Publications
Here is a selection of my publications. My ORCID iD is 0000-0001-8725-2902. I also have one of these Google Scholar pages, for those interested in h-indexes.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
'La liberté académique comme catégorie de la pratique. A propos de la constitution du rôle d’universitaire en problème public', Zilsel – Science, technique, société, 14, forthcoming in 2024.
(with Pierre-Louis Six), 'La science politique est-elle une affaire politique ? Luttes de définition politiques et disciplinaires autour du congrès mondial de science politique de Moscou (1979)', Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines, 40, 2022.
(with Jean-Vincent Holeindre, Jean Joana, and Nonna Mayer), 'Political science communities challenged by internationalisation. The case of France', European political science, 21(4), 2022, p. 610-626.
(with Paulo Ravecca), 'Introduction: power, politics, and the development of political science in the Americas', Science in context, 33(2), 2020, p. 95-100
(with Marielle Debos, Mathias Delori, Benoit Pelopidas, Christophe Wasinski) 'Que faire des interventions militaires dans le champ académique ? Réflexions sur la nécessaire distinction entre expertise et savoir scientifique', 20 & 21. Revue d’histoire, 145, 2020, p. 135-150.
'Les sciences sociales européennes font-elles l’Europe ? L’Institut Universitaire Européen, le béhavioralisme et la légitimation de l’intégration européenne', Revue française de science politique, 69(1), 2019, p. 47-74.
'The struggles for European science. A comparative perspective on the history of European social science associations', Serendipities. Journal for the sociology and history of the social sciences, 2(1), 2017, p. 10-32.
(with Oriane Calligaro) 'Legitimising Europe with the social sciences and humanities? The European University Institute and the European integration project (1976-1986)', Serendipities, 2(1), 2017, p. 69-89.
(with Johan Heilbron, Gisèle Sapiro, Gustavo Sorá, Victor Karady, Thomas Brisson, Laurent Jeanpierre, Kil-Ho Lee), "Indicators of the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities", Serendipities, 2(1), 2017, p. 131-147.
(with Johan Heilbron and Rob Timans) "Understanding the Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe", Serendipities, 2(1), 2017, p. 1-9.
'French military careers and European security integration. How internationalisation changes military socialisation', Cooperation and Conflict, 52(2), 2017, p. 241-260.
'La science internationale comme ressource. Genèse et développement comparés des associations européennes de sciences sociales’ ['International science as a resource. Comparative genesis and development of European social science associations'], Revue Française de Sociologie, 57(3), 2016, p. 529-561.
‘The transnational circulation of scientific ideas. Importing behaviouralism in European political science (1950-1970)’, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 51(2), 2015, p. 195-215.
‘Acteurs multipositionnés et fabrique du transnational. La création du European Consortium for Political Research’ [‘Multipositioned actors and the making of the transnational. The creation of the European Consortium for Political Research’], Critique Internationale, 59, 2013, p. 17-32.
‘Why European political science organisations? A diachronic comparative and fairly short explanation’, European Political Science, 9(S1), 2010, p. 38-49.
‘Is European political science different from European political sciences? A comparative study of the European Journal of Political Research, Political Studies and the Revue Française de Science Politique 1973-2002’, European Political Science, 7(3), 2008, p. 366-381.
‘The evolution of political science in France and in Britain: a comparative study of two political science journals’, European Political Science, 6(3), 2007, p. 276-294.
Books
(as a member of the SPEL research group: E. Agrikoliansky, L. Barrault-Stella, C. Berjaud, T. Boncourt, J. Fretel, D. Gaxie, K. Geay, J. Heurtaux, B. Le Grignou, S. Rozier, A.-F. Taiclet), Les sens du vote. Une enquête sociologique (France, 2011-2014) [The meanings of voting. A sociological inquiry (France, 2011-2014)], Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016.
(with Ken Newton) The ECPR’s first forty years 1970-2010, Colchester, ECPR Press, 2010.
A history of the International Political Science Association, Montreal, International Political Science Association, 2009.
Edited books, journal special issues and symposiums
(with Antoine Aubert and Arnaud Saint-Martin, eds.), Batailles pour la vérité. Dévaluations et contestations des savoirs dominants, Paris, Editions de la Sorbonne, forthcoming in 2024.
(with Isabelle Engeli and Diego Garzia, eds.), Political Science in Europe. Achievements, Challenges, Prospects, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020.
(with Paulo Ravecca, eds.) 'Power, politics, and the development of political science in the Americas', special issue, Science in context, 33(2), 2020, pp. 95-193.
(with Johan Heilbron and Gustavo Sora, eds.), The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
'Adcock: Liberalism and political science', symposium, Serendipities, 2(2), 2017, p. 237-256.
(with Johan Heilbron et Rob Timans, eds.), "European integration and the social sciences and humanities", special issue, Serendipities, 2(1), 2017, p. 1-147.
Book chapters
'Les logiques de consécration et de diffusion des savoirs scientifiques se transforment-elles ? Une sociologie de conférences ‘prédatrices’ ', in Aubert, Antoine, Boncourt, Thibaud and Saint-Martin, Arnaud (eds.), Batailles pour la vérité. Dévaluations et contestations des savoirs dominants, Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, forthcoming in 2024.
