Alain Lancelot

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Alain Lancelot

Alain Lancelot (born January 12, 1937 in Chêne-Bougeries , Canton of Geneva , Switzerland ) is a French political scientist , university professor and administrative officer. From 1987 to 1996 he was director of the elite university Sciences Po , then a member of the Constitutional Court ( Conseil constitutionnel ) until 2001 .

Life

After attending school, Lancelot first studied literature and humanities , which he graduated with a Docteur en lettres et sciences humaines . He completed another postgraduate degree in political science with a Docteur en études politiques and also completed a course at the renowned Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), which he completed with a diploma.

He began his professional career from 1963 to 1970 as a research scientist at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and was also a lecturer (Maître de conférences) at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris between 1963 and 1967 and then studies from 1967 to 1969 - and Research Director of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (FNSP), part of the SciencesPo . In 1969 he took over a professorship at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and taught there for thirty years until 1999. From 1968 to 1973 he also taught as a professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble and from 1970 to 1999 he was also the director of the Colonel Working group for market research and marketing strategies at Sciences Po and between 1970 and 1975 Secretary General of the French Society for Political Science AFSP (Association française de science politique) . In addition, between 1975 and 1987 he was director of the CNRS and FNSP joint study center for contemporary political life in France.

In 1987, Lancelot succeeded Michel Gentot as director of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and held this position until he was replaced by Richard Descoings in 1996. At the same time, he was a member of the administrative board of the École nationale d'administration (ENA) between 1987 and 1996 , who traditionally trains the elite of French administrative officials, as well as President of the Board of Directors of the Center international d'études pédagogiques (CIEP) and also Vice-President of the CFJ (Center de formation des journalistes de Paris) . During this time he was also a member of the Commission for the Reform of Electoral Law and the Advisory Committee for the Revision of the Constitution of the Fifth French Republic between 1992 and 1993 .

At the end of March 1996, Lancelot was nominated by the President of the Senate René Monory as a member of the French constitutional court, the Conseil constitutionnel , in order to complete the nine-year term of office of Marcel Rudloff, who died on March 23, 1996 . He held this position from April 1996 to March 6, 2001.

In 2002 he became a member of the so-called Venice Commission (European Commission for Democracy through Law), an institution of the Council of Europe advising states on constitutional issues, and at the same time a member of the Council of Europe's Council for Democratic Elections.

Publications

  • La participation des français à la politique (1961)
  • Les attitudes politiques (1962)
  • L'abstentionnisme électoral en France (1968)

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personal data
SURNAME Lancelot, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Chêne-Bougeries , Canton of Geneva , Switzerland