Nonna Mayer | |
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 Nonna Mayer in May 2019 | |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Institut d'études politiques |
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Nonna Mayer (born 25 March 1948) is an academicFrenchpolitical scientist and researcher inpolitical science. She is aresearch director at theCNRS, and a specialist of electoral sociology and offar right movements in France. She was president of the Association Française de Science Politique from 2005 to 2016.
Mayer was born on 25 March 1948[1] inNeuilly-sur-Seine.[2]
She graduated from the Political and Social Section of the ParisInstitut d'études politiques in 1971,[3] and earned her doctorate in political science in 1983.[4] Her dissertation was entitledLes classes moyennes indépendantes dans la vie politique: le cas des petits commerçants français.[4]
Mayer is Director of theFrench National Centre for Scientific Research, affiliated with the Centre de Recherches Politiques at Sciences Po (fr), and she runs the political sociology program of theParis Institute of Political Studies. She has also directed theMaster of Advanced Studies in Political Sociology and Public Policy and the Masters in Comparative Societies and Politics there. She and Edmond Préteceille (fr) manage the Societies in Motion section of the Sciences Po Press.
In September 2005, Mayer was elected President of the French Political Science Association (fr).[5]
Mayer has published numerous works on electoral politics. With Pascal Perrineau (fr), she co-directed a large group that studied theNational Front. Her research focuses on electoral sociology, in particular that of the National Front and the French far right. She also studies associative activism, racism andanti-Semitism.[6]
Mayer also participates in the Racism and Xenophobia European Network, and in the Group Focused Enmity comparative survey led byWilhelm Heitmeyer.[6] In February 2016, she was appointed member of the scientific council of the Inter-Ministerial Delegation to Combat Racism and Anti-Semitism, chaired byDominique Schnapper.[7]
Mayer, together with Olivier Dard (fr), Alexandre Dézé,Nicolas Lebourg and Jean-Claude Monod (fr), consulted with PresidentFrançois Hollande about the possibility of a victory byMarine Le Pen in the presidential election of 2017.[8]
