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Alfred Galichon, professor at the department of Economics, has received the selective starting grant of the European Research Council (ERC)

Alfred Galichon, professor at the department of Economics at Sciences Po has been awarded an ERC – European Research Council – Starting Grant for his research project « EcoMatch » – Matching Markets: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations  This project aims at taking matching models to the empirical data. Matching theory studies how to form optimal coalitions of economic agents based on their complementarities. This theory, which was recently distinguished by the award of the 2012 Nobel prize in Economics to Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley, finds application in a number [...]

Thierry Mayer, Professor at the department of Economics, has received the selective starting grant of the European Research Council (ERC)

Thierry Mayer, Professor at the department of Economics, Sciences Po, has received the very selective starting grant of the European Research Council (ERC) for his 5-year project HETMAT: Heterogeneity that Matters for Welfare and Trade. Accounting for firms’ heterogeneity in trade patterns is probably the most important innovation of the field of international trade that occurred during the last decade. The impact of initial papers such as Melitz (2003) for theory and Bernard and Jensen (1999) for the empirics is so large in the field that it is usually considered to have provoked a [...]

Limited Achievements Obama’s Foreign Policy, by Zaki Laïdi

Limited Achievements  : Obama’s Foreign Policy By Zaki Laïdi Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Palgrave Macmillan, September 2012 Barack Obama is inspired by a realist vision of the global order. His ambition is to preserve America’s great power status and make it acceptable to the rest of the world. He no longer wants his country to serve as the world’s policeman. However, he has no intention of letting another country displace the United States. His scope of action lies between these two limits: he has no grand design, nor is he willing [...]

Hindu Nationalism and Violence

Hindu Nationalism and Violence Project conducted by Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow CNRS at the CERI  – Centre for International Studies and Research and Malvika Maheshwari (post-doctoral student, CERI) India witnesses an unprecedented rise in militant Hinduism since the late 1980s and early 1990s. This phenomenon remains a challenging one for social scientists in so far as the essential characteristics of Hinduism scarcely lend themselves to a monolithic radicalism and this religion cultivates an ideal of non-violence. Based on extensive archival and empirical field works, [...]

The Indian Members of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies

The Indian Members of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies A Research Project conducted by Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow CNRS at the CERI  – Centre for International Studies and Research This project aims at developing a database of the Indian Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of Legislative Assemblies (MLAs), the assemblies elected at the state level throughout the Indian Union. This database is bound to become a reference for the quantitative/qualitative research on Indian political personnel. Five dimensions will be explored: Gender and religion belonging of [...]

How States Account for Failure in Europe

In order to strengthen European cooperation in the social sciences four European Research Funding Agencies (French, German, British and Dutch ) launch a common call for research projects Open Research Area (ORA). For the 2011-2012 edition, ORA received 142 proposals, out of which only 10 received funding. Amongst these, the project « How States Account for Failure in Europe » (HowSAFE) codirected by Olivier Borraz, CNRS research professor at CSO-Sciences Po, Henry Rothstein from Kings College , Michael Huber from the University of Bielefeld and Wiebe Bijker from the [...]

Sophie Jacquot awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship for her research project on the National Usages of EU Equality Policies

Sophie Jacquot, Ph.D. in Political Science, Scientific coordinator at the Centre d’études europénnes, has been awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for career development (IEF) for her research project EQUALUSES – Equality for the Market. The National Usages of EU Equality Policies. IEF financing are aimed at promoting Intra-European researchers mobility and to give them an opportunity to acquire new research skills or experience. The EQUALUSES project consists in analysing the effects of European policies on national transformations in the fields of reconciliation [...]

Roberto Galbiati awarded the Article Prize for the best empirical paper in the American Law and Economics Review

Roberto Galbiati, assistant professor at the Department of Economics, has been awarded the  » Distinguished Article Prize 2012 for the best empirical paper in the past two years in the American Law and Economics Review » for his article « Prison conditions and recidivism » Roberto Galbiati, assistant professor au Département d’économie a reçu le prix d’excellence 2012 décerné tous les deux ans par l’American Law and Economics Association pour son article scientifique publié dans the American Law and Economics Review :  [...]

55%: is the success rate for Sciences Po’s responses to ERC calls

55%: is the success rate for Sciences Po’s responses to ERC calls for proposals! The European Research Council was created in 2007 as part of the FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme) with the purpose of reinforcing the excellence, dynamism and creativity of European research. It finances exploratory research projects carried out by researchers recognised as academics of the highest order, working with small teams. ERC grants are highly selective, with a success rate of 13% in Europe across all fields – physical sciences and engineering, natural sciences and socio-economic sciences and [...]

Marie Mendras publishes « Russian Politics:The Paradox of a Weak State »

Russian Politics: The Paradox of a Weak State Marie Mendras Hurst, May 2012 What has become of the Russian state twenty years after the collapse of Communism? Why have the rulers and the ruled turned away from democratic institutions and the rule of law? What explains the Putin regime’s often uncooperative policies towards Europe and its difficult relations with the rest of the world? These are among the key issues discussed in this essential book on contemporary Russia by Marie Mendras, France’s leading scholar on the subject. Mendras provides an original and incisive analysis of [...]

The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to Paul-André Rosental

The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to Paul-André Rosental for his research project « SILICOSIS – From Silicosis to Chronic Respiratory diseases: An approach via Epidemiological History (in France, Europe, Southern Africa, from the 1900s until today) ». ERC Advanced Grants allow exceptional established research leaders of any nationality and any age to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains. This project deals with silicosis, a pathology caused by the inhalation of [...]

Christophe Jaffrelot & al. publish « Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation »

Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation Edited by Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot May, 2012 Numbering more than 150 million, Muslims constitute the largest minority in India, yet they suffer the most politically and socioeconomically. Forced to contend with severe and persistent prejudice, India’s Muslims are often targets of violence and collective acts of murder. While the quality of Muslim life may lag behind that of Hindus nationally, local and inclusive cultures have been resilient in the south and the east. Within India’s cities, however, the challenges [...]
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