Antoinette Baujard
University professor (U. St-Etienne)
I am a Professor of Economics.
My research is based on reflexive studies on how economics deals with normative issues. It is meant to convey pragmatic knowledge regarding the properties of instruments of public decision, such as methods of evaluation of public policies, voting procedures, deliberative processes. Mainly, my papers are contributions to:
* Voting experiments and Social choice theory
* Philosophy and methodology of normative issues
* History of welfare economics and theories of justice
Links to the open access version of every paper are available on my CV pdf file.
ONGOING RESEARCH ▼
- Baujard, Antoinette, Roberto Brunetti, Isabelle Lebon, Simone Marsilio. How people understand voting rules. WP GATE 2408 [hal], Public Choice 2025 [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-025-01344-8]
- Delemazure, Théo, Antoinette Baujard, Sylvain Bouveret, Roberto Brunetti. Universal language of assessements is relative. 2024. Submitted, R&R Social Choice and Welfare. [linkWP]
- Antoinette Baujard, Herrade Igersheim, Isabelle Lebon. Élection présidentielle 2022 : Autres modes de scrutin, autres résultats? Forthcoming Revue d’Economie Politique, 2024. (WP GATE 2413)
- Baujard, Antoinette et Nathalie Moureau. Critères éthiques et évaluation des politiques publiques : Liberté, égalité, efficacité? 2024, A paraître dans les Mélanges en l’honneur de Daniel Serra. Etudes sur la macroéconomie, l’économie des comportements, l’économie des inégalités et de la justice, et quelques thèmes fondamentaux de l’économie, Textes réunis par Marc Willinger, Charles Figuières et Adda Benslimanec.
- Hauser, Ignacio, Baujard, Antoinette. The rank reversal problem in inequality measures. In progress, 2024.
- Baujard, Antoinette. Value judgments and economics expertise. Working Paper GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne 2013-14. [link]; New version with Mathis Nicole-Desmau, R&R Journal of Economic Methodology.
- Baujard, Antoinette. Value judgments and economics expertise. Working Paper GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne 2013-14. [link]; New version in progress with Mathis Nicole-Desmau, 2024.
- Baujard, Antoinette and Muriel Gilardone. A theory of justice beyond positional views, mimeo 2023. Existing previous versions: Reconciling agency and impartiality: positional views as the cornerstone of Sen’s idea of justice. 2020 Economics Working Paper from Condorcet Center for political Economy at CREM-CNRS 2020-03-ccr. [pdf, hal]
- Marsilio, Simone, Antoinette Baujard, Roberto Brunetti, Isabelle Lebon. Incumbent support and supporting the status quo: Testing alternative voting methods in the 2022 French presidential election. 2025. In progress.
- Marsilio, Simone, Antoinette Baujard, Roberto Brunetti, Isabelle Lebon. Does Experiencing a Complex Voting Method Foster Its Endorsement? Evidence From a Lab Experiment. Working paper soon submitted.
- Baujard, Antoinette, Herrade Igersheim, Isabelle Lebon. Have French voters now moved beyond the left-right cleavage?’. In progress. Version mimeo BETA 2022.
