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Emiliano Grossman (CEE) and The Comparative Agendas Project

Emiliano Grossman, Associate Professor at Sciences Po and member of the CEE, presents his book "Comparative Policy Agendas". Theory, Tools, Data (OUP Oxford, 2019)

This book brings data on government activities in twenty countries, and establishes a categorizing system to understand when a given institution of government in a particular country took action on any issue of public policy.

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Transcript of the video

Question 1: Can you introduce your book?

The book was initially thought of as an essay companion to the comparative agendas Project website. The website basically presents the data and makes the data accessible for all the national projects that have adopted the Comparative Agendas Project.

So, what this book does is basically explaining first of all what this Comparative Agendas Project is. This project has now and almost 20 years history and it goes back to the initial US policy agenda project which started collecting data on policy-making and coding, theme coding that data for long periods of time.

In the US case it goes back to 1945, for most of the European projects we limited that to 1980.

Second, we started collecting data on some parliamentary indicators, usually parliamentary questions or parliamentary debates where we also theme code what has been said in Parliament.

Third, the judiciary usually takes the Supreme Court or the Constitutional Court for most European countries. We theme code again the major decisions but not all decisions since 1980 that is some kind of part that has picked up speed in the recent years only where we are doing new coding of the party manifestos that have been done by the Party manifesto project. However, we coded with the same coding scheme that we have used for all others for those countries that had the resources to do that.

Finally, we also coded some kind of media agenda, usually the first page of some major national daily newspaper.

So basically the history of this project is presented in this first part of the book with information and also the advice about how to code and how to use machine learning.

The second section presents the national chapters.

So, there are more than 20 national chapters presenting the data that has been collected in each country. Those differ a little bit to the extent that the projects are often of different forms, for different reasons of different inspirations and different goals, but also different levels of resources. So, as a consequence of that, those chapters highlight the specificities of international projects to facilitate the usage of the data for those people who were interested in going to the website afterwards to download.

The third section, which is I think the most important one, illustrates possible comparative uses of those datas. So there is a chapter on parliamentary questions, another one on the link between parliamentary attention and media attention, another one on party competition.

The goal here is basically just to show more than to actually provide an analysis to show how this data could be used for future analysis.

So from that one point of view the whole book is Reading textbook for introducing the Comparative Agendas Project and to introduce national teams or to encourage national teams to use a particular method, and a bit of a protocol to make sure that data is comparable with other countries one to stop finished collecting the data in a specific country.

Question 2: Why did you decide to release it on Open Acces?

The main reason for this is the Oxford University Press which is a great publishing house which makes more expensive books. I think the list price of the book is about 80 euros, that isn’t easily accessible to the individual reader but even to some universities that might be really expensive.

We were, while sharing, rather happily some of the chapters for copyright reasons for a long time to chat time book manuscripts, so we contacted Oxford University Press to see whether this was possible.

Actually they were open-minded about it. After the payment of an open access fee, they accepted to put the book in access.

The goal of this is basically to make the book much more accessible and also two teams and in not so rich countries as we try to encourage the enlargement of the Comparative Agendas Project also to countries where University simply don't have the means to have libraries with books of that kind of prize by Oxford University press or other expensive University Press.

Interview: Myriam Sefraoui, Scientific Mediation Officer (CEE)

Emiliano Grossman, Associate Professor at Sciences Po, Member of the CEE, presents his book co-written with Isabelle Guinaudeau "Do Elections (Still) Matter?" (Oxford University Press, December 2021)

It’s an ambitious study of democratic mandates through the lens of political agenda setting since the 1980s in five countries: Germany, France, Denmark, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

The research results contribute to a renewal of theories of representation and lead to a questioning of much of the comparative politics literature according to which majoritarian systems are more responsive than consensual systems.

Transcript of the video

Question 1: Why did you choose an analysis from the 1980’s?

We started in the 1980’s because we have excess datas starting in 1970 and 1980.

So that’s a purely circumstantial argument, but the real motivation to adopt such a long term view of democracy is to ensure understanding how democracy has evolved overtime.

The idea basically was to make a study on the importance of elections over a long period of time because there is an argument, also in such academic literature, that says there was a decline. We want to question the decline, we want to see if the elections still matter.

Question 2: Why did you study Germany, Denmark, France, Italy and the United Kingdom in your book?

We want to study the evolution of democracy in the advanced industrial democracies.

We picked five European countries because they are the countries we know, in particular, the countries which we have datas, but we could have had the chance to include countries like Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain.

We picked those five because we thought they represented a very nice diversity of political settings, of parties systems and political history.

We have on one hand, Denmark with a highly proportional democracy or consensual democracy, where decision making is highly consensual, but the government often has minority support but still manages the decisions.

At the other extreme, we have the UK with the Westminster system, a majoritarian system, the institutions give enormous power to the Prime minister.

And the three other countries, we have Italy, which has asymmetrical parliamentarism.They used to have a very strong parliament, but the parliament has become more powerful, the government even though has become more stable.

Germany is a very complicated, mixed system. The proportional element dominates the system. He has a very complex institution set up where the chancellor spends most of his time managing this balance.

And finally, we have France, which is the more majoritarian with a very strong president, the effective head of executive except in”cohabitation”.

In the end we have five different countries. It was a nice choice of cases to study the long term evolution of the effective election on policy making in the advanced industrial democracies.

Question 3: Do elections still matter in our contemporary democracies?

This is the heart of the book.

We tried to answer the discussion from at least three different angles.

The first questions we asked: to which extent parties actually opposed each other during political campaigns?

So, we wanted to know, to which extent the parties respond to public opinion, or economic, or political context?

The parties in the short run, don't have the idea what the voters actually think.

The classic theory of democracy is the voters voted and gave mandate to parties, and parties implemented the mandate.

It’s not really the way it happens.

First, actually the parties present the program to the voters,then the voters choose.

The voters don't have an input in the first level.

What we say, in the short run, the only effective indicated are the other parties: its’ to win against the competitors. The parties first of all respond to other parties before responding to voters.

The voters are confronted with limited choices.

What we says, it’s note bad news for democracy, because basically there is a “tunnel of attention”, the concentration of attention on limited issues.

Other parties mobilised on the same issues, paid a lot of attention to the parties in government, made good on his promises, and forced parties to effectively take actions in this area.

This actually works, precisely because there is a kind of independence between those parties, they look at each other. There is also some kind of power that they have to force the government to go back to issues that the government promised to deal with.

Interview: Myriam Sefraoui, Scientific mediation officer (CEE)

Florence Haegel, Professor at Sciences Po, Director of the CEE., presents her article "Political socialization: Out of Purgatory?" published on 9 February 2021 in the European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie, Cambridge University Press.

Florence Haegel puts contemporary political socialization research in perspective.

She presents the reasons for the crisis in this field of research in 1970 and then turns her attention to post-crisis studies, beginning with the political socialization of children.

She explores lifelong political socialization and how it has developed around four research dynamics: the study of the civic and political socialization of school-age adolescents and young adults; generational renewal; the socialising effects of political mobilisation; the processes and agents of secondary political socialization of adults.

The final part of the article asks what is political in political socialization.

Transcript of the video

Question 1: Why do you use the term «Purgatory» in your title?

Well, I have to come back to the story of political socialization.

It’s a very interesting sub-field. And why? Because first it flourished during the 70’s and it was a very promising topic within the field of american politics and it collapsed in the 70’s.

My paper addressed the question of the exit of purgatory.

I offer state of the art of recent research dynamics on political socialization

Question 2: What are the reasons for the crisis in this field of research?

It’s quite complex, but I will try to simplify the answer.

I think my answer is both epistemological and political.

At this age, in american politics, political socialization was both predictive and normative. And the work on children in order to understand what type of adults they would become.

They portrait, very legitimist child, very respectful of the president and the policeman. Few years later, at the end of the 60’s, this very legitimist child became young men and women protesting against presidents, clashing with policy man in the streets.

So, finally political socialization runs the risk to be contradicted by social and political realities.

Question 3: Why is it useful to work on political socialization today?

I think it is useful because there are a lot of social and political changes in contemporary societies. I will give you some examples.

There are more and more social and spatial mobilities including immigrants.

There are also changes in family structure, as the sociology of family is shown.

There is, for instance, a big generational gap on matters of politics.

All these changes make the question of political socialization very interesting, very challenging because working in political socialization is the way to understand how political change is transmitted and is integrated by individuals and groups.

Question 4: What research avenues have been recently explored?

I think there is a first big shift in new research dynamics because early research where working on children and family and now more and more works are focusing on what we call life-long political socialization.

But, I need to be more precise.

They are still working on children and family ,by using new methods in order to better gras the world of children , and they also address new questions.

For instance, they addressed the question of social, racial and gender inequalities within the process of political socialization.

They also addressed the question of the mechanism inside the family, for instance they have revaluted the role of mother inside the family.

They have also shown that political socialization is not always vertical from the adults to children. In some cases, we have a reversed process, the children do socialise with their parents. It depends on the type of family and the type of issues. For instance, in the immigrant family you have the reverse political socialization but also for instance on ecological matters the children influence their parents both in attitude and environnement practices.

So we have new questions in research dynamics.

And finally, I think that the current research is not focused on children as I said, and it's really interested by life-long political socialization.

We know for instance, the university is very important as political socialization as concerned, couple formation is very crucial, but for instance we don't know a lot of things about the workplace and how political socialization occurs in the workplace.

As we see, there are many questions to be explored if you are interested in this question.

Interview: Myriam Sefraoui, Scientific Mediation Officer (CEE)

Florence Faucher and Gérôme Truc present their collective book Face aux attentats published by PUF (Presses Universitaires de France) in November 2020.

Through a multidisciplinary approach in the social sciences, this book offers keys to understand the effects and reactions of French society (from the street to social medias, and from victims to political leaders) in the face of the attacks of November 2015 and July 2016.

They answer the following questions:

How can the social sciences and humanities help us to understand the collective and individual impact of the attacks, and to better cope with them?
What was special about the attacks of January and November 2015?
What are the interactions between the state and public opinion in response to the attacks of January and November 2015 ?
What impact do the attacks have on our society?

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Florence Faucher and Gérôme Truc (15 July 2021)

Transcript of the podcast

Question 1: How can the social sciences and humanities help us to understand the collective and individual impact of the attacks, and to better cope with them?

When a society is faced with terrorist attacks, human and social sciences are sometimes criticized for being useless in preventing them, or complacent or indulgent with terrorists.

One remembers for instance that the Prime Minister of the time Manuel Valls complained that the explanations provided by social sciences to make sense of the situations were providing excuses to the perpetrators of senseless acts. Another example would be the recent polemic about islamo-leftism in French universities.
But what we are demonstrating in this book, which brings together the works of social scientists from different disciplinary backgrounds, is that academic research is the source of knowledge that allow society to make sense of what is happening to individuals and collectives in times of crisis, to engage with the difficult emotions and thus to find ways to respond to the challenges that arise with resilience and reflexivity. So the objective of the book is to contribute to the learning and healing processes that will take society, here French society, beyond the shock and horror of the events themselves and help renew the collective bonds.

The expertise that we bring together here for instance helps us understand that terrorist attacks are moments of social effervescence that create the conditions for a certain degree of “hysteria” in social life: in other words, every single one of us is challenged into taking sides. Again, a symptom can be found in the accusations directed at social scientists. This is all the more striking as these academic disciplines are precisely useful to develop approaches that are reflective and self reflective. Social sciences draw lessons from empirical studies and their conclusions sometimes challenge taken-for granted notions or prejudices. One example would be the idea that individuals who are confronted with a situation of imminent lethal risk, such as a terrorist attack, are struck with panic and are driven to act irrationally and selfishly. Another example would be that Islamic terrorism automatically reinforces ethnic and social prejudice and therefore benefits the extreme-right. Many people think so but it is in fact much more complex than this.

Question 2: What was special about the attacks of January and November 2015?

The 2015 attacks were specific in many ways and in particular in terms of the targets, the number of victims and the repetition of attacks.

The targets are important first of all. As is often the case for terrorist attacks, they were selected for the symbolic message the attack would be able to convey. In January, the targets were famous journalists working for a satirical weekly magazine. Over the past 50 years, it has attracted a lot of attention for its many provocations, including the republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed, originally published in Denmark. The other targets were members of the police force and shoppers in a Kosher supermarket. The interpretative framework that was immediately articulated by the public authorities and relayed by the media was that it was an attack on the Republic, on the State and of the French Nation.

In November the targets were random people in Paris and the suburbs and places they could recognize and imagine going to: a concert hall, a football stadium, restaurants and bars. The frame of interpretation that was promoted was one of an attack on French society in its diverse and multifaceted dimensions.

The second shock is linked to the very high number of victims and who they were: 17 dead in January and 130 in November with many more people wounded, caused by simultaneous attacks in Paris and around.

Thirdly, even if the January and November attacks are those that people remember most, they turned out to be part of a series: repetitions hit other parts of France, aiming at ordinary citizens, places of everyday activities including churches, private homes and streets. Families and children were also victims in the attack against Nice on 14 July 2016. The repetition created a climate of fear and concernment, which itself impacted French people.
This triple singularity of the Paris attacks led to a highly unusual academic research project, and the results of some of them are gathered in this book.

Question 3: What impact do the attacks have on our society?

Attacks such as those of 2015 are total social facts that have far reaching implications through all domains of social life.

The strength of a collective book such as this one is that it brings together in a concise yet detailed fashion the results of the diverse research projects conducted since 2015 in different social scientific disciplines and with a great diversity of approaches. What the book does is that it seeks to understand and to explain the effects of these attacks on French society and the responses that they triggered, at different levels of society.

The book published by the French University Press (the PUF), in November 2020 contains six chapters but a new updated and expanded version will be published in 2021 by Palgrave with two more contributions.

The book thus includes a chapter looking at how people at the Bataclan reacted to the attack and one analyzing the multiplication of street memorials set up by citizens on city squares across Paris and around the country. Two chapters explore the world of media and communication through the angle of the adaptation and regulation of TV coverage of terrorism and through the emergence of counterpublics created by social media.

Question 4: What are the interactions between the state and public opinion in response to the attacks of January and November 2015 ?

First they challenge the idea that Islamic terrorist attacks may have an automatic impact on public support for the executive. Second, they undermine the idea that racial prejudice and intolerance between communities are necessarily increased by terrorist attacks because political capital can be made from amalgamating terrorists with the general Muslim population.

In the months that followed January 2015, and to a lesser extent after November, the French executive benefited from a rise in public support, which was documented in opinion surveys, in the press and in the political arena. The political science literature talks about a rally around the flag and of a patriotic reflex. However, in the chapter I co-authored with Laurie Boussaguet, who is an Associate member of the CEE, we highlight the symbolic work that was developed by the President, the Prime Minister, the Interior Minister and their teams to build the country’s resilience and to prevent centrifugal tendencies. We also demonstrate that symbolic public action was prepared carefully and consciously and intended to prevent potential outbursts of violence.

Indeed one could think that Islamic terrorism contributes to increase support for the extreme-right and that it contributes to feed xenophobic and authoritarians sentiments in the population. What Vincent Tiberj argues is that the survey data collected over several years on attitudes towards minorities shows a decidedly more complex picture. In fact, tolerance has increased regularly over several years and the period 2015-2016 is no different. One possible explanation for such an evolution in public attitudes towards ethnic and religious minorities lies in the performative dimension of political discourse. The framing of the events that was proposed by the State, particularly after January may well have contributed to such an evolution.

Interview: Myriam Sefraoui, Scientific mediation officer, Sciences Po, CEE

Cyril Benoît, Researcher fellow CNRS & Olivier Rozenberg, Associate professor at Sciences Po, CEE (eds.) present: The Handbook of Parliamentary Studies Interdisciplinary Approaches to Legislatures(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020).

This comprehensive Handbook takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of parliaments, offering novel insights into the key aspects of legislatures, legislative institutions and legislative politics.

Dominique Boullier, Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po & member of the CEE is interviewed about his book: Comment sortir de l’emprise des réseaux sociaux (Le Passeur, 2020).

Thanks to its multidisciplinary approach, the author fundamentally renews our design of these platforms and offers innovative solutions to use them without suffering them.

Patrick Le Galès, CNRS Research Professor of Sociology and Politics at the CEE & Dean of Urban School of Sciences Po is interviewed about the book (ed) : Gouverner la métropole parisienne. État, conflits, institutions, réseaux (Les Presses de Sciences Po, 2020).

Informed by original research, this documented analysis accurately illuminates the political and institutional dynamics of an unfinished metropolisation.

This interview with Bruno Palier, CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, is devoted to his latest book: "Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies. How have Growth Regimes evolved", co-edited with Anke Hassel.

Bruno Palier discusses the innovative nature of a reflection that brings together two fields of research: one dedicated to the analysis of growth regimes and the other specialized on the welfare state and welfare reforms.>

Matthias Thiemann, Associate Professor at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po is interviewed about the book : The Reinvention of Development Banking in the European Union: Industrial Policy in the Single Market and the Emergence of a Field (Daniel Mertens, Matthias Thiemann and Peter Volberding (eds.), OUP, 2021).

The book Offers a new account of how national development banks are specifically impacted by EU regulations and constraint.

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New: Coalition bargaining and legislative institutions with Radoslaw Zubek

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Paul Marx is a Professor of Political Science and Socio-Economics at University of Duisburg-Essen - The Effect of Children's Economic Hardship on Future Voting

Long-term socialisation patterns are considered a key explanation for socio-economic inequalities in political participation. Material conditions in youth and childhood are assumed to contribute to rather stable trajectories of political apathy or involvement and lay the foundations for political inequality from before voting age and far into adulthood. However, our understanding of when such inequalities begin to become noticeable, the importance of parental as opposed to personal socio-economic status, and potential long-term consequences is still limited. Paul Marx and his co-author Sebastian Jungkunz address these issues using the youth questionnaire of the UK Household Longitudinal Study. They show that material deprivation in childhood still has a substantial negative effect on turnout when young adults reach the first election in which they are eligible to vote. This result holds when they control for an unusually exhaustive list of potential confounders, such as psychological childhood characteristics, parental political interest and education, present material conditions, mental health, and future educational degrees. They, hence, demonstrate that—while personal socio-economic experiences in early adulthood are not irrelevant — socio-economic family background has an independent, strong, and (probably) lasting effect on political participation.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · "The Effect of Children's Economic Hardship on Future Voting" by Paul Marx

Ragnhild Louise Muriaas is a professor of Political Science at the Department of Government, University of Bergen - Parliamentary Stayers in Western Democracies: Mind the Gender-Gap in Political Endurance

Earlier this year Ragnhild Louise Muriaas started a project funded by The European Research Council (ERC Consolidator grant) with the title “Gender-Gap in Political Endurance: a novel political inclusion theory” (SUCCESS). The paper presented in this seminar, based on research conducted by Ragnhild Louise Muriaas and Torill Stavenes, discusses the novelty of the concept of political endurance and aims to establish how the size of a gender gap in political endurance varies over time and countries in western democracies. The scholars study how gender shapes political endurance in parliaments, building on the research documenting how newcomers are disadvantaged their first term in office, while senior members enjoy certain privileges. Thus, if there are gender gaps in political endurance women could face more barriers than men in getting their job done as representatives. They put forward three different measures to study gender gaps in political endurance to find out if, how and when men are more likely than women to be a parliamentary stayer. Studying the endurance of all parliamentarians in 10 western democracies from 1965 to 2021 they show that there are gender gaps in political endurance across the different measurements, but that gender gaps are particularly apparent if they concentrate on those that have served as parliamentarians for three or more terms.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Parliamentary Stayers in Western Democracies: Mind the Gender-Gap in Political Endurance - R Muriaas

Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, directrice de recherche au CNRS et directrice adjointe du Centre de sociologie des organisations à Sciences Po - Pourquoi nous consommons tant. Pour une économie politique de l'abondance

Dans le contexte des appels à la sobriété portés par les experts du climat, la consommation est un levier majeur de la transition écologique. A la suite de nombreuses études en sciences sociales, Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier suggère que la croyance selon laquelle une telle transition écologique pourrait reposer sur les seules épaules des consommateurs est illusoire. Elle met en évidence les fortes interdépendances, au sein d'une économie politique de la consommation d'abondance, entre les politiques publiques, les modèles économiques des entreprises et les pratiques des consommateurs. En adoptant une perspective sociologique économique et foucaldienne, elle développe un agenda de recherche pour explorer comment la consommation d'abondance devient une norme légitimée et institutionnalisée. La consommation d'abondance, qui est hautement intensive en ressources, est structurelle à la fois dans les politiques économiques des gouvernements et dans les modèles d'affaires des entreprises et est donc constamment organisée et gouvernée. Cependant, elle n'est pas imposée aux individus par la force. Le gouvernement de la consommation repose sur des technologies de pouvoir qui façonnent et orientent la conduite des consommateurs, les amenant à adopter les normes de la consommation d'abondance en activant et en jouant sur leurs dispositions acquises par la socialisation marchande.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · “Pourquoi nous consommons tant. Pour une économie politique de l'abondance“ - S. Dubuisson-Quellier

Luc Boltanski, sociologue, est directeur d'études à l'EHESS et Arnaud Esquerre, sociologue, est directeur de recherche au CNRS - "Qu'est ce que l'actualité politique ?"

Dans l'ouvrage "Qu'est-ce que l'actualité politique ? Événements et opinions au XXIe siècle", Luc Boltanski et Arnaud Esquerre s’intéressent à deux processus constitutifs de l’espace public en démocratie. D’une part, les processus de mise en actualité : se saisissant de ce qui se passe maintenant, ces processus font connaître à nombre de personnes l’existence de faits que ces dernières n’ont pas, pour la plupart, directement vécus et les accompagnent généralement d’une description et d’une interprétation. Et, d’autre part les processus de politisation : se saisissant de faits mis en actualité, ces processus les problématisent, en sorte que l’actualité concerne chacun et par conséquent aussi l’État, tout en donnant lieu à des interprétations dont les divergences suscitent des commentaires, des polémiques et des divisions.

Luc Boltanski et Arnaud Esquerre fondent leurs analyses sur les milliers de commentaires mis en ligne par des lecteurs du quotidien Le Monde en septembre et octobre 2019 ; et les milliers de commentaires postés sur deux chaînes de vidéos d’actualités passées mises en ligne en janvier 2021 par l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel. Chemin faisant, ils reconstituent la norme du dicible en comparant les commentaires publiés et les commentaires rejetés par les instances de modération. Ils cartographient les processus de politisation à notre époque, tels le féminisme, l’écologie, l’immigration, les religions, le nationalisme, l’Europe, etc. Et, à partir de ces matériaux, ils réfléchissent à la formation de l’opinion politique et à la manière dont en sont affectées nos vies quotidiennes dans la démocratie d'aujourd’hui.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · “Qu’est-ce que l’actualité politique ?” avec Luc Boltanski et Arnaud Esquerre

Radoslaw Zubek, Associate Professor of European Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford - "Coalition bargaining and legislative instutions"

Previous work shows that robust legislative oversight institutions strengthen the ability of multi-party governments to enforce policy agreements. This raises the question of whether coalitions choose such institutions strategically. In a joint article, Tom Fleming (UCL) and Radoslaw Zubek introduce a formal bargaining model in which parties negotiate over legislative procedures as well as policy compromises and the allocation of ministerial posts. This model suggests that coalition partners' incentives for creating strong oversight institutions are shaped by the relative priority they place on policy and office benefits, their relative bargaining power, and the existence of outside options during coalition formation. We provide initial evidence of the model's empirical plausibility by analyzing the evolution of committee oversight procedures in the Irish parliament (Dail Eireann) over more than 100 years. These findings open interesting avenues for future work on how parties shape legislative institutions in parliamentary democracies

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Coalition bargaining and legislative institutions with Radoslaw Zubek

Katharina Pistor, Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School - "The Laws of Capitalism"

Why is capitalism, a system that is made in law, so resilient to legal governance aimed at taming its worst excesses? The puzzle is not just a riddle on the nature of law or its (in-)ability to solve social issues. Its purpose is to explain why capitalism remains inequitable even after repeated attempts to tame it, is oblivious to climate change, and structurally incapable of correcting itself. To solve this puzzle, I offer three laws of capitalist law: (1) Subjective rights that are freed from corresponding legal obligations; (2) Decentralized access to the centralized means of coercion; and (3) Legal arbitrage that is not only condoned but inherent to capitalist law.

Her work spans comparative law and corporate governance, law and finance, and law and development. She is the co-recipient of the Max Planck Research Award (2012), a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg and the European Academies of Science and a Fellow at the European Corporate Governance Institute. Her most recent book is The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (Princeton UP, 2019).

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · The Laws of Capitalism by Katharina Pistor (20 September 2022)

Elizabeth Popp Berman is Associate Professor of Organizational Studies and (by courtesy) Sociology at the University of Michigan "Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy"

Her new book, Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy, has just been published by Princeton University Press; her previous book, Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine, won several awards from the American Sociological Association and the Social Science History Association. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and has broad interests in the sociology of science, economic sociology, and higher education.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - 19 April 2022

ERIK JONES, Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute
"Two Models for the Politicization of European Integration: Postfunctionalism, Anti-Establishment Politics, and the Italian Case"

He uses Italy’s relationship with the European Union over the past three decades to explore the difference between two models for the politicization of European integration. The paper draws the causal mechanism for one model from the postfunctionalist argument made by Hooghe and Marks (2009, 2018). It draws the causal mechanism for the other (anti-establishment) model from the writings of Stefano Bartolini (2005) and Peter Mair (2007, 2013). Although the two models can exist simultaneously, it is possible to test for predominance using the strategy for ‘fair causal comparison’ set out by Miller (1988). The evidence suggests that both mechanisms are present in Italy, but the anti-establishment mechanism is more important. This finding contributes both to our theoretical understanding of the politicization of Europe and to our empirical understanding of the Italian case

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Erick Jones (April 5th, 2022)

ANN MORNING, Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University "an ugly word: rethinking race in Italy and the USA"

Ann Morning is an Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University as well as the Academic Director at 19 Washington Square North, the home of NYU Abu Dhabi in New York. Trained in economics, political science, and international affairs as well as sociology, her research interests include race, demography, and the sociology of science, especially as they pertain to census classification worldwide and to individuals’ concepts of difference. She is the author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference (University of California Press 2011), and co-author of An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States (Russell Sage Foundation 2022, with Marcello Maneri). Morning was a 2008-09 Fulbright research fellow at the University of Milan-Bicocca and a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po in 2019. She was a member of the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations from 2013 to 2019 and has consulted on racial statistics for the European Commission and the United Nations. Morning holds her B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Yale University, a Master’s of International Affairs from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University.

She presented her research during the General Seminar of the CEE "an ugly word: rethinking race in Italy and the USA".

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Ann Morning (22 mars 2022)

Chloe Alexandre, Florent Gougou, Simon Persico (Sciences Po Grenoble, Pacte) "What unites and divides the environmental movement? Ideological consensus and conflict amongst French climate activists"

Le mouvement écologiste a franchi une étape supplémentaire ces dernières années, avec la naissance de nouvelles organisations utilisant de nouveaux répertoires et rassemblant un nombre sans précédent de partisans et d'activistes à travers le monde. Pourtant, plusieurs enjeux continuent de diviser ce mouvement. Comment les militants contemporains du climat se positionnent-ils face à ces débats ? Quelles valeurs définissent le mouvement écologiste et quels conflits idéologiques divisent les militants du climat qui y participent ? Afin de répondre à ces questions, cet article commence par rappeler sept grands débats idéologiques qui divisent le mouvement écologiste depuis ses origines : 1. Décroissance vs Productivisme ; 2. Écocentrisme vs Anthropocentrisme ; 3. Démocratie contre Autoritarisme ; 4. Néo-malthusianisme contre égalitarisme ; 5. Responsabilité individuelle contre action gouvernementale ; 6. Collapsologie vs Eco-optimisme ; 7. Technophobie vs. Techno-modernisme 8. Écoféminisme post-colonial vs. Valeurs occidentales traditionnelles vs. enquête ponctuelle auprès de plus de 10 000 répondants proches du mouvement climatique. Nous montrons que, dans un contexte de consensus élevé entre les répondants sur la plupart des questions environnementales, deux principales dimensions conflictuelles façonnent l'espace idéologique de l'activisme climatique français. Le premier et le plus puissant oppose les militants « verts clairs » aux plus radicaux. La deuxième dimension du conflit concerne la place laissée à la liberté individuelle par rapport au contrôle étatique.

Chloe Alexandre, Florent Gougou, Simon Persico (Sciences Po Grenoble, Pacte) présentent les résultats de leurs recherches qui confirment également l'alignement croissant du conflit environnemental sur le clivage gauche-droite.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Chloe Alexandre, Florent Gougou, Simon Persico (15 February 2022)

Isabelle Guinaudeau, Sciences Po Bordeaux, Centre Emile Durkheim, CNRS: Unequal mandate representation? Group targeting and citizens’ responses to electoral pledges and their realisations

Isabelle Guinaudeau is a political scientist, CNRS researcher working on party competition and comparative politics.

She presents under the SGCEE her current research.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Isabelle Guinaudeau (December 2021)

Shamus Khan, Professor of Sociology and American Studies at Princeton University "Sexual Citizens: A study of sexual assault on campus"

Shamus Khan presents at the CEE's General seminar the book "Sexual Citizens" co-written with Jennifer S. Hirsch. They draws upon their book an intimate portraits of life and sex among today’s college students.

It's an entirely new way to understand sexual assault. The result of their reflexion transforms the understanding of sexual assault and provides a new roadmap for how to address it.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Shamus Khan (23 november 2021)

Natascha Zaun, Assistant Professor in Migration Studies at the European Institute at LSEWhen populist governments become assertive: The role of politicisation in explaining deadlock of EU asylum policymaking

Natascha Zaun specialises in EU and international migration governance and EU policymaking.

She presents during the general seminar of the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics her paper about the case of the deadlocked Dublin IV negotiations.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Natascha Zaun ( 23 November 2021)

Brenda Van Coppenolle, Department of Government, University of Essex: Deliberating Constitutions: Lotteries in Constituent Assemblies, Denmark in 1848

Brenda Van Coppenolle, lecturer in the Department of Government, University of Essex, answered during the general seminar of the Center of european studies to the following questions:

How are constitutions drafted, and how does the structure of deliberation affect the final document?

Indeed, Brenda Van Coppenolle, Jens Carstens (Sciences Po, CEE) and Jan Rovny(Sciences Po, CEE & LIEPP) highlight the need to better understand the tools of deliberative democracy. Caterina Froio (Sciences Po, CEE) was the chair.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Brenda Van Coppenolle (20 October 2021)

Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Oxford: Europe’s Social Model facing the Covid-19 Employment Crisis: Innovating Job Retention Policies to Avoid Mass Unemployment.

The Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus, a visiting professor from the University of Oxford (Department of Social Policy & Intervention)analyzed during the general seminar of the Center of european studies an Europe facing multiple challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic, including the problem of securing jobs and income.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Bernhard Ebbinghaus ( 21 september 2021)

Cécile Laborde, Université d’Oxford, Nuffield Chair en Théorie Politique Laïcité, séparation et progressisme: l’Inde et la théorie politique comparée

La laïcité, en Europe et en Amérique du Nord, est comprise comme un principe de séparation entre l’Etat et les religions. Cette définition toutefois ne rend pas pleinement compte de la logique constitutionnelle et politique à l’œuvre dans bon nombre d’Etats laïques non-occidentaux. En Inde, l’Etat intervient activement dans la sphère religieuse et reconnait officiellement les groupes religieux. Ces tendances interventionnistes condamnent-elles l’Inde à n’être qu’un Etat imparfaitement laïque, comme le jugeait Donald Smith dans India as a Secular State?

Dans cette conférence, l’auteure montre que la laïcité indienne ne saurait être mesurée à l’aune d’un simple principe de séparation. La laïcité à l’indienne aspire à des idéaux progressistes plus généraux : la liberté personnelle (pour les femmes et les dalits) et l’égalité de statut (pour les minorités religieuses). Elle est compatible, en principe, avec une intervention ciblée de l’Etat dans la sphère religieuse, au nom de ces idéaux. La compréhension de cette laïcité est utile à la fois dans une perspective de théorie politique comparée (le global secularism) et pour saisir l’originalité profonde du constitutionalisme indien.

