France

Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques: CEVIPOF – Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po

The Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) is a fully-fledged, self-governing research university specialised in the social-economic sciences and the humanities, which enrols some 6,000 students per year. It is home to a doctoral school offering 7 graduate programmes in political science, history, economics and sociology, a library with a million-volume collection, a publishing press which focuses on disseminating research results and nine research centres, five of which are closely linked to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Sciences Po facilitates laboratories' participation in the European Research Area. Today, around 15 of our research teams are involved in FP6. Finally, Sciences Po is a signatory of The European Charter for Researchers and The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers and fully supports all the principles set out in this Recommendation In particular, the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF), a joint research unit Sciences Po-CNRS (UMR 7048), is a leading European research centre in social science. CEVIPOF’s purpose is to study political behaviour, forces and institutions as well as new trends and issues shaping political life. Keeping alive, its traditional mission of studying elections, parties and political groups established by André Siegfried in the early 20th century and developed later by François Goguel, the CEVIPOF has opened up to new areas of study such as media, ideologies, racism, xenophobia and the politics of cultural identity, social activism, gender, governance and policy analysis, as well as political philosophy and the history of ideas. The Centre brings together more than 40 senior scholars active in research as well as teaching, with various backgrounds in social and human sciences. CEVIPOF has also stood out as the leading institution in France for the treatment and analysis of ESS data, producing a number of valuable works on individuals’ values, attitudes and political choices. Of particular interest for the proposed research, leading scholars of the Centre have applied the same methodological rigor for studying more closely the political integration of immigrants and “second-generation”.

Website: www.cevipof.msh-paris.fr/


Dr. Manlio Cinalli

France - CEVIPOF
Manlio Cinalli is a Researcher at the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF) where his current research interests include multi-level governance and comparative European public policy. He has worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, and was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He has done comparative work on ethno-nationalist conflict and political mobilisation and on immigration, ethnic relations, and social exclusion. He has authored and co-authored several research reports for the European Commission.
Dr Cinalli trained as a political scientist at the University of Florence, Italy, and at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he was awarded a PhD in Politics and International Relations.

Gabi Maas

France - CEVIPOF
Gabi Maas is a PhD student at the University of Oxford and research assistant at CEVIPOF (Sciences-Po). Her thesis is on autonomist politics and religious dissidence among Algerian Berbers in France. Currently on fieldwork in Paris; she spend a lot of it playing violin with traditional Berber and châabi groups