[Dissertation defence] 23/01/2024, Noémie Févrat: "Le 'mandat de trop'? The re-election of members of parliament and mayors in France and the conditions for challenging it".

Title of the thesis

One mandate too many? The re-election of members of parliament and mayors in France and the conditions for calling it into question

Date and place

Tuesday 23 January at 2pm at Campus Hannah Arendt, 74 rue Louis Pasteur, Avignon.

Discipline

Political science

Laboratory

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Framing

• Mr Vincent LABATUT (LIA)
• Mr Guillaume MARREL (.JPEG)

Composition of the jury

• Ms Catherine Achin, Professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine (rapporteur)
• Mr Etienne Ollion, Director of Research at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (rapporteur)
• Thad Kousser, Professor at the University of California San Diego (examiner)
• Ms Christine Pina, Professor, Université Côte d'Azur (examiner)
• Olivier Rozenberg, Associate Professor at Sciences Po Paris (examiner)
• Vincent Labatut, HDR lecturer in computer science at the University of Avignon (co-director)
• Guillaume Marrel, Professor at the University of Avignon (co-director)

Summary of the thesis

The thesis combines the sociology of political staff, the sociology of the conditions for electoral reform and the analysis of data relating to elected political staff. It focuses on the longevity of political staff and electoral reforms limiting re-election in contemporary democracies (France and the USA). By combining quantitative objectivation (analysis of sequences) and qualitative analysis (diversions via the Californian experience of term limits), the thesis aims to grasp the practices of long-term appropriation of representative mandates, the uses and effects of electoral longevity, in order to evaluate the controversies relating to political professionalisation that are preparing a possible limitation on re-electability in France.

Keywords : Re-electability - re-election - electoral reforms - term limits - sociology of political staff - sequence analyses - RStudio - parliamentary studies - France - USA.