Mais elle éclaire aussi des enjeux contemporains cruciaux, autour du déploiement de la rhétorique de la laïcité par les nationalistes hindous au pouvoir. C’est parce que le BJP adhère à une vision séparationniste plutôt que progressiste qu’il réussit à présenter son idéologie nationaliste comme le rétablissement d’une laïcité authentique. C’est ce que l’auteure entend démontrer en analysant le discours nationaliste hindou sur les droits des minorités, les droits des femmes, et sa défense de l’hindouisme comme culture plutôt que comme religion.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Cécile Laborde (20 April 2021)

Chris Bickerton, University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies & Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, City College of New York "Technopopulism The New Logic of Democratic Politics"

Technocratic appeals to expertise and populist invocations of 'the people' have become mainstays of political competition in established democracies. This development is best understood as the emergence of technopopulism—a new political logic that is being superimposed on the traditional struggle between left and right. Political movements and actors—such as Italy's Five Star Movement and France's La République En Marche—combine technocratic and populist appeals in a variety of ways, as do more established parties that are adapting to the particular set of incentives and constraints implicit in this new, unmediated form of politics. In the first book-length treatment of the phenomenon of technopopulism, we combine theoretical and historical approaches, offering a systematic definition of the concept of technopopulism, while also exploring a number of salient contemporary examples. This book* provides a detailed account of the emergence of this new political logic, as well as a discussion of its troubling consequences for existing democratic regimes. It ends by considering some possible remedies that go beyond the simplistic idea that in the right 'dose' populism and technocracy can counter-balance one another.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Carlo Invernizzi Accetti & Chris Bickerton (06 April 2021)

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, University of Bergen & Paul Sniderman, Stanford University "The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos"

The politics of inclusion is about more than hate, exclusion, and discrimination. It is a window into the moral character of contemporary liberal democracies. The Struggle for Inclusion* introduces a new method to the study of public opinion: to probe, step by step, how far non-Muslim majorities are willing to be inclusive, where they draw the line, and why they draw it there and not elsewhere. Those committed to liberal democratic values and their concerns are the focus, not those advocating exclusion and intolerance.

Notwithstanding the turbulence and violence of the last decade over issues of immigration and of Muslims in the West, the results of this study demonstrate that the largest number of citizens in contemporary liberal democracies are more open to inclusion of Muslims than has been recognized. Not less important, the book reveals limits on inclusion that follow from the friction between liberal democratic values. This pioneering work thus brings to light both pathways to progress and polarization traps.

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Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Elisabeth Ivarsflaten & Paul M. Sniderman (23 March 2021)

Frédéric Mérand, Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM) "Un sociologue à la Commission européenne"

Proposant une sociologie du travail politique, ce livre rend compte de quatre années d’observation au sein du cabinet d'un commissaire européen. De 2015 à 2019, Pierre Moscovici et son équipe ont été confrontés à la crise grecque, aux faiblesses de l’Union économique et monétaire, aux scandales d'évasion fiscale et à la menace populiste italienne. Entre les luttes partisanes et les jeux diplomatiques, entre les tenants de la rigueur et les architectes d’un gouvernement économique, ils ont mené la politique de la zone euro. Frédéric Mérand a accompagné « les Moscovici » dans leurs réunions, de Bruxelles à Strasbourg, de Washington à Athènes. À la cantine ou dans les couloirs du Berlaymont, le siège de la Commission,l'auteur les a interrogés sur leurs stratégies et leurs espoirs. Frédéric Merand a aussirecueilli leurs peurs et leurs déceptions. Les observations qui en découlent permettent de comprendre comment on « fait de la politique » dans l'Union européenne. Au cours de ce récit ethnographique, la France n'est jamais loin. Décodant la trajectoire européenne d'un commissaire socialiste français, d'abord sous François Hollande puis Emmanuel Macron, Un sociologue à la Commission européenne explore les dynamiques qui parfois rapprochent Bruxelles et Paris, mais souvent les éloignent.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Frédéric Mérand (09 March 2021)

Paul Pierson, University of California, Berkeley "Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality"

Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality situates Donald Trump’s ascendance in the broader currents of American political development. Unlike many variants of "right-wing populism" the American version represents a curious hybrid of populism and plutocracy. Although American right-wing populism has real social roots, it has long been nurtured by powerful elites seeking to undercut support for modern structures of economic regulation and the welfare state. Steeply rising inequality in the United States generated an acute form of what Daniel Ziblatt has termed "the conservative dilemma." Over the past few decades, the Republican Party rejected a path of economic moderation. Instead, it chose to construct an apparatus for stoking political outrage, particularly in forms that accentuate and intensify racial divisions. American political institutions offered a distinctive opportunity for a populist figure to draw on this fury to first capture the nomination of the GOP, and from that position to ascend to the White House. Yet the administration’s substantive agenda constituted a full-throated endorsement of the GOP economic elite’s long-standing demands for cuts in social spending, sharp tax reductions for the wealthy, and the gutting of consumer, worker and environmental protections. The chasm between Trump’s rhetoric and his actions justifies a more skeptical assessment of the breadth and depth of American populism, one that acknowledges how its contours were shaped by the nation’s unusual political institutions, its intensifying political polarization and the out-sized influence of the wealthy. While Trump lost the 2020 election, these structural conditions remain. So do the distressing incentives these conditions create for one of the nation's two major political parties.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Paul Pierson (16 February 2021)

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New: Chloe Alexandre, Florent Gougou, Simon Persico, Sciences Po Grenoble, Pacte "What unites and divides the environmental movement? Ideological consensus and conflict amongst French climate activists"

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The Centre’s general seminar invites colleagues from France and/or overseas to present their research, books, articles in progress. The seminar format consists in partnering senior and junior researchers.

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Chloe Alexandre, Florent Gougou, Simon Persico (Sciences Po Grenoble, Pacte) "What unites and divides the environmental movement? Ideological consensus and conflict amongst French climate activists"

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Chloe Alexandre, Florent Gougou, Simon Persico (15 February 2022)

Isabelle Guinaudeau, Sciences Po Bordeaux, Centre Emile Durkheim, CNRS: Unequal mandate representation? Group targeting and citizens’ responses to electoral pledges and their realisations

Isabelle Guinaudeau is a political scientist, CNRS researcher working on party competition and comparative politics.

She presents under the SGCEE her current research.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Isabelle Guinaudeau (December 2021)

Shamus Khan, Professor of Sociology and American Studies at Princeton University "Sexual Citizens: A study of sexual assault on campus"

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Shamus Khan (23 november 2021)

Natascha Zaun, Assistant Professor in Migration Studies at the European Institute at LSE: When populist governments become assertive: The role of politicisation in explaining deadlock of EU asylum policymaking

Natascha Zaun specialises in EU and international migration governance and EU policymaking.

She presents during the general seminar of the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics her paper about the case of the deadlocked Dublin IV negotiations.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Natascha Zaun ( 23 November 2021)

Brenda Van Coppenolle, Department of Government, University of Essex: Deliberating Constitutions: Lotteries in Constituent Assemblies, Denmark in 1848

Brenda Van Coppenolle, lecturer in the Department of Government, University of Essex, answered during the general seminar of the Center of european studies to the following questions:
How are constitutions drafted, and how does the structure of deliberation affect the final document?
Indeed, Brenda Van Coppenolle, Jens Carstens (Sciences Po, CEE) and Jan Rovny(Sciences Po, CEE & LIEPP) highlight the need to better understand the tools of deliberative democracy. Caterina Froio (Sciences Po, CEE) was the chair.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Brenda Van Coppenolle (20 October 2021)

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Bernhard Ebbinghaus

Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Oxford: Europe’s Social Model facing the Covid-19 Employment Crisis: Innovating Job Retention Policies to Avoid Mass Unemployment.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · SGCEE - Bernhard Ebbinghaus

Cécile Laborde, Université d’Oxford, Nuffield Chair en Théorie Politique Laïcité, séparation et progressisme: l’Inde et la théorie politique comparée

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Cécile Laborde (20 April 2021)

Chris Bickerton, University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies & Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, City College of New York "Technopopulism The New Logic of Democratic Politics"

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Carlo Invernizzi Accetti & Chris Bickerton (06 April 2021)

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, University of Bergen & Paul Sniderman, Stanford University "The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos"

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Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Elisabeth Ivarsflaten & Paul M. Sniderman (23 March 2021)

Frédéric Mérand, Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM) "Un sociologue à la Commission européenne"

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Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Frédéric Mérand (09 March 2021)

Paul Pierson, University of California, Berkeley "Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality"

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Paul Pierson (16 February 2021)

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Sélection de publications des membres du CEE

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La Newsletter trimestrielle MEZZEDITION propose une sélection de publications des membres du CEE. Bonne lecture !

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Réforme des retraites, 49.3… les membres du CEE contribuent au débat

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Le projet de loi sur la réforme des retraites est arrivé au bout d’un parcours législatif mouvementé. Entre vote bloqué, utilisation de l’article 49.3 de la Constitution, motions de censure, et une mobilisation citoyenne et syndicale qui reste forte même après le vote, cette future réforme continue d’alimenter le débat public et médiatique français.

Les membres du CEE, à travers leurs différentes expertises, délivrent un éclairage scientifique sur cette actualité, à travers l'étude du passé récent et d'autres pays européens.

Isabelle Guinaudeau, chargée de recherche CNRS, a établi avec Michael Becher et Sylvain Brouard le coût politique et électoral élevé de l’utilisation du "49.3" en étudiant la période 1979–2008, dans West European Politics.

Prime ministers and the electoral cost of using the confidence vote in legislative bargaining: evidence from France

In our @WEPsocial paper, Michael Becher, Sylvain Brouard and I have shown that there is a substantial political/electoral cost for using the 49.3 procedure. Executive approval declines after confidence votes: https://t.co/bLat7Ko4CV pic.twitter.com/mO7UCWzkD5

— Isabelle Guinaudeau (@iguinaudeau) March 18, 2023

Avant l’utilisation du "49.3" pour l'adoption de cette loi, Olivier Rozenberg, Associate Professor à Sciences Po, CEE, interrogeait dans une tribune publiée par Le Monde la capacité décisionnaire des assemblées et les fragilités du parlementarisme français.

« L’examen par les députés de la réforme des retraites met à vif les fragilités inhérentes au parlementarisme »

La note publiée dans La Grande Conversation par Bruno Palier, directeur de recherche CNRS au CEE, et Paulus Wagner, doctorant au CEE, montre que le Rassemblement National et Marine Le Pen pourraient sortir gagnants de cet épisode politique. D’après les deux chercheurs, le passage en force du gouvernement et l’impopularité de cette réforme auprès de certaines classes sociales, celles qui subissent les conditions de travail les plus dégradées, ne peuvent que renforcer la position du parti d’extrême droite.

Les lendemains politiques d’une réforme contestée

L’ouvrage Réformer les retraites de Bruno Palier, directeur de recherche CNRS au CEE (Presses de Sciences Po, juin 2021) permet de saisir la teneur ainsi que la portée des grandes réformes des systèmes de retraites en France depuis 1993 à partir des exemples allemand, britannique, italien, néerlandais et suédois.

La longue histoire des retraites (et de leurs réformes) en Europe (interview à lire dans CNRS le Journal)

Les femmes et l'Etat providence français (podcast Genre, etc.)

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CEE Support Campaign

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Scholarships - 2022

Deadline: 5th May 2023

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We invite expressions of interest from researchers interested in submitting a Marie SkłodowskaCurie Individual Fellowship (MSCA IF) application with Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. We will provide support and guidance to applicants that successfully go through the internal selection process.

Submit your Expression of Interest: The call for applications closes on September 2023. Expressions of Interest are required by 5th May 2023 (to Florence Faucher, Director of the CEE, contact.cee@sciencespo.fr ).

Please sent:

Letter of intention (with the name of supervisor requested)
CV and list of publications
draft project (1-2 pages) with the objectives We will send this for review to the Board to confirm the support for your proposal (in June).

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Call for communication: Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?

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International Conference

Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?

Paris, July 10, 2023

The Digital Cities Chair of the Urban School of Sciences Po, in partnership with the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, is organizing an international conference on July 10, 2023, on the theme of "Google and Territories".

As an essential part of the daily lives of city dwellers and in the discourse on digital cities, the relationship between Google and local governance raises several issues that have surprisingly been relatively unexplored in the scientific literature. This conference, organized in three areas of reflection, aims to question the presence of Google in the territories and its effects on local policies and urban governance. Based on empirical investigations, the proposals may come from several social science disciplines (political science, sociology, geography, economics, urban planning, law, etc.) and may fall within the following three axes.

1. Alphabet's territorial implementation and strategy with respect to cities and territories

The first line of thought examines Alphabet's strategy towards cities and territories. Although it cannot be categorized as an urban firm, the company has gradually developed a range of products and services that target territories, their inhabitants, and local authorities. While with the creation of Sidewalk Labs in 2015, the Alphabet group openly positioned itself on the urban market, the company, through Waze and Google Maps in particular, has been a key player in territorial activities for many years. Through the various acquisitions and offers deployed, can we detect a strategy of the Alphabet group towards cities and territories?

Other papers may also focus on the Alphabet company's relationship towards territories. Although the products offered by the company are largely immaterial, the company is established in the territories in several ways. On the one hand, the products and services offered by Google are based on material infrastructures (cables, data centers), which are deployed in the territories according to a specific geography that the communications could question. On the other hand, the location of the company's headquarters has social and spatial effects, which have been the object of contestation. While some cities are trying to attract them to their territory, social movements in San Francisco and Berlin have blamed Google and other digital companies for rising rents, gentrification, and privatization of public infrastructure ("Google Bus").

2. Digitalizing and calculating the territory

The second axis questions the process of production, use and valorization of spatial data by Google. The papers will first focus on the construction of its infrastructure of spatial data to question the processes of production of territorial data by Google. What information do they collect and how? How and by whom is this data work carried out? What are the partnerships and collaborations with local actors (public authorities, companies, citizens, etc.) in the production of this data?

The papers will also analyze the effects of this territorial data on markets, public policies, and socio-spatial hierarchies. Inserted in algorithmic calculation devices, these data participate in establishing alternative categorizations of space that can challenge the traditional stratifications established by public authorities or economic markets. Indeed, following the example of the Waze app, which leads to traffic shifts in residential areas, this calculation of space by these applications is likely to modify individual and collective practices, transform modes of appropriation of space and challenge public policies. In the same way, ranking systems, and in particular the company's search engines, are likely to modify the hierarchies of goods and services markets. To what extent does a service such as Google Maps transform relations between actors and restructure competition on markets embedded in territories?

Finally, while the company is often presented as the symbol of surveillance capitalism, the papers may question the precise modalities of data valuation by Google. Although it does not sell them directly, Google values its data on the advertising market, but also through their distribution via APIs. Who are the users of these data? How do they use it? How has Google gradually built these territorial data markets? What is the ecosystem of actors that has emerged around Google's territorial data? Does Google mark a transformation of urban capitalism around the accumulation and valorization of data?

3. Mobilization, contestation, regulation, collaboration: Google in local governance

The third axis aims to better understand the place of Google in the urban field and in local policies. The rise of Google's services has indeed provoked mistrust and fears on the part of traditional urban actors, whether public, private or citizens, as illustrated by the mobilization that led to the withdrawal of Sidewalk Labs in Toronto. How were these mobilizations formed? Did they succeed in putting their demands on the political agenda? What were the strategies implemented by private actors to maintain their position and contain Google's arrival on their markets? Conversely, what are the influence and lobbying strategies implemented by the Alphabet group with local actors to obtain regulations that are favorable to it?

Beyond visible mobilizations, Google's services have also quietly imposed themselves on public policies. Waze and Google Maps, for example, have become key players in mobility policies. What conflicts have emerged through the development of these services? How do public authorities integrate them into their governing strategies? Are we seeing the emergence of new modes of local governance through which public or private actors work with Google to implement public policies?

Calendar:

Submission deadline: April 20, 2023

Assessment of the proposals and choice: April 30, 2023

Conference: July 10, 2023, in Paris

The one-page proposals, either in French or English, should be sent to Antoine Courmont (antoine.courmont@sciencespo.fr) before April 20, 2023. They should set out the topic of the paper, the research question, the methodology and the data used.

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Propagations, par Dominique Boullier

Un nouveau paradigme pour les sciences sociales

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La pandémie de Covid-19 a mis en évidence à quel point les processus de propagation affectent nos vies en profondeur. Mais elle révèle aussi comment se propagent des informations, des consignes, des rumeurs... Dans son dernier ouvrage, Propagations. Un nouveau paradigme pour les sciences sociales (Armand Colin, 2023), Dominique Boullier, professeur des universités en sociologie, montre la fécondité d’une approche des sociétés sous l’angle de la propagation, à côté de l’analyse traditionnelle des structures sociales et des préférences individuelles.

Présentation en vidéo :

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Dans de prochaines vidéos, Dominique Boullier détaillera par exemple comment l'étude des traces numériques apporte un nouveau point de vue sur les sociétés, l'avènement d'une troisième époque de quantification pour les sciences sociales, et comment gérer les crises au temps des propagations.

Pour en savoir plus : découvrir le sommaire et les premières pages de l'ouvrage sur le site de l'éditeur.

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Jean-Marie Le Pen, l'obsession nationale

Une serie de podcasts, avec la participation de Nonna Mayer

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Dans cette série de podcasts produite par France Inter, fabriquée à partir d’archives rares et avec le regard d'éminents chercheurs et chercheuses, dont Nonna Mayer, Philippe Collin analyse la trajectoire unique de Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Ces sept épisodes riches et instructifs racontent Jean-Marie Le Pen, l’homme, mais surtout le parcours d’une figure politique devenu, en cinquante ans, l’incarnation de l’extrême droite française.

Les épisodes :

Retrouvez les ouvrages de Nonna Mayer sur les thématiques de l'extrême droite et du Front national :

Les faux-semblants du Front national (co-direction), Presse de Sciences Po, 2015

Ces Français qui votent Le Pen, Flammarion, 2002

Le Front national à découvert (co-direction), Presse de Sciences Po, 1996

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Interview with Arnault Barichella

PhD in political science, 2022

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Arnault Barichella defended his PhD thesis in political science, "The UN Climate Change regime and the articulation of multi-level governance. A case study of the global cities of Paris, Boston and New York" in December 2022. He just started a post-doctoral researcher position and reflects in this interview on his experience as a PhD candidate at the CEE and Sciences Po.

What is your current position?

I have just started a contract as a post-doctoral researcher in the social sciences for the New Energy Sustainable Mobilities (NESMO) project at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Université Paris-Saclay. This is an interdisciplinary project which combines the social sciences and engineering to research new technologies in the field of transportation, focusing on hydrogen motors more specifically. My role, as a political scientist, involves studying possibilities and prospects for deploying these new technologies across the Ile-de-France region, in particular plug-in hydrogen hybrid electric vehicles.

What did you write your thesis on?

My thesis, which was defended in December 2022, tackles two primary research questions. The first one relates to international politics, and focuses on the role of cities, territories, and non-state actors more generally, within the mechanisms of global climate governance as part of the COP process and the UNFCCC. Even though they cannot sign the Paris Accord in the same way as national governments, cities and sub-national entities have an increasingly important role to play in international climate negotiations.

The other part of my thesis, which relates to comparative politics, examines climate initiatives enacted by the cities and states/regions in the thesis sample for the United States (New York/NY and Boston/Massachusetts), and in France (Paris and Ile-de-France). More specifically, my PhD compares the mechanisms involved in the articulation of multilevel climate governance, contrasting the US federal system with the more centralised French paradigm. This part of my work will be published as a book by Palgrave Macmillan towards the Fall 2023 in the Energy, Climate and the Environment book series.

What did the CEE and Sciences Po bring to your doctoral experience?

I have received wonderful sponsorship from the CEE, and I take this opportunity to warmly thank all of its members and staff, who supported me throughout my five years of doctoral studies. My PhD supervisor, Pr. Colin Hay, gave me a wide margin of maneuver to study the themes that interested me most, whilst providing me with very detailed and precise feedback. He was also always available to meet and advise me upon request. Moreover, I was inspired by the seminars organized at the CEE and at Sciences Po, since many focused on issues relating to my thesis such as the role of cities and territories in the ecological transition. In addition to these scientific seminars, I was also lucky to be able to work at a research center with a very warm and convivial atmosphere, where tenured researchers gladly accept to meet with and advise doctoral students.

Thanks to Sciences Po’s international partnerships, I had the opportunity to spend one year at Harvard University in the US as a Visiting Fellow (2018-19), which was a very enriching and useful experience since it enabled me to conduct a large part of my field research. Finally, I have also been able to teach my own class since Spring 2020 entitled ‘Global Climate Politics: Comparative EU-US Perspectives’ for the undergraduate level at Sciences Po’s Paris campus. Each semester, this seminar welcomes around thirty students coming from all around the world, and addresses several of my PhD topics such as global climate governance processes established by the Paris Agreement, as well as a comparative analysis of climate policies in Europe and the United States, including the role of sub-national and non-state actors. The last class of each semester is organised around a simulation of the COP negotiations, where students choose their roles in advance. These classes have led to very rich, lively and quality exchanges with my students over the last few years, allowing me to discover a passion for teaching, which I hope to be able to pursue for the rest of my career.

Interview by Véronique Etienne, Knowledge Exchange Officer, CEE, February 2023.

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Congratulations to Nathalie Morel

on her accreditation to supervise research

Nathalie Morel © Aurore Papegay / Sciences Po

Nathalie Morel, Assistant Professor at Sciences Po, member of the CEE and LIEPP, earned her accreditation to supervise research in political sciences on January 31st, 2023. She defended her habilitation thesis entitled “The politics of fiscal welfare: towards a social division of welfare and labour in France and Sweden”.

The jury was composed of:

Philippe Bezes, CNRS Research Professor, Sciences Po, CEE
Nicolas Duvoux, Professor, Université Paris 8
Olivier Giraud, CNRS Research Professor, CNAM, Lise
Kimberly Morgan, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
Marta Szebehely, Professor Emerita, Stockholm University

Abstract

The privatisation or marketisation of welfare, the polarisation and dualisation of labour markets and the increase in social inequalities are three themes that have featured prominently in recent welfare state research, although most often as separate research endeavours. ‘Neo-liberalism’, as a kind of catch-all concept, has often been put forward as the analytical lens through which to understand these trends. While these trends have manifested themselves earlier and with greater force in the Liberal welfare states, labour market polarisation and dualisation, along with elements of transformation and privatisation of the welfare state have, however, come to the fore in the other welfare regimes also. This work proposes to cast a new light on these processes in two non-Liberal welfare states by tracing the role of a specific instrument, that of fiscal welfare - an approach which has remained a blind spot in the welfare state literature.

Fiscal welfare refers to a specific type of state intervention through the use of the tax system for social protection or employment purposes. As a policy instrument, it has traditionally been associated to Liberal welfare regimes. The more recent introduction of fiscal welfare policies in other types of welfare regimes raises the issue of the uses and effects of such an instrument in these other settings: How is it mobilised? By whom? For what purpose? How does it interact with the traditional public policy repertoire of non-Liberal welfare regimes? With what consequences? This work addresses these questions by focusing on two contrasted welfare states, namely France and Sweden, where the use of fiscal welfare has been growing.

The particular example of the introduction of a similar tax deduction on domiciliary care and household services in both countries is used to bring to light and illustrate the issues raised by the use of fiscal welfare, understood as a specific policy instrument, and to highlight the ways in which fiscal welfare can be used as an analytical lens to observe and understand the interrelated mechanisms behind the polarization of social structures that is taking place in these two countries with respect to both the labour market and welfare provision. The cross-country comparison further helps address the question of the specific properties of the fiscal welfare instrument and its policy feedback effects.

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Replay - Simon Hix, "The Dance of European Integration: How Ideology and Policy Shape Support for the EU"

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"The Dance of European Integration: How Ideology and Policy Shape Support for the EU"

CEE General Seminar, 7 February 2023

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · "The Dance of European Integration: How Ideology and Policy Shape Support for the EU" by Simon Hix

Speaker: Simon Hix, Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute;
Chair: Jan Rovny, Sciences Po Associate Professor at the CEE and LIEPP;
Discussant: Chiao Li, PhD candidate at the CEE.

Abstract

Analysing 50 years of public opinion data and EU policy outputs, Simon Hix and Bjørn Høyland show how the relationship between political ideology and support for European integration has changed dramatically. In the 1970s and 1980s, people on the Right were more supportive of European integration than people on the Left. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Centrists were more supportive then Extremists. Today, the Left likes the EU while the Right opposes it. Simon and Bjørn argue that this pattern can be explained by the fact that attitudes towards the EU are endogenous to policy preferences. They develop a novel method for identifying the left-right position of EU policy outcomes, and show how citizens’ ideological “distance” from these outputs predicts their support for European integration. This has implications for the design of EU policies going forward.

Speaker

Simon Hix is the Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute (EUI), in Florence. Prior to the EUI, Simon spent many years at the London School of Economics, where he was the Vice President for Research and the Harold Laski Professor of Political Science. Simon’s research and teaching focus on comparative political behaviour and institutions, in particular parties and party systems, electoral systems, legislative behaviour, and European Union politics. He has held visiting positions at, among other places, Stanford, Berkeley, Sciences Po, UC San Diego, the Hertie School, and the Korean Institute for International Economic Policy. Simon is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Recordings of the CEE General Seminar

Find all the seminar recordings on this SoundCloud page.

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Congratulations to Andreas Eisl and Weiting Chao

2 new PhD theses defended

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On January 30th, 2023, Weiting Chao and Andreas Eisl both made a brilliant end to their PhD by defending their thesis in political science.

Andreas Eisl defended his thesis "The politics of budgetary constraints: an ideational explanation for the variation in national fiscal frameworks in the eurozone", jointly supervised by Emiliano Grossman (Sciences Po, CEE) and Martin Hopner (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies). The jury also include André Kaiser, Vivien Schmidt, Matthias Thiemann and Cornelia Woll. This PhD work aimed at understanding the variation in national fiscal frameworks that have been negotiated and implemented during the European public debt crisis. Dr. Andreas Eisl now makes use of these research findings to propose concrete policy recommendations for European fiscal policy-making and institutions as a member of the Jacques Delors Institute.

Weiting Chao defended her thesis entitled "Trade or cheat? The politically embedded opportunity structure for offenders in the commodification of carbon permits", supervised by Colin Hay, before a jury also including Jean-Yves Caneill, Christian de Perthuis, Christian Egenhofer, Andy Smith, Matthias Thiemann and Cornelia Woll. In her thesis, Dr. Weiting Chao examined how criminal activities accompany the creation of markets, by studying the European emissions trading scheme.

Congratulations to our two new PhDs! We wish them continued success in their subsequent careers.

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Why ethnic politics can act as a check on democratic backsliding

Blog post and paper by Jan Rovny

The presence of politically organised minority groups is often viewed as a source of instability or conflict within a democracy. Yet in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, democratic backsliding is more common in states that lack meaningful ethnic mobilisation, such as Poland and Hungary. Drawing on new research he just published in the American Political Science Review, Jan Rovny explains that far from undermining democracy, the presence of mobilised minority groups can act as a bulwark against backsliding because these groups have a stake in pursuing liberal political arrangements that limit the power of the majority.

Read Jan Rovny's blog post on LSE's "European Politics and Policy" blog.

Read the full paper (open access) published in the American Political Science Review.

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Recruitment · Postdoctoral position

ANR-funded research project on central banking

Deadline: March 5th

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Postdoctoral position: ANR-funded research project on central banking

The Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po invites applications from postdoctoral researchers in Social Science for the project Central banking in hard times: Knowledge, legitimacy, and politics (KNOWLEGPO). The French-German research project is led by Prof. Matthias Thiemann at Sciences Po Paris in collaboration with Dr. Benjamin Braun at the MPIfG

Research project description: Central banks have been drawn into debates over how to address the challenges of the 21st century, namely inequality and climate change. In the process, they have become increasingly contested, both among experts and in the broader public sphere. How do these technocratic organizations navigate this newly politicized landscape? How do monetary theory and practice evolve under these new pressures? To answer these questions, KNOWLEGPO will use a mixed-method approach, combining quantitative text analysis with qualitative process tracing, covering the three-decade period since the consolidation of the inflation targeting paradigm in the early 1990s. Through a focus on central banks, KNOWLEGPO will study broader political conflicts over the future macro-financial order.

Tasks: The successful candidate will work closely with the two principal investigators and with a second postdoctoral researcher hired at Max Planck to carry out the research project. This includes all steps of the research process, from data collection, to data analysis, to drafting. The team will produce a small number of high-quality research articles for academic journals.

Requirements: A PhD in social science, with research experience on central banking, macroeconomic policy, financial policy, or a related topic.

Desirable skills: Qualitative methods, with a particular emphasis on process tracing

Successful candidates are chosen on the basis of scholarly excellence and a job interview in person or via video conference. Sciences Po advocates diversity and equality. In particular we welcome applications from women and applicants with disabilities.

Contract details

Type of contract: Fixed-duration contract three-year, preferably starting on June 1, 2023.

Gross salary: Salary of between €2,700 and €3,000 per month (depending on qualifications and experience) for a full-time position (bruts mensuels).

Other contributions: partial contribution for transportation card within Paris (Pass Navigo) and restaurant tickets.

Application procedure

Please send (1) a cover letter outlining your experience and qualifications for the role, and how you feel you meet the requirements for the position, (2) a CV and (3) a sample of single-authored written piece of work in English to audrey.ferreira@sciencespo.fr by 5 pm on March 5th.

Applicants will be notified whether or not they will be invited for an interview by mid March

ABOUT US: Sciences Po is a leading international university in the social sciences. It welcomes and supports employees irrespective of gender, nationality, religion, disability, age, cultural background, or sexual identity. In their diversity lies the basis for the cutting-edge research conducted at Sciences Po.

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Louis Baktash, CamPo visiting PhD candidate: Comparing public policies... and academic cultures

Interview

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Louis Baktash, a 3rd year PhD student at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge, just finished a four-month visiting stay at the CEE as part of the CamPo exchange scheme. He reflects on his experience in this interview.

What is your PhD thesis about?

I am working on regional policy in France and in England. I am trying to show to what extent the political events of the last few years (Brexit, the “Gilets jaunes” or “yellow vests” protests, government changes) have led to changes in public policies. And if there have been changes, to what extent have the aims, methods and instruments of these policies evolved? Has there been a policy convergence between the two countries? To answer these questions, I use electoral geography and public policy analysis.

What is your initial academic background?

After high school, I studied at Sciences Po Undergraduate College in a double major with a history degree at the Sorbonne, including a third year at the University of Oxford. I then followed the double Master programme between HEC Paris [business school] and the School of Public Affairs at Sciences Po. In the final year, in addition to an internship, we had to conduct a research project. Instead of focusing on corporate issues or economic policies, I decided to study the Brexit vote in English and Welsh coastal areas. My mother comes from a coastal town in South-East England. Despite its proximity to London, almost 60% of voters there chose to leave the European Union, more than in its hinterland. I studied this difference in voting between coastal and inland areas, which I was able to explain by the impact of public policy, both British and European. This made me want to continue studying this topic. Starting from the electoral politics of coastal areas, the topic of my PhD project shifted towards the question of place within French and British regional policy-making.

Why did you apply for the CamPo programme and why did you choose the CEE as your host laboratory for this stay? What did you expect from this exchange programme?

I heard about CamPo by accident when I received an email from the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), to which the Bennett Institute is affiliated. I thought that spending some time in France would be useful to conduct interviews and discuss with French researchers. My supervisor, Michael Kenny, saw this as a good opportunity and advised me to contact Colin Hay, a full professor here at the CEE, with whom he had worked before. Colin Hay was interested in my project and supported my application.

What did you get out of this experience?

I was able to meet in person civil servants and politicians who had worked on regional policy in France. Here, at the CEE, I also exchanged with researchers: Philippe Bezes and Patrick Le Lidec, both CNRS researchers who provided me with some useful insights, as well as my advisor Colin Hay who gave me valuable inputs on the theoretical side. I came out of this exchange with a better understanding of the French case, which was one of the objectives.

I also found it rewarding to discover a different research environment, a different academic culture, which I discovered by observing PhD students. rWhat is interesting at the CEE is that there is a lot of exchange between the senior researchers and the PhD candidates, especially thanks to the weekly seminars. This gives the impression that we are really among colleagues and I did not hesitate to ask for advice.

