A political economist, Zsófia Barta joined Sciences Po and the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics in December. She tells us about her research on the politics of public debt in prosperous countries.

Graduate from the Governing Ecological Transition in Cities Master's programme, research track

As she just joined the CEE as an Assistant Professor in political science in December 2023, she talks about her background and research in this video interview.

For the next five years, Brenda Van Coppenolle will be leading a large comparative project on "Political Lotteries in European Democratisation" (POLLOT)

Federico Varese joined the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics as a Professor of Sociology in February 2023, following a distinguished career at the University of Oxford where he held the position of Sociology Department Chair.

Drawing upon his ethnographic investigations in urban peripheries, Gabriel Feltran explores the dynamics of governance, power, violence, and normative regimes, particularly within illegal or criminal value chains.

On September 1, 2022, Florence Faucher, Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, succeeded Florence Haegel as the Director of the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE).

Isabelle Guinaudeau, a Research Fellow at CNRS, joined CEE in the spring of 2022. She presents her background and research work on the intersection of political competition and public action.

Since September 2021, she has been a postdoc researcher in the ERC project "DEPART: The de-party-politicization of Europe's political elites", coordinated by Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik, in the Department of Government at the University of Vienna in Austria.

A former doctoral student at the EWC, Sofia Wickberg is currently assistant professor in public policy and governance at the University of Amsterdam.

Ulrike Lepont, a researcher in political science, joined CNRS and CEE in the autumn of 2021. In this interview, she introduces her academic trajectory and her current research topic, which focuses on public investment policies in Europe and examines the transformation of the state's role in the economy following the crises of 2008 and 2020.

Joost de Moor joined Sciences Po and the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics as an Assistant Professor in the autumn of 2021. His research and teaching revolve around environmental policy, social movements, and political participation, utilizing quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods as well as comparative models and case studies.

Her research is characterized by the interest for comparative approaches, with a focus on socio-political contextualisation (localism, political subcultures, dynamics of territorial anchorage of political parties). Her methodological skills are predominantly qualitative, with a consolidated experience in interviewing (structured, semi-structured and ethnographic interviews), focus groups, participant observation, and archival research.

Her research interests include comparative politics, gender and politics, political behaviour and representation, and public opinion.

His work centers around the environmental history of ideas and the forms of power associated with the governance of nature in modern societies.

Her research lies at the intersection of European studies and comparative politics. Natasha Wunsch is particularly interested in how European integration influences political transformation in candidate countries and, conversely, the impact of democratic regression and illiberal trends within certain member states on cooperation at the European level.

She talks about her career and her experience as a young teacher-researcher.

As part of the Horizon 2020 COESO Project, Jessica Pidoux is conducting a postdoctoral research at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE). She presents her multifaceted background and shares her experience as a young researcher.

She talks about her career and her experience as a young researcher.

Fitting more broadly into the field of study on political parties and their transformations, Arthur Borriello's current work focuses on contemporary populist movements and more particularly on Podemos (Spain), the 5 Star Movement (Italy) and the France Insoumise (France).