Pippa Norris Receives 2025 Sir David Butler Prize

Faculty Associate Pippa Norris, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, was awarded the 2025 Sir David Butler Prize for Lifetime Contribution to the Study of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. The prize, administered by the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) group of the Political Studies Association, celebrates a notable scholar either retired or close to retirement, who made a distinctive and indelible mark on the discipline. According to the EPOP, “Sir David Butler was one of the founding fathers of the quantitative study of elections in Britain and thus the discipline of psephology (which he also named).”