(with Antoine Aubert and Arnaud Saint-Martin), 'Batailles pour la vérité. Programme et hypothèses de recherche', in Aubert, Antoine, Boncourt, Thibaud and Saint-Martin, Arnaud (eds.), Batailles pour la vérité. Dévaluations et contestations des savoirs dominants, Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, forthcoming in 2024.
(with Antoine Aubert and Arnaud Saint-Martin), 'Conclusion. Vérité, interstitialité et intentionnalité', in Aubert, Antoine, Boncourt, Thibaud et Saint-Martin, Arnaud (dir.), Batailles pour la vérité. Dévaluations et contestations des savoirs dominants, Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, forthcoming in 2024.
'Conflictualité et institutionnalisation des espaces européens', in Marti, Gaëlle and Robert, Loïc (eds.), La conflictualité dans l’Union européenne, Brussels, Éditions Larcier, forthcoming in 2024.
(with David Mills), 'Rethinking ‘predatory’ publishing : Knowledge production and the political economy of academic conferencing and journals', in Keim, Wiebke et Rodriguez-Medina, Leandro (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation, London, Routledge, 2023.
(with Susanne Koch and Elena Matviichuk), 'International scientific associations and conferences as agents in the unequal circulation of knowledge', in Keim, Wiebke et Rodriguez-Medina, Leandro (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation, London, Routledge, 2023.
(with Isabelle Engeli and Diego Garzia), 'Fifty years of political science in Europe: an introduction', in T. Boncourt, I. Engeli, D. Garzia (eds.), Political science in Europe. Achievements, challenges, prospects, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020, pp. 3-17.
'Interpreting scientific regionalisation: where European political science associations come from and how they shape the discipline', in T. Boncourt, I. Engeli, D. Garzia (eds.), Political science in Europe. Achievements, challenges, prospects, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020, pp. 105-125.
(with Johan Heilbron and Rob Timans) "The European Research Area in the social and human sciences: between national closure and American hegemony", in J. Heilbron, G. Sora, T. Boncourt (eds.), The social and human sciences in global power relations, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, p. 153-181.
'What “Internationalization” Means in the Social Sciences. A Comparison of the International Political Science and Sociology Associations', in J. Heilbron, G. Sora, T. Boncourt (eds.), The social and human sciences in global power relations, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, p. 95-123.
‘Gouvernement des carrières académiques et diffusion d’un mainstream scientifique. Les politistes français et britanniques face aux injonctions à l’internationalisation’ [‘The government of academic careers and the diffusion of scientific mainstream. French and British political scientists facing injunctions to become internationalised’], in Martin Benninghoff, Jean-Emile Charlier, Cécile Crespy & Jean-Philippe Leresche (dir.), Le gouvernement des disciplines académiques, Paris, Editions des Archives Contemporaines, 2017, p. 121-140.
(with Kevin Geay) ‘ “Y’a tellement moins de sujets moins médiocres !” Les formes du relâchement politique des catégories supérieures’ [‘The forms of the political apathy of upper social classes’], in SPEL, Les sens du vote. Une enquête sociologique (France, 2011-2014), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016, pp. 55-74.
(with SPEL research group) ‘Questions de méthode’ [‘Methodological questions’], in SPEL, Les sens du vote. Une enquête sociologique (France, 2011-2014), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016, pp. 195-212.
‘Social science infrastructure: European Union’, in James D. Wright (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, vol. 22, Oxford, Elsevier, 2015, p. 648-654.
(with Laurent Jeanpierre) ‘Scholarly associations’, in James D. Wright (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, vol. 2, Oxford, Elsevier, p. 88-91.
‘A discipline on the edge. An overview of the history and current state of political science in France’, in B. Krauz-Mozer, P. Borowiec, M. Kulakowska & P. Scigaj (eds.), Political science in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century, Krakow, Jagiellonian University Press, 2015, p. 109-132.
Working papers
‘French military careers and European security integration. Preliminary results of an ongoing research’, European University Institute Working Papers, Max Weber Programme, Red Number Series, 2014/01, p. 1-14.
‘Le développement des sciences politiques françaises et britanniques : une comparaison de la Revue Française de Science Politique et de Political Studies 1951-2002’, Lettre de l’OMASP, 5, 2007.
Book reviews
Review of Larat, Fabrice, Mangenot, Michel and Schirmann, Sylvain (eds.), ‘Les études européennes. Genèse et institutionnalisation’, (Paris, l’Harmattan, 2018), Politique européenne, 67-68, 2020, pp. 116-123.
Review of Coman, Ramona and Morin, Jean-Frédéric (eds.), ‘Political Science in Motion. The Evolution of a Discipline through its Journals’ (Brussels, Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2015), Gouvernement et action publique, 5(4), 2016.
Review of Keim, Wiebke, Çelik, Ercüment, Ersche, Christian and Wöhrer, Veronika (eds.), ‘Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences. Made in circulation’ (Farnham, Ashgate, 2014). Sociologie du travail, 58(1), 2016, p. 80-81.
Review of Rose, Richard. ‘Learning about politics in time and space’ (Colchester, ECPR Press, 2014). Revue française de science politique, 64(6), 2014, p. 1231-1232.