Emiliano Grossman, professor at Sciences Po, has been appointed director of the Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP). He succeeds Nicolas Sauger, who has held the post since 2017.

A teacher and researcher specialising in comparative politics

Emiliano Grossman is a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE). His research focuses on comparative political institutions and the comparative analysis of public policy. He works on attention cycles in politics and on partisan strategies in a political context that increasingly restricts the autonomy of governments.

He leads a project about political agendas, funded over several years by the French National Research Agency (ANR), which aims to develop quantitative indicators of the evolution of political institutions in France.

Emiliano Grossman is the scientific adviser for the "Politics and Public Policy" stream of the Master's in Public Policy at Sciences Po's School of Public Affairs. Furthermore, he teaches comparative politics at the Paris campus.

A Sciences Po alumnus, with an MPhil from Cambridge University, he completed his doctoral thesis at Sciences Po and then his habilitation to direct research at an Institute for Political Studies in Grenoble. Since September 2017, he has been co-editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Political Research.

The CDSP, a benchmark data centre for the social sciences

The CDSP is one of France’s major centres for the production and handling of social science data. It is a key player in the documentation, preservation and production of data. It is also a centre of expertise on quantitative and qualitative methods, associated with the great national and European research infrastructures.

A support and research unit (UAR 828) set up in 2005 by Sciences Po and the CNRS, the CDSP if sustained by a team of more than 20 developers, engineers and data specialists.

The CDSP is developing a range of infrastructures, platforms and services aimed at the academic community and fully engaged with an open science approach. In this capacity, CDSP provides expertise relating to probability panels and online surveys, metadata standards, and the development and implementation of application infrastructures for research.

The CDSP’s activities are also structured by several major projects, including the ELIPSS online probability panel (online longitudinal survey for the social sciences), the European Social Survey in France, but also the institutional research data repository, experiments on data handling procedures as well as the production of a sample management application within the framework of comparative web panels.

Kevin Arceneaux, Professor of Political Science, has been elected director of Sciences Po's Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF). He took office on 1 January 2024 and succeeds Martial Foucault, who had held this position since 2014. Anne Muxel will accompany him in this new challenge as deputy director.

An international director to strengthen transversality and excellence

Kevin Arceneaux is American, and the first international director of CEVIPOF, a centre that was founded more than 60 years ago. His appointment testifies to the excellence, international reputation and openness of this historic Sciences Po research centre, whose researchers have been studying French, but also international, political life for several years now.

As director of CEVIPOF, Kevin Arceneaux will lead initiatives aimed at strengthening the excellence and uniqueness of this research centre, renown in particular for the quality and relevance of its studies and analyses of elections.

“I sincerely thank all of my colleagues at CEVIPOF and theCNRS for their trust, and I am very honoured to begin this new mission. As the European elections will take place next June, I particularly want to make them a major subject of research within our centre. I also wish to strengthen the transversality between the three poles of CEVIPOF: the analysis of elections and opinion studies, the life of institutions and political philosophy. Finally, as part of Sciences Po’s greater outreach, I intend to open CEVIPOF, its research and its events to the public,” comments Kevin Arceneaux.

Professor of Political Science, Kevin Arceneaux studies public opinion and political media. After a doctorate at Rice University, then a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale within its Institution for Social and Policy Studies, he joined the permanent faculty of Temple University in 2005. He first worked there as Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, then joined its Institute for Public Affairs in 2006. In 2013, he became director of the Behavioral Foundations Lab at Temple University. In 2018, he was named the Thomas J. Freaney Jr. Professor at Temple University.

In 2021, Kevin Arceneaux became a teacher and a researcher within Sciences Po and CEVIPOF research team which, in 2019, welcomed him as a guest researcher. At the same time, he continues to work for the Temple University Behavioral Foundations Lab as an associate researcher.

CEVIPOF, a major centre for research in political science

CEVIPOF (Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po) was founded in 1960 by Jean Touchard. It became a joint Sciences Po-CNRS research centre in 1968. Ever since it was first created, CEVIPOF has been considered to be one of the major centres for research in political science as demonstrated by academic appraisal, feedback from the public debate arena and the expertise it provides to government. While it offers an in-depth focus on the political sphere in France, much of the work carried out at the centre adopts a comparative approach while other themes are global in scope. The centre plays a vital role at the interface between research and politics providing a valuable resource for political actors, society at large, economic decision makers and the media.

