Adrien Degeorges

Adrien Degeorges is a doctoral researcher at the Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE) at Sciences Po, and a former ATER (temporary lecturer and research fellow) at Sciences Po Bordeaux. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a fellow of the Sciences Po Center for the Americas. He has spent two years at Princeton University as a Graduate Fellow, including one year at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs under the supervision of Larry Bartels. He was also affiliated with Princeton's European Program and a visiting scholar at Vanderbilt University.

Adrien holds an MA in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris.

His research examines the meaning and consequences of citizens' distrust of the federal government in the United States on popular demands for social protection. More specifically, his dissertation explores when and how perceptions of government waste, corruption and capture by private interests explain citizens' preferences for more or less government activism (e.g., guaranteed employment, health care, redistribution). Drawing on survey data alongside a historical account of antistatism and state development, his work theorizes how different social groups link their demands for more (or less) social provision to judgments of distrust. Taking as its point of departure the historical paradox of an expanding U.S. state alongside rising distrust, his dissertation offers an account of how political values and group identities (e.g., class, race, partisanship) allow citizens to justify what they expect from the state as they form a judgment about its capacity to act for the common good.

He has also explored antistatist sentiment in French and Catalan politics (CEO data).

The Politics of Distrust in the United States: Power, Identity, and Change in U.S. Public Opinion (1958-2024). Under the supervistion of Nonna Mayer & Caterina Froio.

• “The Politics of Distrust in a Polarized Age” (Main instructor) – Fall 2026, 2025
• "Introduction à la Science Politique" (Conférence de méthode)  - Fall 2026
• “Public Policy in Practice”(Ecole d’Affaires publiques) – Spring 2024