-and-secular/

Pippa Norris (talk) 05:04, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Some of those look very helpful.  It will take me some time to go through them. Jytdog (talk) 05:20, 14 August 2018 (UTC)