CEVIPOF is a multidisciplinary research centre, which draws on an extended landscape of methodological resources. These include quantitative and qualitative methodologies to process surveys and opinion polls, longitudinal studies, big data and discourse analysis, theoretical comparative research, and also a number of techniques specific to socio-physics. CEVIPOF has been conducting systematic electoral studies since 1968 when it became a joint Sciences Po-CNRS centre, thus providing a unique and cumulative series of data comparable over time.

The 24 researchers and 27 doctoral and post-doctoral students of CEVIPOF publish their work in a wide variety of leading international journals and are regularly invited to present their research at international academic events. The centre hosts a number of visiting researchers throughout the year. It also organises conferences and academic events on a regular basis, thus creating a platform for its ever-expanding international network to interact and develop their mutual interests in the political sciences.

Continuing its policy of strengthening its research, Sciences Po welcomed in 2023, fourteen new members to its permanent faculty. In their diversity, their own field of expertise, they explore the major changes in our societies. These new thinkers strengthen our research units, irrigate our courses at all levels of the curriculum , and reinforce Sciences Po's presence in public debate. Discover their bios!

Navigating Insights and Fostering Collaboration

In the vibrant backdrop of Paris, Sciences Po set the stage for the zenith of the CIVICA Research project—the CIVICA Research Conference 2023. Held on October 12 and 13, this gathering brought together early-stage researchers, professors and higher education experts across and beyond CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences.

With over 300 enthusiasts expressing their eagerness to attend both virtually and on site, the conference emerged as a triumph of collaborative research and innovation in the social sciences. Over two dynamic days, 34 speakers engaged in compelling discussions on topics ranging from migration and integration to data sciences, social behaviours, democracy, and climate change.

Inaugurated by Mathias Vicherat, President, and Sergei Guriev, Provost of Sciences Po, the event highlighted the flourishing state of European research. "Today, we celebrate the incredible results achieved over the past three years in research and innovation in social sciences," declared President Vicherat, with Provost Guriev echoing the commitment to future project development within the alliance.

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Receiving funding from the European Research Council is an indisputable mark of excellence for a researcher, so competitive is the selection process.  

Two young researchers from Sciences Po - Philipp Brandt and Zachary Van Winkle - have just received this international recognition by winning two Starting Grants, funding awarded to researchers at the start of their careers who have already produced excellent work and have the potential to distinguish themselves in the research world.

Philipp Brandt conducts research on non-standard work trajectories

Philipp Brandt, researcher at the Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO), will undertake a research project on “Returns to Work in Occupational, Relational, and Corporate Settings”. Philipp Brandt focuses on the surprising, unexpected and unusual changes in the trajectories of male and female workers. What are the consequences of switching to a completely different profession, or applying a new method to one's workstation? Is there an increase in pay, or a change in position? What are the differences between the situations of men and women? This research uses innovative data sets and computer techniques. The first part attempts to capture different institutional contexts, focusing on job change sequences at national level for France, Germany and the USA. The second part looks at how workers in two types of occupation, one more intellectual and the other more applied, carry out their work while changing professional and organisational frameworks, and the effects this has. Finally, a last study, a combination of the first two parts, focuses on workers and how they interrogate conventional job presentations depending on whether they are in standard or non-standard work trajectories.

Philipp Brandt completed his PhD at Columbia University and worked at the University of Mannheim as a post-doctoral researcher, where he received the 2019 Teaching Award from students in sociology and political science. He is completing a book project on the emergence of the data scientist profession and a study of migrant workers in German companies.

Zachary Van Winkle studies the impact of widowhood worldwide

Zachary Van Winkle, a researcher at Sciences Po's Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS), will be tackling a sensitive and understudied subject “A Social Demography of Widowhood across Ageing Societies”. While the loss of a spouse is a critical emotional moment, it also has long-lasting consequences, particularly in terms of economic vulnerability.  Not only is mental health damaged - anxiety, insomnia, depression, loneliness - but income is also affected, with serious consequences, particularly in relation to housing. Two other aspects of the project make it an innovative piece of research: the comparison of widow/widower trajectories in sixty countries, and their evolution in a historical perspective.

In 2018, Zachary Van Winkle had already gained recognition for his doctoral work, receiving the prize for best thesis awarded by the European Consortium of Sociological Research and the German Society for Demography. Before joining Sciences Po, he had carried out research at Oxford University, as a post-doctoral fellow.

Funding supports research on digital governance, future of governance of technology & social media; and decentralised networks.