Overall, I think that the CamPo programme helps to build academic links. For example, with a few PhD students from the CEE, we set up an informal group to share scientific articles and other information related to the topic of place in policy and politics. And we will pursue it even after I am back in Cambridge.

Thank you to the CEE!

Thank you Louis and good luck with your PhD work!

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In 2022, seven new PhD subjects with a focus on Europe and comparative studies

In 2022, seven new PhD candidates have started working at the CEE. This new, international class is focusing on comparative policy issues with a European backdrop.

Three doctoral students have started a thesis funded by a Cifre contract (PhD theses carried out jointly in a university laboratory and a company, non profit or public administration):

Marta Tramezzani joined the CEE in January 2022 for a thesis on "the movement of energy communities in urban areas", under the supervision of Richard Balme. Under contract with the City of Paris (Direction de la transition écologique et du climat), she is investigating the way in which citizens and public actors interact in the co-construction of public energy transition policies, by comparing the cases of Paris, Milan and Barcelona.
Since September, Arno Lizet has been working with the association "1000 cafés", which aims to revitalise rural areas in France through the provision of multi-service cafés. In his thesis under the supervision of Florence Faucher and Laurie Boussaguet, he is evaluating the social impact and the consequences in terms of political participation of this programme.
Théodore Tallent is a PhD student under the supervision of Florence Faucher since September, in co-supervision with the University of Cambridge. His thesis on the acceptability of the low-carbon transition through territories, especially rural areas, in France and the UK, is being carried out in partnership with Elabe, a public opinion expert. Through this work, he hopes to contribute to the debate around a "just transition" in Europe.

A thesis started in September as part of the Franco-German project UnequalMand, which focuses on how social groups are targeted by election pledges. Under the supervision of Isabelle Guinaudeau and Emiliano Grossman, Selma Sarenkapa is interested in how the media in France and Germany construct (or not) a deserving image of these target groups, influencing their legitimacy to claim favourable public policies.

The other three theses are funded by Sciences Po doctoral contracts:

Under the title "A conflicting climate? A comparative study of national elected officials' responses to climate change in Western Europe', Malo Jan studies how elected officials in different national parliaments in Europe deal with the climate issue and the conflicts that this generates between and within political parties. His thesis is supervised by Emiliano Grossman.
Chiao Li is preparing a thesis on the transformation of electoral participation and political preferences across generations in Europe, under the supervision of Laura Morales. His work attempts to understand changing electoral dynamics between national and European Parliament elections, as well as evolving long-term determinants of voters' preferences.
Supervised by Jan Rovny, Luis Sattelmayer studies how mainstream parties in France, Germany and the UK compete and position themselves with regard to the salient issues of populist radical right parties, such as immigration.

2022 was also marked by five PhD defences: congratulations to our new PhDs, Clément Claret, Roberto Rodriguez, Aifang Ma, Denys Gorbach and Arnault Barichella!

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"Studying the governance of transnational illegal markets”

Interview with Gabriel Feltran, new researcher at the CEE

Gabriel Feltran - © Aurore Papegay / Sciences Po

Gabriel Feltran joined the CEE as a CNRS Research Professor in November 2022, from the Federal University of São Carlos in Brazil.

Through a long ethnography in urban outskirts, Gabriel Feltran focuses on governance, power, violence and normative regimes, particularly among illegal and criminal market chains.

In this video, he talks about his past and current research and tells his reasons for choosing to join the CEE.

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Video: Jean Reibel, Sciences Po - Interview: Véronique Etienne, knowledge exchange officer, CEE

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From Dictatorships to Terrorism, How to End the Violence?

Interview with Sandrine Lefranc

In 'Cogito' magazine

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South Africa, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, post-communist Eastern Europe, post-dictatorship Latin America, etc. Since the 1990s, many countries have sought to negotiate a transition to peace after mass violence. In her latest book, Sandrine Lefranc examines the parameters for success.

What is transitional justice? What concrete measures have been put in place? What place does the voice of the victims hold? What do the trials of the 2015-2016 terrorist attacks and transitional justice have in common? Find out in an interview with Sandrine Lefranc, to be read in issue #19 of Cogito, the research magazine of Sciences Po.

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Recruitment · Junior researcher

for ActEU PROJECT

Deadline: Tuesday 31th January

Actualité Sciences Po

General Information

We are seeking to appoint a junior researcher to work with Prof Laura Morales (the PI) in the Horizon Europe project “ActEU: Towards a new era of representative democracy - Activating European Citizens’ Trust in Times of Crises and Polarization”. Sciences Po is a partner in this project led by the Universities of Duisburg-Essen and of Saarland (Germany), and the Sciences Po team is led by Prof Morales at CEE, who is joined in the project by researchers at both CEE and CEVIPOF.

The ActEU project studies political trust and legitimacy in Europe using a new conceptual framework – the ActEU conceptual triangle. The project focuses on the interactions between citizens’ political attitudes, their political participation and the representation of their policy preferences with the aim of mapping and investigating the sources of the decline of political trust and legitimacy in Europe.

In addition to the overall conceptual triangle, ActEU considers the specific challenges posed by new controversies that are polarizing European societies as well as by the multi-level structure of the EU multi-level system of governance. Therefore, we place specific emphasis on the different levels of the polity that are pertinent in the EU multi-level system as well as on major policy fields – migration, the environment, gender inequalities – around which European societies are highly polarized.

Our research methods range from descriptive large-N analyses of publicly available data sets (all EU member states + additional countries wherever necessary), qualitative focus group discussions, to quantitative survey experiments and web-scraping techniques for selected countries:

We provide deep insights for the following ten EU countries: Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and Spain (i.e., quantitative survey experiments and web scraped data).
For the focus groups, we opt for a smaller country selection (Czechia, France, Germany and Greece)

Based on the empirical findings, one of the major aims of ActEU is to develop a toolbox of remedial actions including two toolkits for (1) European, national, regional and local policymakers, and (2) civil society and the educational sector to (re-)activate citizens and to enhance trust in and legitimacy of representative democracy.

The project starts in March 2023 and will run for 36 months until February 2026. The junior researcher will join a team at Sciences Po formed by 7 senior researchers and a research engineer, and an international team formed by senior and junior researchers in 11 other universities and research organizations.

Contract details

Type of contract: Fixed-duration contract (CDD d’usage) for 24 months.

Gross salary: Salary of between €2,500 and €2,900 per month (depending on qualifications and experience) for a full-time position (bruts mensuels).

Other contributions: partial contribution for transportation card within Paris (Passe Navigo) and restaurant tickets.

The appointment is for a start date of 15^th March 2023 (or 1 ^st April 2023 at the latest) and the contract duration is for 24 months (any extensions will be subject to funding availability).

Application procedure

Please send (1) a cover letter outlining your experience and qualifications for the role, and how you feel you meet the requirements for the position, (2) a CV and (3) a sample of single-authored written piece of work in English that includes quantitative empirical analysis to linda.amrani@sciencespo.fr by 5 pm on Tuesday 31th January.

Tasks

We are seeking to appoint a junior researcher who will undertake the following range of tasks:

Coordinating all deliverables and data collection/analysis for the project;
Contributing to the identification of relevant political actors, groups and websites for the web-scraping data harvesting for France;
Contributing intellectual input to the design and documentation of the experimental survey;
Analyzing cross-national survey data on the dynamics and patterns of political trust and political action, as well as on the role of ethnic diversity and the politicization of immigration on such dynamics and patterns, and contributing as necessary to the reports and deliverables relating to such analyses;
Contributing to the leadership of WP2 on citizens’ attitudes;
Contributing to the design of toolkits and policy briefs for policymakers and other stakeholders on the results of the project produced by the Sciences Po team;
Contributing to the preparation and delivery of all dissemination, communication and exploitation activities of the project;
Being responsible for the maintenance and version control of the data collected, including the preparation of Data Management Plans and any other formal Personal Data Protection requirements established by Sciences Po, the ActEU coordinators or the European Commission. This will also include inputting of data and its safe storage using the agreed protocols, as defined by the research team and Sciences Po’s research data protection policy;
Prepare and undertake data analysis and tests using quantitative and qualitative techniques and approaches agreed with the Principal Investigator and the rest of the team;
Attending all meetings of the international consortium;
Actively contributing to (and where necessary, leading) academic publications stemming from the project, also including the preparation of any replication data submission for journals, as required;
Supporting the PI in all administrative and project management tasks as required;
Identifying and understanding work requirements prioritising tasks and responsibilities within an agreed timeframe agreed with the PI;
The post holder will be required to effectively manage their time to deliver on the priorities of the project. The post holder will need to plan ahead to ensure the research is delivered in accordance with the overall research objectives and deadlines. This may include defining tasks and schedules, organising meetings, preparing intermediate reports on data and findings, and contributing to the preparation of the project final report.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential:

A PhD in Politics or Political Sociology with a substantive or methodological focus relevant to the project, completed or close to completion (e.g., in final stages of the writing-up period);*
Demonstrable training and experience using quantitative research methods and techniques;*
An expertise, backed up by research experience, in the subfields of political behaviour and political attitudes in France and Europe, and in one or several of the following fields:, political representation, political institutions or political parties;*
Research experience in subjects or projects relevant to the research project;*
Proficiency in English (oral and for academic writing) and French;*
Proven ability of social science data input, management and analysis with Stata or R;*
Advanced-level quantitative analysis skills (e.g., including pooled cross-sectional time series analysis, multilevel regression analysis, etc.);*
Proven ability to write up research findings;*
Ability to take initiative, self-manage and contribute intellectually to the overall project;
Expertise with relevant office packages;
Ability to work as part of a team;
Good oral and written communication skills;*
Attention to detail.*

Desirable, but not essential:

Experience in primary survey data collection;
Reading proficiency in at least one more of the following languages would be an advantage: German, Italian or Spanish;
Some experience with Bayesian statistics, the analysis of social media data and/or the design of experiments in surveys would be an advantage;
Prior research experience in externally funded projects;*
A track record of international collaboration in social science research or consultancy experience;
Experience in writing reports for funders;

(*Criteria to be used to shortlist candidates for interview)

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Replay - The Effect of Children's Economic Hardship on Future Voting

With Paul Marx

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"Material Deprivation in Childhood and Unequal Political Socialization: The Effect of Children's Economic Hardship on Future Voting"

CEE General Seminar, 6 December 2022.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · "The Effect of Children's Economic Hardship on Future Voting" by Paul Marx

Paul Marx is a Professor of Political Science and Socio-Economics at University of Duisburg-Essen. In addition, he is affiliated to the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies as a part-time professor and to the IZA Institute of Labor Economics as a research fellow. In the current academic year, he is visiting professor at Sciences Po (Alfred Grosser Chair) and he conducts research at the CEE on unequal political participation and representation. Further research interests include comparative labour market analysis and the politics of taxation. His work has been published in journals such as British Journal of Sociology, European Journal of Political Research, European Sociological Review, and the Journal of Politics.

6 December 2022 session of the CEE general seminar, chaired by Isabelle Guinaudeau, CNRS Research Fellow at the CEE. Presentation discussed by Théodore Tallent, PhD candidate at the CEE, and Nonna Mayer, CNRS Research Professor (emeritus) at the CEE.

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Interview with Charlotte Halpern, back from the COP27

Actualité Sciences Po

Last month, Charlotte Halpern, FNSP tenured researcher at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po, attended the climate change conference in Sharm El-Sheikh. Charlotte specialises in comparative public policy processes. In this interview, she reflects on her experience at the COP27 and how she show-cased the work of the SUMP-PLUS project.

Interview by Charlène Lavoir, Communications Department, Sciences Po

What was your role at COP27?

Accreditation opportunities for the COP are few and far between, so my presence at COP27 is the result of a wonderful combination of circumstances.

Let me first explain how COP27 works: there is the ‘on’ and the ‘off’. The ‘on’ is the official programme — the negotiations between the parties, and the ‘off’ part allows all the observers to host side events on the subjects of their choice — agriculture, health, mobility, development, etc. This gives expert observers the opportunity to speak on their areas of expertise and to exchange views with peers and a highly mobilised audience.

I was invited to present my research results at a side event organised by Anneliese Depoux, Director of the Virchow-Villermé Centre for Public Health Paris-Berlin of the Université Paris Cité. Anneliese is in charge of health issues within the Earth Politics Centre, of which we are both board members, and this round table organised in partnership with the University of California was about the decarbonisation of health systems.

What was the focus of your presentation?

I focused my presentation on SUMP-PLUS, a project within which I coordinate the governance and political capacities of cities to drive a sustainable and decarbonised urban mobility trajectory, and where a large part of the work is dedicated to the decarbonisation of local health systems.

For the most experienced cities in sustainable urban mobility, it is becoming essential to identify additional reservoirs for reducing their carbon emissions to intensify and accelerate decarbonisation. They do this by forging strategic partnerships with sectors of activity that generate mobility, for example health, education, tourism or logistics, etc. For the health system, this concerns the transport and delivery of medicines, home care and emergency services, journeys by health workers and patients to hospitals, nursing homes and doctors' surgeries, the transport of health care waste, etc. Other aspects include for example energy efficiency in buildings, public procurement and waste management. Reducing carbon emissions requires integrated, cross-sectoral approaches: their design and, above all, their implementation is a major challenge for actors who do not speak the same ‘language’ and rarely cross paths.

The SUMP-PLUS project gave me the opportunity to understand this challenge from a British case, based in the Manchester City Lab and led by our SUMP PLUS partner, Stuart Blackadder from Transport for Greater Manchester: following the adoption in 2020 of a decarbonisation plan by the National Health Service (NHS), Transport for Greater Manchester launched a pilot project to decarbonise health-related travel within its territory. Thanks to SUMP-PLUS, it has been possible to bring together all the stakeholders in this cross-sectoral project: health care staff, hospital management, municipal and regional health authorities, economic stakeholders and patient representatives. The city lab has laid the foundations for a joint action plan and drawn lessons from pre-existing pilot projects. The city lab has also worked across sectors with all the city's departments and the Mayor's office to propose a governance system dedicated to steering this decarbonisation process by 2038.

My role, in collaboration with Prof. Peter Jones from University College London and other SUMP-PLUS partners was to accompany the city in this process. I relied on two competences: as a researcher specialised in public action, to identify the issues specific to cross-sectoral public action; and as the scientific manager of an executive Master's degree at Sciences Po on urban governance, to train professionals from the public and private sectors in the management of highly complex territorial projects.

During this side event, I presented the research results of the Manchester City Lab, which are the culmination of three years of work. Five other cities are partners in this European project, each having developed its City Lab on an issue identified as a priority - tourism for Lucca (Italy) and Platanias (Crete), logistics for Lucca and Antwerp (Belgium), education for Klaipeda (Lithuania) and for Alba Iulia (Romania). This project is very much grounded in reality, and shows the many implications of a decarbonisation of the transport system on a local scale with practical consequences. This includes the limits of an all-electric strategy, the challenge of deploying alternatives to the car in small and medium-sized cities, and the way in which the rise of the zero-carbon objective requires the overhaul of governance structures and processes on the scale of the whole city.

I was also able to meet other researchers interested in decarbonising the healthcare system. This may lead to new research opportunities in the future. So this side event was very useful!

How was Sciences Po represented at COP27?

Sciences Po was present in various ways. Carola Klöck, Assistant Professor at CERI, participated with PhD students whose research focuses on international negotiations. Carola's research focuses on climate change adaptation and climate change policy more generally, and she also studies the role of developing island states in international climate negotiations. COP27 is an object of study in itself!

Thanks to the support of the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate Change (GAUC), of which Sciences Po is a member, Sciences Po's International Affairs Department was able to obtain additional accreditations for three students who took part last summer in a "Climate x" Leadership training pilot initiative co-sponsored by Sciences Po and Tsinghua University. Sciences Po is one of the founding members of the GAUC, an international alliance of 15 world-class universities, including many close partners of Sciences Po, which have been uniting around climate change issues since 2019. The "Climate x" leadership training pilot aims to train a student community from all parts of the world on climate change issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. More than 150 students from 15 member universities around the world, including 30 from Sciences Po, participated in this first edition, with interventions from permanent faculty members from the different partner institutions, among which Carola and myself, to address issues related to energy, finance, nature, biodiversity and food, adaptation and resilience, and finally, international negotiations and public policies on climate. Students also worked in groups on their own projects, and two Sciences Po students were able to present their work at COP27, in a side event organised on Youth Day, November 9th.

Another important alliance for Sciences Po was present at COP27: the U7+ Alliance, founded by our university in 2019, hosted a side event. In a more informal capacity, several exchanges took place between representatives of the U7+ member universities present at the COP in a process of pooling knowledge and resources that are spread across the 50 members of the U7+ Alliance, for the benefit of university action on environmental transformations.

What is the role of research in addressing the challenges of environmental transformations?

The IPCC and, in France, the Haut Conseil pour le Climat (High Council for Climate), to name but two bodies, have constantly alerted public authorities about the need to inform policy making of the results of research on environmental transformations i There has never been so much data on the urgency of climate and ecological issues, across multiple disciplines. Beyond this effort to conceptualise, produce data and analytical work, the academic world is bubbling with proposals and avenues to explore new solutions.

Henceforth, for those of us who are interested in public policy processes, there is nothing mechanical about transposing this knowledge into public action, an endeavor facing many obstacles. Taking climate change into account at all levels implies such a profound upheaval of our economic, political, social and legal systems that many governments are hesitant. How can we reconcile these long-term objectives with short-term contingencies? How do we move from incentives to restrictions on activities bearing the most detrimental environmental impact? How can scientific models, such as that of planetary limits, currently in vogue among practitioners, be translated into operational terms? What accompanying measures should be planned, and in what timeframe, to support the conversion of jobs and professions directly affected, and to support the most vulnerable social groups and territories?

Faced with the magnitude of the task, there is unfortunately a strong temptation to limit oneself to small short-term measures, to "quick wins", to serve one's own clientele or to favour routine solutions, a shortcoming that has been highlighted many times by public policy research.

Environmental issues are now featured in the media and in the public debate on a regular basis: has this changed your work?

When I arrived at Sciences Po in 2012, there were not many of us working on the subject, all disciplines combined. Today, there are more than forty permanent faculty members. The attention paid to environmental issues has continued to grow, particularly thanks to the commitment of students, and has opened many doors for us: we have more spaces for exchange and dialogue. There is also more funding available for research.

Sciences Po is a good example of this ever-growing interest in environmental issues over the last ten years: the permanent faculty has grown in numbers, an interdisciplinary research group, AIRE, has been created to complement what is already being done in the research centres, and interdisciplinary programmes, open to other scientific disciplines, have been created in partnership with Université Paris Cité. Thanks to the launch of the Bruno Latour Fund, ten post-doctoral researchers will strengthen this collective dynamic. On the teaching side too, courses have grown significantly, as have dedicated programmes. This also entails a great deal of commitment, particularly in terms of monitoring the academic production of students at all levels — university college, masters, doctorate — and supporting their initiatives.

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Podcast - Parliamentary Stayers in Western Democracies: Mind the Gender-Gap in Political Endurance

With Ragnhild Muriaas

Actualité Sciences Po

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Parliamentary Stayers in Western Democracies: Mind the Gender-Gap in Political Endurance - R Muriaas

Ragnhild Louise Muriaas is a professor of Political Science at the Department of Government, University of Bergen. She is a visiting scholar at LIEPP this semester and will join the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics in the spring. She obtained her PhD in comparative politics at the University of Bergen in 2008. Her research concerns questions of politics and gender with a focus on representation, political careers, and political financing. She was the PI of a large FRIPRO project financed by the Research Council of Norway called “Money Talks: Gendered Electoral Financing in Democratic and Democratizing States” (2016-2021) and she is currently also a research partner in a project on gender aspects of political violence. She has published four books—one monography, two edited volumes and a text book, and she has published articles in such journals as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, African Affairs, Political Studies and International Political Science Review. From 2017 to 2021 she served as the Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the leader of the board at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) at the University of Bergen.

This session of the CEE general seminar was held on 22 November 2022 and chaired by Laura Morales, Full Professor at Sciences Po, CEE. The presentation was discussed by Elisa Bellè, Marie Curie Fellow at the CEE.

Find all the recordings of the CEE General Seminar on Soundcloud.

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Podcast - “Pourquoi nous consommons tant. Pour une économie politique de l'abondance“

Avec Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier

Actualité Sciences Po

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · “Pourquoi nous consommons tant. Pour une économie politique de l'abondance“ - S. Dubuisson-Quellier

Un article pour aller plus loin : https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/consoc/1/1/article-p31.xml

Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier est directrice de recherche au CNRS et directrice adjointe du Centre de sociologie des organisations à Sciences Po. Ses travaux portent sur la fabrique sociale de l'action économique à l'articulation des interventions des politiques publiques, des mobilisations collectives et des organisations marchandes. Elle est co-directrice de la Revue française de sociologie, membre du Haut conseil pour le climat et présidente du Conseil scientifique de l'Ademe.

Séance du 8 novembre 2022 du séminaire général du CEE, présidée par Philippe Bezes, directeur de recherche CNRS au CEE. Présentation discutée par Arno Lizet, doctorant au CEE.

Retrouvez tous les enregistrements du séminaire général du CEE sur Soundcloud.

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Assistant·e de recherche

pour la Chaire Villes et numérique

La chaire “Villes et numérique” est une chaire de recherche et d’enseignements lancée en mars 2017 au sein de l’École urbaine, en partenariat avec le Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée de Sciences Po (UMR 8239). Consacrée aux effets de la transition numérique sur la gouvernance des villes et des territoires, cette chaire a pour objet le développement d’enseignements et de recherche sur ces questions en associant des entreprises et des organisations à l’École urbaine de Sciences Po, ses étudiantes et étudiants, ses chercheures et chercheurs et ses partenaires.

La Chaire, pilotée par Antoine Courmont, chercheur en science politique et directeur scientifique de la chaire, recrute une ou un assistant de recherche pour une période de 6 mois à temps plein.

En collaboration avec le directeur scientifique de la chaire, l’assistant ou assistante de recherche aura pour mission de mener une recherche comparative sur les stratégies de partenariats entre les plateformes de l’économie numérique et les collectivités locales. L’objectif de ce projet de recherche est d’analyser les restructurations du capitalisme et les recompositions de la gouvernance urbaine liées à l’émergence d’une couche informationnelle de la ville. Il vise à décrire précisément les modalités de constitution et de valorisation du patrimoine en données de l’entreprise, et, d’analyser dans quelle mesure ce capital informationnel met à l’épreuve les institutions publiques et leur souveraineté.

MISSIONS

Le travail de l’assistant ou assistante de recherche sera décomposé en trois phases :

A partir d’une revue de presse et d’une analyse documentaire, réalisation de portraits d’entreprise visant à cartographier leurs offres, présenter leurs stratégies de développement et identifier les territoires dans lesquels elles se déploient et leurs partenariats avec les acteurs publics

Réalisation d’entretiens semi-directifs (auprès des élus, des agents de collectivités, des salariés de l’entreprise et d’autres acteurs tiers) pour comprendre la genèse et la conduite de ces partenariats

Analyse comparée, rédaction d’un compte-rendu et présentation de la recherche lors d’un séminaire interne

Les résultats de la recherche seront valorisés sous la forme d’un texte scientifique, écrit en collaboration avec les chercheurs de la chaire Villes et numérique.

L’assistante ou assistant de recherche sera pleinement intégré à l’équipe de la Chaire Villes et numérique et de l’École urbaine ainsi qu’au CEE et participera à leurs différentes activités.

Il ou elle travaillera au sein de l’École urbaine de Sciences Po, participera aux activités du programme de recherche, i.e., séminaires, conférences et développera son programme de travail en lien avec l’équipe de la chaire Villes et numérique et en association avec le Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE) de Sciences Po.

Des déplacements dans les territoires étudiés sont à prévoir. Les frais de déplacement seront intégralement pris en charge par la chaire.

QUALIFICATIONS

Master en science politique, sociologie, ou urbanisme ou autres sciences sociales

Une première expérience de recherche empirique et des compétences à la conduite de l’enquête qualitative par entretiens sont requis

La connaissance du secteur du numérique et des politiques territoriales est un plus.

Autonomie dans le travail quotidien, rigueur, capacités de synthèse, d’analyse et de rédaction

La langue de travail est le français. Une maîtrise orale et écrite (niveau académique) de cette langue est indispensable.

STATUT

Contrat à durée déterminée à temps plein pour 6 mois (démarrage au 1er janvier 2023)

Rémunération 2100 à 2300 euros bruts selon l’expérience

50% du financement des transports en commun (pass navigo)

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PROCEDURE DE RECRUTEMENT

Envoyez un CV et une lettre de motivation détaillant vos expériences et compétences pertinentes pour le poste.

Les candidatures sont à envoyer avant le 23 novembre. Les entretiens des candidates et candidats pré-sélectionnés auront lieu le 28 novembre (après-midi).

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Interview: Rad Zubek, visiting professor

On his new joint project about the National Assembly

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Rad Zubek is a visiting professor at the CEE for one month (October - November 2022). He obtained a scholarship through the OxPo programme for this stay.

Rad, can you tell us about your academic background and research?

Sure, I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. I joined Oxford after my PhD and a post-doc at the LSE. My current research focuses on the evolution of legislative institutions in European parliamentary democracies.

What are the main questions you are concerned with in your research?

Let me give you an example. In some parliaments, the institutional set-up is such that there is very little legislative scrutiny of governmental legislation. In other parliaments, however, the rules give members and party groups extensive powers to scrutinise legislation. Why? Is this a historical accident, or rather a result of strategic institutional choice by parties and members? These are the kind of questions I ask in my research. They are about legislative rules, but they also speak to a more general question in social sciences: why and how do humans create rules and institutions?

You applied to the OxPo exchange programme and chose to come to the CEE: can you tell us the reasons?

The reason why I applied to OxPo is that there are people here in the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics that work on legislative institutions in France and I thought it would be great to expand my research project to cover the French context.

Together with a colleague at UCL, Tom Fleming, I have an ongoing data project on parliamentary rules. On the ParlRulesData.org website we make available machine-readable texts of parliamentary rules for different national parliaments. We have created a dataset of all the rules that existed in the House of Commons since 1811. We have just finished similar work on the Irish Dáil since 1922 (the research I presented on at the seminar, on how coalition governments can use rules to achieve their goals, was based on this dataset) and I am in the process of researching the Tweede Kamer in the Netherlands since 1815 and the Polish Sejm since 1919.

With Olivier Rozenberg [Associate Professor at the CEE], we have decided to examine the National Assembly, starting in 1814. With a research assistant working with us at the CEE, Julie Squercioni, we are undertaking some preliminary data collection in October-November this year and hopefully this will provide a good basis for a bigger project. The French case is interesting because France has had a lot of constitutional breaks since the early 19th century, unlike the UK for example.

So we are very lucky to have you here as a visiting guest to expand on this open data project! What are your plans during your stay?

Another aspect of the project with Olivier [Rozenberg] is to explore ways in which we can engage with the services of the French National Assembly. Tom [Fleming] and I were very fortunate to have been able to collaborate with the House of Commons (HC) Library and the Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) in the UK. The HC Library and PDS have used our data and method to build a publicly available API on the parliament’s website which makes UK procedural data available to MPs and the public. It would be exciting to see if we could collaborate on similar or other projects with the National Assembly.

Interview: Véronique Etienne, Knowledge Exchange Officer, CEE

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Requests for proposal

CITIES, HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE

Deadline - 20th November

Actualité Sciences Po

Founded in 2015, the Urban School deals with ll the challenges of contemporary societies intersect in the city: growing inequality, economic development, conflict, cultural hybridisation, relations between government and the governed, democracy and collective choices, accumulation of data and technologies, pollution, police, mobility, financialisation, etc…The purpose is to educate those who will transform the world through the city, using a structured, professionally-focused, critical and comparative approach.

The aim of the “Cities, Housing and Real Estate Chair” is to contribute to analysis of changes within the real estate sector, from the unique perspective of an approach rooted in the theoretical and methodological tools of the social sciences.

Many of the major developments affecting members of the real estate sector today fall within this scope of analysis: examples include changes to public housing policies (national and local), the dynamics of metropolisation, the impact of climate change on cities, or socio-demographic shifts within cities and regions.

The health crisis (Covid-19) reinforces a number of questions and opens up research perspectives on the nature of real estate production, its financing, and its geography for years to come.

Finally, at a time when French property developers are increasingly involved in the production of urban spaces and when large-scale metropolitan projects (such as France’s Grand Paris Express rail network or consultations like the “Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris” initiative) are redefining our ways of thinking about real estate projects and public/private sector interaction, a more systematic analysis of property challenges through the prism of contemporary urban dynamics seems more essential than ever.

Four sponsors have agreed to support the chair over the course of a three-year partnership: CDC Habitat, FPI France, Gecina and Eiffage Aménagement.

All the requests for proposal:

Study on the contribution of digital actors to the financialisation of real estate,
in a comparative perspective (PDF, 242 Ko)

Deadline - 20th November

Study on the contribution of institutional investors to affordable housing policies,
in a comparative perspective (PDF, 149 Ko)

Deadline - 20th November

Study on the relationship between environmental policy instruments and the buildings sector in a comparative perspective (PDF, 147 Ko)

Deadline - 20th November

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Podcast - Coalition Bargaining and Legislative Institutions

with Radoslaw Zubek

Actualité Sciences Po

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Coalition bargaining and legislative institutions with Radoslaw Zubek

Radoslaw Zubek is an Associate Professor of European Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. His current research focuses on coalition politics, legislative committees, and institutional change in European parliamentary democracies. He has published his work among others in American Political Science Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, West European Politics, and the European Journal of Political Research. His is a co-leader of the ParlRulesData.org project: parlrulesdata.org/

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Call for proposals

Cities and migration: perspectives on interdependencies

Actualité Sciences Po

The PhD candidates of the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics organize on 8th December 2022 their fourth doctoral workshop, on the theme Cities and migration: perspectives on interdependencies. The workshop will be composed of panel sessions, each based on a specific issue and a set of papers discussed by a senior researcher and a PhD candidate of the Centre. The goal of this workshop is to nurture academic debates with the work of PhD students in social sciences while disclosing them to a larger audience.

Only doctoral students can propose a paper for discussion in the workshop. Proposals should be no longer than 2000 characters and must be sent by 24 October, along with a paragraph presenting the candidates, their research interests, and their research center or department. The proposals will be selected before 28 October. The authors of the selected proposals will be asked to send a conference paper by 28 November.

The proposals can be either in French or in English. If the proposal is in French, the candidates must indicate whether they are able to present and the subsequent discussion in English (and vice-versa, for proposals in English). The language of each panel will be decided considering candidates' restrictions.

No restriction of discipline, geographical area, or approach applies as long as the proposals are articulated to the issues described below.

https://forms.gle/xCMU7bEqG4MmzFkEA

Consult the axes and themes of the CEE doctoral study day

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Florence Faucher, New Director of the CEE

“Understanding the transformations of the world we live in”

Actualité Sciences Po

On September 1st, 2022, Florence Faucher, Professor of political science at Sciences Po, became Director of the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), taking over from Florence Haegel. In this video, she presents her academic background, her research, how she views her new role and the CEE.

Shooting and editing: Dimitri Borit / Sciences Po.

Interview by Sébastien Wony and Véronique Etienne

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Post-doc researcher - Horizon Europe PROJECT AUTHLIB

Deadline: mid December

Actualité Sciences Po

Background:

We are seeking to appoint a Researcher to work with Profs. Jean-Philippe Cointet, Caterina Froio, Romain Lachat and Jan Rovny in the project “Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the liberal democratic response” (AUTHLIB) of the Horizon Europe funded by the European Commission.

The AUTHLIB project’s basic premise is that liberal democracy faces not one challenge but many challenges and that therefore we must comprehensively consider the challenges that have emerged across and within countries in Europe in recent years. To do the AUTHLIB project carefully and systematically explores the varieties of illiberalism. Illiberalism has diverse ways of appealing to elites and to highly varied citizens, through narratives, programs and policies, emotional appeals, and institutional innovations, and it has developed methods of diffusion, each of which needs to be understood and mapped. In line with the varieties of illiberalism and their diverse diffusion channels the policies to mitigate and combat them need to be appropriate to the nature of the challenge in a given context.

