Nicolas Sauger
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Since the famous word of Bill Clinton "It's the economy, stupid" in 1992, the impact of the economy on elections is a well-established fact. Political science and economics have proposed a theory of economic voting. This project aims at filing in some gaps of this literature. For instance, this project involves taking into account not only voters' revenues but also voters' wealth to understand individual vote choice. It considers issues linked to public policies in the field of the economy and taxation (is public debt a salient issue for voters? what are the preferences of voters about the balance among taxation of firms, individual revenues, wealth, or consumption?) and their importance for electoral outcomes. |
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To answer these questions, this project proposes an innovative methodological set-up, based on the conjunction of comparative cross-sectional opinion surveys and laboratory experiments. This project thus develops a better understanding of electoral behavior and will contribute to public debates about the role of poverty and social exclusion in electoral outcomes as well as about the meaning of the mandate for the next French president in terms of expected levels of redistribution and inequalities. The research program “Emergence(s)” of the City of Paris aims at supporting scientific excellence and innovation by funding young interdisciplinary teams. Sciences Po's team, led by Nicolas Sauger, is one of the four teams selected for the human and social sciences. The grant amounts to € 270.000 over three years. |
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Associate Research Professor (FNSP)
Nicolas Sauger has been an Associate Research Professor at Sciences Po since 2004. He was Vincent Wright Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence.
His fields of research focus on the analysis of changes in structures of political competition in France and Europe. He pays particular interest to laboratory experiments in the social sciences and comparative repeated surveys.
Nicolas Sauger is the convenor of the Electoral Analysis Group (GAEL) of the French Political Science Association and acts as National coordinator for the European Social Survey and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems.
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Research fields
- Comparative politics
- Parties and party systems
- Political institutions
- Elections
- Quantitative and experimental methods
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"Political Parties and Democracy in France", in K. Lawson (dir.), Political Parties and Democracy, vol. II (Europe), Praeger. 2010.
"Dominance in Single Member Districts: The Case of the French Fifth Republic", in F. Boucek, M. Boogards (dir.), Dominant political parties and democracy: concepts, measures, cases, and comparisons, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, pp. 60-72.
"La parentalité en Europe : analyse séquentielle des trajectoires d’entrée dans l’âge adulte à partir de l’Enquête sociale européenne" (avec Chanvril, Flora, Anne-Sophie Cousteaux, Viviane Le Haye, Laurent Lesnard, Chloé Méchinau), Dossier d’étude de la CNAF, 122, 2009
"Le clivage gauche / droite : quelles réalités ?", Cahiers Français « La science politique », 350, 2009, pp. 73-76.
"The French Party System: Fifty Years of Change", in S. Brouard, A. Appleton, A. Mazur (dir.), The Fifth Republic at Fifty, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2009, pp. 79-98.
"Agenda électoral et vote sur enjeux", in B. Cautrès, A. Muxel (dir.), Comment les électeurs font-ils leur choix ?, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2009, pp. 181-200.
