Mar 26 2019 13 mins 5
In this episode, I am speaking with Professor Pippa Norris about her work on electoral integrity.
Pippa Norris, is the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Electoral Integrity Project.
Pippa has published almost fifty books. Most recently these books focus on electoral integrity. with Electoral Integrity (2017 Cambridge), Election Watchdogs (ed. 2017 Oxford), Why American Elections are Flawed (2017 Cornell), Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian-Populism (2018 Cambridge, with Ronald Inglehart) and Electoral Integrity in America (ed. 2018 Oxford University Press).
Pippa talks about
- key features of electoral integrity
- factors which support or hinder electoral integrity
- why the United States is at the bottom of the ‘scoreboard’ amongst Western democracies in regard to electoral integrity and
- how different electoral systems impact on the representation of minorities and women.