The Sciences Po team will be responsible for the most extensive empirical data-collection work package in the project. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will be expected to contribute mainly to the data collection and empirical analyses which maps ideological configurations and dimensions by analyzing party documents, speeches of public figures and social media activity of engaged citizens and by the conducting expert-surveys on the orientation of political actors. The research work will be aimed at the preparation of high-quality publications, drafting and submission of research reports to the European Commission, , and organization of social impact activities in co-creation with civil society and institutions in Hungary and at the European level.

Skills and qualification:

PhD in Political Science, Sociology, Data Science or related disciplines (completed or to be defended within max 6 months after the application).
Excellent knowledge of R or Python programming
Very good skills in text and (optionally) network analysis methods
Experience in text-as-data methods (e.g., dictionary analyses, supervised machine learning, topic modeling, word embedding).
Interest in or some background knowledge in the study of democracy would be an asset, but is not required.
Excellent written and spoken language skills in English.
Strong interest in academic research, ideally proven through international publications and/or collaboration in research projects.
Ability to work effectively, both independently and collaboratively, in an international team.

What we offer

The appointment is full-time and available from February 1, 2023 with a contract duration of 24 months.
Type of contract: Fixed-duration contract (CDD)
Gross salary (salaire brut): between €2,500 and € 3,000 per month depending on qualifications and experience
Partial contribution for Paris transportation card
Restaurant tickets

How to apply

Please send:

a cover letter outlining precisely the qualifications and skills that match the requirements for the position, and previous work experience carrying out similar tasks to those required here.
a CV
a writing sample (an article or PhD thesis)

to linda.amrani@sciencespo.fr by 5pm on December 4, 2022 .

Interviews will be planned in mid December.

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Lutte contre les discriminations : La CNCDH publie son rapport annuel

Actualité Sciences Po

La Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme (CNCDH) a rendu public, le lundi 18 juillet, le 31e rapport annuel sur la lutte contre le racisme, l’antisémitisme et la xénophobie.

Chaque année, depuis trente ans, la CNCDH remet au Gouvernement, plus précisément cette année à la Ministre de l’Égalité entre les femmes et les hommes, de la Diversité et de l’Égalité des chances, Isabelle Lonvis-Rome, un rapport dressant un état des lieux du racisme, de l’antisémitisme et de la xénophobie en France.

Cette commission indépendante adresse également un ensemble de recommandations, 55 dans ce rapport, visant à mieux connaître, comprendre et combattre le racisme sous toutes ses formes.

#RapportRacisme

En qualité de rapporteur national indépendant, la #CNCDH a remis ce matin à @RomeIsabelle @egalite_gouv le rapport annuel sur la lutte contre le #racisme, l' #antisémitisme et la #xénophobie. ⤵️#Racisme #MandelayDay pic.twitter.com/PjfAppVyqT

— CNC Droits Homme (@CNCDH) July 18, 2022

Un niveau de tolérance élevée, mais variable selon les communautés

L’indice de tolérance présent dans le rapport et calculé par Vincent Tiberj chercheur à Sciences Po Bordeaux, poursuit sa progression. Il atteint en 2022 son plus haut niveau depuis sa création en 1990, avec 68 (sur une échelle allant jusqu'à 100, niveau maximum de tolérance).

"De 1990 à 2022, (...)l'acceptation des minorités a globalement progressé en France" souligne Jean-Marie Burgubur, président de la CNCDH.

Il faut cependant noter que malgré l’amélioration de l’indice de tolérance, certaines minorités demeurent victimes de stigmatisations en raison de leurs origines réelles ou supposées, leur religion ou la couleur de leur peau. Ainsi, 38% des Français interrogés considèrent que « l’islam est une menace contre l’identité française » et 37% pensent que « les Juifs ont un rapport particulier à l’argent ». Ces deux chiffres connaissent une légère hausse au regard de ceux récoltés en 2019.

"Les mois de crise sanitaire ont réactivé les théories complotistes antisémites et la campagne présidentielle a été marquée par le retour obsessionnel de la thématique sécuritaire, susceptible de renforcer les réflexes de fermeture et de repli xénophobes", explique M. Burgubur.

Des données et une analyse scientifique centrale

Cette enquête annuelle est devenue une échelle essentielle permettant d’observer au fil des années l’évolution et la structure des préjugés qui constituent les leviers de discriminations.

Les résultats du « Baromètre racisme » de la CNCDH ont ainsi été analysés par une équipe de chercheures et chercheurs composée de Nonna Mayer (CNRS, Sciences Po, CEE), Tommaso Vitale (Sciences Po, CEE), et Vincent Tiberj (Sciences Po Bordeaux) et un statisticien, Yuma Ando ( Sciences Po, CEE, CNRS). À partir du sondage réalisé par l’institut Ipsos du 24 mars au 9 avril 2022, l’équipe de recherche rapporte les résultats à ceux des années antérieures.

Rapport 2021 Lutte contre le racisme

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Laura Morales, lauréate du prix « Science ouverte des données de la recherche »

Actualité Sciences Po

Le vendredi 8 juillet, Laura Morales et son équipe de recherche ont reçu l'un des prix de la première édition « Sciences ouverte des données de la recherche » décernés par la Ministre de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de Recherche. Retour sur cette belle distinction.

Une récompense inédite

L’équipe de recherche coordonnée par Laura Morales (Professeure des Universités à Sciences Po, CEE) a reçu l’un des prix dans la catégorie “Créer les conditions de la réutilisation” pour la création du Registre des enquêtes sur les minorités ethniques et migrantes (EMM Survey Registry).

Les prix, ouverts à toutes les disciplines scientifiques, récompensent l’effort d’équipes et de jeunes chercheurs engagés dans des pratiques exemplaires de structuration, description, interopérabilité et de mise en visibilité des données de recherche. Les prix ont été attribués sur décision d’un jury d’experts présidé par Anne Laurent (Institut des Sciences des données, Université de Montpellier).

Un outil pour la « Science ouverte »

Inscrit dans le mouvement en faveur de la science ouverte, le EMM Survey Registry est un outil en ligne gratuit permettant de découvrir et de réutiliser les enquêtes quantitatives existantes menées dans 34 pays européens auprès des minorités ethniques et migrantes à partir de leurs métadonnées (les données sur les données).

Créé conjointement par une équipe internationale de 12 personnes financée par l’Action COST 16111 - EthmigSurveyData, le projet Horizon 2020 SSHOC et le projet ANR Science Ouverte FAIRETHMIGQUANT, le EMM Survey Registry a été conçu comme un outil développé pour et par la communauté de chercheuses et chercheurs (académiques et professionnels) intéressés par l'inclusion et l'intégration culturelle, économique, politique et sociale des EMMs en Europe.

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Research Assistant Repchance project

Deadline: Friday 22th July 2022

Actualité Sciences Po

Research Assistant Repchance project
Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée (UMR 8239)
Sciences Po

Contract details

We are seeking to appoint a postgraduate Research Assistant specialised in Spain (and a native or near-native speaker of Spanish) to work with Prof Laura Morales (the PI) in the project “REPCHANCE – Spain and the United Kingdom”

REPCHANCE – Spain and the United Kingdom is funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation and will focus on the processes that place barriers to the inclusion of migrants and their descendants in social and political positions of leadership. This project forms part of a cross-national collaboration including researchers in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The project led from Sciences Po will study these topics for Spain and the United Kingdom, drawing also on some elements of comparison for France and Italy stemming from a previous project led by Prof Morales (INCLUSIVEPARL).

Type of contract: Fixed-duration contract (CDD d’usage or Subcontracting agreement) for 11 months.

Gross salary: Salary of between €1,000 and €1,250 per month (depending on qualifications and experience) for a 50% part-time position (bruts mensuels).

Other contributions: partial contribution for transportation card within Paris (Passe Navigo) if residing in the Île-de-France region, and restaurant tickets for full-time days worked if CDD.

Part-time work arrangements: As this is a 50% part-time contract (18 hours 15 minutes per week), the exact working days and hours will be agreed at the time of appointment.

The appointment is for a start date of 1st October 2022) and the contract duration is for 11 months (currently, no extension of this contract is envisaged).

Application procedure

Please send (1) a cover letter outlining your experience and qualifications for the role, and how you feel you meet the requirements for the position, (2) a CV and (3) a sample of single-authored written piece of work in English that includes, ideally, both qualitative or quantitative empirical analysis (e.g. coursework paper or BA/MA thesis) to linda.amrani@sciencespo.fr on Friday 22th July by 12 pm.(noon)

Interviews are planned for the weeks of 22 and 29th August.

Tasks

We are seeking to appoint a postgraduate research assistant that will undertake the following range of tasks:

Undertaking the collection of biographical data for Congreso de los Diputados Members of Parliament in Spain;
Contributing to the drafting of two reports (one intermediate and one final report) on the Spanish case, in English;
Contributing to the preparation of qualitative fieldwork, as well as interview transcription and analysis for the Spanish case;
Prepare and undertake data analysis and tests using quantitative and qualitative techniques and approaches agreed with the Principal Investigator and the rest of the team;
Attending virtually (e.g. through Zoom/Teams) the meetings of the international consortium during the 11 months contract duration;
Contributing to the preparation of dissemination activities of the project, where applicable;
Identifying and understanding work requirements prioritising tasks and responsibilities within an agreed timeframe agreed with the PI;
The post holder will be required to effectively manage their time to deliver on the priorities of the project and to plan ahead to ensure the research is delivered in accordance with the overall research objectives and deadlines.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential:

An MA degree in Politics or Sociology with a substantive or methodological focus relevant to the project;*
Demonstrable training and experience using quantitative and qualitative research methods and techniques at least at MA level;*
An expertise, backed up by some research experience at MA level, in Spanish politics relating to one or several of the following fields: political representation, legislatures, political institutions or political parties;*
Some minimal research experience in subjects or projects relevant to the research project;*
Some experience in primary qualitative and quantitative data collection in the context of MA-level studies;
Proficiency in English (oral and for academic writing) and Spanish (native or near-native);*
Proven ability of social science data input, management and analysis with Excel;*
Proven ability to write up research findings (e.g. at MA-thesis level);*
Ability to take initiative and self-manage working time;
Expertise with relevant office packages;
Ability to work as part of a team;
Good oral and written communication skills;*
Attention to detail.*

Desirable, but not essential:

Prior research experience in externally funded projects;*
Experience in writing reports for funders;
Experience in undertaking qualitative interviews in the context of short-term projects;*
Evidence of research activity coherent with the project focus (such as involvement in previous projects and/or publications related to the subject matter).

(*Criteria to be used to shortlist candidates for interview)

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Présidentielle 2022 : l’abstention est-elle la grande gagnante de l’élection ?

Conférence Politeia

Actualité Sciences Po

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À chaque scrutin, qu’il soit local, régional ou national, l’abstention semble toujours plus importante. Si l’élection présidentielle est celle qui enregistre le plus haut taux de participation, il n’en reste pas moins que plus d’un quart des électeurs et électrices (et encore plus chez les jeunes) ne s’est pas déplacé pour aller voter au second tour, dans un régime français pourtant hyper-présidentiel. Cela met évidemment en question la légitimité de ces élections : comment considérer comme légitime un président qui n’a été choisi que par 38,5% des électeurs et électrices ? Comment enrayer le phénomène de l’abstention, qui est, aujourd’hui, le premier « parti » de France ? Faut-il prendre en compte le vote blanc, ou rendre le vote obligatoire ? Ou bien, faut-il totalement refondre notre système politique, par exemple vers un scrutin proportionnel, afin de mieux prendre en compte la pluralité des opinions exprimées ?

Intervenante

Céline Braconnier, Professeure des universités, Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en -Laye

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Immigration and border control as trail: Intractable policy problem or symbolic politics

Conférence

©Kehl, Germany

Immigration and border control are prominent issues in the 2022 campaigns of the declared candidates of the Right and radical right (V. Pécresse, M. Le Pen and E. Zemmour) that use their strong stances as ideological markers. Issues linked to migrants’ integration also polarize debates within the Left. The Macron Presidency and Interior ministers have from the start vowed to be “firm” on immigration, with a law passed on 10 September 2018, the 28th such law since 1980. The government has also implemented very strict borders’ policies, with a continuance of internal Schengen checks at the borders between France, Italy and Spain, or cooperation with the UK in the Calais region to disperse potential migrants’ crossings. The current French presidency of the EU Council of Ministers has pledged to “reform Schengen.” How can we assess French policy during the last five years and the role of immigration in election time compared to other countries, in Europe or beyond? Is immigration an “intractable policy problem” or a matter of symbolic politics for incumbents and candidates? Do we overstate the importance of immigration in voters’ decisions? While the invasion of Ukraine and the millions of persons fleeing war has changed some public stances on refugees, does it affect voters' opinions, priorities and partisan positions?

Speakers

James Hollifield, Ora Nixon Arnold Professor in International Political Economy and Director of the Tower Center at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas and Visiting Professor at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (IAS).

Nonna Mayer , CNRS Research Director Emerita at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) of Sciences Po, specialist in electoral sociology and in particular the extreme right, racism and anti-Semitism.

Chair

Virginie Guiraudon, CNRS Research Director at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) of Sciences Po, Specialist in migration and European policies.

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PhD Candidate in comparative politics and representation

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PhD Candidate in comparative politics and representation (ANR-DFG programme UNEQUALMAND)

The Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) at Sciences Po invites applications for a PhD fellowship on political inequalities in mandate representation, as part of the ANR-DFG project "Unequal mandate responsiveness? How electoral promises and their realizations target groups in France and Germany" (UNEQUALMAND).

The position is announced for a period of 3 years. There are no teaching obligations. Yet, a daily involvement in the project’s and research center’s activities is expected. The starting date for the fellowship is 1 September 2022.

Environment: The Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics

The CEE is a joint research unit of CNRS (UMR8239) and Sciences Po. It was founded in 2005 to pursue three main missions: to develop research on European questions and comparative politics at Sciences Po; to facilitate Sciences Po’s insertion in European research networks; to foster the European debate on the future of Europe. The quality of the CEE was acknowledged by the CNRS, granting a full integration of the CEE.

It is currently bringing together 34 full-time researchers and professors, 26 PhD students, and a large number of research associates and guest researchers. They form a strong team through their shared approach to research and participatory governance. The Centre’s researchers are affiliated with four departments (political science, sociology, law and history), with the School of Research as well as with the Paris School for International Affairs (PSIA), Urban School and School of Public Affairs.

Most of the research projects carried out at the CEE adopt an international and/or comparative approach, and the results are published in international peer-reviewed journals. About 90 scientific events take place every year, gathering scholars, media and civil society. The CEE contributes to the structuration of the European Research Space in social and political sciences, especially through the design and management of various programs and partnerships supported by EU institutions like the European Research Council ( http://www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/fr ).

With international research as its main purpose, the CEE sets major emphasis on PhD students’ training and supervision.

The PhD will benefit from all the facilities at Sciences Po, including a workplace, an extended access to the library and the electronic resources and a scientific support within the research center. This includes opportunities to develop scientific exchange as part of the teams working on the center’s various key themes, in particular on “strains on democratic representation” and “the state as producer of public policies”.

Project

Led by Isabelle Guinaudeau, Elisa Deiss-Helbig and Theres Matthiess, UNEQUALMAND examines political (in-)equality in France and Germany through the lens of group representation, with a focus on mandates and their realization in the form of policies. The project looks at the supply as well as the demand-side of political competition. How do pledges and fulfilled policy appeal to groups with different characteristics? How and under what conditions do citizens respond to group targeting in electoral manifestos (prospective) and pledge fulfillment (retrospective)? These questions will be addressed using an innovative research design that combines data on electoral promises, surveys, experimental designs, and case-studies. The project is based at Sciences Po, the University of Trier, and University of Stuttgart.

Job description

The tasks include:

• Own scientific qualification (PhD)

• Involvement in collecting the data relevant to own PhD research

• Case studies on group-targeting in electoral pledges and effective policy

• Supporting the organization of team meetings and workshops

• Assistance with project reports and publications

Supervision and PhD programme

• The PhD will be co-supervised by Isabelle Guinaudeau and Emiliano Grossman at Sciences Po, CEE, with additional opportunities to exchange with the UNEQUALMAND international research team.

• The successful candidate will be enrolled in the PhD programme of Sciences Po (School of Research) and the work will result in a doctorate in political science.

Requirements are:

• a master's degree in political science or a related discipline,

• excellent academic track record

• interest in research on representation, party competition, voting, and/or political inequality,

• ability to work both in a team and independently

• excellent French and English language skills

Desirable, but not required:

• Knowledge of German

• Knowledge of social science methods, text analysis, statistical software (e.g. R, Stata) and/or mixed methods

• Knowledge of LaTeX

• Knowledge of Git

We offer

In addition to the benefits of taking a team PhD as part of UNEQUALMAND, Sciences Po offers:

• Competitive salary

• Academically stimulating working environment

• Vibrant, integrated and international research community

Application procedure

Applications must be submitted by 18 May 2022:

Online Admission: The application must be submitted exclusively online, according to the Admissions calendar.

https://www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-doctorale/en/content/admission-phd.html

The application must include the following documents:

• Copy of ID

• Letter of motivation

• Outline of ideas for the doctoral project (2,000-3,000 words) and a summary

• Copy of BA and MA (if already available) degree diplomas

• CV with full summary of education, practice, academic and non-academic work experience, language proficiency, positions of trust, and other qualifying/extra-curricular activities. The period of enrolment (admission-completion) in the Master’s study programme must be specified

• If applicable: up to two academic publications (i.e. MA thesis or published articles)

• Optional: up to two references

As the application is completed, please send an email to Linda Amrani, General Secretary of the CEE ( linda.amrani@sciencespo.fr ) to confirm that you have applied for the UNEQUALMAND PhD position.

Equally well qualified disabled persons will be given priority. Women and people with an immigration background are expressly invited to apply.

If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to Isabelle Guinaudeau (iguinaudeau@gmail.com)

Job interviews are planned for 31 May, 2022.

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Présidentielle 2022 : Les démocraties à l’épreuve de l’extrême droite en France et en Europe

Débat

Actualité Sciences Po

Le 24 avril, pour la troisième fois dans l’histoire de la Ve République, une candidate de l’extrême droite sera présente au second tour de l’élection présidentielle et pourrait arriver à l’Elysée. Cette possibilité soulève une série d’interrogations : que représente exactement cette famille politique historiquement et présentement, quel est son programme politique, économique, social et culturel, de quelle base sociologique dispose-t-elle, qu’est-ce que sa force actuelle révèle-t-elle de l’état de la démocratie française ? Politistes et historiens répondront à ces questionnements dans une première table ronde.

Mais la France n’est pas un cas exceptionnel. Nombre de pays européens enregistrent une progression de l’extrême droite qui peut constituer une force importante d’opposition mais aussi accéder au pouvoir et gouverner, instaurant, dans certains cas, des démocraties illibérales. Au Parlement européen, les représentants de ces partis tentent d’imposer leurs orientations critiques de l’Union européenne. Le seconde table ronde s’intéressera à l’analyse des caractéristiques et aux développements de l’extrême droite en Europe.

Première table ronde sur "L'extrême droite en France" avec :

Martial Foucault , Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF)
Florence Haegel , Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée de Sciences Po
Eric Heyer , Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE)
Nonna Mayer , Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée de Sciences Po
Gilles Richard, Société française d’Histoire politique.

Seconde table ronde sur "L'extrême droite en Europe" avec :

Marc Lazar , Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po
Olivier Rozenberg , Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée de Sciences Po
Jacques Rupnik , Centre de recherches internationales de Sciences Po (CERI).

Les tables rondes seront animées par deux journalistes de France Culture Emmanuel Laurentin et Chloé Cambreling.

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Poor housing of the Roma community in five European cities

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Discrimination and poor housing of Roma communities have, unfortunately, become commonplace in many European cities (Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Gyöngyös, Miskolc); these phenomena of misery require new public and human investments. Through his investigation, Piégés dans un taudis ? Discrimination et privation des Roms en matière de logement dans les villes européennes published in March 2022, Tommaso Vitale (a research professor at Sciences Po's Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics) traces the unique trajectories of individuals experiencing more than just housing difficulties.

A SOCIALLY ADMITTED POVERTY

By giving voice to more than a hundred Roma, the research directed by Tommaso Vitale makes it possible to understand that "housing conditions depend on many urban socio-geographic factors, including residential, ethnic and social segregation, lack of infrastructure and public services.

The 128 qualitative interviews conducted highlighted similarities in the housing conditions of interviewees across cities and countries. Some situations, such as living in one common room in the home, but also having limited access to running water and energy (electricity and gas) are very common.

Social assistance measures exist to combat this high level of insecurity. However, they are not well received by the people interviewed. Some solutions manage to meet immediate housing needs, but at what cost? They have many failings, and sometimes do not guarantee access to the rudimentary elements of decent housing.

Tommaso Vitale links the deteriorating housing and living conditions of Europe's largest ethnic minority to public policies based on the principle "that you must first integrate and then eventually get a house. The wills and behaviors of public decision-makers must thus be observed in order to understand the concrete implementation of housing policies for Roma in the cities analyzed.

INAPPROPRIATE URBAN POLICIES

The public wills and policies to fight against the poor housing of Roma populations exist and are regularly mobilized in the framework of urban policies. This report highlights the importance of the formation and development of the skills of staff and social workers. The approaches of the administrative and social services to the target groups appear to be decisive elements in the allocation of housing and the social future of its inhabitants. This is why the research also included 10 focus groups, two in each country, with activists, social workers, local administrators and representatives of government agencies.

"Too many demagogic attempts have not produced sustainable solutions: we need to change our perspective. Family housing can be a fundamental starting point for any integration journey: it provides the stability needed for schooling, training and work. Traditionally, however, it is considered the point of arrival, which is reached when other preconditions have been met. To put housing at the top of the priority list is to emphasize a right that is not protected for many categories of the population. In particular for the Roma". Luciano Gualzetti, (Director of Caritas Ambrosiana)

The lack of transparency regarding the rules for the allocation of housing, the ethnic and racial discrimination, the failure to listen to the real needs of the population do not allow the application of equitable measures and thus testify to public policies not thought out for a complete social inclusion of the Roma in Europe.

After reaffirming politically the primacy of the right to housing, the research insists on the reinforcement of social work towards Roma populations. This support must be provided over a long period of time and be oriented towards a preventive approach to the financial difficulties that families encounter.

Read the investigation Piégés dans un taudis ? Discrimination et privation des Roms en matière de logement dans les villes européennes

A PROJECT AND DEDICATED SEMINARS

The R-Home project led by the CEE intends to disrupt these mechanisms of exclusion by placing at the center individuals and families showing "a very strong commitment to go beyond their own condition". A research project on housing and Roma, it studies the housing conditions of Roma minorities in most EU member states. The mechanisms and processes of discrimination and exclusion are studied in a systematic and comprehensive way.

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Poliverse : Un regard scientifique et accessible sur la campagne présidentielle

Blog

Actualité Sciences Po

Lancé en mars 2022 à l’initiative d’un collectif de chercheuses et chercheurs*, le blog Poliverse propose un éclairage original sur la campagne présidentielle et la vie politique française à partir de données et analyses issues de recherches en science politique. Objectifs : informer les citoyennes et citoyens et inviter à recentrer la campagne sur les débats de fond.

Des clés pour mieux comprendre la présidentielle 2022

Emiliano Grossman (Sciences Po, CEE), Benjamin Guinaudeau (Université de Constance), Isabelle Guinaudeau (Sciences Po Bordeaux, Centre Emile Durkheim, CNRS) et Simon Persico, (Sciences Po Grenoble, Pacte) posent le constat d’un fossé croissant entre vie politique et citoyens, et d’une nécessité à rendre plus lisible cette prochaine échéance démocratique et sa campagne.

Cette campagne présidentielle de 2022 apparaît comme singulière au regard de ses prédécesseurs. Dans un premier temps, l’implication limitée d’Emmanuel Macron aux joutes médiatiques et sa candidature tardive ne permettent pas l’examen nécessaire d’un quinquennat très riche. Ponctué par une crise sanitaire sans précédent et des frondes sociales inédites, à l’image de celle des « gilets jaunes », il mérite qu’une analyse rétrospective lui soit portée.

On assiste également à l'introduction de nouveaux acteurs politiques et médiatiques, aux codes parfois très éloignés des formes habituelles de communication politique. L’omniprésence du « buzz », les prises de paroles très formatées pour le digital tendent à reléguer au second plan les enjeux politiques et sociaux inhérents au scrutin le plus décisif de notre système démocratique.

Les enquêtes montrent que les Françaises et les Français se sentent mal représentés par leurs élus et que l’écart continue de se creuser entre la vie politique et institutionnelle, d’une part, et les citoyens, de l’autre. Le sentiment de méfiance qui s'ensuit à l'égard des institutions devient alors la toile de fond de cette campagne.

Face à ses nombreux enseignements, Poliverse entend recentrer l’élection présidentielle de 2022 sur ce qu’elle implique, en mettant à disposition de chacune et chacun des fiches explicatives, des données factuelles et des analyses issues de recherches académiques indépendantes, le tout présenté de façon accessible.

Consultez Poliverse

Une plateforme pluridimensionnelle

La mission de Poliverse se voulant être des plus complètes, la plateforme s’appuie sur trois rubriques principales :

La Présidentielle, c’est pas compliqué : des notices et vidéos explicatives introduisent les institutions françaises et leurs fonctionnement dans des termes simples, pour une compréhension complète des règles du jeu.

La Présidentielle, jour après jour : des notes d'analyse donnant la parole à des chercheurs et chercheuses en science politique. On y retrouve des clés d'analyse permettant de décrypter les enjeux au fil de la campagne.

Données : des tableaux de bords permettent d'explorer et de visualiser les données produites dans le cadre des recherches menées par le collectif.

Le CEE et l’ensemble des chercheuses et chercheurs associés du Centre vous invitent à découvrir et faire partager l’initiative Poliverse.

Contact : info@poliverse.fr

*Chercheuse et chercheurs à l’origine de Poliverse :

Emiliano Grossman, Sciences Po, CEE
Benjamin Guinaudeau, Université de Constance
Isabelle Guinaudeau, Sciences Po Bordeaux, Centre Emile Durkheim, CNRS
Simon Persico, Sciences Po Grenoble, Pacte

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Conference Politeia

12/3 : Présidentielle 2022 : les partis politiques ont-ils encore un sens ?

avec Rémi Lefebvre, politiste, Université de Lille

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Débat "L’Ukraine et l’Europe face à l’invasion russe : éclairages scientifiques"

11 mars à 17 h

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Le CEE s'installe au 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, Paris 7

Une partie de l'équipe du CEE au 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, Paris 7

Découverte du site en quelques photos

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Ulrike Lepont, chargée de recherche CNRS au CEE de Sciences Po

présente dans cet entretien son parcours ainsi que ses travaux de recherche

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Ulrike Lepont, chercheuse en science politique au Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE) de Sciences Po, présente dans cet entretien son parcours ainsi que ses travaux de recherche.

Ses recherches actuelles portent sur les politiques d'investissement public en Europe et interrogent la transformation du rôle de l'Etat dans l'économie après les crises économiques de 2008 et 2020.

Question 1: Pouvez-vous nous présenter votre parcours?

J’ai obtenu un master 2 recherche à Sciences Po en sociologie de l'action publique.

J’ai ensuite réalisé une thèse à Montpellier sous la direction de William Genyes au sujet des experts les plus consultés par les décideurs américains sur les réformes de protection maladie des années 70 à la réforme Obama de 2010.

Il s’agit d’une période de transformation assez importante dans l'agenda des partis politiques américains, à la fois républicains et démocrates, sur les questions de protection maladie.

J'ai croisé à la fois une sociologie des réformes et de l'action publique, pour analyser le rôle de ces experts dans l'évolution des programmes, avec une sociologie des savoirs et des connaissances pour comprendre les conditions sociales et politiques de production des savoirs qui sont à disposition des décideurs publics. J’ai également mobilisé une sociologie de l'État.

J'ai montré que ces experts, qui étaient essentiellement attachés à des centres d'expertise non gouvernementaux, constituaient une forme de péri administration ainsi qu’un vivier pour les décideurs politiques américains relativement comparables sur bien des points à une haute fonction publique européenne.

Suite à cette thèse, pour laquelle j'ai reçu le prix de thèse de thèse de l'Association Française de Science Politique, j'ai effectué trois post-docs.

Le premier avait lieu au Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO) à Sciences-Po sur les politiques de la recherche. J’ai plus exactement travaillé sur le dispositif des Labex.

Ensuite, j’ai fait mon autre post-doc dans le cadre d'une ANR qui portait sur les politiques économiques de la France après la crise de 2008.

J'ai terminé par un post-doc pour lequel j'ai rejoint à nouveau mon directeur de thèse, William Genyes, sur un programme Pro Act, portant sur les politiques de santé en France et en Allemagne après la crise de 2008.

Au cours de cette période, j'ai publié plusieurs articles sur ma thèse.

En parallèle, j'ai également commencé à réorienter mes projets de recherche sur les politiques économiques.

Je m’étais déjà intéressée pendant ma thèse à la sociologie des économistes et aussi aux théories économiques et notamment à leur influence sur l'action publique.

Ce sujet me semblait être matriciel dans l'analyse de l'action publique. J'avais donc envie d'être au cœur des enjeux. C’est au cours de l’ANR que l’occasion d’explorer empiriquement ces questions s’est présentée à moi d’explorer.

Question 2: Pouvez-vous nous exposer vos travaux de recherche actuels?

Mes travaux de recherche portent sur les politiques publiques d'investissement en Europe à partir du cas français, allemand et de l'Union européenne.

J’entends analyser ces politiques dans le sens où elles sont révélatrices de transformations profondes du rôle de l'État dans l'économie, ce qui renvoie à une sociologie des transformations à la fois du capitalisme et de l'État.

En effet, depuis la crise du COVID, on parle énormément des politiques d'investissement, des plans d'investissement.

Mon hypothèse, que j’ai commencé à formuler avant la crise du COVID? repose sur deux points.

D'abord, ce regain d'intérêt pour l'investissement public, ne date pas de la crise du COVID, il remonte au moins à la crise financière de 2008. Il s’agit d’une période durant laquelle s’opère une transformation progressive de la manière d'envisager le rôle de l'État dans l'économie. L'État a un rôle moteur à jouer pour favoriser la croissance et doit répondre à une défaillance du marché qui ne prend pas suffisamment de risque. C'est un changement progressif qui fait rupture avec l'idée de l'État régulateur et qui se diffuse en Europe dans la décennie 2010.

Le deuxième point de mon hypothèse est le suivant: contrairement au prétendu retour de l’Etat keynésien, ces politiques d'investissement prennent des modalités qui sont très différentes de celles de l'investissement public d'après-guerre.

Il ne s’agit pas pour l'Etat de se substituer au marché comme cela a pu être le cas durant l'après-guerre mais plutôt d'encourager le développement de l'activité de marché dans un périmètre qui demeure assez limité aux politiques industrielles.

Cela se remarque aussi au niveau des instruments d'action publique puisqu’on est passé de modalités basées sur la subvention à des modalités financiarisées.

Par conséquent, mon projet consiste à la fois d’analyser la genèse, ce parcours de transformation dans les conceptions du rôle de l'État mais aussi d'analyser précisément la forme et les modalités qu'elle prend.

Question 3: Pour quelle(s) raison(s) avez-vous intégré le CEE?

J'ai rejoint le CEE parce que mon projet de recherche se situe à la croisée de deux axes très présents au sein du CEE. Il s’agit d’un axe centré sur l'économie politique et la transformation du capitalisme et d’un axe centré sur les transformations de l'État.

Ce sont deux axes au sein desquels j'entretiens des collaborations et avec lesquels j'espère pouvoir poursuivre et enrichir davantage mes collaborations.

Par ailleurs, il s’agit d’un laboratoire très dynamique qui me permettait aussi une ouverture à l'international.

Cette dimension internationale me semblait constituer un important atout pour mes recherches en économie politique qui est un champ très internationalisé.

Entretien: Myriam Sefraoui, Chargée de médiation scientifique (CEE)

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Jim Cloos, TEPSA Secretary-General, introduces the 2022 French Presidency of the Council of the European Union Conference

Jim Cloos

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TEPSA Network French Presidency

Meet the speakers

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TEPSA Recommendations to the incoming French Presidency

TEPSA Recommendations to the incoming French Presidency

TEPSA Recommendations to the French

Presidency of the Council of the European Union

On 9 December 2021, the TEPSA Recommendations to the incoming French Presidency of the Council of the EU were presented to David Cvach.

