CEPEL

William GENIEYS

2013 Mattei Dogan Award of Excellence

Career history

  • Senior Research Director, CNRS (September 2014).
  • CNRS Research Director, 2nd class (September 2009).
  • First class research position at the CNRS (September 1999).

Degrees

  • Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Paris 1 (June 29, 1994).
  • Qualification to supervise research [H.D.R.] awarded at the Sorbonne (June 29, 1994).
  • Master's degree in Political Science: University of Paris 1 Sorbonne (1989).
  • Bachelor's degree in Law and Political Science: University of Montpellier 1, Faculty of Law (1988).

Awards, distinctions, and coordination or participation in research projects

  • Mattei Dogan Foundation Award for Excellence in Political Science, presented by the French Political Science Association (July 10, 2013).
  • 2000 (September), Director of the research program: "Professionalization and military conditions: a comparison between France and Great Britain," Center for Social Science Studies in Defense (C2SD), Paris. (budget €45,000, Ministry of Defense).
  • 2001, co-director of a research project with Jean Joana, Andy Smith et al., "Military personnel retraining policies: a comparison of Spain, France, and Great Britain," Paris, C2SD, Ministry of Defense, France. (budget €45,000).
  • 2001-2003: Director of the research project, "Influential Groups and Decision-Making Processes in the Field of Defense," DGA, Ministry of Defense, France (2001-2003), (budget €50,000).
  • 2005-2007: Member of a research team: Marc Smyrl, Javier Moreno, Patrick Hassenteufel, "New players in the transformation of health protection systems in Europe (since the early 1990s)," MIRE-DREES, Ministry of Health, France (budget €55,000).
  • 2006-2008: Director of the CNRS research project "France-USA": "Programmatic elites: a comparison between Europe and the United States" (budget €24,000, CNRS).
  •  2008-2012: Director of the research project, ANR-08-BLAN-0032, "Opera, Operationalizing Programmatic Elite Research in America" (budget: €250,000).
  • 2011-2012: Principal Investigator of Labex (2nd wave) Theme: "Governing Sustainable Development" (G.O.S.U.D). Budget €14 million (failure).
  • 2013: BUSR grant from the University of Montpellier for the preparation of a project for the ORA Plus project (€28,000).
  • 2015: Principal Investigator of the GOSUD research project "GOverning SUstainable Democracies: A Comparison of France, the United Kingdom & the U.S.A." (€1,150,000) as part of the 4th ORA (Open Research Area) international call for projects.

Administrative responsibilities, research, and promotion

  • Director of CEPEL (2015-2019).
  • Deputy Director of CEPEL (2011-2014).
  • Head of the CEPEL research program "Elites and Democratic Governance" (2006-2010).
  • Organizer of the CEPEL internal seminar (1997-1999 and 2001-2003).
  • Co-director (with Marc Smyrl) of the Master's program in Research: "Comparative Politics and Public Policy" (2011-2014).
  • Director of the Master's program in Research: "Regimes and Policies in Southern Europe" (2007-2010).
  • Member of the Board of Directors ofthe French Political Science Association (2010-2012).
  • Member ofthe Association of Political Science Teachers and Researchers (AECSP) 2002-2006.
  • Member of the Council of European Studies: Columbia University in 2006.
  • Co-editor of the magazine Pôle Sud, 2007–2011.
  • Member of the editorial board of the Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée (RIPC) 2006–2011.
  • Reviewer for Critique Internationale, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR), French Politics.
  • Evaluation of research programs forthe French National Research Agency (ANR) and the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNRL).
  • Courses taught at the University of Montpellier prior to 2001: Constitutional Law, Political Science, Political Sociology of Elites, Comparative Politics, States and Public Policy, Totalitarian and Authoritarian Political Regimes, Sociology of Politics in Southern Europe, etc.

Interactions with the environment

  • Political scientist who regularly appears in the media: Atlantico, Direct-Montpellier, France 24, Le Monde, Midi-Libre, etc.
  • Production of DVDs on the leading figures in the discipline.

The 5 most representative works

  • William Genieys, Sociologie politique des élites(Political Sociology of Elites), Paris, Armand Colin [U Sociologie collection], 2011 (362 p.).
  • William Genieys,The New Custodians of the State. The Programmatic Elites in French Society, New Brunswick NJ, Transactions Books, 2010 (213 p.).
  • William Genieys, Marc Smyrl, Elites. Ideas, and the Evolution of Public Policy, Palgrave, London, 2008. [pref. Peter Hall], (208 p.).
  • William Genieys (DS.), Le Choix des armes. Théories, acteurs et politiques(The Choice of Weapons: Theories, Actors, and Policies), Paris, CNRS Editions, 2004. [preface by Pierre Muller], (168 p.).
  • William Genieys, Las élites españolas ante el cambio de régimen político(Spanish Elites Facing Political Change), Madrid, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2004. [pref. Juan Linz], (292 p.).

The 5 most representative articles

  • William Genieys, Patrick Hassenteufel, "The Shaping of the New State Elites. Healthcare Policymaking in France Since 1981," Comparative Politics, vol. 47, no. 3, April 2015.
  • William Genieys, Saïd Darviche, Catherine Hoeffler, J. Joana "Long-timers at the top of the US government. The defense and health sectors (1988-2010)," Government and Public Action, vol. 2, no. 1, 2013.
  • William Genieys, Patrick Hassenteufel, Marc Smyrl, Javier Moreno, "Programmatic Actors and The Transformation of European Health Care States," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, vol. 35, no. 4, 2010.
  • William Genieys, Laura Michel, "The invention of the Leclerc Tank: The singular role of a project elite," French Politics, vol. 3, no. 3, 2005.
  • William Genieys, "The Sociology of Political Elites in France. The End of an Exception?" International Political Science Review, vol. 26, no. 4, 2005.