Research: Emiliano Grossman Is the New Director of the Center for Socio-Political Data

Emiliano Grossman, professor at Sciences Po, has been appointed director of the Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP). He succeeds Nicolas Sauger, who has held the post since 2017.

A teacher and researcher specialising in comparative politics

Emiliano Grossman is a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE). His research focuses on comparative political institutions and the comparative analysis of public policy. He works on attention cycles in politics and on partisan strategies in a political context that increasingly restricts the autonomy of governments.

He leads a project about political agendas, funded over several years by the French National Research Agency (ANR), which aims to develop quantitative indicators of the evolution of political institutions in France.

Emiliano Grossman is the scientific adviser for the "Politics and Public Policy" stream of the Master's in Public Policy at Sciences Po's School of Public Affairs. Furthermore, he teaches comparative politics at the Paris campus.

A Sciences Po alumnus, with an MPhil from Cambridge University, he completed his doctoral thesis at Sciences Po and then his habilitation to direct research at an Institute for Political Studies in Grenoble. Since September 2017, he has been co-editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Political Research.

The CDSP, a benchmark data centre for the social sciences

The CDSP is one of France’s major centres for the production and handling of social science data. It is a key player in the documentation, preservation and production of data. It is also a centre of expertise on quantitative and qualitative methods, associated with the great national and European research infrastructures.

A support and research unit (UAR 828) set up in 2005 by Sciences Po and the CNRS, the CDSP if sustained by a team of more than 20 developers, engineers and data specialists.

The CDSP is developing a range of infrastructures, platforms and services aimed at the academic community and fully engaged with an open science approach. In this capacity, CDSP provides expertise relating to probability panels and online surveys, metadata standards, and the development and implementation of application infrastructures for research.

The CDSP’s activities are also structured by several major projects, including the ELIPSS online probability panel (online longitudinal survey for the social sciences), the European Social Survey in France, but also the institutional research data repository, experiments on data handling procedures as well as the production of a sample management application within the framework of comparative web panels.