On the occasion of TEPSA’s French Pre-Presidency Conference, the TEPSA Recommendations to the upcoming French Presidency of the Council of the European Union were formally presented to David Cvach from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Dr. Nicoletta Pirozzi (IAI, Italy), Dr. Funda Tekin (IEP, Germany), and Dr. Ilke Toygür (Elcano, Spain).

The main message of the TEPSA Recommendations is that one of the key issues for the upcoming leadership of the Union is how to Europeanize the French Presidency – meaning, how to make sure that European priorities and solutions put forth by the French Presidency respond to wider European, and not merely French, interests and views. In the meantime, reinforcing the Franco-German alliance will also be on the table since Germany is getting ready to send its new leader to the European Council. Three areas are going to be extremely important. Defining what “strategic autonomy” should entail; the execution of the recovery fund; and converting the results of the Conference on the Future of Europe into something tangible.

Further recommendations were discussed with researchers from the TEPSA Network. Francesco Saraceno (Sciences Po OFCE) calls on the French Presidency to create a central fiscal capacity to build a Europe better equipped to deal with future challenges; Héctor Sánchez Margalef (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs & TEPSA) urges the French Presidency to enhance the EU’s influence in the Southern neighbourhood and adjacent regions (Sahel, Horn of Africa, Arabian Peninsula) as well as bringing the Mediterranean higher on the EU agenda. Finally, Roderick Parkes (German Council on Foreign Policy & TEPSA) calls on the French Presidency to focus on transforming the EU into a military-strategic actor, since the Strategic Compass is due to be endorsed by the European Council in March Next year.

Upon reading the Recommendations, Mr Cvach commented: We don't want to use our Presidency to push our agenda down the throats of the other Member States. But Europe is about cooperation, about taking a higher view than the national interest […] your TEPSA Recommendations may actually prove to be followed by the French Presidency. Jim Cloos, Secretary-General of TEPSA encouraged the French Presidency to face challenges head-on: "You have to hope for the best, and then take what comes".

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Joost de Moor, Assistant Professor in Political Science, presents his background and shares his current research

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Joost de Moor

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Joost de Moor presents his background and shares his current research.

He is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE).

Joost de Moor’s research and teaching cover environmental politics, social movements, and political participation, using quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods as well as comparative and case-study designs.

Question 1: Can you present your background?

My name is Joost de Moor, an interdisciplinary social scientist, combining backgrounds in cultural sciences, anthropology, political science, sociology, and applying that in both fields of urban studies and environmental studies.

So, I combined quite a few disciplines, but there is a clear line running through those fields where I combine an interest in how citizens engaged in politics very broadly speaking, both individually, through individual acts like signing petitions, joining demonstrations, and political consumerism. As well as how citizens engage in politics, more in collectives, which we tend to call social movements.

I did my PhD at the University of Antwerp, where I focused in particular on how this kind of engagement of citizens in politics takes place in the context of political globalization.

So, there's two main ways to understand political globalization.

On the one hand, it means it speaks to the fact that many of our most important problems have become global in nature and the best example to give here is probably climate change, which requires us to address at the global level. No single country can address this problem.

At the same time, our political decision-making processes themselves have become more politically more globalized. So, we're probably a few decades ago, the nation state was still the obvious center of power that citizens would then also turn towards.

State is still important, but alongside the state many other things have become important. Corporations have become more powerful. International organizations have become more powerful and so one of the things that I was particularly interested in is how citizens navigate that more complicated political field when they want to get something done.

Who did it turn to? One of the main changes in political participation and social movement activism that I've focused on in my PhD in response to this changing context, is the emergence of DIY activism or do-it-yourself activism.

One form of that is that citizens start doing politics in their everyday life. So, they start changing their lifestyles, their consumption, either individually or collectively, to directly make an impact on the thing that they worry about, such as the environment.

And the other form of do-it-yourself activism is to take matters into your own hands in terms of stopping things.

So, that is how I turned my attention to environmental politics, which is the topic that I still work on today.

Question 2: Can you present your current research?

In my second postdoc at Stockholm University, I turned my attention to the question or the observation that in our society today people are becoming increasingly doubtful about whether we can still do something about the most important problems facing us, especially climate change.

So, I compared five European cities and looked at how climate activists in those cities deal with this kind of doubt and fear. And in particular, I looked at how this influences their strategizing.

So, what I found was that across all these five cities, many climate activists indeed shared his doubt. It changes from one moment to the next. Someday they might be more hopeful than the next, but there is definitely this fear as a central element of climate activism today.

The thing that I wanted to understand is how it is possible that at the same time this doesn't seem to have such a big influence on our strategizing.

What I found was that climate activists are actually very good at continuing their activism, continuing campaigning to stop climate change, or at least making sure that dangerous climate change doesn't happen, even though they were very doubtful about the potential success of this campaign.

This fits within a broader research agenda that I'm still pursuing today, namely an agenda that tries to understand how climate activists think about the future.

We are, I think, all facing quite uncertain futures and climate activists have to imagine what futures they are trying to avoid as well as what kind of futures they are trying to achieve.

And what we want to understand in a research project that I'm conducting together with several Swedish research colleagues is: how climate activists make sense of this uncertain future and how the way in which they make sense of this future shapes their activism?

So, how does it shape their strategies? How does it shape their goals and ultimately what we want to understand is how they shape their strategies in response to these doubts as an influence on wider society?

So, on public opinion and ultimately on political decision making and taking this research into the future, what I really want to understand is how in the context of the Anthropocene, where the impact of humans on the planet has taken such a geological proportion.

That it actually undermines some of the original foundations of our modern state and our modern democracies.

In that context, how might democracy and the state be evolving?

I think that looking at climate activism today gives us a window into that future and an opportunity to try and understand what might be coming towards us in terms of how we organize society politically.

Question 3: Why did you choose Sciences Po and more specifically the CEE as your laboratory?

I chose to come to Sciences Po because I think it is one of the most vibrant Centers for social science in Europe. One of the things that I like in particular about Sciences Po is its interdisciplinary nature, which fits very well with my profile. Political scientists, sociologists, economists talking to each other around shared problems like the environment.

And with regards to the Center for European Studies in particular, I think each of these qualities are represented very strongly that the CEE has a very strong environmental profile. It's focused on political science, but at the same time also has a clear interdisciplinary dimension and its research organized along four axes for topical folky that really fit with my own interest and it clearly overlaps with my interest in how we organize environmental challenges as a society.

So, there is the axis to democracy addresses which fits well with my focus on how citizens participate in politics. There is the axis of the city which matches well with my focus on how environmental and climate politics are organized in the city. And there is the axis on how the state is organized and continuously being reimagined and reinvented in our society, which perfectly fits with my future research agenda to understand how this state and democracy will develop going into the Anthropocene.

It’s, I think, the perfect place for me to develop my career and to develop this image of a distributor and how we can organize environmental politics in the future.

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Feedback on the 2022 French Presidency of the Council of the European Union Conference

9 & 10 December 2021, TEPSA & Sciences Po, CEE

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Opening Remarks from the members of the TEPSA network in the coming French Presidency of the Council of the European Union

The conference on the 2022 French Presidency of the Council of the European Union TEPSA French Pre-Presidency Conference’ was co-organised with the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) on 9-10 December 2021. This initiative is co-funded by the Europe for Citizens programme of the European Union. The conference has offered a unique opportunity of dialogue between academics and decision-makers from different Member States.

Recommendations from the members of the TEPSA network in the coming French Presidency of the Council of the European Union

EU Green Deal

The recovery plan for Europe is supposed to contribute partly to the climate transition of the EU. A few months after its implementation this panel offers an assessment of the green dimension of Next Generation EU asking a simple question: does the Recovery and Resilience Facility genuinely tackle the environmental issue?

The Macroeconomic Capacity Of The EU

The recovery plan for Europe has provided an unprecedented endeavor at the EU level to support European economies. This panel questions the very nature of the plan through an analysis of the content of the Recovery and Resilience plans implemented within Members state. Are they boosting economic growth? Do they participate in the structural transformation of national economies? How does the EU deal with the risk that the new facilities focus on short term expenditures?

Rule of law and democratic backsliding

The EU has been struggling to develop an effective response to democratic backsliding and rule of law violations among its member states. Can the new rule of law conditionality for EU funding help overcome the current deadlock? Which other existing tools can the EU draw on, and which remain to be developed? And how can the EU tackle democratic backsliding among candidate countries?

The Future of European Integration

The reflection on the future of Europe sees an important development in 2021with the Conference on the Future of Europe which aims at fostering a participatory democracy and inclusive reform, giving a voice to the European Citizens. The panel will offer a first opportunity to assess the results and functioning of the Conference. It will also consider the issue of differentiated integration as a possible path for the future developments of the European political project.

The EU as a Global Actor

The EU is facing a multitude of challenges in its external relations: the need to rebuild a strained transatlantic partnership with the new Biden Administration, Russia’s presence in the neighborhood and its active support for the Lukaschenko regime in Belarus, and an increasingly assertive China that is expanding its economic presence in Europe. Is the current institutional set-up sufficient to allow the EU to play a strong role internationally? How to ensure European unity when individual member states are reluctant to join common initiatives or positions? Which tools for an effective European foreign policy?

Strategic Autonomy of EU

European sovereignty, strategic autonomy and a ‘geopolitical Europe have become buzzwords in the debates on Europe’s position in the world. How to fill these words to life? Which concrete actions does the EU need to take to ensure its voice is heard both in Europe and beyond? And how can member states rally around a common vision for Europe’s strategic positioning?

Concluding Remarks at TEPSA’S

PPC Paris covered an impressive range of key issues, from the green and digital revolutions to the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Fund and economic governance. It also discussed a number of more horizontal and rather formidable challenges the EU faces. Some are internal and generate heated debates within the Conference on the future of Europe; there are divergences of views on the functioning of democracy and rule of law and different readings of what European solidarity means. Others are external, hence the importance of working on strategic autonomy, i.e. the capacity to act and to actively shape the world. While speakers recognized the difficulty of the tasks ahead, they mostly expressed cautious optimism on the capacity of the EU to live up to the challenges

To know more

Programme

Contributions to the recommendations from members of the TEPSA Network to the French Presidency: The introduction to these recommendations have been summarised by the TEPSA Recommendations team and published as an opinion article in EUObserver. You can read the op-ed here.

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co-funded by the Eurpe for Citizens programme of the EU, Integrating Diversity in the EU, Parlement européen Bureau de liaison en France, This project has received funding from the EU's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 822304

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Pierre Charbonnier, chargé de recherche CNRS

Nouveau chercheur au CEE

Pierre Charbonnier

Pierre Charbonnier

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Philosophe, chargé de recherche CNRS à Sciences Po (Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée), Pierre Charbonnier est ancien élève de l'École Normale Supérieure, agrégé et docteur en philosophie.

Ses travaux portent sur l’épistémologie et les formes de pouvoir associées au gouvernement de la nature dans les sociétés modernes.

A travers cet entretien, il nous livre son parcours.

Question 1 : Quel est votre parcours ?

Je suis Pierre Charbonnier, j’ai 38 ans. J’ai un parcours très classique de philosophie.

Je suis un ancien élève de Normale Supérieur. J’ai ensuite passé l’agrégation.

À ce moment-là, j’ai commencé à m’intéresser à des choses qui sortaient un petit peu du cadre de la philosophie telle qu'on l'enseigne dans les universités habituellement puisque j’ai abordé l’histoire de l'anthropologie sociale française.

J’ai élaboré une thèse sur la façon dont les sciences sociales, essentiellement en France, supposent les rapports entre nature et société.

On était au début des années 2000, les publications importantes de Bruno Latour, de Philippe Descola remettaient beaucoup en question la façon dont le social et le naturel s’articulent l’un à l’autre dans l’histoire des idées dans la trajectoire politique et sociale des sociétés occidentales.

J’ai voulu prolonger ces enquêtes là sur le mode encore des idées, en me demandant comment l'anthropologie avait géré le conflit de frontière entre ce qui relevait du social et du naturel. Cela a donné un premier livre qui s’appelle La fin d’un grand partage.

C’est à la suite de ces premiers travaux que j’ai été recruté par le CNRS.

J’ai eu la chance d’être recruté assez vite donc assez tôt pour disposer de beaucoup de temps afin de mener des travaux de recherche de fond.

Affecté dans un laboratoire de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), j’ai été amené à fréquenter la sociologie, l'économie, l’anthropologie et à être un petit peu en marge de la philosophie classique.

C'est autour de 2010-2012 que j’ai lancé un nouveau projet de recherche, qui a abouti à un nouvel ouvrage Abondance et liberté. Il relevait plus classiquement de la philosophie politique car le problème que je me suis posé dans ce livre était le suivant : quel lien existe-t-il entre le processus de conquête de la liberté et les relations collectives à la nature ?

J'ai donc essayé de développer une méthode pour capter la façon dont l'univers normatif du droit, de la politique, de l'économie était toujours mis en contact avec des questions agraires, industrielles, de ressources, et des questions de territoire. C'est ce que j’ai appelé l'histoire environnementale des idées.

C'est ainsi que j’ai travaillé ces dix dernières années à essayer de comprendre, d’analyser la façon dont l'encadrement de la nature par des moyens institutionnels, économiques, idéologiques va de pair avec la trajectoire des idées politiques modernes.

Question 2 : Pourquoi avoir intégré spécifiquement le CEE ?

Je suis arrivé au Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE) il y a quelques mois pour plusieurs raisons.

Je n’ai jamais fait partie de l'univers philosophique classique. J’ai toujours travaillé dans des laboratoires interdisciplinaires essentiellement auprès de sociologues, de juristes.

Je reste quelqu’un qui a une approche théorique, conceptuelle des problèmes dont le travail de conceptualisation est nourri par les approches d’autres sciences sociales

Je partage avec la plupart des collègues du CEE un langage intellectuel commun, par exemple les approches du capitalisme dans les termes des sciences des techniques.

De plus, dans le CEE, il existe une réflexion collective sur le point de jonction entre les transformations du capitalisme et les transformations conjointes de l’appareil d'État (de la bureaucratie, de la gouvernementalité).

Il me semble que l'impératif écologique doit être posé à l'intersection de ces deux enjeux.

Question 3 : Sur quoi portent vos recherches en cours ?

En ce moment, j’ai deux travaux en cours, le premier ne relève pas de la recherche.

C’est un travail de bilan (publié aux Presses de Sciences Po) dans lequel j’ai essayé de restituer une synthèse de débats qui ont eu lieu dans les sciences sociales autour de la question du climat, de l’environnement, de la biodiversité. C’est un livre lié à des cours que je dispense à Sciences Po depuis deux ans.

Il m’a semblé qu’il était temps de faire un bilan d’étape sur la façon dont les concepts en sciences sociales changent à l’épreuve de la crise planétaire sur les controverses qui animent les sciences sociales, les sciences humaines.

En parallèle, je travaille sur un projet qui qui s'inscrit dans la veine d’Abondance et Liberté. Je réemploie la méthode qui d’histoire environnementale des idées politiques pour m’intéresser à un autre problème. Il n'est plus question du lien entre abondance et émancipation mais du lien entre abondance ou croissance et la question de la paix.

Disons que c'est une énigme politique et politique qui suscite chez moi et chez d’autres l’envie de revisiter une histoire, de raconter autrement le lien qu’on établit classiquement entre croissance et stabilité internationale.

J’espère ainsi arriver à intégrer à la philosophie politique contemporaine les problèmes très directs qui sont soulevés par la géopolitique du climat, la géopolitique des énergies.

Il s'agissait de débats sur les modèles énergétiques et politiques industrielles.

Je crois que ça change tout à la conception donnée aux équilibres internationaux.

Enfin, le lien entre modification du système de croissance et des systèmes de protection sociale est abordé dans un autre projet. Ce sera un travail collectif avec les personnes du CEE et probablement d’ailleurs aussi.

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6 doctorantes et doctorants ont rejoint le CEE

Les nouveaux doctorants du CEE

Meryem Bezzaz (CEE & MaxPo): Natural ressources and international cooperation: price, competition and the new business power sous la direction de Cornelia Woll
Marius Bickhardt : La surpopulation à l’ère de l’Anthropocène : rareté, abondance et inégalités, du XVIIIe au XXIe siècle sous la direction de Pierre Charbonnier
Jens Carstens: Left-Behinds and Distrust – The legacy of Austerity policies in the European Union? under the co-direction of Jan Rovny and Emiliano Grossman
Léo Grillet : La nature des anarchistes : une avant-garde écologiste? Pour une histoire environnementale de l'anarchisme sous la responsabilité de Pierre Charbonnier
Claire Morgane Lejeune : La planification face aux crises : généalogie critique d’une gouvernementalité moderne, sous la direction de Pierre Charbonnier
Lucien Thabourey : Le mouvement écologiste et l’État : stratégies de confrontation et divergence d’interprétations. Une approche dynamique des liens entre processus de cadrage et répertoires d’action dans le mouvement écologiste en France et au Royaume-Uni sous la direction de Florence Faucher

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Video of the conference Environmental and climate change in the French presidential elections: ambiguities and contradiction

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Conference Co-organized by Sciences Po, CEE (UMR 8239) & School of Public Affairs

Environmental and climate change have sparked continued attention, support and opposition during the last presidential tenure. What are the chances for this issue to become a central component of the presidential campaign? Will this be an issue that will be taken seriously at all beyond official statements? What are the main fault lines dividing both the opinion and political parties' positions in regard to the climate crisis?

Speakers

Nicolas Sauger, Director at the Centre de données socio-politiques, Sciences Po

Hélène Soubelet, Director at The French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB)

Xavier Timbeau, Sciences Po, OFCE

Chair

Charlotte Halpern, Researcher at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po

Collective Discussion

For more information: contact.cee@sciencespo.fr

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L' altra rivoluzione. Dal Sessantotto al femminismo

BELLÉ, Elisa. Rosenberg & Sellier, 2021

BELLÉ, Elisa. L’ altra rivoluzione. Dal Sessantotto al femminismo.

BELLÉ, Elisa. L’ altra rivoluzione. Dal Sessantotto al femminismo. Questioni di genere. Rosenberg & Sellier, 2021.

Gli studi sul movimento femminista italiano presentano ancora molte lacune, e questo volume ne colma una fondamentale: quella della comparsa del femminismo della cosiddetta “seconda ondata” (quello degli anni Settanta) da uno dei luoghi simbolo del Sessantotto studentesco (la facoltà di Sociologia di Trento).
È la storia di un’altra rivoluzione e, al contempo, di una rivoluzione altra, quella delle donne. Un lavoro di ricerca che mette in dialogo la storia delle donne e la sociologia dei movimenti sociali, in cui la vicenda locale viene costantemente posta in relazione al più ampio quadro italiano, con un ricco e inedito corpus di documenti e le interviste condotte con le protagoniste. E al contempo un racconto di grande vivacità, che restituisce pienamente l’atmosfera di quegli anni attraversati da grandi passioni.

Podcast: Nel podcast di oggi Annalisa Dordoni (Università di Milano-Bicocca) intervista Elisa Bellè (Sciences Po, Centre d’études europénnes et de politique comparée) sul suo libro L’altra rivoluzione. Dal Sessantotto al femminismo, pubblicato nel 2021 da Rosenberg & Sellier.

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Facebook Live de la conférence "Simone Veil, l’Européenne de raison"

Podcast

Simone Veil - @Sandrine Gaudin/Sciences Po

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Bruno Palier nous présente son ouvrage Réformer les retraites (Presses de Sciences Po)

Retrouvez cet entretien sur la page CEE Digests-Why research matters

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CEE Support Campaign

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Scholarships - 2022

Deadline: 31 May 2022

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We invite expressions of interest from researchers interested in submitting a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA IF) application with Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics.
We will provide support and guidance to applicants that successfully go through the internal selection process.
Submit your Expression of Interest : The call for applications closes on September 2019. Expressions of Interest are required by 31 May 2022 (to Linda Amrani, General Secretary of the CEE, linda.amani@sciencespo.fr).
Please sent:

letter of intention (with the name of supervisor requested)
CV and list of publications

draft project (1-2 pages) with the objectives

We will send this for review to the Board to confirm the support for your proposal (in June).

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Recruitment

Recruitment 2022 - Position available at Sciences Po: Full Professorship in Sociology

Deadine to apply: 2 May 2022

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Position: The Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) is recruiting a Full Professor in the field of sociology with affiliation to the Department of Sociology.

Discipline: Sociology

Profile: Sociology of crime, deviance and corruption

DUTIES

Research

The successful candidate should share research interest in one or several of the following: crime, deviance, corruption – as well as the policies to fight or prevent these phenomena. Candidates should be experts in criminal behaviour in contexts of multilevel governance and transnational circulations of goods, money, services and people.

The position is open to established sociologists from a wide range of backgrounds, theoretical approaches and methodological skills (qualitative, quantitative or mixed approaches). Demonstrable expertise in one or several social science methods (and the ability to teach about such methods) will be particularly valued, as well as an interest for transnational circulation perspectives and comparative research.

We are expecting to receive applications from scholars with an excellent record of publications in criminology and sociology journals and international book series, a strong integration in international networks, and substantial teaching experience.

Teaching

Annual teaching duties are 128 lecture-theatre class-equivalent (CM) hours that can generally be divided into three 24-hour lecture or seminar courses and 56 CM hours of complementary pedagogical services (e.g., student admissions, MA and PhD dissertation supervision, university administration roles, etc.).

The appointed professor will be expected to teach at the three levels of instruction offered by Sciences Po: its Undergraduate programme (College - on one of the seven Sciences Po regional campuses), its Graduate (Master) programme and its School of research.

The successful candidate will be required to teach Introduction to sociology at the undergraduate level in English and deliver master’s and doctoral level training in analysing mobilities, crime, and social problems.

Courses may be taught in English or French.

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Application

Applicants must complete their application on the “Galaxie” portal of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research between the 28st March and the 2nd May 2022:

In addition to the documents required by the online application form of the “Galaxie” portal, this application must include the following additional documents:

A cover letter presenting the research projects that the applicant intends to pursue,
A CV and a complete list of publications,
five prominent publications,
A synopsis of 3 courses taught and, if possible, courses evaluations,
A copy of your passport.

Applications must also be electronically submitted before the 2nd May 2022 to the president of the selection committee: recruitment.cee@sciencespo.fr, as well as to Sciences Po’s academic centre: drh.poleacademique@sciencespo.fr .

The selection committee will examine applications and proceed to a shortlist of candidates to be interviewed at Sciences Po in June 2022.

Start date: January 2023

Eligibility

Eligible candidates are expected to meet the criteria for the French Professeur des Universités status. This includes candidates who have an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) and who have been qualified by the French National Council of University (CNU).

Applicants who teach at a higher education institution outside of France must already hold a full or associate professor position or an equivalent position at a foreign university at the time of recruitment. They must apply on the Galaxie portal as well. Sciences Po ‘s Research Council will consider their eligibility based on their current position and career advancement.

Sciences Po is an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to balanced gender, geographical, and minority representation. We particularly welcome applications from women.

UNIT OF AFFILIATION

The CEE (UMR 8239) is a multidisciplinary research unit specialising in comparative political focusing on Europe. The CEE is member of the Departments of Political Science and Sociology. The key research domains are grouped around four research axes:

Cities, borders and (im)mobilities,
Strains on democratic representation,
the state as a producer or public policies,
the transformations of capitalism.

The CEE is now home to more than 30 senior researchers and a professional support team of 7 staff.

CONTACTS

President of the selection committee

Philippe Bezes, CNRS Research Director, Professor at Sciences Po: recruitment.cee@sciencespo.fr

Selection Committee

Administrative contacts

Linda Amrani, General Secretary: linda.amrani@sciencespo.fr

Silvia Duerich-Morandi, Executive Assistant: silvia.duerichmorandi@sciencespo.fr

Sciences Po is an institution of higher education and research in the humanities and social sciences. Its permanent research community – 250 professors and researchers – is built around 12 established and internationally recognized entities (including 5 units jointly run with the National Center for Scientific Research - CNRS), and is divided into 5 academic departments (Sociology, Political Science, History, Economics, and Law).

Closed recruitment campaigns

Chargé ou Chargée de communication H/F
Chargé (e) de médiation scientifique (FSEP, CNRS Délégation Ile-de-France Villejuif)
Postdoc Researcher H2020 - Project BRIDGES
Une ou un chercheur postdoctorant pour la chaire « Villes, Logement, Immobilier »
Une ou un assistant de recherche pour le programme “Transitions énergétiques en France”
Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science, Comparative Politics of Ecological Transitions.

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Call for papers

7th Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments

30 June – 2 July 2022, Sciences Po, Paris

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L'appel à communication est disponible ici

Previous calls for papers

Quand les politiques publiques font de la politique. Apports et actualités des policy feedback, Sciences Po, CEE, 17 juin 2022.
The many hands of the State: Spaces, Actors and Instrument of the Recomposing of Public Action. 2021 CEE’s doctoral study day
6th Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, 1-2 July 2021 Sciences Po, Paris, Via Zoom

Public investment policies in Europe (PDF, 172 Ko) - Workshop organized by Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (Axis Transformations of Capitalism), to be held September 6th and 7th 2021 at the CEE, Sciences Po, Paris. The deadline ended on 19 of March 2021.

"Reading Economics as Political Theory" (PDDF, 99 Ko), Workshop 17-18 of June 2021 - Sciences Po, Paris: The deadline ended on 4th of December 2020.The deadline ended on 4th of December 2020.

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Campagne de soutien CNRS 2022 sections 36 et 40 (sociologie et science politique)

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La campagne de soutien CNRS 2022 sections 36 et 40 (sociologie et science politique) est terminée

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Soutenance de thèse

23/2: Roberto Rodríguez

Coping with emissions. Institutions, ideas, and strategies in policy coordination processes: air quality and climate change policies in Mexico City and Paris

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Roberto Rodríguez defended his thesis on Wednesday, February 23 at Sciences Po.

The jury comprised:

Daniel KÜBLER, Professor, Universität Zürich
Patrick LE GALÈS, directeur de recherche, CNRS-CEE
Vicente UGALDE SALDAÑA, Profesor-Investigador, Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales (CEDUA), El Colegio de México, A.C. (reviewer)
Chloé Anne VLASSOPOULOU, maître de conférences, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne
Philippe ZITTOUN, directeur de recherche en science politique, Université de Lyon (reviewer)

Abstract

The thesis analyzes environmental policy coordination processes in cities. Based on a comparative case study of air quality and climate change policies in Mexico City and Paris, the research demonstrates that policy coordination in cities is a dynamic, sequential process where actors from the four governance dimensions – urban, vertical, horizontal, and international – with different competences and perceptions on how their actions affect each other, interact strategically under particular institutional configurations and cognitive references. To do so, the thesis develops a theoretical framework based on two approaches: historical institutionalism that addresses institutions as changing, power distributional elements, and cognitive theories of public policy that explain the organization of policy processes around ideational paradigms or frames of reference. The main argument is divided into two parts. First, policy coordination results from the interplay between (1) institutions that shape governance arrangements by distributing competences and establishing frameworks for action, (2) cognitive frameworks and ideational processes that define references, paradigms, and problems, and (3) the strategic interactions taking place within. The three elements combine, leading to positive coordination, negative coordination, or conflict. Second, those arrays remain steady until changes in the institutional context, either abrupt or incremental, rearrange the interactions by altering the frameworks of action, leading to different coordination sequences. Hence, I argue that due to the changing nature of the institutional context, coordination processes are sequential, rather than one-shot interactions due to the interplay between the abovementioned factors.

Résumé

Cette thèse analyse les processus de coordination des politiques environnementales dans les villes en menant une étude de cas comparé des politiques publiques de la qualité de l'air et de changement climatique à Mexico et à Paris. La recherche démontre que la coordination des politiques publiques dans les villes est un processus dynamique et séquentiel, où les acteurs provenant des quatre dimensions de la gouvernance – urbaine, verticale, horizontale et internationale – et qu’ont des compétences et perceptions différentes sur la façon dont leurs actions s'affectent mutuellement, interagissent stratégiquement sous des configurations institutionnelles et des références cognitives particulières. La thèse développe un cadre théorique basé sur deux approches : l'institutionnalisme historique qui aborde les institutions en tant qu'éléments changeants et distributives du pouvoir ; et les théories cognitives des politiques publiques qui expliquent l'organisation des processus politiques autour de cadres de référence et paradigmes idéationnels. L'argument principal est divisé en deux parties. Premièrement, la coordination des politiques résulte de l'interaction entre (1) des institutions qui façonnent les arrangements de gouvernance en distribuant des compétences et en établissant des cadres d'action, (2) des cadres cognitifs et des processus idéationnels qui définissent les références, les paradigmes et les problèmes, et (3) les interactions stratégiques qui s'y déroulent. Ces trois éléments se combinent, entraînant soit une coordination positive, soit une coordination négative, soit des conflits. Ensuite, ces réseaux restent stables jusqu'à ce que des changements dans le contexte institutionnel, qu'ils soient abrupts ou graduels, réorganisent les interactions en modifiant les cadres d'action, ce qui entraîne des séquences de coordination différentes. Par conséquent, je soutiens qu'en raison de la nature changeante du contexte institutionnel, les processus de coordination sont séquentiels, plutôt que des interactions ponctuelles dues à l'interaction entre les facteurs susmentionnés.

28/1 : Clément Claret "Intra-party pluralism at work: the manifestations of ideological diversity in local Labour Party activism"

Clément Claret a souteu sa thèse en science politique intitulée "Intra-party pluralism at work: the manifestations of ideological diversity in local Labour Party activism" le 28 janvier 2021 à 14 heures.

Le jury est composé de Emmanuel Avril, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 ; Katherine Dommett, University of Sheffield ; Colin Hay, Sciences Po, CEE ; Émilie van Haute, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Abstract

This dissertation explores how ideological pluralism manifests itself in the local activities of the Labour Party, from the point of view of its members. It seeks to address the broader question of the interplay between agreement and dissent, cooperation and competition in voluntary political sociations. To which extent do Labour members manage to work towards shared objectives while expressing differing views? The party under scrutiny has been experiencing a polarisation of internal divergences and an accentuation of organised factionalism since 2015, making ideology-fuelled centrifugal dynamics particularly salient.
This thesis considers ideologies as cultural systems oriented towards political action, that not only provide a template for understanding the social world but also promote specific participatory practices and norms. It examines the competition between rival interpretations of how the organisation should operate and its members behave, and conversely how Labour handles its internal pluralism to function at the grassroot level. This is reflected by the methods used, the bulk of the evidence being provided by participant observation and interviewing of members from four local parties.

Résumé (Le pluralisme intra-partisan en action: les manifestations de la diversité idéologique au sein du Parti Travailliste britannique)

Cette thèse propose d’explorer comment le pluralisme idéologique se manifeste dans le Parti Travailliste contemporain, du point de vue de ses militants « de base » et dans le cadre des activités de ses sections. De manière générale, il s’agit d’interroger les interactions entre désaccords, compétition et coopération au sein de sociations politiques dont les membres se mobilisent le plus souvent bénévolement au nom d’une cause présumée partagée. Il s’agit d’évaluer dans quelle mesure des activistes parviennent à œuvrer ensemble à des objectifs communs tout en exprimant des visions parfois contradictoires. L’enquête porte sur un parti en proie à de fortes divergences internes depuis 2015, autrement dit un terrain où les effets centrifuges du désaccord s’avèrent particulièrement saillants.
La thèse se saisit des idéologies comme systèmes culturels tournés vers l’action politique, relayant à la fois des schèmes d’appréhension du monde social et des méthodes pour agir dessus. Ces moyens d’action recouvrent la doctrine, face labile et réflexive de l’idéologie servant notamment à la rédaction de programmes de gouvernement, mais aussi des préceptes normatifs contraignant les conduites militantes. Il en découle que les divergences idéologiques se traduisent entre autres par des interprétations différentes quant à la façon dont le parti doit opérer et ses membres se comporter. L’attention portée à l’activisme et à son interprétation justifie une démarche ethnographique s’appuyant sur l’observation participante de quatre sections locales du Labour et la réalisation d’entretiens approfondis avec leurs militants.

