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Recent Publications
French Democracy in Distress (2025). Élodie Druez, Frédéric Gonthier, Camille Kelbel, Nonna Mayer, Felix-Christopher von Nostitz, Vincent Tiberj. Published by Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature.
Understanding France (2025). Helen Drake. Published by Bristol University Press.
Presidents, Prime Ministers and Majorities in the French Fifth Republic (2024). Sergiu Mișcoiu, Pierre-Emmanuel Guigo (Eds.). Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Special Collection of Articles on Elections Published in French Politics, 2003-2023 (140). (2023). French Politics, 21:459-469.
GROUP AWARDS FOR 2025
Stanley Hoffmann Best Article Award on French Politics
The award was first given in 2007 and recognizes the best English-language article on French Politics published in any peer-reviewed journal during the previous two years. Articles may be on any aspect of French Politics, and the selection committee consults a full range of journals that publish scholarship on French Politics. Since 2021, award recipients have received a complimentary e-subscription to the journal French Politics. The next award will be given in 2026 for articles published in 2023-2024.
For the database of abstracts of articles for the Hoffman Award, please visit the Stanley Hoffman Award Database.
- 2025 Award: Articles Published in 2021-2022 (245 articles considered)
- Award Committee:
- Tommaso Pavone (Princeton University) and Lorenzo Stella-Barrault (CNRS).
- Winners:
- Jean Beaman and Jennifer Fredette (2022). “The U.S./France Contrast Frame and Black Lives Matter in France,” Special Issue: Black Lives Matter. Perspectives on Politics. 20 (4) 1346-61.
- David S. Siroky, Sean Mueller, André Fazi, and Michael Hechter “Containing Nationalism: Culture, Economics and Indirect Rule in Corsica,” Comparative Political Studies. 54 (6) 1023-57.
Frank L. Wilson Best APSA Paper Award
Inaugurated in 2004, the award is given each year for papers presented on French politics at the previous year’s meeting. Papers may be comparative as long as a significant part focuses on France. Only papers that are uploaded to the APSA website are eligible. Award recipients receive a complimentary e-subscription to the journal French Politics. Paper Awards are given every other year.
2025: For papers presented at the APSA 2023-24
Double Roundtables APSA 2024: Threats to Academic Freedom: A Comparative Approach
Organized by Delphine Allès (INALCO and AFSP) and Jérôme Heurtaux (Université Paris-Dauphine)
Participants:
- Christophe Jaffrelot (Sciences Po Paris and AFSP)
- Amrita Basu (Amherst College)
- Stéphanie Balme (CERI)
- Pascale Laborier (Université Paris-Nanterre)
- Stéphane Paquin (l’École nationale d’administration publique, Montréal)
- Darrell M. West (Brookings Institute)
- M. West (Brookings Institute)
- Simone Bohn (York University)
- Steven Rathgeb Smith (APSA)
Submit to French Politics
French Politics is the official journal of the association and serves as a platform to promote our scholarly international collaborations often through the panels we organized at APSA and AFSP. We invite you to take a close look at the journal and consider submitting. We have several different types of submissions- traditional research articles, data and measures, and review articles. Also, you will find on the journal website several different open-access special collections, including a new bibliography of all FP articles on elections.
Last year’s APSA pre-conference short course, “Gender Equality Machinery in the Age of Disinformation and Democratic Reversal: Emerging Research Agendas” just came out as a roundtable in FRENCH POLITICS this month!
Revitalized French Politics Group in the Political Studies Association (UK)
Dr Salomé Ietter, Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Warwick, and Dr Fraser McQueen, Lecturer in French Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol, are the new convenors of the French Politics Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association in the UK. Their aims for the group is to encourage inter- and cross-disciplinary studies of French politics in the broad sense of ‘politics’. They are particularly interested in providing a space to explore the debates around national identity and republicanism, recent elections and the mainstreaming of the far-right, but also around the rise of new forms of emancipatory politics and class struggle, the role of racism, islamophobia and antisemitism, and the politics of gender. They encourage cross-disciplinary research with fresh theoretical, methodological or empirical insights, whether you come at the study of French politics from politics, literature, history, sociology or other fields. They’ve recently hosted a workshop at the University of Bristol titled Race, Racism, and (neo-)Republicanism in Contemporary France and will host a series of panels at the next PSA Conference in April 2025 in Birmingham. You can get in touch with them at: salome.ietter.1@warwick.ac.uk and fraser.mcqueen@bristol.ac.uk.