The permanence of institutional, economic, environmental and migratory tensions is transforming the way our political systems operate. Some of these effects are marginal or conjunctural, but others induce genuine transitions in our models of society over the long term.

The Pole Democratic Transformations studies more specifically how these tensions affect modes of governance citizen behavior and the conduct of public action within our political regimes from the local to the international level, via the regional and European levels.

This center brings together researchers on issues of climate governance populism representation of minorities citizen participation restructuring of electoral supply and demand personalization of political life - all of these issues touching on the philosophical foundations of modern democracies.

Methodological and epistemological diversity is one of the center's strengths in studying these democratic transformations through a variety of analytical approaches (process-tracing, historical longitudinal analysis, comparative approach, case study,...) and data analysis methods (discourse analysis, machine & deep learning, interviews, ethnographic observation, quantitative analysis for panel and cross-sectional data,...).

Current research projects