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Call for proposals

Governing Capitalism, CEE’s Doctoral Study

Deadline : 9 October 2020

The PhD students of the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics will organize on December 16 their first doctoral study day, on the theme “Governing Capitalism” (PDF, 174 Ko). The study day will be a series of three round tables, each focused on a specific theme and moderated by a CEE senior researcher and a CEE PhD candidate.

Each round table, two hours long, will begin with three communications of 20 minutes each, followed by a discussion by the moderators, and will be concluded by a questions-answers session. The goal is then to show how PhD candidates in social sciences can contribute to academical debates, while being understood by the widest audience.

Only PhD students can propose a communication for one or more round tables*. The proposals must be 1000 words long and be sent before October 9, 2020, along with a presentation paragraph indicating the research themes and the attachment unit of the candidate. The communications of the study day will be selected before October 31.

The proposals can be either in French or in English. If the proposal is in English (respectively in French), the candidate must declare whether he or she would be able to do its presentation and the follow-up discussion in French (respectively in English). The language of each round table will be decided following the preferences of the candidates.

The candidates are prompted, as far as possible, to present comparative works on European democracies. However, there is no restriction of discipline, geographical area or approach as far as the proposals fits with the angle of the round tables.

The proposals are to be sent to doctorants.ceesp@gmail.com

Study day’s theme: Governing Capitalism

This doctoral study day fits in the axis “The transformations of capitalism” of the Center for European Studies, whose premise is that global capitalism has entered a new phase: tertiarization and internationalization of economies, weakening of the state’s regulatory role, deregulation and privatization, increased role of financial actors, corporate concentration, intensified competition, acceleration of technical progress, growing importance of information and knowledge as factors of production, upheavals associated with the development of the digital economy, increased separation between labor and capital ownership, between execution and design. Thus, this study day deals with the political implications of these global transformations, through the problematic of the modes of governance and regulation of contemporary political economy.

Round table n°1: “Changing political economy: governing ecological transitions”

The challenges imposed by climate change are lobbying to get a transition to another society model leading to the emergence of new economic structures, more respectful of the environment and compliant to the objectives of sustainable development. Which role the State and the international and supranational institutions will be able to play to support this new economic model? Which powers of constraint do they have? Are they doomed to incentive actions, and with which efficiency? Above all, are they really determined to govern ecological transitions?

Discussion moderated by Richard Balme, University Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs, member of the CEE, coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Workshop of Environmental Researches (AIRE), and Weiting Chao, PhD candidate at the CEE.

Round table n°2: “Regulations, sectors and politics of real economy”

Either it’s about digital, health or energy, there are numerous sectors where business is entangled with ethical, social and geopolitical questions. As many regulation issues for public action who is struggling to tackle the rapid transformations of capitalism. To which levels can economy be controlled and with which instruments? Can political actors pretend to govern sectors in which they sometimes themselves have interests? How to regulate economic actors who seem sometimes more powerful than States themselves?

Discussion moderated by Cyril Benoît, CNRS research fellow at the CEE and member of the ANR project “Health Risk Market (MaRiSa)”, and Zoé Evrard, PhD candidate at the CEE and the MaxPo

Round table n°3: “Challenges of financial system’s governance”

The 2008 financial crisis revealed the political and social issues raised by the financialization of the economy and the lack of regulation of financial markets. Is it still possible, for political authorities, to keep the control of a system of private interests to serve the largest interest? Which measures have been set to avoid a new collapse which would reverberate onto the other economical sectors and onto the citizens in general? How to make the insurance market responsible for the collective risks of the ecological and health crises which will affect all the countries?

Discussion moderated by Cornelia Woll, Full Professor at Sciences Po, codirector of the MaxPo, member of the CEE and of the LIEPP, and Mattia Lupi, PhD candidate at the CEE and the MaxPo

* No financial support can be provided by the organization of the study day. If the health situation allows it, the study day will take place at Sciences Po Paris, or if necessary, by Zoom.

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Articles

ROVNY, Jan, BAKKER, Rya, HOOGHE, Liesbet, JOLLY, Seth, MARKS, Gary e t al.. Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. European Journal of Political Research, Springer Verlag, 2022,

BOUSSAGUET, Laurie , FAUCHER , Florence, FREUDLSPERGER, Christian. Performing Crisis Management: National Repertoires of Symbolic Action and Their Usage during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe. Political Studies. December 2021.

VITALE, Tommaso. Covid-19 and the Structural Crisis of Liberal Democracies. Determinants and Consequences of the Governance of Pandemic. Partecipazione e Conflitto. June 2021. vol 14, no. 1, p.1–37.

BOULLIER, Dominique. Quand la pandémie révèle la médiocrité de nos enveloppes d'urbanité : habit, habitat, habitacle, habitèle. Revue Internationale d'Urbanisme. février 2021, n 9.

GENIEYS, William. Fact check US: Can Joe Biden ‘stop the virus’ in the US as he claims? The conversation, 9 December 2020

GENIEYS, William. Fact check US : Joe Biden peut-il « arrêter le virus » aux États-Unis comme il l’affirme, et comment ? The conversation, 1er décembre 2020

KONSTANTINIDOU, Angeliki et VINTILA, Daniela. Policy Measures for the Diaspora during the COVID-19 Crisis: The Case of Cyprus. HAPSc Policy Brief Series. octobre 2020, vol 1, n° 1, p. 13-23.

LE GALÈS, Patrick. La taille des métropoles n’est qu’un bout de l’histoire. La semaine de Nancy, 17 septembre 2020.

GROSSMAN, Emiliano, L’action publique mise à mal par les clivages politiques, The conversation, 16 septembre 2020.

ROVNY, Jan. Rozhovor: ANO je historický omyl. Respekt, 23 August 2020, Online.

RECCHI, Ettore, FERRAGINA, Emanuele, Ferragin, SAUGER, Nicolas et al. The “Eye of the Hurricane” Paradox: An Unexpected and Unequal Rise of Well-Being During the Covid-19 Lockdown in France. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, August 2020

BOUSSAGUET, Laurie et FAUCHER, Florence, Le yoyo de BoJo : la gestion symbolique de la crise du Covid-19 au Royaume-Uni, The conversation, 24 juin 2020.

POLIZZI, Emanuele, VITALE, Tommaso, Il come, non solo il cosa. Per affrontare la crisi nei territori, non dimentichiamoci delle modalità di governo. La Rivista del Mulino, 15 June 2020.

VITALE, Tommaso et RECCHI, Ettore, La solidarité au temps du Covid-19 : vers de nouveaux engagements, The conversation, 7 juin 2020.

CREMASCHI, Marco. Pourquoi Bergame ? Le virus au bout du territoire. Métropolitiques, juin 2020.

BOUSSAGUET, Laurie et FAUCHER, Florence, Comment Emmanuel Macron a raté son rendez-vous symbolique avec les Français, The conversation, 27 mai 2020.

VITALE, Tommaso et CASEAU, Anne-Cécile, Bidonvilles en déconfinement : les solidarités vont-elles tenir ?, The conversation, 24 mai 2020.

CALLON, Michel et LASCOUMES, Pierre. Penser l’après : Le Covid-19 pousse les scientifiques hors de leurs laboratoires. The Conversation, 22 mai 2020.

VITALE, Tommaso, Dalla ricerca applicata all’intervento contro la deprivazione alimentare durante la pandemia COVID-19, Generatività, 15 Maggio 2020.

STALOSA, Carllo, VITALE, Tommaso, #jeresteenbidonville. Le confinement dans les villages roms de Rome, Métropolitiques. 21 mai 2020.

WUNSCH, Natasha. How Covid-19 Is Deepening Democratic Backsliding and Geopolitical Competition in the Western Balkans. LSE - The London School of Economics and Political Science - EUROPP, May 20, 2020.

STASOLLA, Carlo et VITALE, Tommaso. #IStayCamp. Health conditions, food deprivation and solidarity problems in the first days of the lockdown in the Roma Villages of Rome. Métropolitiques. 24 avril 2020.

THIEMANN, Matthias, and Peter VOLBERDING. Extending Loans and Providing Equity: The EIB and National Development Banks Must Act Now. Social Europe, April 29, 2020.

BIEBER, Florian, Tena PRELEC, Marika DJOLAI, Donika EMINI, Jovana MAROVIC, Srdjan MAJSTOROVIC, Vedran DŽIHIC, Natasha Wunsch, et al. The Western Balkans in Times of the Global Pandemic. Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group, April 2020, 1–37.

STASOLLA, Carlo, and Tommaso VITALE. #IoRestonelCampo – L’impatto del lockdown raccontato da chi vive nelle baraccopoli. Animazione Sociale, 16 April, 2020.

COURMONT, Antoine (Chercheur associé à Sciences Po, CEE), Coronoptiques (1/4) : dispositifs de surveillance et gestion de l'épidémie, LINC (Laboratoire d’Innovation Numérique de la CNIL), 10 avril 2020.

VITALE, Tommaso. Penser l’engagement solidaire en temps de crise. Revue Projet, 3 avril 2020.

CALLON, Michel, et Pierre LASCOUMES. Covid-19 et néfaste oubli du principe de précaution. Analyse opinion critique, 27 mars 2020..

BOULLIER, Dominique. Virus, mèmes et bonnes pratiques: la compétition des propagations. The Conversation, 23 mars 2020.

Directions de numéros spéciaux

ALTERI, Luca, PARKS, Louisa , RAFFINI, Luca and Tommaso VITALE, eds. Covid-19 and the Structural Crisis of Liberal Democracies. Partecipazione e Conflitto. June 2021. vol 14, no. 1.

Chapitres d'ouvrages

LASCOUMES, Pierre. Covid-19, un défaut de précaution caractérisé?: les raisons d’un déni. In L’action publique face à la pandémie, edited by Christian PAUL, 49–58. Boulogne Billancourt: Éditions Berger-Levrault, 2021.

BAR-SIMANN-TOV, Ittai, BENOÎT, Cyril, ROZENBERG, Olivier, et al. Measuring Legislative Activity during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Introducing the ParlAct and ParlTech Indexes. International Journal of Parliamentary Studies. mai 2021, vol 1, n° 1, p. 109-126.

BENOÎT, Cyril et ROZENBERG, Olivier. La démocratie parlementaire peut-elle se passer du Parlement ? In LAZAR, Marc, PLANTIN, Guillaume, RAGOT, Xavier (dir.). Le monde d’aujourd’hui. Les sciences sociales au temps de la Covid. Paris : Presses de Sciences Po, 2020, p. 191-206.

PALIER, Bruno. Pourquoi les personnes « essentielles » sont-elles si mal payées ? In LAZAR, Marc, PLANTIN, Guillaume, RAGOT, Xavier (dir.). Le Monde d'aujourd'hui : Les sciences sociales au temps de la Covid. Paris : Presses de Sciences Po, 2020, p

BOUSSAGUET, Laurie et FAUCHER, Florence. Comment mobiliser les populations ? La réponse symbolique des exécutifs français, italien et britannique. In LAZAR, Marc, PLANTIN, Guillaume, RAGOT, Xavier (dir.). Le Monde d'aujourd'hui : Les sciences sociales au temps de la Covid. Paris : Presses de Sciences Po, 2020, p. 243-262.

Rapports/Enquêtes

BANDARIN, Francesco, CICIOTTI, Enrico, CREMASCHI, Marco, PERULLI, Paolo, FEEM presents “Which future for the Cities after COVID-19. An International Survey”, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, 3 juillet 2020

SAUGER, Nicolas, Emanuele FERRAGINA, Emily HELMEID, Stefan PAULY, Ettore RECCHI, Mirna SAFI, et Jen SCHRADIE. La vie après le confinement : retour à la normale ou quête d’un nouveau cap ? Paris: Observatoire sociologique du changement, Juin 2020.

RECCHI, Ettore, Emanuele FERRAGINA, Emily HELMEID, Stefan PAULY, Mirna SAFI, Nicolas SAUGER, et Jen SCHRADIE. Confinement pour tous, épreuve pour certains. Les résultats de la première vague d’enquête du projet CoCo. Paris: Observatoire sociologique du changement, Avril 2020.

Policy Papers / Working papers / Blogs / Sites internet

PELLERIN-CARLIN, Thomas, EISL, Andreas, MAGDALINSKI, Emilie . Surmonter les crises liées au Covid-19. Grâce à une europe durable et résiliente. Décryptage 200410. Paris : Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors, mai 2020.

PALIER, Bruno. Crise covid : « On a besoin des centres de santé et des mutuelles pour une vraie politique de santé publique ». In Le Blog Viva. 12 janvier 2021.

PALIER, Bruno. Trappe à bas salaires. In atlantico. 12 janvier 2021.

COUTTO, Tatiana. The July European Council Summit as Seen by Southern European Newspapers. LSE - The London School of Economics and Political Science - EUROPP, August 25, 2020.

RECCHI, Ettore, FERRAGINA, Emanuele, SAUGER, Nicolas, et al. Living through Lockdown: Social Inequalities and Transformations during the COVID-19 Crisis in France. OSC Papers 2020–1. Paris: Observatoire sociologique du changement, July 2020.

EISL, Andreas. Politique budgétaire à l’heure du Coronavirus. Notre Europe - institut Jacques Delors - Blog Post, juillet 2020.

ROZENBERG, Olivier. Post Pandemic Legislatures. Is Real Democracy Possible with Virtual Parliaments?. European Liberal Forum, Discussion Paper 2, July 2020.

GUIRAUDON, Virginie. Frontières: quel est l’impact du Covid-19 sur l’espace Schengen ?. Toute l’Europe, 1er juillet 2020.

EISL, Andreas. Politique budgétaire à l’heure du Coronavirus. Notre Europe - institut Jacques Delors - Blog Post, June 2020.

BOULLIER, Dominique. Analyser la réactivité des gouvernements à la pandémie: effets des structures sanitaires ou effets de propagations ?, shs3g.hypotheses.org, Mai 2020.

MERTENS, Daniel, Eulalia RUBIO, and Matthias THIEMANN. COVID-19 and the Mobilisation of Public Development Banks in the EU. Policy Paper N° 252. Paris: Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors, April 2020.

PELLERIN-CARLIN, Thomas, EISL, Andreas et Emilie MAGDALINSKI. Surmonter les crises liée au Covid-19. Construire une europe durable et résiliente. Décryptage. Paris: Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors, 2020.

Call for Papers

VITALE, Tommaso. COVID-19 and the Structural Crisis of Liberal Democracies. Determinants and Consequences of the Governance of Pandemic, PArtecipazione e COnflitto (30 September 2020).

Entretiens

GUIRAUDON, Virginie. L’espace Schengen à l’épreuve du Covid-19. Toute l’Europe.eu, Mai 2020.

VITALE, Tommaso. Distanziati ma vicini: la solidarietà ai tempi della COVID-19. Aggiornamenti Sociali. Maggio 2020.

Conférences/Séminaires

8 November 2021 - The EU after Covid: More integration, more coordination? with Andreas Noelke (University Frankfurt am Main), David Schaefer (European Commission’s Recovery and Resilience Task Force) and Waltraud Schelkle (LSE)

21 September 2021 - Europe’s Social Model facing the Covid-19 Employment Crisis: Innovating Job Retention Policies to Avoid Mass Unemployment with Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Oxford

10 June 2021 - Analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the care homes sector for the elderly in Europe with Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes, Spanish National Research Council (IPP-CSIC).

13 avril 2021 - Les chantiers de la transition écologique : vecteurs de la lutte contre la pauvreté ? organisé par la Revue Projeten partenariat avec Sciences Po, CEE et l'Université de Tours, CITERES avec Véronique Andrieux, directrice générale du WWF France, Frédéric Bosquet, initiateur du projet Tera dans le Lot-et-Garonne, soutenu par la Fondation Zoein, Emmanuel Combet, économiste à la direction Prospective et recherche de l'Ademe, Danyel Dubreuil, coordinateur de l’initiative Rénovons, alliance de la société civile pour la rénovation des logements, particulièrement les moins performants sur le plan énergétique, afin de résorber structurellement la précarité énergétique avec Véronique Andrieux, directrice générale du WWF France ; Frédéric Bosquet, initiateur du projet Tera dans le Lot-et-Garonne, soutenu par la Fondation Zoein ; Emmanuel Combet, économiste à la direction Prospective et recherche de l'Ademe ; Danyel Dubreuil, coordinateur de l’initiative Rénovons, alliance de la société civile pour la rénovation des logements, particulièrement les moins performants sur le plan énergétique, afin de résorber structurellement la précarité énergétique et Martin Monti-Lalaubie, journaliste à la Revue Projet.

17 mars 2021 - Lutter contre la pauvreté à l’heure de la pandémie : L’insertion économique : quelles places pour les moins qualifiés ? organisé par la Revue Projet en partenariat avec Sciences Po, CEE, Université de Tours, CITERES et Université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier, CERCE avec Davina Hundert, Cités Coop, Bruno Palier, CNRS en Sciences Po, CEE, CNRS, Alain Robin, Maison de l’emploi et de la Mission locale du Bocage Bressuirais (79), Chloé Simeha, directrice générale de Croix-Rouge insertion, une initiative de la Croix-Rouge française pour faire du développement de l’emploi dans les territoires un axe majeur de la lutte contre la précarité ; Animé par Laurence Estival, journaliste spécialiste des questions économiques et sociales et coordinatrice du dossier « Emploi : où est-ce qu’on va ? » de la Revue Projet (n°381 – avril-mai 2021).

24 November 2020 - Europe's Crisis of Legitimacy. Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone with Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Pardee School, Boston University, Jan Boguslawski, Sciences Po, CEE & MaxPo et Cornelia Woll, Sciences Po, CEE & MaxPo

20 novembre 2020 - 100% Urbain : Quelle relation entre urbanisme et santé ? avec Charlotte Halpern, Sciences Po, CEE et Sandrine Delage, Grand Paris Aménagement. Organisé par Innovapresse

17 novembre 2020 - Webinaire Lutter contre la pauvreté à l’heure de la pandémie Quelles évolutions dans le rapport de force de la société civile avec les pouvoirs publics ?, organisé par la Revue Projet en partenariat avec Sciences Po, CEE, Université de Tours, CITERES et Université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier, CERCE avec Tommaso Vitale, Sciences Po, CEE, Christophe Robert, Fondation Abbé Pierre, Nicolas Duvoux, Université Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis et La vie des idées, Lydie Carloux-Yog, Secours catholique – Caritas France, Arnaud Trenta, IRES, Benoît Guillou, Revue Projet, Marion Carrel, Université de Lille, CeRIES; Olivier Legros, Université de Tours, CITERES.

17 novembre 2020 - Les économistes face à la prochaine pandémie avec Philippe Aghion, Collège de France, Chaire « Institutions, Innovation, et Croissance », Mathias Dewatripont, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Florence Faucher Florence, Sciences Po, CEE, Charles Wyplosz, Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement (IHEID) à Genève et Centre International d’Études Monétaires et Bancaires.

4 novembre 2020 - Crise de la Covid-19 et fractures numériques en France avec Antoine Courmont, Sciences Po, CEE, Chaire Villes et numérique, CNIL, Dominique Boullier, Sciences Po, CEE, Jean-François Lucas, cabinet CHRONOS, Sciences Po, Chaire Digital, Gouvernance et Souveraineté et chercheur affilié à EPFL, LASUR, Dominique Pasquier, ENST et IMM, CEMS, Emmanuel Vandamme, Mednum et Groupe POP, Lille 3, Infocom

6 octobre 2020 - Lutter contre la pauvreté après le COVID. Que peut-on attendre des pouvoirs locaux aujourd’hui ? - avec Cyprien Avenel, sociologue, Coralie Breuillé-Jean, Solidarités et Centre Communal d’Action Sociale de la ville de Poitiers, Marion Brunat-Mortier, Action sociale du CCAS de la ville de Grenoble, Emmanuel Domergue, Fondation Abbé Pierre, Benoît Guillou, Revue Projet, Olivier Legros, Université de Tours, CITERES, Marion Lièvre, Université de Montpellier, CERCE, Simon Persico, Sciences Po Grenoble, Tommaso Vitale, Sciences Po, CEE

30 juin 2020 - La solidarité en Italie à l'époque du Covid - avec Tommaso Vitale, Sciences Po, CEE

30 juin 2020 - Lutter contre la pauvreté après la COVID. Premières pistes de réflexion et d’actions concrètes à partir du terrain - avec Pascal Garret, sociologue et photographe indépendant, Benoît Guillou, rédacteur en chef de la Revue Projet, Fabrice Krystof, directeur du CCAS de Villerupt, Olivier Legros, géographe, Université de Tours, Citeres, Marion Lièvre, anthropologue, Université de Montpellier, CERCE, Christophe Perrin, délégué national en région Montpellier de La Cimade Montpellier, Agnès Thouvenot, adjointe au maire de Villeurbanne, présidente de l’expérimentation « Territoire zéro chômeur de longue durée » à Villeurbanne, Daniel Verger, responsable du pôle Études-rechercher-opinion du Secours Catholique-Caritas France, Tommaso Vitale, sociologue, Sciences Po, CEE.

13 May 2020 - The Welfare States during and after hte COVID crisis - with Anke Hassel (Hertie School), Bruno Palier (Sciences Po, CEE & LIEPP, CNRS), Anton Hemerijck (European University Institute), Waltraud Schelke (LSE).

27 April 2020 - The Social Impacts of Confinement - Anke Hassel (Hertie School) and Bruno Palier (Sciences Po, CEE & LIEPP, CNRS) present their analyses of the consequences on the labour market and social policy decisions taken in Germany, France and Europe more broadly in response to the pandemic.Bruno Palier.

Medias

MAYER, Nonna. Interview. Covid-19. La précarité créée par la crise sanitaire est source de défiance envers les institutions. Le Progrès le 12 octobre 2021

MAYER, Nonna. Interview. De la peste noire au Covid : l’antisémitisme, fléau des crises sanitaires*. L'Humanité le 20 août 2021

MAYER, Nonna. Entretien. Covid-19 : l'antisémitisme dans les manifestations "n'est pas le miroir de la société"*. Le Journal du Dimanche le 13 août 2021

EISL, Andreas. Interview. La Fortaleza de Europa: Reglas fiscales para una UE pos-Covid*. Expansió, 2 August 2021

MAYER, Nonna. Interview.Demokraté mají budoucnost stále ve svých rukou. Triumf populistu nemusí nastat ani kvuli tvrdým dopadum pandemie. Hospodárské noviny le 21 mai 2021

FAUCHER, Florence. La politique se grandit-elle avec le Covid ?. France Culture le 8 mars 2021

FAUCHER, Florence. Interview. Covid-19 : jour « J » pour la campagne de vaccination britannique. La Croix le 8 décembre 2020

GENIEYS, William. Covid-19 aux États-Unis: « Selon Joe Biden, son équipe n'arrêtera pas l'économie mais le virus ». RFI le 4 décembre 2020

EISL, Andreas. Interview. Coronavirus. Balayée par le Covid, l’Europe resserre la vis, Ouest France le 29 octobre 2020

LE LIDEC, Patrick, Interview, La centralisation, coupable de la mauvaise gestion française du Covid-19 ?, Slate, 14 octobre 2020

COURMONT, Antoine, Interview, La crise du coronavirus accélère la recomposition de la gouvernance de la ville numérique, Le Monde, 9 octobre 2020.

GENIEYS, William, Interview, Donald Trump peut-il bénéficier politiquement de sa contamination au Coronavirus ?, CNews, 6 octobre 2020.

LE LIDEC, Patrick, Interview, Emmanuel Macron n’a pas d’états d’âme avec les élus locaux, La Gazette des communes, 1er octobre 2020

EISL, Andreas. Interviews. Budget européen - Le billard à trois bandes. L’AGEFI Hebdo, le 24 septembre 2020.

GENIEYS, William. Interview. Covid-19: les courbes des Etats-Unis et de l'UE se sont-elles croisées ?. Huffington Post le 14 septembre 2020

EISL, Andreas, Macron and Merkel Deliver an $859 Billion Breakthrough. The EU’s $859 billion Covid-19 recovery fund is historic, even if it falls short of “Hamiltonian, Bloomberg, 21 July 2020.

DE CLOSETS, François, GENIEYS, William, HUSSON, Edouard . Pour un Raoult qui se rebelle combien de Français ‘déviants’ cloués au pilori par la technocratie alors qu’ils peuvent être utiles au pays ? Atlantico, June 24, 2020.

EISL, Andreas. Coronabonds : Une solution aux défis actuels et anciens. Le Drenche, 27 mai 2020

GUIRAUDON, Virginie. Frontières ouvertes ou fermées ? Le point sur la situation dans les pays de l’UE (Interview). Le Monde, 20 mai 2020.

EISL, Andreas. Coronavirus Pandemic: Top German Court Critical of ECB Bond-Bying from 2015 (Video). France 24, 7 May 2020.

EISL, Andreas. Coronabonds”: comprendre la Bataille des mots qui cache le vrai débat sur la solidarité européenne (Interview), Le Monde, 30 avril 2020.

EISL, Andreas. Coronavirus : des milliards pour endiguer la crise (Interview). La Croix, 18 avril 2020

EISL, Andreas. Coronavirus pandemic. EU struggles to bridge bitter split on ‘coronabonds’ (Video). France 24, 7 April 2020

GUIRAUDON, Virginie, Migrants et Covid-19: des vies suspendues, CERIUM, Université de Montréal, avec AFP. Avril 2020.

BRUNN, Matthias, GENIEYS, William, Bâtir la médecine de demain : Sortir des guerres mandarinales et façonner les futurs gardiens de la politique de santé. Atlantico, 25 avril 2020.

CLAVREUL, William, GENIEYS, William. "Bâtir la cathédrale du déconfinement" ou le meilleur moyen de le rater magistralement ?. Atlantico, 23 avril 2020.

BRUNN, Matthias, and William GENIEYS, L’élite de la médecine en ‘temps de guerre, Midi Libre, 21 avril 2020

GUIRAUDON, Virginie, Sauvetage de migrants: la crise sanitaire met fin au mariage entre MSF et SOS Méditerranée, L'OBS, 17 avril 2020.

GENIEYS, William et al., Covid-19 : pourquoi il est difficile de comparer la France avec l'Allemagne, Les Echos, 17 avril 2020.

CREMASCHI, Marco, Coronavirus : tous à la campagne ?, Les Echos, 8 avril 2020.

FAUCHER Florence, Boris Johnson hospitalisé, comment le Royaume-Uni est-il dirigé ?, RFI, 7 avril 2020.

BOULLIER, Dominique, Temps de guerre ou temps du soin, Médiapart, 7 avril 2020.

GENIEYS, William, Etrange inertie, Crise sanitaire et manque de réactivité : la France est-elle dirigée par des fonctionnaires non élus ?, Atlantico, 6 avril 2020.

GUIRAUDON, Virginie, and Bruno PALIER. Coronavirus : l’obligation de résultat de l’Union européenne (Interview). La Croix, 29 mars 2020.

BOULLIER, Dominique. Ce que les applaudissements aux fenêtres disent de nous (Interview). Le Figaro, 27 mars, 2020.

EISL, Andreas. Patto di Stabilità sospeso per coronavirus. Tornerà mai più come prima? (Interview on the European fiscal framework and its escape clauses ) le 26 mars 2020.

GUIRAUDON, Virginie. Europe Has Relied on Turkey to Stem Another Migration Crisis. That Plan Backfired (Analysis). The Washington Post, 25 March 2020.

MAYER, Nonna, Municipales 2020, premier tour : France Culture, Emissions spéciales, 15 mars 2020.

GUIRAUDON, Virginie. L’Union Européenne fait-elle tout ce qu’elle peut faire pour les migrants ?. RFI, 17 mars 2020.

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LPPR - Motion du CEE

Actualité Sciences Po

Motion du Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée de Sciences Po, élaborée collectivement et approuvée par l’ensemble du laboratoire, puis par le conseil d’unité (13 février 2020) (PDF 90 Ko))

Oui, nous avons besoin d’une réforme de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur. Oui, consacrer au moins 3% du PIB à la recherche est indispensable. Nous partageons largement les diagnostics des rapports préparatoires à la LPPR : diminution du nombre de postes (250 recrutements au CNRS en 2019 contre 568 en 2001, tandis que les recrutements de maîtresses et maîtres de conférence diminuaient également de moitié), précarisation croissante des jeunes chercheures et chercheurs, manque de personnel de support à la recherche dans les universités, insuffisante visibilité de la recherche française à l’international, etc.

Mais nous n’acceptons pas les solutions proposées par ces rapports.

Parce qu’elles ignorent complètement les spécificités de l'activité scientifique dans les sciences sociales. Or, ce sont ces dernières qui permettent de comprendre les enjeux majeurs d’aujourd’hui : crise de la démocratie, inégalités, changement climatique, migrations, défi numérique, etc.

Parce qu’elles entérinent la dévalorisation de l’enseignement supérieur, qui devient une variable d’ajustement de la recherche. Or, la situation de nombreuses universités publiques est particulièrement tendue et dégradée, et nous la dénonçons. Comment ne pas investir davantage dans les générations de demain ?

Parce qu’elles ne feraient que précariser davantage la recherche en multipliant les postes contractuels plutôt que de créer des postes pérennes indispensables à une recherche fondamentale de qualité. Cela est d’autant plus inquiétant compte tenu de la réforme de l’assurance-chômage et de la réforme des retraites en cours, qui fragilisent considérablement les personnels de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche.

Parce qu’elles ne prennent pas en compte les effets pervers bien connus des financements par projet, qui peuvent conduire à mettre plus de ressources dans le management de la recherche que dans la recherche elle-même.

Parce qu’elles ne préconisent pas les formes d’évaluation auxquelles nous tenons : par les pairs, transparente et qualitative. Largement financés par l’argent public, il nous semble normal d’être évalués régulièrement et de rendre des comptes, mais encore faut-il s’accorder sur les critères et sur les rythmes, et ne pas creuser les inégalités existantes.

Par conséquent, nous nous opposerons à une loi fondée sur les propositions inadaptées de ces rapports et nous associons aux mobilisations en cours dans l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche.

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Newsletter séminaires du CEE

24 mars 2022

Newsletter séminaires/seminars, Sciences Po, CEE

Newsletter Séminaires du CEE

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Vidéo de la conférence POLITEIA

Présidentielle 2022 : boulevard pour Macron, défaite annoncée des républicains ?

avec Émilien Houard-Vial, Sciences Po, CEE

POLITEIA#56 | Présidentielle 2022 : défaite annoncée des Républicains ?

Médiathèque Marguerite Duras, 115 rue de Bagnolet, 75020 Paris

En dépit des nombreuses critiques qu’il a pu recevoir lors de son mandat présidentiel, Emmanuel Macron caracole en tête des sondages, et part largement favori pour l’élection d’avril. Le parti républicain, quant à lui, remonte dans les sondages, autour de la candidature de Valérie Pécresse. Pour autant, il semble aujourd’hui peu probable qu’il remporte l’élection, meurtri par des dissensions internes, et le départ de beaucoup de ses sympathisants vers LREM ou la candidature d’Éric Zemmour. Dans ce cadre, la candidature des républicains est-elle la chronique d’un échec annoncé ? Cette élection est-elle un boulevard pour Emmanuel Macron ? Ou ne sommes-nous pas à l’abri de rebondissements de dernière minute - comme en 2017 ?

Intervenant

Émilien Houard-Vial, doctorant en science politique au Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée, Sciences Po

La conférence pourra être suivie librement sur la page Facebook de Politeia, sur la chaîne Twitch de Politeia

Pour toute information : contact.cee@sciencespo.fr

Un pass sanitaire valide ainsi que le port du masque sont obligatoires pour assister à cet événement.

Retrouvez les vidéos des conférences précédentes

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Vidéo du débat "L’Ukraine et l’Europe face à l’invasion russe : éclairages scientifiques"

Actualité Sciences Po

Débat co-organisé par le GIS Eurolab et Sciences Po, CEE

Le Groupe d’intérêt scientifique Eurolab rassemble des européanistes de 27 institutions de recherche en France. Solidaires des ukrainiennes et des ukrainiens, de nos collègues et des étudiantes et étudiants en Ukraine, et des voix dissidentes en Russie et au Belarus, les chercheuses et chercheurs d’Eurolab se mobilisent pour éclairer la guerre en Ukraine, ses ressorts, et la réaction des pays et institutions européennes. Il s’agit de comprendre les enjeux de ce conflit et ses conséquences pour les ukrainiennes et les ukrainiens et nous interroger sur ce que cette guerre fait à notre compréhension de l’Europe et à nos recherches, quel que soit nos perspectives disciplinaires et nos objets.

