Name
LE GALÈS, Patrick
Position and Affiliated Institution
CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) Research Professor, Sociology, Political science, Comparative urban studies, SCIENCES PO Paris, Centre for European studies and comparative politics and Sciences Po Urban School
Degree
Ph.D.
Research Topic
“mobility comparative urban governance, state restructuring comparative public policy”
Fields of Research Interests
His researches mostly deals with : 1) Comparative Public policy, policy instruments and the political sociology of the state, digital cities; 2)Urban sociology/urban political economy in large metropolis and also European cities (middle classes, governance, urban conflicts, mobility, economic development, inequalities ; 3)Economic sociology/political economy – the making of a market society and the sociology of Europe with a special interest for the UK and the financialisation of housing and real estate.
Academic Publications
- LE GALÈS (Patrick), European Cities: Social Conflicts and Governance, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002
- HALPERN (Charlotte), LASCOUMES (Pierre), LE GALÈS (Patrick), dir., Instrumentation de l’action publique, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2014, (forthcoming in English)
- KING (Desmond), LE GALES (Patrick), (eds.), Reconfigurating European states in crisis, Oxford, Oxford University Press , 2017, 496 p.
- ANDREOTTI (Alberta), LE GALÈS (Patrick), MORENO FUENTES (Javier Francesco), , Globalizing minds, roots in the city, urban middle classes in European cities, Oxford, Blackwell/Wiley, 2015
- LE GALÈS (Patrick), (dir.) Gouverner la metropole Parisienne : Etats, conflits, réseaux, institutions, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2020
- Forthcoming : LE GALÈS (Patrick), ROBINSON (Jenny), (eds), Routledge handbook of global comparative urban studies, London, Routledge, 2023
Awards
He received the GRALE CNRS (local politics) prize for the best thesis in 1991, the CNRS bronze medal in 1996 (excellence prize for young research assistant professor in CNRS), the Stein Rokkan prize in 2002 for comparative research in Europe (International Social Science Council and ECPR) for his book European cities, social conflicts and governance , the Il Mulino/Bolognamondo prize for the Italian version of the book. He got the Award of Excellence for research in political science from the Mattei Dogan / French Political Science Association Foundation in 2007, the Regional Studies Association Best Paper Award 2017, for the journal Territory, Politics, Governance, for the paper “Neoliberalism and Urban Change: Stretching a Good Idea Too Far?” . In 2018 he was awarded the prestigious CNRS silver Medal for research.
Affiliated Academic Organizations
- ISA,
- ECPR,
- SASE
- CES
- AFSP
- British academy
- Academia Europea
Other Interests
Table tennis
HP（URL）
https://www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/en/researcher/patrick-le-gales.html
