Research Projects

Political Economy

Co-recipient of a NBER research grant (National Bureau of Economic Research), titled “Decentralization and Its Consequences in Africa: Fiscal Competition and Redistributive Politics in Benin”, $ 52,000, (with G. Rota-Graziosi, Université d’Auvergne and Leonard Wantchekon, New York University), 2010-2011. More information.
Member of a Major Collaborative Research Initiatives, SSHRC, $ 2,500,000, “Making Electoral Democracy Work: Voters, Parties, and the Rules of the Game” (under the scientific direction of André Blais), 2008-2015. To read more…
Research grant, SSHRC, $ 4,000, “Strategic interactions of provincial expenditures in Canada”, 2008-09.
Participant to a Research network (French Research Agency) on the financing of the French politics (under the direction of Abel François) - 2007/10.

Research grant, SSHRC, $ 70,000, “Punctuated equilibrium, institutionnal friction, and mimicking. The Canadian industrial policy”, 2008-10.
Member of the Comparative Policy Agendas Project, more…
French Research grant, Public opinion and defense policy, C2SD, $ 35,000, 2006-08.

Research grant, SSHRC, $ 75,000, “Burden-sharing within international organizations of security”, 2010-13.
Research grant FQRSC, $ 45,000, “European security as a global public good”, 2007-09.
Grant CERIUM, $ 7,500, “International political economy”, 2008-09.

Research grant, SSHRC, $ 83,200 on “Why do polls fail… sometimes ?” (with C. Durand et J. Golder), 2009-12.