Communiqué de l'Eurolab

Programme

Mot de bienvenue : Guillaume Plantin, directeur scientifique de Sciences Po

Introduction : Virginie Guiraudon, Sciences Po, CEE, CNRS et Antoine Vauchez, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, CESSP, CNRS

Modération: Sylvain Kahn, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po

Table ronde

Elsa Bernard, Université de Lille, CRDP

Pascal Bonnard, Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Étienne, Triangle

Gilles Favarel-Garrigues, Sciences Po, CERI

Alexandra Goujon, Université de Bourgogne, CREDESPO

Anna Colin Lebedev, Université de Paris-Nanterre, ISP

Jan Rovny, Sciences Po, CEE & LIEPP

Discussion collective

Pour toute information : virginie.guiraudon@sciencespo.fr

Un pass sanitaire valide ainsi que le port du masque sont obligatoires pour assister à cet événement.

Photo : Tomas Ragina_Shutterstock

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Interviews et entretiens

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The 7th Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments at Sciences Po (CEE)

Olivier Rozenberg, Associate Professor at Sciences Po (CEE), presents the 7th Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments which is hosted by the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (Sciences Po) from June 30 to July 2 2022.

Transcription de l'interview (PDF, 17 Ko)

Isabelle Guinaudeau, chargée de recherche CNRS rejoint le CEE. Elle nous présente son parcours et ses travaux de recherche actuels.

Transcription de l'entretien (PDF, 26 Ko)

Roberto Rodriguez presents the WHIG (What is governed in cities?)

Roberto Rodriguez was recently a PhD candidate at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE). His project thesis was about the “interdependence between public policy areas in large metropolises: a comparative case study of Mexico City and Paris”.

Actually, he is a postdoc at the CEE and working on the links between housing and environmental policies.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Roberto Rodriguez (January 2022 )

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Interview Myriam Sefraoui, scientific mediation, (CEE)

Climat : les cop sont bien utiles !

Rencontre une délégation plurielle de Sciences Po qui a participé à la COP26 : Arnault Barichella, doctorant au CEE, d'Ellen Ledger, étudiante en master à PSIA et de Carola Kloeck, chercheuse au CERI, spécialiste des politiques d'adaptation au réchauffement climatique

Depuis la COP21, organisée à Paris en 2015, dont les avancées ont été unanimement - ou presque ! - saluées, les éditions qui ont suivi ont engendré force déception et critiques. Mais les COP ne se résument pas aux engagements, rarement respectés, qu'y prennent des États. C'est ce dont témoigne une délégation plurielle de Sciences Po qui a participé à la COP26. Rencontre avec Arnault Barichella, doctorant au Centre d'études européennes, d'Ellen Ledger, étudiante en master à l'École des affaires internationales (PSIA) et de Carola Kloeck, chercheuse au Centre de recherches internationales (CERI), spécialiste des politiques d'adaptation au réchauffement climatique.

Quels sont les objectifs des COP ?

Carola Kloeck : Les Conférences des Parties (COP) sont issues de la Convention Cadre des Nations Unies sur le Changement Climatique (CCNUCC) adoptée en 1994. En la signant, les États s'engagaient alors à agir afin que les concentrations de gaz à effet de serre causées par les activités humaines ne dépassent pas un niveau mettant l'humanité en danger. C'était une avancée majeure, d'autant plus qu'à l'époque, on en savait beaucoup moins qu'aujourd'hui, même si les scientifiques avaient des éléments alarmants. Aujourd'hui, ce niveau étant dépassé, les COP doivent donner plus d'importance aux politiques d'adaptation et répondre aux pertes et dommages déjà causés.

En quoi la COP 26 de Glasgow en 2021 a-t-elle été différente des précédentes ?

Carola Kloeck : Elle était très attendue, puisqu'elle n'avait pas pu se tenir en 2020. Elle a attiré 23.000 participant.e.s. mais il aurait dû y en avoir davantage ! En effet, du fait des restrictions de déplacements dûes à la COVID, certain.e.s délégué.es., notamment en provenance des petites îles du Pacifique n'ont pas pu venir. Deux sujets particulièrement clivants étaient au centre des discussions : ce que l’on appelle le Paris Rulebook et les financements climatiques. Sur ces deux éléments, la COP 26 a permis d'aboutir à de vrais compromis. L'élaboration du Paris Rulebook a été finalisée avec des règles sur le fonctionnement des marchés du carbone et sur le reporting des actions menées au niveau national. Pour ce qui est du financement, les parties avaient promis d'aider les pays en voie de développement à réduire leurs émissions et à s'y adapter, mais les financements mobilisés jusqu’ici ne suffisent pas et sont majoritairement destinés à l’atténuation, alors que l'adaptation est devenue un enjeu plus que majeur, surtout pour les petites îles, justement. Les décisions de Glasgow promettent un doublement des efforts financiers pour l'adaptation. D’autres accords et promesses y ont été annoncés : plus de cent pays se sont engagés à stopper leur déforestation d’ici 2030, et certains à réduire de 30% leurs émissions de méthane.

Comment Sciences Po a-t-il obtenu la possibilité d'y participer ?

En dehors des négociateurs et négociatrices des Parties, les COP mobilisent nombre d'ONG, de médias et d'universitaires qui, après avoir candidaté, peuvent être reconnus en tant que délégations. C'est ce que nous avons fait et obtenu cette année : Sciences Po a été reconnue comme "organisation observatrice" des COP ! Pour les chercheurs et les étudiants, c'est un lieu idéal pour alimenter leurs recherches et tester leurs hypothèses. Pour les chercheurs, c'est aussi une formidable opportunité pour partager leurs résultats.

Qu’avez-vous appris en participant à la COP 26 ?

Carola Kloeck : C'est fascinant d’observer de près ces négociations. Cela permet de saisir quelles sont les difficultés rencontrées par les quelque 200 pays participants pour se mettre d'accord, alors qu'ils ont des positions et des priorités extrêmement diverses. En temps normal, les observateurs - dont des chercheurs - peuvent assister aux négociations, mais cette année, du fait de la pandémie, l’accès aux salles où elles se déroulaient était limité. Mais n'assister qu'aux tables rondes - et à tous les à-côtés ! - permet beaucoup de choses : interagir avec des délégué.e.s, échanger avec des négociateurs et des chercheurs. Ensuite on garde le contact. Cette expérience nourrit mes travaux et mes enseignements, tel que mon cours sur la politique environnementale internationale.

Ellen Ledger : Dans le cadre de mon Master in International Development à PSIA, je rédige un mémoire sur les politiques australiennes de développement et de finance climatique à destination des petits États insulaires en voie de développement dans le Pacifique. Pouvoir participer à la COP, grâce à l'invitation de Carola Kloeck, qui dirige mon mémoire, était une occasion en or pour conduire des recherches de terrain ! En particulier, mes recherches sur la finance climatique publique ont suscité mon intérêt pour les liens entre le cadre politique de la COP et le système international de financement du développement – ces deux systèmes qui ont beaucoup de parallèles mais aussi de désalignements, comme la promesse non tenue des pays développés de fournir 100 milliards de dollars par an de financement climatique aux pays en développement (ENG). J’y suis donc allée avec intérêt, mais aussi scepticisme.

Pour le côté négatif, j’y ai trouvé ce à quoi je pouvais m'attendre en termes d’inégalités et de greenwashing. Par exemple, le pavillon australien a mis en avant une entreprise gazière (ENG) ; alors que plusieurs Îles du Pacifique n’ont même pas eu la chance d’envoyer des représentants (ENG) venant directement de leurs pays (certains étaient représentés par le personnel de leurs ambassades). J’ai aussi été témoin de l’échec des États à établir un fond pour les "pertes et dommages" (ENG), demandé par de nombreux pays en développement. Il faut le dire, la notion de justice compensatoire est loin d'être légitimée au sein du "régime" climatique international, malgré de fortes pressions tant internes qu'externes pour qu'elle le devienne.

Côté positif : j’y ai rencontré énormément de personnalités passionnées par l’environnement et découvert une foule de nouvelles idées de développement en contexte de changement climatique dangereux. J’ai pu échanger avec des professionnels travaillant sur le changement climatique dans les Îles du Pacifique sur les programmes d’adaptation, le financement et le plaidoyer climatiques. Ces rencontres ont été très enrichissantes, elles m’ont aidée à comprendre comment les discussions à la COP se traduisent en programmes sur le terrain. Par exemple, l'accent a été mis sur le manque de données climatiques dans les Îles du Pacifique, où ces lacunes peuvent empêcher une adaptation réussie. De nombreux échanges portaient aussi sur l’amélioration de l’accès au financement climatique pour les États. Par exemple, les fonds multilatéraux comme le Green Climate Fund (ENG) pourraient contribuer à la démocratisation de la distribution de financements.

Arnault Barichella : J'écris une thèse sur le rôle des entités infra-étatiques dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique et tout particulièrement celui des villes. Depuis la COP21, le rôle de ces acteurs dans la CCNUCC (ENG) est de plus en plus reconnu. Ont notamment été créés des organismes tels le Global Climate Action Center (ENG), la plateforme centrale des Nations Unies pour les acteurs non étatiques, et le US Climate Action Center (pour les acteurs non étatiques américains) qui avaient des pavillons, que j'ai pu visiter.

Une partie de ma recherche doctorale se concentre sur l'étude de leurs contributions et s'appuie essentiellement sur une approche qualitative. Pouvoir accéder à la COP26 m'a permis d'assister à de nombreuses réunions et conférences et d'interviewer des responsables en charge de ces politiques, qui sont venus enrichir la soixantaine d'entretiens réalisés au cours des dernières années. J'ai notamment pu approcher des diplomates, des représentants de différentes villes et régions du monde, ainsi que des membres de la société civile et du secteur privé.

Les événements de la COP26 ont corroboré les conclusions développées dans ma thèse, en ce qui concerne la manière dont les villes et les entités infra-étatiques peuvent fournir un soutien essentiel aux gouvernements pour la mise en œuvre des "contributions déterminées au niveau national" (CDN). Un chapitre important de ma thèse examine l'adéquation de ces différents cadres, où je souligne plusieurs faiblesses par rapport aux mécanismes existant pour associer les acteurs infra-étatiques au processus de la CCNUCC. Pour y remédier, la COP 26 a entrepris de renforcer le Partenariat de Marrakech pour l'action climatique mondiale.

En savoir plus :

L'initiative de Sciences Po pour le climat : Climate Action Make it Work

Entretien : Equipe de rédaction de la Direction de la communication

Florence Ecormier-Nocca nous présente son parcours.

Depuis septembre 2021, elle est chercheuse post doctorante impliquée dans le projet ERC «DEPART: The de-party-politicization of Europe's political elites», coordonné par Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik, au sein du Département du Gouvernement à l'Université de Vienne en Autriche.

Ses intérêts de recherche se situent au carrefour de la sociologie des partis politiques, des études législatives et de la communication politique dans une perspective comparée.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Portrait de Florence Ecormier-Nocca

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Entretien: Myriam Sefraoui, Chargée de médiation scientifique (CEE)

Marcela Alonso Ferreira is a PhD candidate in political science at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)

Her research interests are urban governance and the politics of public policies in the city and more particularly in large metropolises.

She presents her participation to the WHIG.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Marcela Alonso Ferreira , a PhD candidate (CEE) at the WHIG

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Interview Myriam Sefraoui, scientific mediation, (CEE)

Arnault Barichella is finishing his Phd in political science at the Centre for European Studies and Comparatives Politics.

He focuses on the role of cities (specifically Paris, Boston and New-York city) in sub-national actors in the global climate regime. He presents his participation to the COP26.

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Interview Myriam Sefraoui, scientific mediation, (CEE)

Ancienne doctorante au CEE, Sofia Wickberg est actuellement Assistant Professor en politiques publiques et gouvernance à l'Université d'Amsterdam

Elle présente son parcours et livre son expérience en tant que jeune chercheuse.

Podcast Sciences Po CEE · Portrait de Sofia Wickberg

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Entretien: Myriam Sefraoui, Chargée de médiation scientifique (CEE)

Natasha Wunsch nous livre son parcours et partage ses recherches actuelles.

Aujourd'hui Assistant Professor en science politique/intégration européenne à Sciences Po, rattachée au Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE), elle est également chercheuse senior à l’ETH de Zurich et membre du Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group.

Par ailleurs, elle dirige le projet « Régression démocratique en Europe de l’Est: séquence, stratégies, citoyens », financé de 2019-2023 par le Fonds national suisse (FNS) auprès de l’ETH de Zurich.

Ses recherches se situent à l’intersection des études européennes et de la politique comparée.
Natasha Wunsch s’intéresse particulièrement à la manière dont l’intégration européenne influence la transformation politique dans les pays candidats à l’adhésion et, à l’inverse, à l’impact de la régression démocratique et des tendances illibérales au sein de certains Etats membres sur la coopération au niveau européen.

Pouvez-vous nous présenter votre parcours ?

Je suis allemande et anglaise de naissance. J’ai fait ma scolarité en allemagne dans un lycée franco-allemand
J'ai ensuite décidé d'intégrer Sciences Po dans le campus franco-allemand à Nancy. J’ai poursuivi avec un master franco-allemand entre Sciences Po et l’Université de Berlin.

J’ai travaillé pendant deux ans pour un institut de recherche à Berlin en tant qu’experte sur l'élargissement de l’UE et l’accord occidentaux.

J'ai ensuite commencé ma thèse à Londres en travaillant sur le rôle des ONG dans les Balkans occidentaux dans le processus d'adhésion à l’UE.

J’ai intégré l’Ecole Polytechnique de Zurich en tant que postdoc avec une réorientation de ma recherche sur les régressions démocratiques que j'ai observé lors de mon terrain pour ma thèse, ce qui m’a amené à mon poste que j’occupe actuellement à Science po qui s'intéresse à la fois à l'intégration européenne et aussi à la crise de la démocratie et comment celle-ci affecte son processus.

Sur quoi porte vos recherches actuelles?

Ma recherche porte sur la régression démocratique qu’on observe notamment en Europe de l’Est, qui s’est accentuée ces dernières années avec des tendances illibérales notamment en Hongrie et en Pologne.

Ma recherche s'intéresse véritablement aux dynamiques nationales, aux questions de conciliation dans des attitudes démocratiques au sein de ces pays et ce qui conduit les citoyens à élire.

L’autre volet s'intéresse à comment la régression démocratique dans plusieurs Etats de l’Union européenne peut avoir une incidence au niveau européen. Ces deux volets se rejoignent finalement un peu progressivement.

Pourquoi avoir intégré Sciences Po et plus particulièrement le CEE ?

J'avais déjà étudié à Science Po, donc je connaissais bien l'institution, au sein de laquelle j’avais aussi enseigné.
J’avais vu le poste ouvert en intégration européenne , en étude de la démocratie.
J’ai eu ensuite l'opportunité d’être recruté par le Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée qui est un centre très dynamique, très ouvert à la collaboration, très internationale.

Entretien: Myriam Sefraoui, Chargée de médiation scientifique (CEE)

Portrait de Jessica Pidoux, Postdoctorante au CEE, Titulaire du Projet Horizon 2020 COESO

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Dans le cadre du Projet Horizon 2020 COESO, Jessica Pidoux effectue un postdoctorat au Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE).

Elle nous présente son parcours aux multiples facettes et livre son expérience en tant que jeune chercheuse.

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Portrait de Anja Durovic, ancienne doctorante du CEE, actuellement Postdoctorante au Centre Emile Durkheim à Sciences Po Bordeaux

Titulaire d'un doctorat en science politique réalisé au Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée de Sciences Po, Anja Durovic est actuellement chercheuse Postdoctorante au Centre Emile Durkheim à Sciences Po Bordeaux.

Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur la politique comparée, genre et politique, les comportements et la représentation politique ainsi que sur l'opinion publique.

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Portrait de Blandine Mesnel, ancienne doctorante du CEE, actuellement ATER à l’Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas

Actuellement ATER à l’Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Blandine Mesnel, ancienne doctorante du CEE, présente son parcours et livre son expérience en tant que jeune enseignante-chercheuse.

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Portrait de Léa Morabito, ancienne doctorante du CEE, chargée de mission-analyste à la Fondation RFIEA

Actuellement chargée de mission-analyste à la Fondation RFIEA (Réseau français des instituts d'études avancées), Léa Morabito, ancienne doctorante du CEE, présente son parcours et livre son expérience en tant que jeune chercheuse.

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Entretien: Myriam Sefraoui, Chargée de médiation scientifique (CEE)

Portrait d'Arthur Borriello, Chargé de recherche et d'enseignement à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles et invité à Sciences Po, CEE (mai-juin 2021)

S'inscrivant plus largement dans le champ d’étude sur les partis politiques et leurs transformations, les travaux actuels d'Arthur Borriello portent sur les mouvements populistes contemporains et plus particulièrement sur Podemos (Espagne), le Mouvement 5 étoiles (Italie) et la France Insoumise (France).

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Elisa Bellè, Marie Curie Fellow

Thank you very much Elisa for accepting to hold this interview with us at the CEE. We are very happy to have you! I would have a couple of questions to ask you, but first, can you tell us about your background?

Yes of course, it’s a pleasure to meet you! I graduated in Sociology, with a special Double degree program: I spent the first two years at the University of Trento, and the following two years in Dresden, Germany, at the Technische Universität. That was a highly formative experience, because at a very early stage of my academic education I discovered a different way to approach sociology, learning to compare and combine perspectives.
Then I came back to Italy, after 2 years and a half spent abroad. And that was another decisive moment for my academic pathway, as I started to work on my Master’s thesis. I decided to focus on gender and political participation, starting to deal with gender and politics, a theme that is still part of my research agenda. I analysed the political careers of men and women in 4 Italian political parties (2 centre-left and 2 centre-right), using narrative interviews, combined with a perspective on the parties as gendered organizations.

After that, I worked for 2 years, but the interest in research and Sociology found its way back again. As a result, I decided to try the admission at the Doctoral school of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento. For three years I had the privilege to work with a very dynamic research unit, specialized in the study of organizations, gender, masculinities issues. For my PhD thesis I decided to continue using the gender&organization approach in an interdisciplinary manner, to study political participation. Plus, I decided to accept a second challenge, a methodological one: I wanted to discover the ethnographic method, putting it at the service of politics. I studied the internal life of an Italian political party named Lega Nord (Northern League), which at that time was a federalist/regionalist rightwing force, born at the beginning of the 80’s from the ashes of the old Italian party system. I conducted an ethnographic fieldwork in 2 local party branches: one in a small town of Veneto (North East of Italy) and the other in the large urban context of Lombardia (North West). First of all, my attempt was to re-focus on political parties as territorial organizations (and especially the Lega). Second, I wanted to analyze the party from an internal perspective, as the emergent result of the daily work of militants and local leaders. The basic concept was to be there ? as Clifford Geertz says ? and discover the socio-political world of the party using an immersive technique. Plus, I wanted to compare two extremely different territories: on the one hand, a small town far from the organizational centers of the party, and on the other a very big city, well connected to the internal national leadership of the party.
The final goal was to study the overlap between organizational and territorial aspects in producing different forms of participation and different communities of partisans, although in the same party.

Well, thank you very much! I’m a bit curious about the Marie Curie scholarship that you have been awarded. Can you tell us about it, the whole application procedure and how you finally made it?

Of course! The first idea of my Marie Curie project was developed in Paris, at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), when I was there as a visiting fellow in February 2018.
I have to say, discovering the intense life of the CEE was inspiring for me. I started to participate in the general seminars, the seminars on methods etc. In that period, I began to process some basic ideas: the goal was to go more in-depth in the study of the so-called “populist radical right” (PRR).

I had a couple of very preliminary intuitions, which I proposed to Professor Haegel. She suggested to discuss about that with Professor Nonna Mayer, one of the CEE’s experts on PRR. So, I met Professor Mayer at the CEE, and I have to say that encounter was a turning point. She was incredibly helpful in the elaboration of the structure of the project, in precising the analytical structure, the research goals, the theoretical framework. She was also very encouraging throughout all the long process of submitting the proposal, which as we know is challenging and highly competitive (particularly considering that the ethnographic approach is not exactly mainstream). As a consequence, I had to finalize a strong proposal, both in terms of solidity, scientific impact, and innovation of the structure.
I tried the Marie Curie call a first time, unsuccessfully, and then I tried again a second time. After the first refusal, the support of Professor Mayer, the Conseil d’Unité and the MAPS office were really important in keeping my energy alive and trying the second time, that was successful.

Now briefly about the project: it is called ERRANT, standing for Ethnography of Radical Right Activism across Nations and Territories. The structure of the research is comparative and focuses on two leading actors of PRR family: the Italian Lega and the French Rassemblement National. The main goals are three, corresponding in my opinion to three research gaps in the study of PRR that is urgent to fill:

The first one is grassroot activism. The PRR has been studied so far much more from the electoral perspective, and less from the perspective of activists. Therefore, I want to shed light on the internal life of these two parties, and on the men and women that engage. Why and how they decide to join the parties? Which are the main pathways of activism (social background, ethnicity, gender, class and cultural capital differences, etc.)? What happens once they have entered? How is constructed a sense of collective belonging?
The second goal is, again and especially now, the territory. Political parties are prevalently approached as national actors, stressing the role of their national leaders (particularly PRR formations). However, these forces are very often extremely effective in constructing a strong territorial rootedness. Thus, the basic idea is to go there, where Lega and RN are already mainstream, institutionalized forces, to explore the genetic territories and the social production of their consent.
The third goal is the most experimental. It was carefully analyzed with Pr. Mayer. The main idea is the following: PPR are polarizing and dividing societies across Europe. Our aim therefore is to investigate how these frontlines of conflict work across territories, and exactly where these parties are culturally hegemonic. The strongest lines of polarization seem to be ethnicity and sexuality. In my opinion it has become urgent to examine the making-of of this conflicts, focusing both on party activists and their most direct social opponents in local civil societies. What is going on in our society when PRR parties and progressive civil society confront and conflict on gender/sexuality and ethnicity? How is constructed, represented, enacted this conflict? And can we, as publicly engaged researcher, try to build bridges across internal frontiers of fear?

Where does this personal interest of yours to study to extreme movements stem from?

My first curiosity was for parties, gender amd grassroot activism in general. Since I was very interested in masculinity as a central element in producing political identity, I found that Lega Nord was the most interesting political force, because it is historically characterized by a sexual imaginary of virilism, which has always played a crucial role in in constructing a collective identity and a sovereignist imaginary. So, I choose the Lega.

The fieldwork was an incredible occasion to discover a different social world, in terms of political values, beliefs, ways of representing social reality, etc. Of course, it was challenging, but at the same time I was deeply transformed by this experience, both as human being and as a researcher.

And I still believe that investigating such a challenging social milieu could be an innovative contribution to political sociology and collective knowledge. As a matter of fact, the study of right-wing activism is very rare: political ethnographies have been so far much more focused on left-wing movements, because qualitative research requires the construction of a human relationship with the social actors under analysis, and sometimes the distance can be hard to manage. Thus, we don’t have enough ethnographic material on PRR, and I am convinced that it is time to do it: we are already late!

Thank you for being that one person, Elisa! Maybe another question: why SciencesPo’s CEE specifically?

The starting point was the visiting fellowship, back in 2018. When I discovered the life of the CEE, I was so fascinated witch such an energizing atmosphere, full of stimulating topics to discuss, to read, full of encounters and cutting-edge researches. In addition, the solid research tradition on PRR, as well as that on partisan cultures, played an important role in my decision.

Besides, a third crucial point was the methodological openness of the CEE. In fact, often political science and sociology consider qualitative methods, and especially ethnography, as minor, anectodical, not fully “scientific”. On the contrary, at the CEE I immediately felt that quantitative, qualitative, voters, grassroots perspectives were equally treated as scientifically important, which made me feel welcome and stimulated.
Moreover, the CEE is engaging in a crucial scientific question: the centre/periphery divides that are splitting the social structure of Europe, opposing central metropolitan areas and regional areas that feel deprived and marginalized. In this regard, I believe I can bring a fresh empirical contribution to an already advanced debate, by focusing on the complex world of the province.

Well, thank you Elisa! If I had one last question, it would be: why France? Why comparing Italy to France?
Firstly, because I have always been particularly curios about French politics and culture, for personal reasons. Yet, in terms of scientific comparison, RN and Lega were a perfect match,: both are undergoing a big transformation, the RN with the so called “dédiabolisation”, and the Lega with its recent turn from regionalism to nationalism. Moreover, they are elaborating opposite strategies of institutionalization. RN is trying to give a renewed image of moderatism, whereas Lega reached its major consent radicalizing its message. Thus, there is an extremely interesting tension between radicalization and deradicalization that I think can be useful not only for comparing the two parties, but also for the analysis of the European PRR family.

Ok, well thank you very much! If you had anything else to add for those interested into your field of study, what would it be?

One last reflection about our current situation under this terrible pandemic time. It has indeed become more of a concern accessing the field, discovering new scientific environments, given the constraint of having to work remotely.
I have to say that starting a new scientific journey in this moment is not easy, but I’m trying to face the difficulties. I think that the current health crisis will have an influence on my fieldwork, when I will be in these two cities. I have always been interested in the use of public space made by PRR and I believe that observing, analyzing, reasoning about political participation and public space in this specific time of social distancing will be challenging but interesting.

Of course, it seems quite challenging to be doing social research while there is supposed to be no social life!
Yes, it will be complicated, but I think that we have also to stay open to the unexpected. In sociological terms we have the opportunity to observe something that was unthinkable just few months ago. We only have to put at work our scientific imagination, in order to do some kind of “bricolage” of our tools, readapting them to the new situation.

Thank you very much Elisa for your time and participation!

It was a pleasure to meet you, thank you.

Interview: Jason W. Essomba (January 2021)

Interview d'Abdelkarim Amengay, docteur en science politique (diplômé en 2019)

Amengay

Comment définiriez-vous votre parcours ?

J’ai un parcours assez atypique. J’ai débuté mes études universitaires à l’âge de 28 ans au Maroc en faisant deux licences à peu près en même temps. Une en science politique et droit constitutionnel, et l’autre à l’École Nationale d’Administration de Rabat en Administration Publique. Ensuite, j’ai travaillé comme administrateur au Ministère de l’Éducation au Maroc avant de partir au Canada où j’ai entamé mes études supérieures en science politique. C’est durant cette période que je me suis découvert une passion pour l’étude des comportements politiques.
Au départ je n’étais pas vraiment partant pour faire des études doctorales car la recherche me faisait un peu peur ! Cela représentait un autre monde pour moi, qui me paraissait inaccessible. Cependant, au fur et à mesure des études de Master, j’ai pris confiance en moi. Quand le moment est venu de faire un choix de sujet de thèse pour le doctorat, j’ai décidé de travailler sur l’extrême droite en Europe. Plus précisément, le rôle des médias dans les succès électoraux de ces partis à travers l’étude du cas du Rassemblement national, anciennement Front national (FN).

Durant les premiers mois de mon doctorat à l’université d’Ottawa, j’ai décidé de faire une cotutelle avec une université française. Du fait de sa renommée et de sa stature mondiale Sciences Po s’est imposée de manière presque naturelle. Sur recommandation de Nicolas Sauger, j’ai écrit à Emiliano Grossman pour lui présenter mon projet de thèse et il m’a fait l’honneur d’accepter d’être mon co-directeur de thèse à Sciences Po. Une fois ma demande d’admission en Doctorat à Sciences Po acceptée, le processus administratif de cotutelle fut bouclé en quelques semaines. Quatre ans plus tard, j’ai soutenu ma thèse -en Décembre 2019- devant un jury formé de membres prévenant des deux institutions.

Vos publications et contributions portent en général sur la thématique des radicalités, Qu’est-ce qui vous a poussé vers ce sujet ?

Je dirais qu’étant moi-même immigrant maghrébin au Canada, il arrive un certain moment où l’on se pose beaucoup de questions sur la montée des partis anti-immigrants au sein des démocraties dites libérales. On ne peut pas être insensible à la manière dont les médias nous submergent de contenus sur l’insécurité, l’immigration, l’islam et la place qu’y occupent des chroniqueurs et des commentateurs politiques assumant sans complexe leurs positionnement à l’extrême droite de l’échiquier politique. Donc, au départ, en plus de l’intérêt académique pour la question, il y avait également une motivation de nature personnelle. D’autant plus que, de manière assez surprenante, bien qu’en France on ait souvent invoqué le rôle des médias dans la montée électorale du FN à partir des années 80, cette question n’a presque jamais véritablement fait l’objet d’études poussées.

Pourquoi avoir choisi l’Université d’Ottawa pour votre formation doctorale ?

C’était un choix qui s’explique par deux éléments. Primo, au Canada, mon pays d’accueil, l’un des rares experts de l’extrême droite en Europe est Daniel Stockemer qui travaille à l’Université d’Ottawa et qui, avec Emiliano Grossman seront mes deux co-directeurs. Secundo, l’Université d’Ottawa m’a offert un financement assez généreux pour ma thèse -que je remercie d’ailleurs- car, sans ce financement la réalisation de ma thèse aurait été très compliquée.

Pourquoi l’avoir complétée par une cotutelle au Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée de Sciences Po ?

Pour moi le CEE était l’endroit où je pouvais avoir accès à des chercheurs de stature mondiale. Par exemple, Emiliano Grossman est l’un des plus grands experts européens en matière d’étude du rôle politique des médias. D’autant plus que les chercheurs qui travaillent sur cette question en France sont une minorité, encore moins ceux qui le font en mobilisant les analyses quantitatives (avec des statistiques).
Il y avait aussi Nonna Mayer, LA spécialiste française du vote FN. J’ai eu la chance de pouvoir collaborer avec elle lors de mon passage au CEE. Ensemble, avec Anja Durovic, nous avons publié un article sur le FN dans la Revue française de science politique. De plus, grâce à Nicolas Sauger, et sous sa direction, j’ai pris part aux travaux de l’équipe de chercheurs qui a préparé le questionnaire de l’Étude électorale française du CEE portant sur l’élection présidentielle de 2017. En somme, c’était la réputation scientifique du CEE et la qualité des chercheurs qui y exercent. Et je peux vous dire que je n’ai jamais regretté ce choix qui a eu un impact extrêmement positif sur ma carrière académique.

Ayant lu quelques-unes de vos recherches, j’ai trouvé assez intéressant d’observer votre approche quantitative dans l’étude de la montée de l’extrême droite. Cela a vraiment été pour moi une surprise de constater l’existence d’études quantitatives sur un tel sujet.

Je dirais, qu’au contraire, cela est très répandu. Si le recours aux méthodes quantitatives au sein de la science politique française a toujours été, et demeure encore aujourd’hui, un courant minoritaire, elles y sont cependant présentes depuis longtemps. Notamment, grâce aux travaux précurseurs de Nonna Mayer en matière de sociologie politique électorale dès les années 1980. Sciences Po en est d’ailleurs un des bastions dans l’Hexagone. Ce sont également ces méthodes que j’ai mobilisé dans ma thèse. Ce qui a nécessité la réalisation d’une base de données à partir de sources diverses. En particulier, les archives de la Bibliothèque nationale de France dans lesquelles j’ai passé plusieurs mois à consulter et à coder le contenu des Unes de la presse régionale pour les quatre-vingt-seize départements métropolitains. Pour chaque département, il s’agissait de couvrir les deux mois qui ont précédé les élections présidentielles françaises de 2012 et de 2017. Finalement, via des analyses statistiques, j’ai pu démontrer que la place qu’occupe la thématique de l’insécurité dans la presse régionale est fortement corrélée au vote pour le Rassemblement national. Là où la couverture médiatique de l’immigration ou de l’islam ne semble pas avoir nécessairement favorisé le vote pour Marine Le Pen lors les deux dernières élections présidentielles. Plus intéressant encore est que cette corrélation, entre la couverture médiatique de l’insécurité et le vote mariniste, apparaît complétement déconnectée de la réalité objective qu’est le niveau réel de la criminalité dans chaque département.

Pour revenir maintenant à votre actualité, qu’est-ce qui vous a mené à Doha ?

