TEACHING

2024-2025

Managing and Analysing Political Data: Tools and Techniques

Sciences Po Paris (co-instructor) - Master's degree, Policy Stream: Politics and Public Policy

This course offers students the methodological foundations to design and analyse information connected to studying political phenomena using empirical data. It allows students to start generating and understanding data for analysing complex political issues, such as electoral behaviour, political opinions, and public policy. All the sessions will include a lecture, but they can also include practical sessions using computers. The first six sessions are devoted to creating, managing, and transforming data, while the following six deal with analysing existing datasets.

Research Methods in Political Science: Mixed-Methods for the Study of Political Elites

Sciences Po Paris (co-instructor) - BA in Government

See BMET 25A16 syllabus.

2023-2024

BMET 25A16 - Research Methods in Political Science: Mixed-Methods for the Study of Political Elites

Sciences Po Paris (instructor) - BA in Government

This course offers students the methodological foundations to undertake research related to the study of political elites or any other relevant group using secondary data. The course also allows the student to get acquainted with the production of primary data. The approach is multimethodological, and it will focus on the study of political elites. All the sessions will include a lecture, but they can also include practical sessions using computers. The first six sessions are devoted to qualitative methodologies, while the following six deal with more quantitative approaches to research in political science. The sessions are designed for students who have no prior knowledge and/or background in data analysis or research methods. Each session includes one reading that the students will find useful to prepare for the lecture. 

2022-2023

ASPO 12A00 - Introduction to Political Science

Sciences Po Paris (instructor of the main course* - and co-coordinator with Hélène Le Bail) - BA in Government

This introductory course offers a broad overview of Political Science. It covers the main concepts of the discipline in order to develop students' knowledge and analytical skills in dealing with politics. This introductory course addresses the main topics of political science, and the different theories and approaches, as well as the methodologies for understanding them. The lecture includes aspects from all subfield of the discipline: political theory, comparative politics, political sociology and international relations. The course is designed to develop the knowledge, analytical ability and critical capacity of students in relation to contemporary political phenomena. By questioning issues central to power and society, this course aims to develop both a critical understanding of politics and offer a deepened analysis on the recent theoretical and political discussions of political theory. The lecture will address broad questions, which are relevant in contemporary politics: How is power established, enforced and challenged? Are states and nations historical products? Is democracy in crisis? Why do people vote? When do social movements happen and what are their consequences? Why do some issues are put on the political agenda and others not? How to explain political violence?

*The course consisted of 12 lessons of 2 hours covering the main course (Carles Pamies), 6 lessons of 2 hours on the Asia concentration (Hélène Le Bail) and one seminar for each main lesson (Leonardo Barros da Silva Menezes, Quentin Couvreur, Julien Argoud, Philippe Martini).

BMET 22A20 - Research methods in Political Science: mixed methods for the study of political elites

Sciences Po Paris (instructor) - BA in Government

See BMET 25A16 syllabus.