France
Nicolas Sauger is Professor of political science at Sciences Po (Paris, France). He is the Director of the Center for Socio-Political Data, a center specialized on survey data collection and documentation. As such, he is in charge of the management of the European social survey and the Comparative study of electoral systems for France. He also runs the French probabilistic web panel Elipss. CSDP also manages the research data repository data.sciencespo.fr. Sauger has worked on political institutions, political behavior, and methods. More specifically, he is particularly interested in electoral systems, patterns of party competition, and comparative repeated surveys. He has published his works in a variety of journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, Party Politics and Social Choice and Welfare.