Claire Dupuy

Claire Dupuy is professor of comparative politics at UCLouvain. She specializes in comparative public policy with a focus on multilevel governance, federalism and regionalization processes in Western Europe. She is also interested in policy feedbacks on democracy and how policy changes impact on citizens' (dis)affection toward politics. Furthermore, her work has focused on methodological issues, mostly qualitative secondary analysis, big qual, small N case studies and theorization and comparative research designs.
 

She received her doctorate from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Milan-Bicocca. Her research was awarded the Best Dissertation Prize in "Comparative Public Policy" of the French Political Science Association and Mattei Dogan Foundation. She has been a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, the Social Science Research Center Berlin, the University of Montreal and the University of Oxford, St Antony's College, where she was awarded the Deakin Fellowship. She has also been a visiting professor at the Australian National University - Crawford School of Public Policy and the University of Queensland. Previously, she was an associate professor of political science at Sciences Po Grenoble - University of Grenoble.

She is a partner of TROPICO, a H2020-funded consortium coordinated by the University of Bergen. She is also a member of RESTEP, a Erasmus+ Jean Monnet research network coordinated by the University of Montreal, and the principal collaborator of QUALIDEM, a research funded by an ERC Starting Grant (PI: Virginie Van Ingelgom, F.R.S.-FNRS - UCLouvain). Together with Virginie Van Ingelgom, she has started developing the ACAToolkit (Abductive coding analysis toolkit) as part of an ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant. She recently joined the board of EXCEPTIUS, an international consortium that studies exceptional decision-making in times of Covid-19 in 32 countries (PI: Clara Egger, University of Groningen and Raul Magni Berton, Sciences Po Grenoble - University of Grenoble). Claire Dupuy is also an associate editor of French Politics (Palgrave) and she is a member of the editorial board of Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/ Bulletin de méthodologie sociologique (Sage) and Revue internationale de politique comparée (De Boeck).

At UCLouvain, Claire Dupuy currently serves as director of CMAP - the research centre dedicated to the study of public administration and policy analysis, and she heads the master programme in comparative politics (master 120 and master 60 'Science politique - Orientation générale').