Bringing Rokkan back in. Explaining the French political economy in comparative perspective
Tom Chevalier is a political scientist who is based at the Centre d’Etudes Européennes (CEE) and the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire d’Evaluation des Politiques Publiques (LIEPP) at Sciences Po, Paris, where he completed his PhD in 2015. His work analyses how European welfare states structure the transition to adulthood and allow young people access to autonomy. He has elaborated an original typology of the “varieties of youth welfare citizenship,” for which he was awarded the 2015 Doctoral Researcher Prize by the research network ESPAnet and the Journal of European Social Policy.
During his stay at CES, Tom will start a new research project on the origins of varieties of capitalism in general, and of varieties of youth welfare citizenship in particular. In the comparative political economy literature, the case of France is puzzling, as it does not fit into the established classifications found in the literature. By “bringing Rokkan back in,” that is to say by taking into account the different cleavages that took place at the turn of the 20th century (like the State/Church cleavage), Tom will try to solve this puzzle.
This information is accurate for the time period that the scholar is affiliated with CES.
Bringing Rokkan back in. Explaining the French political economy in comparative perspective
Political Science