WORKING PAPERS ▼
Antoinette Baujard, Roberto Brunetti, Isabelle Lebon, Simone Marsilio. How People Understand Voting Rules. 2025. ⟨hal-04653702v2⟩
Théo Delemazure, Roberto Brunetti, Antoinette Baujard, Sylvain Bouveret. Do Grades Have Absolute Meaning? An Experiment on Majority Judgment. 2025. ⟨hal-05114129⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Jean-François Laslier. La participation des citoyens aux expérimentations sur les modes de scrutin. 2025. ⟨halshs-05468235⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Herrade Igersheim, Isabelle Lebon. Élection présidentielle 2022 : Autres modes de scrutin, autres résultats ?. 2024. ⟨halshs-04841504⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Citizen Knowledge and the debate on information in welfare economics in perspective. Beyond the True-False and the Positive-Normative Entanglements. 2023. ⟨halshs-04841296⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Penser l’aide à la décision publique autrement. Amartya Sen et le débat sur l’information. 2023. ⟨halshs-04626892⟩
Antoinette Baujard. L’invisibilisation des communs. 2023. ⟨halshs-04627012⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Isabelle Lebon. Not-so-strategic voters. Evidence from an in situ experiment during the 2017 French presidential election. 2022. ⟨halshs-03607809⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Don't reduce Amartya Sen to a single identity!. 2022. ⟨halshs-03633564⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Ethics and technique in welfare economics: How welfarism evolves in the making. 2022. ⟨halshs-04150893v2⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Values in Welfare economics. 2021. ⟨halshs-03244909⟩
Sylvain Bouveret, Renaud Blanch, Antoinette Baujard, François Durand, Herrade Igersheim, et al.. Voter Autrement 2017 for the French Presidential Election — The data of the In Situ Experiments. 2020. ⟨hal-03223803⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Isabelle Lebon. Retelling the Story of the 2017 French Presidential Election: The contribution of Approval Voting. 2020. ⟨halshs-02926773⟩
Muriel Gilardone, Antoinette Baujard. Reconciling agency and impartiality: positional views as the cornerstone of Sen’s idea of justice. 2020. ⟨halshs-04742096⟩
Roger E Backhouse, Antoinette Baujard, Tamotsu Nishizawa. Revisiting the history of welfare economics. 2020. ⟨halshs-02937994⟩
PUBLICATIONS ▼
Antoinette Baujard. L’invisibilisation du commun. Droit et Cultures, 2025, 88 (1), ⟨10.4000/15d13⟩. ⟨halshs-05424139⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Roberto Brunetti, Isabelle Lebon, Simone Marsilio. How people understand voting rules. Public Choice, 2025, ⟨10.1007/s11127-025-01344-8⟩. ⟨hal-05423963⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Penser l’aide à la décision publique autrement. Amartya Sen et le débat sur l’information. Cités : Philosophie, politique, Histoire, 2024, 98 (2), pp.47-61. ⟨halshs-04626818⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Citizen Knowledge and the Debate on Information in Welfare Economics in Perspective: Beyond the True-False and the Positive-Normative Entanglements. Œconomia - History/Methodology/Philosophy, 2024, 14 (4), pp.861-878. ⟨10.4000/130pp⟩. ⟨halshs-04873823⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Ethics and Technique in Welfare Economics: How Welfarism Evolves in the Making. Revue Economique, 2023, Vol. 73 (6), pp.1039-1053. ⟨10.3917/reco.736.1039⟩. ⟨halshs-04032143⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Home in the World: A Memoir. History of Political Economy, 2022, 54 (5), pp.1005-1010. ⟨10.1215/00182702-10005900⟩. ⟨halshs-03894665⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Isabelle Lebon. Not-so-strategic voters.Evidence from an in situ experiment during the 2017 French presidential election. Electoral Studies, 2022, 76, pp.102458. ⟨10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102458⟩. ⟨halshs-03607824⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Isabelle Lebon. Retelling the Story of the 2017 French Presidential Election: The contribution of Approval