Patrick Le Lidec

 Patrick Le Lidec is a senior CNRS research fellow and director of Sciences Po’s Master of Metropolitan Governance. He holds a Master in organizations and public policy (1995) and a PhD in Political Science from Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne University (2001). His dissertation won the GRALE Prize for best paper. Before joining the Center for European Studies at Sciences po in 2011, he was  senior CNRS research fellow at the Cersa (Research and Studies Center of Administrative Science) a research unit placed under the double supervision of the Paris II University (Pantheon-Assas) and of the National centre of the Scientific research (CNRS).

His main research interests are decentralization policies, local government reforms and territorial restructuring in comparative perspective. They also include include several items, such as national trajectories of territorial reforms, multi-level and metropolitan governance, sociology of public finance and sociology of political work.

He teaches at Sciences Po since 2009 and has taught at Université Paris II (2003-2009), Université Paris I (2001-2010), Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) and Institut National des Etudes Territoriales (INET) (2007-2009), Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (2008-2013), Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat (2007-2011), Université Lille 2 (1998-1999 and 2001-2002).

Publications (Selection)

Le Lidec, Patrick. 2020, Entre desserrement et resserrement du verrou de l’État Les collectivités françaises entre autonomie et régulations étatiques, Revue française de science politique 2020/1, no. 70 (March 2020): 75–100. 

Le Lidec, Patrick. 2019. "La fabrique politique de la métropole du Grand Paris: Une analyse de process-tracing (2001-2017)." "The political making of The Greater Paris metropolis A “process tracing” analysis (2001-2017)" Gouvernement & action publique 2018/4 (4): 93-125.162:32-40.

Bezes, Philippe and Patrick Le Lidec. 2017. "Les politiques de la réorganisation administrative." COGITO, la lettre de la recherche à Sciences Po. https://www.sciencespo.fr/research/cogito/home/les-politiques-de-la-reorganisation-administrative/.

Bezes, Philippe and Patrick Le Lidec, ed(s). 2016. "Politiques de l’organisation." Revue française de science politique 66 (2016/3-4).

Bezes, Philippe and Patrick Le Lidec. 2016. "Politiques de la fusion: Les nouvelles frontières de l’État territorial." Revue française de science politique 66 (2016/3-4): 507-541.   

Bezes, Philippe and Patrick Le Lidec. 2016. "Politiques de l’organisation: Les nouvelles divisions du travail étatique." Revue française de science politique 3-4 (66): 407-433.

Bezes, Philippe and Patrick Le Lidec. 2015. "The French politics of retrenchment (2007–2012): Institutions and blame avoidance strategies." International Review of Administrative Sciences 81 (3): 523-547. 

Demazière, Didier and Patrick Le Lidec, ed(s). 2014. Les mondes du travail politique: Les élus et leurs entourages. Res Publica. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

Pour en savoir plus

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