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!