Pour beaucoup, cela peut être surprenant. Mais, il faut savoir, que depuis quelques années, il devient de plus en plus difficile de décrocher un poste de professeur directement après son doctorat sans avoir fait un postdoctorat. Alors lorsque le Doha Institute for Graduate Studies m’a offert ce poste, je n’ai pas hésité un seul instant. D’autant plus que cette jeune institution se donne comme mission de devenir la référence en matière de recherche en sciences sociales dans la région du Moyen-Orient et qu’elle offre beaucoup d’opportunités en matière de financement de recherche. Tous mes collègues actuels ont été formés ou ont travaillé dans les meilleures universités du monde. C’est une communauté scientifique très vibrante. J’y ai la possibilité d’enseigner la politique comparée et de continuer à travailler sur les questions de recherche qui m’intéressent, par exemple le populisme. Il y a également l’envie de transfert de connaissances dans cette partie du monde qui m’est chère. Une envie de redonner un peu à cette partie du monde et de partager les compétences que j’ai acquises au sein des universités occidentales, que ce soit en France ou au Canada. Le tout dans un cadre de vie agréable.

Peut-on justement savoir sur quelles thématiques ou quels projets de recherche vous travaillez aujourd’hui ?

Actuellement, j’ai quatre projets de recherche en cours.

Le premier projet porte sur le contenu des médias, ou plus précisément : la place de l’Islam dans les médias. Avec Mohammed Amine Brahmi, un chercheur postdoctoral à l’université de Columbia aux États-Unis, nous réalisons une étude comparative France-Québec de cette présence de cette thématique dans la presse écrite en période électorale. Les résultats de cette recherche, qui est encore en phase de développement, vont être publiés au cours de l’année 2021 dans un numéro spécial de la revue Politique et Société qui sera consacré à la question de l’islamophobie.

Le deuxième projet relève d’un autre de mes centres intérêts : la psychologie politique. Plus précisément, la question qui anime ma réflexion est celle de savoir « comment les traits de personnalité impactent-ils les comportements politiques ? » J’étudie actuellement la relation entre les traits de personnalité et le niveau de confiance que les individus peuvent avoir dans la classe politique via une comparaison France-États-Unis. En m’appuyant sur les travaux d’Herbert Kitschelt –qui a développé au début des années 1980, une classification des systèmes politiques selon laquelle la France serait un système politique fermé et les États-Unis un système politique ouvert– je démontre qu’en France, de par les contraintes imposées par son système politique fermé, les personnes dont la personnalité est plus portée sur l’innovation et la curiosité intellectuelle, autrement dit « les esprits libres », seraient moins amenées à faire confiance à la classe politique. Contrairement aux États-Unis, où ce trait de personnalité n’a aucun impact sur la confiance que peuvent avoir les individus dans les élites politiques de leur pays.

Mon troisième projet est celui d’un chapitre de livre, qui traite de la mobilisation des émotions par les leaders populistes. Il s’agit d’un ouvrage collectif qui réunit huit chercheurs de l’Europe, des deux Amériques et de l’Asie. Dirigé par Alwahab El-Affendi, le président du Doha Institute, cet ouvrage porte sur les travaux de Chantal Mouffe, la grande philosophe politique belge qui a consacré une grande partie de ses travaux à l’étude du populisme dans une perspective postmarxiste. Dans mon chapitre, je m’intéresse au rôle qu’elle donne aux émotions dans la mobilisation des citoyens. Plus particulièrement, je pose la question suivante : « Dans quelle mesure l’état de la recherche en psychologie politique permet de corroborer la théorie de Chantal Mouffe sur la centralité des émotions, et plus particulièrement la peur, dans la montée de la droite radicale populiste radicale en Europe et aux Amériques ?».

Le quatrième projet est un projet qui porte sur la représentation politique des jeunes au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du nord. Avec Daniel Stockemer, nous venons de lancer un nouveau projet qui vise à identifier les potentiels changements qu’auraient connus la composition des élites politiques en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient dans la foulée de ce qui est communément appelé les printemps arabes de 2011. Nous nous s’intéressons en particulier à l’évolution de la composition des parlements nationaux (démocratiques ou non). La première phase de ce projet se focalise sur quatre pays : la Tunisie, l’Égypte, la Jordanie et la Syrie pour lesquels la collecte de données est en cours. À terme, nous espérons inclure l’ensemble des pays de la région, notamment ceux du Golf. Car, si la question de la participation politique des jeunes a été abondamment étudiée, celle de la représentation ne le fut que très peu. Encore moins pour cette région du monde.

M. Abdelkarim Amengay, Je vous remercie d’avoir accepté de participer à cette interview et de la richesse de cet échange. Souhaitez-vous ajouter un commentaire ?

Tout d’abord, je vous remercie. Je me suis senti honoré d’être contacté pour échanger sur ces sujets. Je voudrais conclure en disant, qu’au-delà de l’expérience académique enrichissante que j’ai eue au CEE, mon passage fut également une expérience humainement enrichissante. Le CEE dispose d’une formidable équipe de chercheurs de haut-calibre et d’une équipe administrative dévouée, avec à sa tête Mme Amrani, que je tiens à remercier. Merci à eux pour le formidable travail qu’ils accomplirent au quotidien.

Propos recueillis par W. Jason Essomba (novembre 2020)

Interview of Vicente Ugalde, El Colegio de Mexico, Visiting Professor at Sciences Po, CEE

ugalde

Dear Professor Vicente Ugalde! Thank you for having agreed to hold this interview with Science sPo’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE).

Could you tell me a bit about your background (studies, experience, research areas, etc.)?

Well, I studied Law in Mexico, in a city in the Center-North of Mexico called San Luis Potosi. I specialized in Local Law. After that, I did my master’s degree in Constitutional and Administrative Law in Mexico City. In the meantime, I was also doing a Master’s in Urban Studies at Colegio in Mexico. Following that, I travelled to France to further my studies. Once in France, I did a DEA in Sciences Administratives, i.e., Public Administration. Then, I did a PhD in Law but with a much more public policy-oriented PhD dissertation, consisting of using law and regulation to review and analyze environmental public policies in Mexico with a focus on hazardous waste management.

It seems that one of your areas of expertise is Urban governance. Is that true?

Yes, after I concluded my PhD, I went back to Mexico and joined the Centre for demographic urban and environmental studies and I started to teach local government. I progressively studied local systems a lot, as well as different problems arising in governing cities like Mexico City. I started to develop research in governance and local governance system. That is how I met, some years later, my current colleagues at the CEE. We launched a collaboration to study big metropolises around the world.

As you are in Paris at the time, what are the projects, topics or research areas you are currently working on?

At the beginning of my collaboration with the CEE, my interest was in the study of waste management systems in big cities. But right now, and over the past 2 or 3 years I have been studying how local governance drives urban development. In other words, I have been focusing on the study of regulation to organize construction, land use, property distribution control, the right to build, etc. I would like to find out how regulation works in the real world. To this end, I would look at official bodies or government’s agencies responsible for inspection. In order to understand how the legal system deploys its power to manage some tricky situations, I would also look into actual cases of low compliance of urban regulations. In France, we can hardly observe such things in our daily life. While in Mexico if you walk across the streets, you can see construction going on despite those signs and warrants from local authorities imposing to stop the construction.

So, you work quite a lot on urban planning?

Yes. Urban planning is fascinating, and its legal framework is a useful tool to understand it. In fact, in order to better understand what is happening in developing countries like Mexico, it is always critical to build perspective considering also the country’s legal system, how things work there. Comparing is always fruitful for such kinds of analyses. To me, France remains an interesting case study. Not necessarily Paris per se but rather its “banlieue” or surroundings, where urban development is on its way right now.

Can I ask you why specifically choosing Sciences Po’s CEE for your visiting stay?

Well, one of the main intellectual challenges when we have to study cities is comparison, but how? How to propose an elaborated approach, a methodological way to deploy an analysis on 2 or more cities? The CEE team has been working on comparing approaches over many years. One of the main concerns identified with my colleagues at the CEE is that of how to compare cities (for instance, cities from Global South with those in the developed world). Since we are talking about governments, systems, we are therefore also talking about people’s practices, which are not easy to compare. So, for me, this is one of the right places to think about comparison.

Comparative politics are of course one of the peculiarities of the CEE alongside the sociological approach to study social sciences societal phenomena.

I would like to ask would be why specifically Paris today? Why is it so dear or important to you to compare Paris with other cities like Mexico?

I have to say it has to do with some large research projects led by Patrick LE GALÈS to compare the huge metropolises around the world like Paris and Mexico City. That is important because apart from the long way to go in comparing cities, Paris is particularly interesting to start a case. When it comes to the administrative system, Paris (actually France) is similar to Mexico. As a matter of fact, Mexico inherited this legal system from Spain two centuries ago. The legal systems in the two cities (Paris and Mexico City) appear – to us – very familiar in the way in which administrative law is organized, especially in the field of urban law. The Urban legal system in Mexico is closer to the French system than it would be to the Anglo-Saxon system as an example. So, it’s an important point.

Could you just share with us some of your findings after having compared both cities: Paris and Mexico City?

Well, I started my fieldwork in Mexico two years ago. And it is typical of me to watch some of my fieldwork take up to 6 or 7 years …What I can say right now is that: my question is changing over the time.
Nevertheless, I found one global question which consists of trying to understand how urban legal systems work. It is not just about looking into corruption as a simple answer in this kind of research could be “All this could be explained by corruption!”. It is not just that. My research, my first findings drove to me to focus on enforcement systems. It's in the different enforcement systems that strong differences between two cities in urban development governance can be explained.

Well, Thank you very much for such a mind-opening conversation! Thank you for the time you took to discuss this topic with us.

Would you have anything else to add for anybody who would be interested into your field of studies or your research?

Simply that cities are a very interesting field to dig into many questions, not just about the cities themselves but about societies. There are many interesting topics we can study while watching the day-to-day life of cities. I think that Paris is a special case for thinking and finding more special questions about cities as a field of study.

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Sélections d'interviews

Dominique Boullier, La souveraineté des États menacée par les plateformes, septembre 2021, Sciences Po, Chaire Digital, Gouvernance et souveraineté
Cornelia Woll, Le droit américain imposé au monde entier ?, mai 2021, Sciences Po, Focus
Bruno Palier, CIVICA Scholars Discuss: How have Growth Regimes Evolved?, April 2021, Sciences Po - This article was originally published on the website of CIVICA
Charlotte Halpern, Lancement de l'axe politiques environnementales du LIEPP, décembre 2020, LIEPP
Bruno Palier, FOCUS : La pauvreté commence à l'enfance, juin 2020, Sciences Po
Cyril Benoît, OXPO, une mobilité internationale vue du CEE, mars 2020 (PDF, 21 Ko)
Marine Bourgeois, L’accès aux logements sociaux : des discriminations à tous les étages, février 2020, Sciences Po, La recherche
Florence Haegel et Renaud Dehousse Vidéo à l'occasion de la journée anniversaire des 10 ans du CEE, Sciences Po, vidéo, 18 juin 2019
Florence Haegel, Européennes 2019 : renaissance ou repli de l’union ?, Sciences Po
Patrick Le Galès, Patrick Le Galès, Médaille d’argent du CNRS 2018, CNRS, Vidéo
Virginie Guiraudon, Repenser les politiques migratoires : pour un « GIEC » des migrations et de l’asile, Sciences Po
Olivier Rozenberg, Le Parlement sous tous ses angles, vidéo
Olivier Rozenberg, Faire du Parlement le coeur battant de la démocratie
Bruno Palier, Les politiques de notre gouvernement sont-elles efficaces?, Sciences Po
Virginie Guiraudon, Conference academic convernor and Catherine de Vries, University of Essec, Presentation of the European Consortium for Political Research 2018 Conference
Emiliano Grossman & Nicolas Sauger, Pourquoi détestons-nous autant nos politiques ?, Sciences Po, 2017
Virginie Guiraudon, ECPR - SGEU Convenor, CNRS Journal
Florence Haegel, ECPR- SGEU, Sciences Po
Bruno Cousin : Ce que les riches pensent des pauvres / What do the rich think of the poor?
Colin Hay : Former la prochaine génération de politologues / Train the next generation of political scientists
Colin Hay: The world economy is more dangerous and less stable now than in 2008
Clément Boisseuil : Quartiers fragiles
Tom Chevalier : De Sciences Po à Harvard
Tom Chevalier : Émanciper les jeunes : oui, mais comment ?
Tom Chevalier : la jeunesse en France “une citoyenneté refusée”
Thomas Aguilera : Logement : non aux expulsions
Nonna Mayer & Caterina Froio : L'Europe est-elle menacée par les partis d'extrême droite ? / Are far-right parties a threat to the European union?, Sciences Po
Philippe Bezès : L’enseignement est le complément naturel, indispensable même, de la recherche, Sciences Po, 2016
Philippe Bezès : Teaching is the essential complement to research, Sciences Po, 2016
Thomas Aguilera : Alternative Ways of Living in the City are Needed to Bring Cities to Life
Francesca Artioli sur sa thèse "The power of Cities" (OXPO)
Patrick Le Gales, élu à la British Academy
Nonna Mayer & Olivier Dabène, The Political Sciences Department
Florence Haegel, Le département de science politique
Herman Van Rompuy vu par Renaud Dehousse

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Prix et distinctions

Pierre Wokuri, postdoctorant au CEE, a obtenu 2 prix de thèse

Pierre Wokuri

Pierre Wokuri, postdoctorant au CEE, a obtenu 2 prix pour sa thèse en Sciences Politiques : « Orienter et activer : les projets coopératifs d’énergie renouvelable à l’épreuve du marché. Une comparaison multi-niveaux Danemark, France, Royaume-Uni ».

Les autres distinctions des membres du CEE

Abdelkarim Amengay

a obtenu la prestigieuse bourse d’études supérieures du Canada Joseph-Armand-Bomb. Cette bourse d’une valeur de 75.000 euros sur trois ans, vise à développer les compétences en recherche en appuyant les étudiant.e.s qui ont obtenu d’excellents résultats dans leurs études de premier et de deuxième cycles en sciences humaines et qui démontrent un excellent potentiel en recherche.

Thomas Aguilera

multi-primé : En anglais : In 2016, Thomas Aguilera got three Awards for his PhD Dissertation.

The first Prize has been awarded by Dalloz Publisher that will integrally publish Aguilera’s Dissertation in a book. Each year Dalloz Publisher rewards the three best Political science French PhD Dissertations. His book will be published in Spring 2017.
The second Prize has been awarded by “, Institut de France and the think tank « Pour la Solidarité ». It supports academic works that contribute to a better understanding of discriminations, inequalities and poverty and that also emphasize ways to struggle against discrimination, new forms of solidarities and suggests actions for professionals and/or activists.
The third Prize – “Prix special de thèse sur la ville” - is awarded by the PUCA (Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture) – APERAU – Institut CDC pour la recherche/Caisse des Dépôts. It rewards PhD Dissertations that deal with urban issues and urban policies. It aims at promoting academic research and reinforcing the links with professionals in the field of urban planning.

Camille Allé

a été distinguée par le jury du prix de thèse des collectivités territoriales pour sa thèse « Les politiques des finances locales : transformations des relations financières central/local en France (1970‑2010) » qu'elle a soutenue en janvier dernier, sous la direction de >Patrick Le Galès

Jenny Andersson

Awarded Major research grants from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

Le CNRS a decerné une médaille de bronze à Jenny Andersson , historienne à Sciences Po, CEE. Destinée aux jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses, cette médaille vient récompenser leur talent et leur expertise. L’excellence des travaux de Jenny Andersson - déja récompensée par Conseil national scientifique suédois - avait été encore distinguée en 2012 par le Conseil européen de la recherche - European Research Council - qui lui a attribué une de ses bourses (ERC Grant), connues pour être des plus sélectives à l’international. Ce soutien lui permet de conduire depuis lors un projet de recherche unique en son genre : Futurepol.

Présidente élue en 2018 pour les sciences de l'histoire à la Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) is an independent foundation with the goal of promoting and supporting research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 1962, the Riksdag approved a donation from Riksbanken (the Swedish Central Bank), aimed at celebrating Riksbanken’s 300th anniversary in 1968 and, simultaneously, supporting an important national objective.

Caroline Arnal

Lauréate du prix de recherche 2016 de la Fondation pour le lien social de la Croix-Rouge française. L’appel à Prix concernait les interrelations entre autonomie et liens sociaux et, plus précisément, les recherches menées sur les voies de construction, de maintien ou de rupture(s) de l’autonomie et de la réciprocité des conséquences sur la qualité des liens sociaux.

Christine Barwick

a reçu prix pour le meilleur essai, attribué par la Foundation of Urban and Regional Studies. Elle a également un prix de thèse de l'association allemande de sociologie, section de sociologie urbaine.

Clément Boisseuil

a été récompensé par l'USH/CDC pour son article scientifique portant sur la participation des habitants
a reçu le Prix de thèse du Centre National de la Fonction Publique Territoriale. Il est récompensé pour sa thèse de science politique, mention sociologie politique comparée, soutenue le 2 décembre 2016 : Mettre en œuvre la mixité. Rénovation et renouvellement urbains au sein des métropoles de Paris et de Chicago », menée sous la direction de Pierre Lascoumes.

Marine Bourgeois

A remporté

le prix de thèses de la Fondation Mattei Dogan décernés par l'AFSP en juillet 2019 (Vidéo).

le Prix de thèse Dalloz 2018 en Science politique

un prix spécial USH/CDC 2017 de l'article scientifique sur l'habitat social pour son chapitre de livre : Catégorisations et discriminations au guichet du logement social : une comparaison de deux configurations territoriales, in Baudot, Pierre-Yves, Revillard, Anne (dir.), L'État des droits : Politique des droits et pratiques des institutions, Paris, Les Presses de Sciences Po – Académique, 2015.

Nathalia Capellini Carvalho de Oliveira

A obtenu deux prix pour sa thèse intitulée : « Historiciser les barrages en Amazonie brésilienne : environnement, conflit et politique dans la planification et la construction de Tucuruí (1960- 1985), réalisée sous la direction de Grégory Quenet (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)

Le premier a été remis par l’Association des brésiliennistes d'Europe qui décerne chaque année le "Prix ABRE de la meilleure thèse européenne sur le Brésil" qui vise à récompenser la meilleure thèse de doctorat sur le Brésil en sciences humaines et sociales réalisée dans une institution universitaire européenne.
Le second a été remis par Institut des Amériques qui décerne chaque année un prix, sous forme d'aide à la publication, à une thèse en sciences humaines et sociales sur les Amériques

Tom Chevalier

was awarded a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship in 2017, providing him with funding to carry out a one-year research project at Harvard University's Center for European Studies. Having completed a doctoral thesis at Sciences Po which focused on how the welfare state takes care of young people across Europe, he now intends to turn his attention to the field of comparative political economy, taking a wider look at the ways institutions interact. Read the interview on Sciences Po website
a reçu le Doctoral Researcher Prize attribué chaque année par le Journal of European Social policy et l'European Network for Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet) pour son article "Varieties of youth welfare citizenship. Towards a two-dimension typology". Son article a été publié dans le numéro de janvier 2016 du Journal of European Social Policy.

a déjà été primé pour son mémoire de master publié aux éditions l'Harmattan en 2012 sous le titre "L'Etat-providence et les jeunes".

Amélie Corbel

a obtenu une bourse de la fondation Atsumi et bénéficiera du statut de research student à l'université d'Hitotsubashi d'avril 2018 à mars 2019. Sa thèse porte sur l’administration – au sens large – des mariages entre nationaux et étrangers au Japon.

Antoine Courmont

a reçu le prix de thèse sur la ville 2017 pour sa thèse de doctorat en science politique “Politique des données urbaines. Ce que l’open data fait au gouvernement urbain”, thèse soutenue à Sciences Po, sous la direction de Dominique Boullier

Marco Cremaschi

L’Assocation Européenne des Écoles de Urbanisme AESOP a conféré le prix annuel « Excellence in Teaching Award 2016 » au Cycle d’Urbanisme de l’Ecole Urbaine Sciences Po pour le workshop "Practical Plans: global migrants and local development in Lampedusa" organisé par les responsables scientifique et pédagogique Marco Cremasch i et Irène Mboumoua, et encadré par les enseignants du Cycle d’Urbanisme Jérôme Baratier, Marie Bassi, Alessandro Formisano. En savoir plus sur le site de l'École urbaine de Sciences Po

Elodie Druez

a reçu une bourse de recherche de la Ville de Paris pour son projet de recherche intitulé « Le vécu de la racisation et le rapport au politique des diplômés d’origine subsaharienne : Une comparaison Paris-Londres » (Sciences Po – INED). Lire l'article sur le site de la Mairie de Paris

Ruggero Gambacurta-Scopello

Son mémoire Les régimes passent, l'Etat développementaliste demeure a été publié chez L'Harmattan

Virginie Guiraudon

Élue présidente du comité de pilotage scientifique de l'ECPR Standing Group European Unon, 2020

Lisa Kastner

received PADEMIA Research Award and awarded by MPIfG
En anglais : Lisa Kastner received the 2016 PADEMIA Research Award for her dissertation Restraining Regulatory Capture: An Empirical Examination of the Power of Weak Interests in Financial Reforms in which she examines the role of civil society in the governance of finance after the financial crisis in 2008. The award was presented to Kastner on May 19, 2016, at the PADEMIA annual conference in Brussels.
Primée par l'MPIfG (Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung), le plus important et prestigieux laboratoire allemand en sciences sociales.Le jury de la Société des Amis et anciens associés de la MPIfG (*) décerne à Lisa KASTNER le prix de la revue 2015 pour son article "Much Ado about Nothing?" Transnational Civil Society, Consumer Protection and Financial Regulatory Reform. Ce prix distingue le meilleur article publié par un chercheur de l'MPIfG.

Flip Kosteka

est lauréat du concours Étudiants-chercheurs étoiles des Fonds de recherche du Québec (Nature et technologies, Société et culture et Santé). Ce concours vise à reconnaître l'excellence de la recherche réalisée par les étudiants de niveau universitaire, les stagiaires postdoctoraux et les membres d'un ordre professionnel en formation de recherche avancée, et ce, dans toutes les disciplines couvertes par les trois Fonds de recherche du Québec.
a reçu le prix de thèse de la Fondation Mattei Dogan décernés par l’AFSP>. Il a publié un article issu de sa thèse "Does Democratic Consolidation Lead to a Decline in Voter Turnout? Global Evidence Since 1939" dans American Political Science Review, la plus prestigieuse revue en science politique. Lire l'article sur le site de l'AFSP

Patrick le Galès

Elu Membre de l'Academia Europaea, section sciences sociales, 2019
récompensé par la Médaille d'argent du CNRS 2018 - (vidéo)
son article "Neoliberalism and Urban Change: Stretching a Good Idea Too Far?" a remporté le prix du meilleur article de "2017, Regional Studies Association" pour le journal Territory, Politics, Governance.

Nicolas Leron

a obtenu le Prix de Thèse Pierre PFLIMLIN
Un accessit a été délivré à Monsieur Nicolas LERON pour son travail intitulé "La gouvernance constitutionnelle des juges", une thèse en science politique soutenue le 29 janvier 2014 à Sciences Po.

Nonna Mayer

a reçu le UACES Lifetime Achievement Award en 2019

a reçu le Political Studies Association (PSA) French Politics and Policy Specialist group Prize décerné pour le meilleur article paru dans French Politics pour son article intitulé : ‘’The closing of the radical right gender gap in France’’ (2015)

Nonna Mayer et Tommaso Vitale

nommé.e.s expert.e.s du Conseil Scientifique. Le Plan d'action 2015 -2017 contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme, dévoilé par le Premier ministre le 17 avril 2015, prévoit la création d'un Conseil scientifique auprès du Délégué interministériel à la lutte contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme. Pour en savoir plus

Myrtille Picaud

Lauréate de la fondation des sciences sociales

Clément Viktorovitch

a obtenu une Mention spéciale du Prix de thèse du Sénat 201. Le Jury du Prix de thèse du Sénat , réuni le 22 mai 2014 sous la présidence de M. Jean-Pierre BEL, Président du Sénat, a décerné une mention spéciale à Clément Viktorovitch.

Sofia Wickberg

Lauréate du prix Stopcorruption pour son chapitre ">Political Corruption in a World in Transition: The Fluctuating Boundaries of Corruption" dans Political Corruption in a World in Transition (Jonathan Mendilow and Eric Phelippeau eds, Vernon Press, 2019)>

Natasha Wunsch

Élue vice-présidente du comité de pilotage scientifique de l'ECPR Standing Group European Unon, 2020
Awarded ECSA-AEI Best Article Prize: The European Community Studies Association Germany awarded the prize for the best article on European integration authored by a junior scholar of German citizenship or affiliated with a German University in 2020. Natasha received the award for her co-authored article (with Solveig Richter): “Money, power, glory: the linkages between EU conditionality and state capture in the Western Balkans.” Journal of European Public Policy 27(1): 41-62.

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Emiliano Grossman (CEE) and The Comparative Agendas Project

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Transcript of the video

Question 1: Can you introduce your book?

Question 2: Why did you decide to release it on Open Acces?

Emiliano Grossman, Associate Professor at Sciences Po, Member of the CEE, presents his book co-written with Isabelle Guinaudeau "Do Elections (Still) Matter?" (Oxford University Press, December 2021)

Transcript of the video

Question 1: Why did you choose an analysis from the 1980’s?

Question 2: Why did you study Germany, Denmark, France, Italy and the United Kingdom in your book?

Question 3: Do elections still matter in our contemporary democracies?

Florence Haegel, Professor at Sciences Po, Director of the CEE., presents her article "Political socialization: Out of Purgatory?" published on 9 February 2021 in the European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie, Cambridge University Press.

Transcript of the video

Question 1: Why do you use the term «Purgatory» in your title?

Question 2: What are the reasons for the crisis in this field of research?

Question 3: Why is it useful to work on political socialization today?

Question 4: What research avenues have been recently explored?

Florence Faucher and Gérôme Truc present their collective book Face aux attentats published by PUF (Presses Universitaires de France) in November 2020.

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Question 1: How can the social sciences and humanities help us to understand the collective and individual impact of the attacks, and to better cope with them?

Question 2: What was special about the attacks of January and November 2015?

Question 3: What impact do the attacks have on our society?

Question 4: What are the interactions between the state and public opinion in response to the attacks of January and November 2015 ?

Cyril Benoît, Researcher fellow CNRS & Olivier Rozenberg, Associate professor at Sciences Po, CEE (eds.) present: The Handbook of Parliamentary Studies Interdisciplinary Approaches to Legislatures(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020).

Dominique Boullier, Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po & member of the CEE is interviewed about his book: Comment sortir de l’emprise des réseaux sociaux (Le Passeur, 2020).

Patrick Le Galès, CNRS Research Professor of Sociology and Politics at the CEE & Dean of Urban School of Sciences Po is interviewed about the book (ed) : Gouverner la métropole parisienne. État, conflits, institutions, réseaux (Les Presses de Sciences Po, 2020).

This interview with Bruno Palier, CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, is devoted to his latest book: "Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies. How have Growth Regimes evolved", co-edited with Anke Hassel.

Paul Marx is a Professor of Political Science and Socio-Economics at University of Duisburg-Essen - The Effect of Children's Economic Hardship on Future Voting

Ragnhild Louise Muriaas is a professor of Political Science at the Department of Government, University of Bergen - Parliamentary Stayers in Western Democracies: Mind the Gender-Gap in Political Endurance

Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, directrice de recherche au CNRS et directrice adjointe du Centre de sociologie des organisations à Sciences Po - Pourquoi nous consommons tant. Pour une économie politique de l'abondance

Luc Boltanski, sociologue, est directeur d'études à l'EHESS et Arnaud Esquerre, sociologue, est directeur de recherche au CNRS - "Qu'est ce que l'actualité politique ?"

Radoslaw Zubek, Associate Professor of European Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford - "Coalition bargaining and legislative instutions"

Katharina Pistor, Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School - "The Laws of Capitalism"

Elizabeth Popp Berman is Associate Professor of Organizational Studies and (by courtesy) Sociology at the University of Michigan "Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy"

ERIK JONES, Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute "Two Models for the Politicization of European Integration: Postfunctionalism, Anti-Establishment Politics, and the Italian Case"

ANN MORNING, Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University "an ugly word: rethinking race in Italy and the USA"

Chloe Alexandre, Florent Gougou, Simon Persico (Sciences Po Grenoble, Pacte) "What unites and divides the environmental movement? Ideological consensus and conflict amongst French climate activists"

Isabelle Guinaudeau, Sciences Po Bordeaux, Centre Emile Durkheim, CNRS: Unequal mandate representation? Group targeting and citizens’ responses to electoral pledges and their realisations

Shamus Khan, Professor of Sociology and American Studies at Princeton University "Sexual Citizens: A study of sexual assault on campus"

Natascha Zaun, Assistant Professor in Migration Studies at the European Institute at LSEWhen populist governments become assertive: The role of politicisation in explaining deadlock of EU asylum policymaking

Brenda Van Coppenolle, Department of Government, University of Essex: Deliberating Constitutions: Lotteries in Constituent Assemblies, Denmark in 1848

Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Oxford: Europe’s Social Model facing the Covid-19 Employment Crisis: Innovating Job Retention Policies to Avoid Mass Unemployment.

Cécile Laborde, Université d’Oxford, Nuffield Chair en Théorie Politique Laïcité, séparation et progressisme: l’Inde et la théorie politique comparée

Chris Bickerton, University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies & Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, City College of New York "Technopopulism The New Logic of Democratic Politics"

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, University of Bergen & Paul Sniderman, Stanford University "The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos"

Frédéric Mérand, Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM) "Un sociologue à la Commission européenne"

Paul Pierson, University of California, Berkeley "Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality"

Chloe Alexandre, Florent Gougou, Simon Persico (Sciences Po Grenoble, Pacte) "What unites and divides the environmental movement? Ideological consensus and conflict amongst French climate activists"

Isabelle Guinaudeau, Sciences Po Bordeaux, Centre Emile Durkheim, CNRS: Unequal mandate representation? Group targeting and citizens’ responses to electoral pledges and their realisations

Shamus Khan, Professor of Sociology and American Studies at Princeton University "Sexual Citizens: A study of sexual assault on campus"

Natascha Zaun, Assistant Professor in Migration Studies at the European Institute at LSE: When populist governments become assertive: The role of politicisation in explaining deadlock of EU asylum policymaking

Brenda Van Coppenolle, Department of Government, University of Essex: Deliberating Constitutions: Lotteries in Constituent Assemblies, Denmark in 1848

Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Oxford: Europe’s Social Model facing the Covid-19 Employment Crisis: Innovating Job Retention Policies to Avoid Mass Unemployment.

Cécile Laborde, Université d’Oxford, Nuffield Chair en Théorie Politique Laïcité, séparation et progressisme: l’Inde et la théorie politique comparée

Chris Bickerton, University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies & Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, City College of New York "Technopopulism The New Logic of Democratic Politics"

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, University of Bergen & Paul Sniderman, Stanford University "The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos"

Frédéric Mérand, Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM) "Un sociologue à la Commission européenne"

Paul Pierson, University of California, Berkeley "Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality"

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What is your current position?

What did you write your thesis on?

What did the CEE and Sciences Po bring to your doctoral experience?

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"The Dance of European Integration: How Ideology and Policy Shape Support for the EU"

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Postdoctoral position: ANR-funded research project on central banking

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Louis Baktash, a 3rd year PhD student at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge, just finished a four-month visiting stay at the CEE as part of the CamPo exchange scheme. He reflects on his experience in this interview.

What is your PhD thesis about?

What is your initial academic background?

Why did you apply for the CamPo programme and why did you choose the CEE as your host laboratory for this stay? What did you expect from this exchange programme?

What did you get out of this experience?

Thank you Louis and good luck with your PhD work!

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ERIK JONES, Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute
"Two Models for the Politicization of European Integration: Postfunctionalism, Anti-Establishment Politics, and the Italian Case"

Study on the contribution of digital actors to the financialisation of real estate,
in a comparative perspective (PDF, 242 Ko)

Study on the contribution of institutional investors to affordable housing policies,
in a comparative perspective (PDF, 149 Ko)

Research Assistant Repchance project
Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée (UMR 8239)
Sciences Po