Pippa Norris

Pippa Norris is a comparative political scientist who has taught at Harvard for three decades. The Director of the GPS project, she serves as the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Founding Director of the Electoral Integrity Project, Co-Director of the TrustGov Project, and on the Executive of the World Values Survey.

Her research compares public opinion and elections, political institutions and cultures, gender politics, and political communications in many countries worldwide.  She is ranked the 2nd most cited political scientist worldwide, according to Google scholar.

Major career honors include, amongst others, the Skytte prize, IPSA’s Karl Deutsch award, fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, APSA’s Charles Merriam award and the Samuel Eldersfeld lifetime achievement award, and the PSA’s Sir Isaiah Berlin award, as well as several book awards and honorary doctorates. For full details, see her biography.

Jorge Ruiz

Jorge Ruiz is an undergraduate sophomore at Harvard University pursuing a concentration in economics with a secondary in government. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, he is interested in the intersection between economics, democracy, and sustainable development.

He is a policy researcher for the Harvard Undergraduate Foreign Policy Initiative, a senior staff writer for the Harvard Political Review, and the team manager for the Harvard Lightweight Rowing Team.

As a research assistant for the Global Party Survey, Jorge hopes to help advance the study of democratic backsliding and political extremism

Luke Williams

Luke is a junior at Harvard College concentrating in Social Studies with a secondary in English. His research interests include inequality and modern financial crises, the rise of American authoritarian populism, and the political philosophies of the Frankfurt School and French post-structuralists. He studies these topics from economic, political scientific, political philosophical, and anthropological perspectives, hoping to unite these disparate disciplines and interests in his 2022 thesis on the modern American conservative movement and its authoritarian tendencies.

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