Curriculum Vitae
I am currently a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. I trained in political science at the University of Geneva and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Grenoble, where I defended my PhD in 2007. Since 2007, I have been a lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of Geneva where I teach undergraduate advanced research seminars in political behaviour. Previously, I tought on comparative politics, social movements and research design at the University of Geneva and at the University of Lausanne.
My dissertation, entitled “Controversy, Decision and Reproductive Policies”, examines the extent to which public controversy on value-driven issues such as abortion and assisted reproductive technology leads to significantly different public policy making decision processes and outcomes. To this end, I studied public policy-making on issues of reproduction in France and in Switzerland from 1960 to 2005. Through in-depth process-tracing combined with Qualitative Comparative Analysis, the dissertation demonstrates the importance of taking into account the configured impact of institutional incentives, policy interests and ideas in order to explain the causal mechanism driving the evolution of public policies on controversial issues in the field of reproduction.
I am currently working on two fields: comparative public policies and electoral studies. I am involved in an international project on morality politics in a comparative perspective. This project constitutes the first systematic comparative study of politicization and policy-making on morality issues such as euthanasia, embryo and stem cells research, same-sex marriage, abortion and reproductive technologies across West European countries.
My second field of research focuses onthe impact of gender on electoral behavior. I analyzes compositional and conditional gender effect in turnout and in political attitudes. I am also working on cross-country and cross-level comparison of women’s access to elective bodies. In addition, I have a strong interest in comparative research design and methodology.
Besides my Ph.D. dissertation, I have has recently co-edited a book on gender and Public policy. My work appears in Comparative European Politics, French Political Science Review, Swiss Political Science Review and in various books.