Biography

Laurie Boussaguet is Full Time Professor of political science at the University of Rouen Normandie in France, currently part-time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
Her research is on agenda-setting, comparative politics and the use of symbols in public action.
She is currently working on the symbolic at the EU level, questioning the political nature of the EU through the analysis of its protocol.
She is the author of many books and articles on policy analysis and the symbolic dimensions of politics.

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

BOUSSAGUET, Laurie, Les politiques publiques, Paris, PUF (coll. Que-Sais-Je), 2025 (1^st edition 2020). Book

BOUSSAGUET Laurie, FAUCHER Florence, Symbolic Policy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024. Book

BOUSSAGUET Laurie, FAUCHER Florence, FREUDLSPERGER Christian, “Performing crisis management: National repertoires of symbolic action and their usage during the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe”, Political Studies, 2021. Article

BOUSSAGUET Laurie, « Où va l’analyse des politiques publiques au 21ème siècle ? » (Conclusion), in JACOB Steve, SCHIFFINO-LECLERCQ (ed.), Politiques publiques. Fondements et prospective pour l’analyse de l’action publique, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2021, pp. 921-938. Contribution to book 

BOUSSAGUET Laurie, FAUCHER Florence, "Beyond a “gesture”: the treatment of the symbolic in public policy analysis", French Politics, 18, 2020, pp 189-205. Article

BOUSSAGUET Laurie, FAUCHER Florence, « Comment mobiliser les populations ? La réponse symbolique des exécutifs français, italien et britannique », in LAZAR Marc, PLANTIN Guillaume, RAGOT Xavier (ed.), Le Monde d’aujourd’hui, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2020, pp 243-261. Contribution to book

BOUSSAGUET Laurie, FAUCHER Florence, « Au sommet de l’État : les symboles pour construire l’unité nationale », in FAUCHER Florence, TRUC Gérôme (ed.), Face aux attentats, collection « La Vie des Idées », Paris, PUF, 2020, pp. 65-78. Contribution to book

BOUSSAGUET, Laurie, JACQUOT, Sophie, RAVINET, Pauline (ed.), Dictionnaire des politiques publiques, Paris : Presses de Sciences-po, 2019 (5th Edition). Book Edition

BOUSSAGUET Laurie, FAUCHER Florence, “La construction des discours présidentiels post-attentats à l’épreuve du temps », Mots Les langages du politique, 118, 2018, pp 95-115. Article

BOUSSAGUET Laurie, FAUCHER Florence, “The politics of symbols. Reflections on the French government’s framing of the 2015 terrorist attacks ». Parliamentary Affairs, 71(1), 2018, pp. 169–195. Article

BOUSSAGUET Laurie, HALPERN Charlotte, “NGOs and civil society organizations”, in HALPERN Charlotte, HASSENTEUFEL Patrick, ZITTOUN Philippe (ed.), Policy Analysis in France, Bristol, Policy Press, 2018. Contribution to book