Sciences Po Paris is a highly influential academic institution in the social sciences in France. Alumni include notable public figures, including seven of the last eight French presidents, foreign heads of state or government and heads of international organizations. The Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) is a multidisciplinary centre dedicated to comparative political analysis. Its projects combine basic and applied research and focus on four main areas: the state and public action; new forms of democratic government, participation and representation; the political effects of the transformations of capitalism; and the role of cities, territories and borders in a globalised world.
PLATO PhD candidate
Elena Escalante Block
ESR3 (inter-institutional conflict)
PhD project: The (de)politicisation of state aid policies and its impact on the EU’s legitimacy
Faculty
Colin Hay
Professor of Political Science
Colin Hay is Director of the Graduate School in Political Science at Sciences Po. He is also an Affiliate Professor of Political Analysis at the University of Sheffield, where he was the founding director of SPERI (the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute). His research interests are European integration, globalisation, the welfare state, civic capitalism, political economy, and political disaffection and disengagement. He is a founding co-editor of the journals Comparative European Politics and British Politics and is lead editor of New Political Economy.
Hay has authored award-winning books, including Why We Hate Politics (Polity, 2007, awarded the 'PSA's WJM Mackenzie Prize') and Re-Stating Social and Political Change (Open University Press, 1996, which was awarded the 'Philip Abrams Memorial Prize'). His most recent books are The Coming Crisis, with Tom Hunt (Palgrave, 2018) and Anti-politics, depoliticization, and governance, with Paul Fawcett, Matthew Flinders and Matthew Wood (Oxford University Press, 2017).
