CEPEL

David GOUARD

Career History

  • 2014–2015: Certified Professor (PRCE) at the University of Montpellier.
  • 2013–2014: Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Political and Social Sciences (UMR 7220), Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense University.
  • 2009–2013: Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Montpellier 1.
  • 2007–2009: Certified teacher of economics and social studies. Burgundy School District.

Degrees

  • 2006–2011: PhD Political Science from the University of Montpellier 1, under the supervision of Jean-Yves Dormagen (defended on December 8, 2011). Summa cum laude with honors.

Awards, Honors, and Coordination of or Participation in Research Projects

  • Winner of the University of Montpellier 1 Dissertation Prize in 2012 and second place in the Val-de-Marne General Council Dissertation Prize in 2013.
  • Co-organizer of the thematic session “Investigating the Polling Station: Epistemological Reflections and Sharing of Field Experiences,” June 22–24, 2015, 13th Congress of the French Political Science Association, IEP Aix-en-Provence.
  • Co-organizer of the symposium “The March 2014 Municipal Elections: A Review of the Survey,” April 9 and 10, 2015, in partnership with TEPSIS, CESSP, TRIANGLE, CEPEL, IRISSO, and ERMES.

Administrative responsibilities, research, and outreach

  • Political sociology: politicization, social and political (dis)affiliation, and the relationship to the local community.
  • Electoral sociology: voter turnout and abstention, electoral trends in the former "red" suburbs, a statistical analysis of voting behavior.
  • Research methods: case study approach, ethnography, exit poll, quantitative regression analysis.

Most representative work

  • The Red Suburbs: Those Who Stay and What Changes, Clair et Net Collection, Le bord de l’eau Publishing, Lormont, January 2014.

The 5 most representative articles

  • “Voter Turnout Through the Lens of Ethnicity: Preliminary Findings and Research Agenda,” International Journal of Comparative Politics(article accepted, to be published in 2015, co-authored with Julien Audemard).
  • “The October 2011 Citizens’ Primaries: Between Censitary Logic and Local Partisan Influences,” Revue française de science politique, vol. 64, October 2014, pp. 955–972 (co-authored with Julien Audemard).
  • “The Left Front: A Modest Witness to the Blue Wave,” an issueof *Métropolitiques* edited by Emmanuel Bellanger, Fabien Desage, and Jean Rivière, April 2014.
  • “Generational Social Networks and Alternative Political Legitimacy in the Former ‘Red’ Suburbs,” *Lien social et politiques*, No. 71, Spring 2014, pp. 71–87.
  • “Contemporary Reconfigurations of Affiliation with Communism in the Paris Suburbs,” in Emmanuel Bellanger and Julian Mischi (eds.), The Territories of Communism: Local Elected Officials, Public Policy, and Activist Sociality (from the 1920s to the Present), Paris: Armand Colin, April 2013, pp. 205–221.