SciencesPo and Project Liberty’s Institute (formerly the McCourt Institute) are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 research grants, totaling nearly $1 million in funding. Grantees will focus on the following issues: governance of the metaverse; misinformation & social media; digital identity; safety of Artificial Intelligence; etc. The grants program supports research working on responsible innovation, ethics, and challenges of new technologies.

The 2023 SciencesPo & Project Liberty’s Institute grantees include:

• Teaching Online News: Access to Digital Media, News Consumption and Political Knowledge – Evidence from a Randomised Experiment
  Julia Cagé, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Sciences Po
• Styles of Moderation: Meeting Users' Diverse Expectations and Practices for a More Decentralised Governance of Online Speech
  Sylvain Parasie, Professor of Sociology and Director of médialab, Sciences Po; Donato Ricci, Research Designer at médialab, Sciences Po; Dominique Cardon, Professor of Sociology, médialab, Sciences Po.
• How does ID verification on social media influence political and social behaviour?
  Romain Lachat, Associate Professor at CEVIPOF, Sciences Po.
• From Viral to Verified: A Cross-Country Study on Misinformation Sharing and Flagging to Improve Policy Making
  Achim Edelmann, Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science, médialab, Sciences Po.
• Analysing Dynamics of Metaverse communities for the understanding of determinants of metaverse adoption
  Kevin Mellet, Assistant Professor, CSO, CNRS/SciencesPo; Christine Balagué, Professor, Institut Mines Telecom-Business School, Chair Good in Tech, Member of Dataia, Member of CSA expert group on misinformation
• Promoting a Safe Use of Artificial Intelligence by Fighting Against Cognitive Heuristics-Driven Misperceptions
  Lou Safra, Assistant Professor in Political Psychology at CEVIPOF, Sciences Po
• Interventions to Reduce Misinformation and Deep Fakes: Cross-Country Experimental Evidence
  Nicolas Sauger, Professor of Political Sciences, Director of CDSP, Sciences Po.

An International Mission To Build an Internet That Serves Citizens

In 2022, the McCourt Institute supported 8 research projects at SciencesPo in the first round of grants. To learn more about ongoing projects, click here.

The research projects supported by Project Liberty’s Institute in 2023 will further advance our understanding of governance of digital technologies and their social and political impact.”, noted Sergei Guriev, Provost and Professor of Economics at SciencesPo. “Fully in line with the vision of our partnership with Project Liberty’s Institute, these projects will also provide policy implications for assuring that the new technology reinforces rather than undermines our democracies”.

“Our collaboration with Sciences Po is very important to achieve Project Liberty’s mission. Accelerating action-oriented research to address emerging digital governance issues is both critical and timely” noted Constance de Leusse, Executive Director of Project Liberty’s Institute.  

Through research conducted by Sciences Po’s researchers as well as other partner universities (Georgetown University and Stanford University) Project Liberty’s Institute aims to identify solutions for building a civic and equitable technological infrastructure for all, along with new governance models. “Can we ensure privacy in our lives online? Should our online relationships and personal information be owned by corporations or by each of us? Can we replace surveillance capitalism with a new digital shared economic model?” These are the questions that Project Liberty’s Institute and Sciences Po intend to answer. The focus is on developing a new digital architecture, designed and built for the common good, which optimises access and equity for all.

About Project Liberty

Project Liberty is an international nonprofit accelerating the world's transition to an open, inclusive data economy that empowers people over platforms by working to mobilise the foundation of a new internet for the common good. Project Liberty and its Institute are building a global alliance for responsible technology and bringing together technologists, academics, policymakers, civil society and citizens to build a safer, healthier tech ecosystem.

About SciencesPo

Sciences Po is an international research university, both selective and open to the world, ranking among the finest institutions in the fields of humanities and social sciences.

Sciences Po's overarching mission is to educate future leaders in the public and private sectors. Curious and open-minded, Sciences Po graduates, regardless of their focus and trajectory, all share the ability to “learn how to learn”, which is one of the priorities of our education. However, our ambition extends even further: to educate open-minded and enlightened citizens capable of changing the world and transforming society.

18th July 2023

Conversations with Sergei Guriev: researchers' take on major contemporary issues

Environmental transformation is also the common thread running through the first season of the podcast Conversations with Sergei Guriev, in which Sciences Po Provost and world-renowned economist Sergei Guriev engages in dialogue with researchers from our various centres, for a multidisciplinary approach to major contemporary issues.

This podcast enables Sciences Po to fulfill one of its major missions: to share and highlight the findings of our researchers and shed unique light on the challenges facing the world today. Following on from environmental transformation, future seasons of Conversations with Sergei Guriev will cover topics as varied as digital transformation, threats to our democracies, inequality and globalisation.

