The event will focus on the causes and risks associated with the surge of political extremism in democracies and feature insightful discussions and analysis on the current state of affairs in Anglo-American and European nations.

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This talk is part of a series, titled ‘Unfolding Our Shared Future’, which is delivered by the American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association and the host universities with the support of the US Embassy in London.

About the Speakers

Lilliana Hall Mason (Johns Hopkins University) is an SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of Political Science.  With degrees from Stony Brook and Princeton, she is co-author, with Nathan P. Kalmoe, of Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2022), and author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (University of Chicago Press, 2018).

Her research on partisan identity, partisan bias, social sorting, and American social polarization has been published in major international scholarly journals and featured in media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and National Public Radio.

Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Facebook Research Integrity Group, and the Democracy Fund.  We look forward to having Lilly with us in person.

Pippa Norris is a British born, with degrees from Warwick University and the LSE who has taught at Harvard for three decades. She is 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, Director of the Global Party Survey,  Co-Director of the TrustGov Project, Co-Principal Investigator for Trust in European Democracies (TrueDem), and Vice-President 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 British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, APSA’s Charles Merriam award, Warren E. Miller award, and Samuel Eldersfeld award, and George H. Hallet award, and the PSA’s Sir Isaiah Berlin award, as well as several book awards and honorary doctorates. Recent books include Electoral Integrity in America, Cultural Backlash and In Praise of Skepticism: Trust but Verify.  Her latest book is forthcoming with Oxford University Press on The Cultural Roots of Democratic Backsliding. Pippa will be taking part in this event by internet link.

About the Host

Dr David Andersen received his PhD from Rutgers University. After two years at the Eagleton Institute of Politics he moved to Iowa State University in 2013. He then joined Durham University. Dave’s work on American politics and government, focusing on political psychology and political behaviour, exploring how people learn about politics and how what they learn influences what they believe and how they act politically. His research has been published in major scholarly international journals and he has made numerous appearances on radio and television broadcasts in the United States and Europe.