Claire Dupuy is professor of comparative politics at UCLouvain. She specializes in comparative public policy with a focus on multilevel governance, federalism and regionalization processes in Western Europe. She is also interested in policy feedbacks on democracy and the ways in which policy changes impact on citizens' (dis)affection toward politics. Furthermore, her work has focused on methodological issues, mostly reanalysis of qualitative data, big qual, small N case studies and theorization and comparative research designs.
She received her doctorate from Sciences Po Paris and University of Milan-Bicocca. Her research was awarded the Best Dissertation Prize in "Comparative Public Policy" of the French Political Science Association and Mattei Dogan Foundation. She has been a visiting feloow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, the Social Science Research Center Berlin, the University of Montreal and the University of Oxford, St Antony's College, where she was awarded the Deakin Fellowship. Previously, she was an associate professor of political science at Sciences Po Grenoble - University of Grenoble-Alps.
She is a partner of H2020-funded TROPICO consortium coordinated by the University of Bergen. She is also a member of RESTEP, a Erasmus+ Jean Monnet research network coordinated by the University of Montreal and the principal collaborator of QUALIDEM, a research funded by an ERC Starting Grant (PI: Virginie Van Ingelgom, F.R.S.-FNRS - UCLouvain).