The first series devoted to environmental issues will address environmental transformation is addressed through citizen mobilisation, public policy, international negotiations and the historical roots of society's relationship with the environment....

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Inspired by the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, Le Monde, French daily, and the Cercle des économistes, created the prize in 2000, to highlight the work of France’s best young economists and to make better known the multiple facets of economic science.

In awarding the 2023 Best Young Economist Prize to Julia Cagé ex aequo, with Vincent Pons (Harvard Business School), the jury has chosen to throw its projector on a particular research area in economics: works that analyse the current crisis in democracy. This area is firmly rooted in the concepts and methods of economics but also falls under the purview of political science – its current prevalence is related to growing concerns about the relationship between the economy and political power.

The list of concerns the Cercle des économistes evokes - the impact of the concentration of the media on the quality of information; the spread of disinformation on social networks; the funding of democracy and determinants of electoral participation - reads very much like a research statement that could be drafted by Julia Cagé!

Published in the leading journals, Julia Cagé’s work focuses on media economics, political participation and political attitudes.

In 2021 she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her 5-year project Campaign Finance, Information and Influence: A ComprehensIve Approach Using Individual-Level Data and Computer Science Tools (PARTICIPATE) which studies, notably, blindspots in the economic literature on the funding of political parties and the representativity of candidates for their electoral campaigns.

Her latest research projects, selected recently by McCourt Institute for substantial grants in 2022 and 2023, explore issues related to information in the digital age (the spread of disinformation on social media and online news) but also look at resolving them (how to slow down disinformation, how to ensure access to quality information).

Julia Cagé is also well-known to the general public for her books in which she proposes concrete, radical solutions after meticulously scrutinizing her topic. She has authored three books on the media, one of which - Saving the Media. Capitalism, Crowdfunding and Democracy (Paris, Le Seuil, 2015) - was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Best Book on Media of the 2016 edition of the “Prix des Assises du Journalisme”. Her latest critically acclaimed work « The Price of Democracy » (at Fayard in 2018, English edition at Harvard University Press, 2020) was awarded the Prix Pétrarque de l’essai by Le Monde and France Culture in 2019.

Proposing a solution to the problems she rigorously analyses using the economist’s toolbox, is a hallmark of Julia Cagé’s work. This aligns with the Best Young Economist Prize: the award showcases the ability of the laureate to trace a useful lead in answering the most pressing socioeconomic questions of the day.

With the awarding of the 2023 “Meilleure Jeune Economiste” Prize to Julia Cagé, the Department's permanent faculty members have been distinguished by the Cercle des économistes 12 times – seven faculty members are laureates of the prize (in 2020, Isabelle Mejean was the last to win it) and another five have been nominated for it.

Congratulations to Julia Cagé as well as to her co-laureate Vincent Pons!

Read more about Julia Cagé and her research 

Read Le Monde interview with Julia Cagé and Vincent Pons, co-laureates (May 22nd, 2023, in French)
Read more about the Cercle des économistes: Prix du Meilleur Jeune Économiste

Julia Cagé is Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure) the Department of Economics and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), where she also leads the Research and Policy Network on “Media Plurality”. She is co-director of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)’s “Evaluation of Democracy” research group. She has published articles in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics.

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November, 30th - 6.15 p.m - 8.15 p.m - Amphithéâtre Simone Veil - 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007, Paris

In the framework of Sciences Po's Rendez-vous de la Recherche, a discussion around the book “The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality”, with author Oded Galor, Herbert H. Goldberger, Professor of Economics at Brown University and the founding thinker behind “Unified Growth Theory”, which seeks to uncover the fundamental causes of development, prosperity and inequality over the entire span of human history.
Discussant: Benjamin Marx, Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.
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About the book (published in 30 languages):

In a captivating journey from the dawn of human existence to the present, world-renowned economist and thinker Oded Galor offers an intriguing solution to two of humanity’s great mysteries. Why are humans the only species to have escaped - only very recently - the subsistence trap, allowing us to enjoy a standard of living that vastly exceeds all others? And why have we progressed so unequally around the world, resulting in the great disparities between nations that exist today?

Immense in scope and packed with astounding connections, Galor's gripping narrative explains how technology, population size, and adaptation led to a stunning “phase change” in the human story a mere two hundred years ago. But by tracing that same journey back in time and peeling away the layers of influence - colonialism, political institutions, societal structure, culture - he arrives also at an explanation of inequality's ultimate causes: those ancestral populations that enjoyed fruitful geographical characteristics and rich diversity were set on the path to prosperity, while those that lacked it were disadvantaged in ways still echoed today.