Voting. Homo Oeconomicus: Journal of Behavioral and Institutional Economics, 2022, ⟨10.1007/s41412-022-00134-7⟩. ⟨hal-03886491⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Matthew D. Adler, Measuring Social Welfare: An Introduction. Œconomia - History/Methodology/Philosophy, 2021, 11-3, pp.519-524. ⟨10.4000/oeconomia.11299⟩. ⟨halshs-03894814⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Herrade Igersheim, Isabelle Lebon. Some regrettable grading scale effects under different versions of evaluative voting. Social Choice and Welfare, 2021, 56 (4), pp.803-834. ⟨10.1007/s00355-020-01300-z⟩. ⟨hal-03095898v2⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Judith Favereau, Charles Girard. Normes et normativité en économie. Revue de Philosophie Economique / Review of Economic Philosophy, 2020, 21 (1), pp.3-18. ⟨10.3917/rpec.211.0003⟩. ⟨halshs-02936147⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Adrien Lutz. Is there a link between Saint-Simonian ability and the capability approach to social justice?. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2019, 26 (5), pp. 1027-1052. ⟨halshs-02129954⟩
Herrade Igersheim, Antoinette Baujard. Expérimentation et théorie du vote. L'Économie politique, 2019, 2 (82), pp.101-112. ⟨10.3917/leco.082.0101⟩. ⟨halshs-02176465⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Frédéric Gavrel, Herrade Igersheim, Jean-François Laslier, Isabelle Lebon. How voters use grade scales in evaluative voting. European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 55, pp. 14-28. ⟨10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2017.09.006⟩. ⟨halshs-01618039⟩
Isabelle Lebon, Antoinette Baujard, Frédéric Gavrel, Herrade Igersheim, Jean-François Laslier. Ce que le vote par approbation révèle des préférences des électeurs français. Revue Economique, 2017, 68 (6), pp.1063-1076. ⟨10.3917/reco.pr2.0084⟩. ⟨halshs-01420369v2⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Muriel Gilardone. Sen is not a capability theorist. Journal of Economic Methodology, 2017, 24 (1), pp.1-19. ⟨10.1080/1350178X.2016.1257821⟩. ⟨halshs-01885065⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Herrade Igersheim, Jean-François Laslier. La question du vote. Expérimentations en laboratoire et In Situ. Actualite Economique, 2016, 92 (1-2), 31 p. ⟨10.7202/1039875ar⟩. ⟨halshs-01136390v2⟩
Antoinette Baujard. A review of “Beyond GDP : Measuring welfare and assessing sustainability", Marc Fleurbaey and Didier Blanchet. Oxford University Press, 2013, xvi+306 pages. Economics and Philosophy, 2015, 31 (1), pp. 181-187. ⟨halshs-01087459⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Beyond the Consent Dilemma in Libertarian Paternalism, a Normative Void. Homo Oeconomicus, 2015, 32 (2), pp. 369-373. ⟨halshs-01136393⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Methodological challenges in Experimental Political Sciences. A review of “Experimental Political Science. Principles and Practices”, Edited by Bernhard Kittel, Wolfgang J. Luhan and Rebecca B. Morton, Palgrave Macmillan, ECPR, 2012, 280+xiv p.. Social Choice and Welfare, 2015, 45 (1), pp 231-237. ⟨10.1007/s00355-014-0860-5⟩. ⟨halshs-01087455⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Frédéric Gavrel, Herrade Igersheim, Jean-François Laslier, Isabelle Lebon. Who's Favored by Evaluative Voting? An Experiment Conducted During the 2012 French Presidential Election. Electoral Studies, 2014, 34, pp.131-145. ⟨10.1016/j.electstud.2013.11.003⟩. ⟨hal-00803024v2⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Frédéric Gavrel, Herrade Igersheim, Isabelle Lebon, Jean-François Laslier. Vote par approbation, vote par note. Une réponse au commentaire d’Allisson et Brisset. Revue Economique, 2014, 65 (3), pp.687-691. ⟨10.3917/reco.653.0687⟩. ⟨halshs-01113091⟩
