Sonia Paty
Professeure des Universités (Université Lyon 2)
I am a Professor of Economics in Lyon 2 University where I teach public economics, regional and urban economics and local public finance.
Mainly, my research interests are public economics, political economics and local governments’ decisions using microeconometric tools.
I am also the Principal Investigator of the ANR contract CITIZENS (2023-2025) on citizens’ implication in local public decision.
ANR Citizens' implication in local public decisions
Contrat ANR Citizens (2023-2025)
The project aims at addressing the relationship between decentralization and democracy by assessing how the different forms of decentralization and the different modalities of governance may reconcile citizens and politics at the local level. We want to explore the political consequences of decentralization on the electoral participation, whether electoral systems favour or infringe the perception of closeness between citizens and the administration or elected authorities, or which design of the deliberative process may improve citizens empowerment.
Organisation de la Session sur l’implication des citoyens dans la décision locale aux Journées de l’Economie, JECO 2023, Lyon
Tribune publiée dans le Monde du 10 novembre 2023 : “L’intercommunalité a contribué à éloigner les citoyens du décideur public”
Related on going work:
Why So Many Representatives? Extending the Cube Root Law to Local Assemblies, with Benoît Le Maux, WP GATE 2024
Integration and voter participation: Evidence from local governments in France, with Edoardo Di Porto and Angela Parenti