As we face ecological crisis across the globe, The Journey of Humanity is a book of urgent truths and enduring relevance, with lessons that are both hopeful and profound: gender equality, investment in education, and balancing diversity with social cohesion are the keys not only to our species’ thriving, but to its survival.

About the Author:

Oded Galor is the founder of Unified Growth Theory. He has contributed to the understanding of the process of development over the entire course of human history and the role of deep-rooted factors in the transition from stagnation to growth and in the emergence of the vast inequality across the globe. Moreover, he has pioneered the exploration of the impact of evolutionary processes, population diversity, and inequality on the process of development over most of human existence. His research has redirected research in the field of economic growth to the exploration of the long shadow of history and to the role of biogeographical forces in comparative economic development. It has spawned the influential literatures studying the impact of inequality on the process of development, the interaction between human adaptation and economic development, the transition from stagnation to growth, and the impact of human diversity on comparative economic development.

Oded Galor was awarded Doctorate Honoris Causa from UC Louvain and from Poznan University of Economics & Business. He is an elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea and an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society. He has been a co-director of the NBER research group on Income Distribution and Macroeconomics, a Research Fellow of CEPR, GLO, and IZA, a Research Associate of the NBER and CESifo, a Sackler Fellow at Tel-Aviv University, and a Fellow of the Hebrew University.  Furthermore, he is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Growth, Editor of the Journal of Population Economics, and Co-Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics.

This event is jointly hosted with the INSEAD James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre for the Study of Wealth Inequality.

Our societies are facing major challenges: rising extremism and violence, persistent discrimination, difficulties in establishing environmental public policies, slowness of the financial sector to commit to a low-carbon economy... It is to all these questions, to which politicians are in a hurry to respond, that our researchers have decided to tackle within the framework of CIVICA Research. The added value of CIVICA Research is its capacity to bring together diverse approaches from across the social sciences on major global and uniquely-European challenges.

Following CIVICA's third call, eleven projects have been selected for funding totaling €350,000. Most of them bring together two or three CIVICA partners, with the biggest project about Migrants’ integration in EU countries (MERITA), involving all ten CIVICA alliance institutions. Six projects gather faculty and researchers from Sciences Po, four of which are led or co-led by Sciences Po.

Projects led by Sciences Po

European Polarisation Observatory Working Group (EPO - WG)

The study of the social and political impact of social media has become an important stream of research, not least for its relation with growing anxieties regarding political polarisation and extremism, fragmentation of internet communities into so-called bubbles, and misinformation, to name a few. Large-scale studies of socio-political dynamics on internet platforms and AI systems mediating them are becoming a driving force for evidence-based policy, shaping the future of internet regulation.
These studies hinge on conceptualisations and operationalisation of opinions: Do
algorithmic recommendations propose politically-diverse content piercing filter bubbles? Do users connect only with like-minded others forming echo chambers? Does political extremism relate to misinformation? Recent advancements in network scaling methods, have shown that digital behavioural traces in social media platforms can be used to mine opinions at a massive scale better than traditional polls and surveys.
In its first phase, the project (funded under the first call) developed new methods to better understand polarisation in Europe. Their results cover algorithmic recommendation, democratic back-sliding, new media dynamics, the emergence of illiberal attitudes and mistrust of institutions, misinformation, and polarisation and fragmentation of the digital public space. With this second phase of the project, the research team seeks to build a European Polarisation Observatory into a social media observatory infrastructure, providing political opinion data driving research in diverse areas of social sciences across CIVICA.

Partners : Sciences Po médialab, Central European University and Bocconi University co-lead this research.
Sciences Po principal investigators: Jean-Philippe Cointet, Associate Professor & Pedro Ramaciotti Morales, post-doc, médialab

Local democracy and state power: Immigrant inclusion or marginalisation? (LOCALDEM)

LocalDem explores the links between politics and policing at the local level since 2000. Anti-elite right-wing populists rise to power, in part, through their efforts to link immigrants with crime in voters’ minds. Once in power, aggressive policing is one of their first policy goals. Thus, nearly all European democracies face the challenge of fighting crime without further marginalising low-income, minority, or immigrant groups.. The research team will explore how a greater police presence combined with greater local accountability affects social dynamics. Specifically, the researchers will study the effects of recent expansions of municipal police departments in France. They will start by documenting the correlations between local police presence on the territory and a wide range of demographics, crime rates and political opinions. They will collect and digitise novel data on parties’ manifestos in municipal elections. This database will become publicly available at the end of the project. Text analysis from this source and election results will allow them to study the effects of the police-promising party narrowly winning or losing the election. With this design and individual level data, they will study not only how a local police force affects crime and arrests, but also migration, housing values, and educational and employment outcomes, particularly among disadvantaged members of the population.


