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Muriel Rouyer

Visiting Scholar 2025-2026

Residency Dates: September 3, 2025 to June 30, 2026

Biography

Muriel Rouyer

Muriel Rouyer is professor of political science at the University of Nantes. Rouyer’s research interests include EU politics, democratic theory and constitutionalism, and feminist mobilizations. Her current research focuses on the transformations of democracy and green democracy.

At the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Rouyer will develop a normative model of “climate democracy” grounded in innovative reflections on democracy and climate change. This project will compare how the USA and the EU are facing the ecological transition and what action the two federal polities are taking towards climate democracy.

Rouyer received her Ph.D. in political studies from Sciences-Po Paris.

This information is accurate for the time period that the affiliate is affiliated with CES.

Affiliations

  • Professor of Political Science, Nantes Université
  • Visiting Scholar 2025-2026, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Project

Of Climate Democracy in the EU and the USA: Democracy and Ecological Transition in Two Polities of Abundance.

Discipline

  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Transnational democracy
  • Climate action and democracy

Publications

Rouyer, M. Environnement et action publique dans la série Borgen: le Trilemme de la Terre, Cerf Editions (forthcoming, December 2024).

Rouyer, M. “Maastricht 30 years later: the Great (Democratic) Transformation of Europe”, in Democracia Europea y Mercado Unico: 30 años del Tratado de Maastricht, Aranzadi/ European Union, Bratislava Law Review, 2023. https://blr.flaw.uniba.sk/index.php/BLR/article/view/890

 
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