Territorial reform in multilevel states often involves choices among several possible targets. This article thus addresses a question: why is one territorial level restructured rather than another?...

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Who mediates between citizens and politics - and how are these relationships changing?At a time when established forms of political intermediation are being challenged and new ones are emerging, the 2...

📣 The Hedgehog Initiative - Online Conference with Caterina Froio How do far-right movements gain ground in Europe and what can we do to strengthen democratic resistance? Join us on Monday, 28 S...

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Who mediates between citizens and politics - and how are these relationships changing?At a time when established forms of political intermediation are being challenged and new ones are emerging, the 2...

The AfD’s landslide victory in Saxony-Anhalt has reignited fears about the normalization of the far right in Germany, but the result is less surprising than it first appears. Ludwig Schulze, Postdocto...

Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (UMR 8239) is a multidisciplinary research unit specialising in comparative political analysis.

Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (UMR 8239) is a multidisciplinary research unit specialising in comparative political analysis.

Nation states rarely repay their debts in full – yet they do not go bankrupt. How this works depends not only on figures, but also on growth, interest rates, politics and, above all, trust. 42: looks ...

Les convergences et les divergences qui se font jour entre les différentes composantes de la droite sur les questions institutionnelles redessinent le paysage politique. Alors qu’une partie de la droi...

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How is the EU framed and blamed (or not) in domestic public spheres? What are the consequences for its legitimacy? What did Brexit and Russia's invasion of Ukraine change?

Andy Burnham devrait succéder à Keir Starmer à la tête d’un pays où le Brexit n’a fait qu’amplifier les incertitudes politiques et économiques.

Economists who would abandon growth to prevent climate change have done their calculations on the planet, but they have not done them on voters.

À l'occasion du 250ᵉ anniversaire de la Déclaration d'indépendance des États-Unis (4 juillet 1776), la démocratie américaine fait face à une fracture sans précédent. Longtemps perçue comme le moteur v...

What the 2025 CNCDH Racism Barometer tells us about the most tolerated prejudice in France, and why intensity and structure point in different directions

À rebours des discours alarmistes sur une société française toujours plus fracturée, l’indice longitudinal de tolérance de la Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme (CNCDH) demeure à ...

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De la démocratie directe et du scrutin proportionnel aux nouvelles formes de délibération citoyenne, des chercheuses et chercheurs explorent pour la revue Conférence n°5, La Ve République sous tens...

Ten years on, the UK's decision to leave the European Union is increasingly seen as more than a single referendum result. Critics argue it reflected a wider crisis of political imagination, with Brexi...

Cet article est aussi accessible en français.  With Keir Starmer's resignation and a seventh Prime Minister since the 2016 referendum now on the way, Brexit is once again commanding the headlines, as ...