Antoinette Baujard. A review of M. Adler's 'Wellbeing and fair distribution. Beyond costbenefit analysis'. Œconomia - History/Methodology/Philosophy, 2014, 4 (1), pp. 87-95. ⟨halshs-00878960⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Frédéric Gavrel, Herrade Igersheim, Jean-François Laslier, Isabelle Lebon. Vote par approbation, vote par note. Revue Economique, 2013, 64 (2), pp.345-356. ⟨10.3917/reco.642.0006⟩. ⟨hal-01755635⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Vincent Merlin. Vote, pouvoir et modes de scrutin dans les sociétés cotées: l'éclairage des théories mathématiques du vote. Revue trimestrielle de droit financier, 2011, 4 (Novembre 2011), pp.20-31. ⟨halshs-00653463⟩
Antoinette Baujard. De l'économie du bien-être à la théorie de l'équité. Les Cahiers français : documents d'actualité, 2011, La pensée économique contemporaine (363), pp.82-87. ⟨halshs-00638343⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Herrade Igersheim, Thomas Senné. The Political Supply in the 2007 French Presidential Elections : An Analysis Based on Experimental Data. Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2011, 101/102, pp.149-186. ⟨halshs-00656634⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Utilité et liberté de choix dans les classements d'ensembles d'opportunités. Raisons politiques, 2011, 43, pp.75-108. ⟨halshs-00667694⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Collective interest vs. individual interest in Bentham's Felicific Calculus. Questioning welfarism and fairness. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2010, 17 (4), pp.607-134. ⟨10.1080/09672567.2010.483067⟩. ⟨halshs-00528587⟩
Antoinette Baujard. A return to Bentham's felicific calculus: From moral welfarism to technical non-welfarism. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2009, 16 (3), pp.431-453. ⟨halshs-00413416⟩
Antoinette Baujard, Herrade Igersheim. Expérimentation du vote par note et du vote par approbation le 22 avril 2007. Premiers résultats. Revue Economique, 2009, 60 (1), pp.189-201. ⟨halshs-00362445⟩
Antoinette Baujard. A review of Wulf Gaertner's 'A primer in Social Choice Theory'. Social Choice and Welfare, 2008, 30 (1), pp.175-180. ⟨halshs-00294460⟩
Antoinette Baujard. Conceptions of freedom and ranking opportunity sets. A typology. Homo Oeconomicus, 2007, 24 (2), pp.1-24. ⟨halshs-00294466⟩
CV
TEACHING ▼
- Philosophy of economics, normative economics, theories of justice (M2PE SE2 UJM, M2ESH UP1, M2DPhil UL3)
- Evaluation of public policy (M1APE SE2 UJM)
- Public economics (L3 SE2 UJM)
- Économie internationale (M1 Sciences politiques DEPT UJM)
- Microéconomie (L2 SE2 UJM)
- Financial Maths (L1 SE2 UJM)
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSABILITIES ▼
Director of ADRES (GDR CNRS 2160)
PROFESSIONNAL NETWORKS AND ASSOCIATIONS ▼
Director of ADRES
Member of the council of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare
Member of SSCW, ESHET, Charles Gide
RESEARCH NETWORKS AND GROUPS ▼
I am or I have been part of the following research programs:
- 2025-2029: PEPR Maths-Vives CONDORCET
- 2023-2025, ANR Citizens
- 2021-2022, AAPR UJM Voter Autrement 2022
- 2021-, HAPSS University of Western Australia
- 2019-2021, SBP IDEXLyon Indepth
- 2019-2020, CNRS MOSCAI
- 2018, International Conference of Economics and Philosophy
- 2014-2018, ANR DynaMITE
- 2007-2017, Voting Experiments : Opération Voter Autrement
Some representative publications ▼
Click on “link” for the published version of the papers; Click on “WP” for open access ; Links to open access of every papers are available on the pdf CV file.
Voting experiments and Social choice theory
- Not-so-strategic Voters. Evidence from an In Situ Experiment During the 2017 French Presidential Election. By Baujard, Antoinette and Isabelle Lebon. Electoral Studies, 76, 2022. (link; WP GATE 2022-2201)
- Retelling the Story of the 2017 French Presidential Election: The contribution of Approval Voting, by Antoinette Baujard and Isabelle Lebon, Homo Oeconomicus, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41412-022-00134-7 (Link; Previous enlarged version available at WP GATE 2020-2023; SSRN)
- Some regrettable grading scale effects under different versions of evaluative voting, by Antoinette Baujard, Herrade Igersheim and Isabelle Lebon, 56: 803—834, 2021, Social Choice and Welfare (link; WP GATE 2020-2024)
