Welcome!

I am Isabelle Guinaudeau, a political scientist from Bordeaux. I am currently post-doctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

My research is at the juncture between electoral studies, public policy, history and economy. My main fields of research are party competition, Europeanization of domestic political systems and nuclear energy policy. I am involved in several collaborative research projects on agenda-setting (Comparative Agendas Project ; Projet Agendas France) and political representation (LEGIPAR and CITREP).

My dissertation (supervised by Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot) deals with the Europeanization of party competition in France, in Germany and in the UK between 1986 and 2009. The originality of my work lies in my efforts to integrate perspectives from several streams of literature and in the vast corpus of documents studied - notably on the media coverage of European issues, European orientations in public opinion, Europeanization of public policies, speeches held at the congresses of social-democratic parties and electoral manifestos. I observe a differentiated, but significant, Europeanization of parties’ opportunity structure. Due to the resistance of the actors who dominate inter- and intra-party competition, this tendency affects the dynamics of party competition only marginally.
I am now beginning a new research project on political parties’ imprint on public policies.

When I am not working, I enjoy spending time with my family, wine tasting, swimming, playing jazz music on the piano and reading French, Anglo-Saxon and German literature.

This website proposes an overlook of these interests. Ideas and comments are very welcome!

Isabelle