Sciences Po Grenoble


  Gonthier Frédéric


    • Sciences Po Grenoble
    • Pacte, laboratoire de recherche en sciences sociales

    Professeur des Universités en science politique, habilité à diriger des recherches

    Domaines de recherche

    Research fields
    • Sociologie politique
    • Sociologie des valeurs
    • Attitudes à l'égard du libéralisme économique et de l'Etat providence
    • Méthodes d’enquête et épistémologie des sciences sociales
    • Techniques d'analyse quantitative

    Enseignements

    Teaching
    • Grandes enquêtes internationales (label Recherche – M2, Sciences Po Grenoble)
    • Méthodes des Sciences Sociales (A1 – premier cycle, Sciences Po Grenoble)
    • Analyse quantitative (Master Progis Etudes d'opinion, marketing, médias – M1 & M2, Sciences Po Grenoble)
    • Exploitation de données d’enquête (Progis – M1 & M2, Sciences Po Grenoble)
    Liste des publications

    Responsabilités (universitaires, scientifiques, éditoriales et administratives)

    Academic and scientific responsabilities
    Responsabilités universitaires Responsabilités scientifiques Currents projects Programmes et contrats en cours

    L'enquête ISSP (International Social Survey Programme) existe depuis 1985. C'est l'une des grandes enquêtes internationales en sociologie et en science politique, fruit d'une étroite coopération entre 45 pays différents. L'ISSP France réunit plusieurs chercheurs, qui se sont associés pour réaliser chaque année en France cette enquête. Après avoir participé au Drafting Group international en 2014-2015 (Role of Government V), Sciences Po Grenoble et le laboratoire PACTE ont été associées au Drafting Group du questionnaire 2019 (Social Inequality V).

    L'enquête EVS (European Values Survey) interroge depuis 1981 les attitudes et les comportements des Européens par rapport aux grands domaines de la vie. Sciences Po Grenoble et le laboratoire PACTE participent activement à cette enquête. La France est présente dans les groupes de réflexion européens en charge de l’actualisation du questionnaire et de l’amélioration/harmonisation des modes de collecte.

    Rising populism and polarization, coupled with declining democratic legitimacy, all point toward a crisis in European democracies. This crisis has a regional dimension: a political and perhaps cultural divide between rural and urban areas. The project examines whether and how urban-rural residency is related to divides in legitimacy beliefs, social identities, perceptions of injustice and threat, political and social attitudes and political behavior of European citizens. It explores “Democratic governance in a turbulent age” from different thematic angles. First, it deals with shifting identities and their consequences for democratic governance and political representation. Stable cleavages only emerge when struggles for identity are accompanied by perceptions of social inequality and unfair resource distribution. Second, it examines the role played by globalization: increasing rural-urban economic divides create social status threats which exacerbate rural-urban political divides. The project will combine a broad comparative study of all European countries with an in-depth analysis of five established European democracies. The project will result in the provision of significant new evidence on rural-urban disparities in European politics, which will allow us to examine the consequences of – and cures for – the current crisis of democracy, thereby engaging both academic and policymaking audiences. International cooperation partners are: Sigrid Roßteutscher (Goethe-University Frankfurt), Kathrin Ackermann (University of Heidelberg) and Richard Traunmüller (University of Mannheim), Germany;  Christopher Claassen and Christopher Carman (University of Glasgow), UK; Markus Freitag (University of Berne), Switzerland; Guillem Rico and Enrique Hernández (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Spain; Sonja Zmerli and Frédéric Gonthier (Université Grenoble-Alpes), France The "Yellow Vests  Survey" (YVS) is a socio-political survey on the yellow vest movement aimed at better understanding the sociology, behaviours, value systems and political opinions of people involved in this social movement. Taking advantage of the dynamics of the movement on social networks, the survey questionnaire has been circulated since December 2018 to local yellow vest Facebook groups. The questionnaire thus includes several modules (socio-demographic characteristics, image of the movement, precariousness, relationship to democracy, political attitudes, values, conjoint experiment, etc.) intended to cover all the factors likely to explain and portraying the mobilization of yellow vests, but also to allow the comparison of the results obtained with those of other post-election or comparative surveys conducted on the entire French population.
    At a time when Europe is facing a populist wave, there is no comparative survey data capturing together populist attitudes, their sociological determinants and the psycho-political characteristics of voters. The POPEUROPA research project aims to fill this gap. It offers a general analytical and methodological framework for the measure and the comparative analysis of populist attitudes of European citizens. Drawing a link between socio-political factors, psycho-social factors and political values, attitudes and behaviors, the questionnaire brings together existing measures that were used in a disparate way and new ad hoc indicators. The database from the surveys fielded online during April 2019 in six European countries selected for the variety of their national socio-political configurations (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, N=1300 each), enables to:
    1. Systematize the empirical test of several key hypotheses thanks to the comparative nature of the data,
    2. Innovate in the understanding of psychological underpinning of populism by the introduction of validated psycho-political measures, but still marginal in political surveys at the moment,
    3. Enrich the literature thank to the analysis of the structure of relations between populist attitudes, sociological determinants and psycho-political characteristics
    4. Provide novel data on demands for democracy, in addition to classic evaluative items
    5. Allow for a better understanding of the specificities of populist demand, especially on the left and right, through multiple combination of value items about economic, cultural and integration issues.
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