Principal investigator: Roberto Galbiati, Research Professor (CNRS), Department of Economics
Stockholm School of Economics is part of this research.

Towards a common framework for evaluating EU's policy effectiveness in achieving its Green transformation goals (EVALEU)

With the Green Deal, the European Union embarked on a mission to aim for the fastest worldwide transition to a green economy with low emissions. These aims require a paradigmatic shift in the function of its economy and significant socio-economic strain and would depend on upgrading the EU’s institutional capacity to evaluate and monitor policy implementation. Overall, the EU’s effort to become the global leader in combating climate change and environmental degradation could be successful if the policy instruments
deployed towards these ends are carefully calibrated to ensure a continuous progression of its Member States’ to achieve its environmental goals. To understand the extent to which the current policy targets can be achieved and what modifications would be required, we must evaluate the EU's success so far in achieving the targets set in its previously adopted environmental policies. This project elaborates the first steps for such a framework by comprehensively systematising the current knowledge of the EU’s approach and capacity for policy ex-ante and ex-post policy implementation in the field of environmental policy.

The Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po, Central European University and National University for Political Studies and Public Administration co-lead this research.
Sciences Po principal investigator: Matthias Thiemann, Associate professor, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics.

Greening or greenwashing banks? Climate conscious bank stakeholders and their impact (GREENINGBANKS)

Limiting global warming over this century to a level consistent with the Paris Agreement of 2015 requires channelling trillions of dollars towards the green transition. Private banks are expected to play a major role in this process. What factors will drive banks to finance the transition at the global scale? Are banks up to the task? How can various stakeholders like depositors, shareholders, and regulators exert pressures on banks? This project addresses these questions by first examining how environmentally-minded depositors can influence banks, using detailed data from France. A second part of the project will expand on other stakeholders to discuss what factors impede or favour the transition at a global scale.


Principal investigator: Michele Fioretti, Assistant professor, Department of Economics
Bocconi University is part of this research.

Projects with Sciences Po's participation

Migrants’ integration in EU countries: for a selected few only? Current shifts in conceptions of integration and impact on social and ethnic inequalities in host countries (MERITA)

The idea of this project is to develop a multi-disciplinary forum about integration of  migrants in Europe, across social sciences and including representatives of all current CIVICA partners (10 institutions).
A forum intends to identify grounds for contemporary conceptualisations of integration of migrants in EU countries and to problematise them. What
are current logics in thinking about integration and what are the potential implications of these logics are the core research questions, in particular, regarding the possible creation of increased social and racial inequality in societies.

This research is led by Stockholm School of Economics.
Bocconi University, Central European University, European University Institute, Hertie School, IE University, London School of Economics and Political Science, Sciences Po Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF) and Centre for Research on social Inequalities (CRIS), SGH Warsaw School of Economics and National University for Political Studies and Public Administration are part of this research.

Explorative cases of sustainability and climate change discourse dynamics on social media combining text and network analyses (DYSTENA)

This project seeks to contribute to the development of computational tools for the analysis of
text data to help track the dynamics of discourses on social media and examine how these influence policies and norms. As media has shifted towards digital media where anyone can produce messages with wide visibility, the new forms of communication require
new tools for researchers to analyse and understand their roles in the development of norms and policies. The research team will  study two independent cases, to understand (1) how diplomats use their social media presence to interact with other diplomats and the public and influence climate negotiation with their presence online, and (2) how activists individuals and organisations use their social media presence to diffuse sustainability ideas and norms which influence companies’ behaviour regarding sustainability and climate issues.

This research is led by Stockholm School of Economics.
Bocconi University, Central European University and Sciences Po Centre for International Studies (CERI) are part of this research.

*The CIVICA Research project aims at endowing CIVICA - The European University of Social Sciences - with the instruments of an ambitious and innovative research strategy in order to create a joint, long-term research environment for the alliance. CIVICA Research received €2m in funding from the EU programme Horizon 2020 to enable researchers to conduct joint scientific activities. Find out more about CIVICA Research.