Research
My research interests center on Political Economics and particularly on Historical Political Economics and Comparative Political Economics. My PhD dissertation investigated a neglected aspect of transitions to or out of democracy: political risk. It furthermore identifies how social turmoil and political mobilization encourage transitions and how the political risk they entail affects post-transition economic and political outcomes.
This interest for political risk materialized into different projects in international economics or political economics. Alll of them encompass a touch of economic history. My current research focuses on Political Economics at war and on purges and post-conflict politics.
Please find my working Papers here
Media Outreach:
VoxEu Column: "Violence in the US: What we can learn from the 1965 Voting Rights Act"
VoxEU Column: "10 July 1940, Vichy, France: Lessons on dynasties from a democratic suicide"
Emission Les Eclaireurs (RTBF, La Première): "Les dynasties politiques démocratiques : gardiennes de la démocratie ? "