- How voters use grade scales in evaluative voting, with Isabelle Lebon, Herrade Igersheim, Frédéric Gavrel, and Jean-François Laslier, European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 55: 14-28. (link;WP GATE 2017-1729)
- Ce que le vote par approbation révèle des préférences des électeurs français. With Herrade Igersheim, Frédéric Gavrel, Jean-François Laslier and Isabelle Lebon. Revue Economique, Novembre 2017. (link;WP GATE 1636; Les Echos)
- Individual Behavior under Evaluative Voting. A comparison between laboratory and In Situ experiments. With Herrade Igersheim, Frédéric Gavrel, Jean-François Laslier and Isabelle Lebon. Voting experiments, André Blais, Jean-François Laslier, and Karine Van der Straeten (Eds.), Part IV: 257-269, Springer, 2016. (link, WP)
- Who’s favored by Evaluative Voting? An experiment conducted during the 2012 French Presidential Election. With Frédéric Gavrel, Herrade Igersheim, JeanFrançois Laslier, Isabelle Lebon, Electoral Studies, 34: 131–145, June 2014 (link; AudioSlides, Cahier de l’Ecole Polytechnique 2013-5)
Philosophy and methodology of normative issues
- Ethics and technique in welfare economics: How welfarism evolves in the making, Revue économique, 2022, 73(6): 1039-1053. (link ; WP2306)
- Values in welfare economics, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics, Conrad Heilmann and Julian Reiss (Eds.) Routledge, 2021, ch15: 211-222. (link ; WP SSRN & GATE 2020-2112)
- Norms and normativity, by Antoinette Baujard, Charles Girard and Judith Favereau, in “Norms and normativity”, the special issue of the Revue de philosophie Economique, Antoinette Baujard, Charles Girard and Judith Favereau (Eds.), Juin 2020, 21(1): 3-18, 2020. (link ; WP GATE 2020-2026)
- Beyond the Consent Dilemma in Libertarian Paternalism, a Normative Void, Homo Oeconomicus, 32(2): 369—373, Spring 2015. (link; the whole issue)
- Collective interest vs. individual interest in Bentham’s felicific calculus. Questioning welfarism and fairness. in Gérard Faccarello and Richard Sturn (Eds.), Studies in the History of Public Economics, Routledge, Chap. 5: 71–98, 2011. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2010, 17(4): 607–634. (link)
- From moral welfarism to technical non-welfarism. A step back to Bentham’s felicific calculus. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 16(3): 431–453, 2009 (link ; WP CREM 2006-06)
- L’estimation des préférences individuelles en vue de la décision publique. Problèmes, paradoxes, enjeux, Économie et Prévision, 4/5 (175—176): 51—63, 2006. (link ; WP CREM 2006-08)
History of welfare economics and theories of justice
- Penser l’aide à la décision publique autrement. Amartya Sen et le débat sur l’information. Cités, 2024, 98(2): 47–61. (link ; WP 2403)
- Don’t reduce Amartya Sen to a single identity! History of Public Economy, Nov. 2022.(Link ; WP GATE 2202)
- Welfare Theory, Public Action and Ethical Values: Revisiting the history of welfare economics, Roger E. Backhouse, Antoinette Baujard and Tamotsu Nishizawa (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, March 2021. (link)
Revisiting the history of welfare economics, by Roger Backhouse, Antoinette Baujard and Tamotsu Nishizawa, which includes the introduction and conclusion of the collective book (WP GATE 2020-2027) - A theory of justice based on positional views, with Muriel Gilardone. Previous version, “Positional Views” as the Cornerstone of Sen’s Idea of Justice, with Muriel Gilardone, (WP GATE 2019-2022).
- Sen is not a capability theorist, with Muriel Gilardone, The Journal of Economic Methodology, 2017, 24(1): 1-19. (link ; WP GATE 2015-08 ; ssrn )
- L’économie du bien-être est morte. Vive l’économie du bien-être !, In G. Campagnolo and J.S. Gharbi (Eds.), Philosophie économique, Editions Matériologiques, Ch.2: 77-128, Feb. 2017. (Link ; WP CREM 2011-02)
- Utilitarianism and anti-utilitarianism. In Gilbert Faccarello and Heinz D. Kurz (Eds.), Handbook of the History of Economic Analysis, Vol.3, Ch.39: 577-588, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham (U.K.), 2016. (WP GATE 2013-32)
- An conversation with Amartya Sen, with Muriel Gilardone and Maurice Salles, short version available as a movie, 2010. (link)