[Air-L] Online Seminar 6 June | Pippa NORRIS: In Praise of Skepticism: Trust but Verify

[Yuner Zhu]

Dear all,

You are cordially invited to join the *Advanced Methods School* organized
by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS)
<https://www.cityu.edu.hk/class/>, City University of Hong Kong. The
Advanced Methods School will kick off with a LIVE keynote from Prof Pippa
NORRIS on 6 June at 9:15am HKT (9:15pm EDT). The details are as follows:

Title: In Praise of Skepticism: Trust but Verify
Date: 6 June 2022 (Monday)
Time: 9:15am – 11:30am HKT | 9:15pm   – 11:30pm EDT
Speaker: Prof Pippa NORRIS, Harvard University
Format: Zoom Meeting
Registration: https://cityuhk.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey?tt=aCjhJf05CQ0%3D

Abstract:
The concept of trustworthiness can be understood to involve an informal
social contract where principals authorise others to act on their behalf in
the expectation
that the agent will fulfil their responsibilities, despite conditions of
risk and uncertainty. When evaluating the trustworthiness of political
institutions, public judgments are expected to reflect the quality of
government procedures, especially the principles of competency,
impartiality and integrity. The most extensive body of cross-national
empirical research about these issues has focused largely on established
liberal democracies, such as Nordic states, characterised by freedom of the
press and media pluralism, as well as affluent post-industrial European
societies with highly educated populations. This study theorizes that the
accuracy of any public judgments of the trustworthiness of government
procedures are likely to be mediated by the information environment in open
and closed societies, as well as by the cognitive skills of citizens.

About Speaker:
Professor Pippa Norris is a comparative political scientist 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
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.

Look forward to seeing you all at the event!