Olivier Godechot is codirector of MaxPo, Sociology Professor at Sciences Po and Research Professor at CNRS publishes Wages, Bonuses and Appropriation of Profit in the Financial Industry (Routledge) in which he provides an in-depth inquiry into the bonus system.

The Scientific Council of Sciences Po is solemnly protests against the situation of academics in Turkey, many of them being victims of a political repression from the goverment, unable to carrying out their teaching and research activities under normal conditions.
The Scientific Council is alarmed by the on-goint threat to academic freedom and recalls that the university is based on an undeniable principle: independence from any political, ideological, economic or religious pressure.

In an election year full of twists, an overview of our work on elections – a central and foundational research subject at Sciences Po – was in order. This issue sheds light and encourages reflection on topics covering the sociology of the electorate, role of the media, voters’ assessment of polices, confidence in our elected officials and our institutions, electoral conditions beyond our borders, etc.

The QS World University Rankings by subject 2017 have just been released. This year, Sciences Po remains in fourth place worldwide for Politics & International Studies, alongside Harvard University, Oxford University and the London School of Economics, and is again the highest ranked in the subject in Continental Europe.

As the European Research Council turns 10 year old, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité celebrates research excellence in Europe.

The Oxford Handbook of French Politics, co-directed by Emiliano Grossman and to whitch 13 Sciences Po researchers have contributed, provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French political system through the lens of political science.

The Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo), which was inaugurated in 2012, will continue its research work through 2022.

After an evaluation process, MaxPo's funding was enthusiastically renewed for a further five years. An outgrowth of many years of collaboration between the MPIfG in Cologne and Sciences Po in Paris,

MaxPo examines the impact of increasing liberalization, technological advances, and cultural change on the stability of industrialized Western societies.

This year Sciences Po once again continued its ambitious efforts to strengthen its research community.
Fourteen researchers and professors joined our research units and teaching staff:  Régis Bismuth, Dominique Cardon, Thomas Chaney, Bruno Cousin, Laurent Fourchard, Romain Lachat, Patrick Le Bihan, Giacomo Parrinello, Benoît Pelopidas, Eduardo Perez-Richet , Camille Roth , Julie Saada, Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic et Éric Verdeil. Profiles:

The nation is at once an emancipatory and an exclusionist concept. This is the theme developed by Alain Dieckhoff, CNRS research fellow and director of Sciences Po CERI, in his latest book, Nationalism and the Multination State*. Grounding his analysis in the history of the nation-state, Dieckhoff helps us understand the shifting manifestations of the concept and the tensions generated by nationalism. Interview with the author.

At the heart of Sciences Po's Research

The launch of Cogito has one main purpose: to share our most recent research findings and new projects with you. It was not easy to choose from our community’s rich activity. The report featured in this issue – on migration in Europe – was an obvious choice given how much the subject is currently dominating the news. We believe that the publications, research projects, young researcher profiles and unexpected data presented in this first issue are emblematic of the work to which our research community is passionately devoted.