In addition to ongoing data collection projects, we will be focusing on three pressing concerns to electoral integrity worldwide in 2021.

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Elections and COVID-19

Co-Director Toby James is PI on an ESRC-funded study with Alistair Clark and Erik Asplund from International IDEA on how the pandemic is shaping electoral integrity.

Cyber-Threats to Democracy

Director Holly Ann Garnett is leading a series of research studies, funded in part by a NATO Resilience Grant, on public trust and civic attitudes in an era of dis- and mis-information.

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Participation of Under-Represented Groups

Building on the edited volume ‘Building Inclusive Elections,’ we are prioritizing the further the study of the participation of marginalized groups, with a specific focus this year on citizens with low literacy levels and disabilities.


Past and Ongoing Projects

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Perceptions of Electoral Integrity

  • Expert survey monitoring the quality of parliamentary and presidential elections worldwide, generating the PEI dataset and annual ‘Year in Election‘ reports.

  • This includes an expert survey of US states monitoring the integrity of the 2018 midterm American elections.

World Values Survey

  • The 7th wave of the the World Values Survey, a global study of public opinion, is in the field from 2017-2019. This includes a battery of items monitoring mass evaluations of electoral integrity, developed with EIP. This replicates the same battery contained in the 6th wave of the dataset, allowing comparisons over time.

 
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TRUSTGOV

  • Trust in political parties, legislatures, parliaments and the news media is thought to have eroded in many countries, damaging democratic legitimacy and feeding populist forces. This new 3-year TrustGov Project, funded by the ESRC, led by EIP Director Pippa Norris, as well as Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker (University of Southampton), will examine the links between trust and trustworthiness.

Party Positions 

  • For many years, the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) has monitored the position of a range of European political parties, with a team led by Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, Ryan Baker, and other colleagues. In a new initiative, EIP will be collaborating with the team to generate the EIP/CHES Global-2019 expert survey of party positions in countries worldwide.

 
Pippa Norris with Massimo Tomassoni (International IDEA) and Maarten Halff (UN-EAD) speaking on electoral integrity at the United Nations, Nov 2016.

Pippa Norris with Massimo Tomassoni (International IDEA) and Maarten Halff (UN-EAD) speaking on electoral integrity at the United Nations, Nov 2016.

Electoral Violence against Politicians

  • It is increasingly recognized that candidates and elected politicians face many risks, from verbal abuse and online harassment to physical violence and even death. To monitor the risks, EIP is currently working on new research on Electoral Violence against Politicians, including co-organizing an Oct 2018 Radcliffe workshop with Mona Lena Krook (Rutgers).

ECPR@50

  • To celebrate the ECPR’s 50th anniversary, Pippa Norris is launching a new ECPR survey of the political science profession. This dataset will allow us to compare the academic values and role priorities, the employment experiences, and the background of political scientists across Europe.