Academic staff
Clémence LEDOUX
Associate Professor in Political ScienceContact details
Chemin de la Censive du Tertre BP 81307 44313 Nantes Cedex 3
- Office
- 345
- Phone
- 0240141682 (n° interne : 441682)
- Clemence.Ledoux@univ-nantes.fr
Taught academic discipline(s)
Political Science, Gender and Public Policy, Social Policy
Research topics
Social Policies in Europe, Care, Gender, Public Policies, Comparison
Activities / Resume
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS (selection since 2021) :
Edited book and special issue
- V Guiraudon, C Ledoux and L. Poblete, 2024, "Perspectives comparées sur l’emploi et les services de care à domicile en temps de pandémie", Revue des politiques sociales et familiales
- C Ledoux, L Poblete et A Jacquemart, 2023, "Gouverner le care", Terrains et Travaux, 1, 42.
- C Ledoux, K Shire and F van Hooren (eds.), 2021, The Dynamics of Welfare Markets. Private Pensions and Domestic/Care Services in Europe, Palgrave (introduction in free access)
- S Jacquot and C Ledoux, 2021, « Les partenaires sociaux à l’épreuve du genre et de l’intersectionnalité dans l’Union européenne / Social Partners, Gender and Intersectionality in the EU », Politique européenne, 4, 74.
Articles in peer reviewed journals (selection since 2021):
- V Guiraudon C Ledoux P Caillaud 2024 "Le rôle des organisations patronales dans un secteur fragmenté", RPSF, 150
- C Ledoux 2023 "Political parties, interest groups and the contestation of home care. The case of France". European Journal of Politics and Gender, 6 (2) 240-257.
- F Van Hooren and C Ledoux 2023 "The limits of social investment and the resilience of long-term care". European Journal of Social Security 25(2), 196-216
- C. Ledoux, L. Poblete, A. Jacquemart 2023 « Gouverner le social care, des catégories institutionnelles aux expériences intimes », Terrains & travaux, 2023/1 (42), 5-26
- A Dussuet, C Ledoux, C. Sonnet 2022 "Gouverner le pouvoir discrétionnaire des street level bureaucrats. Le cas de la mise en oeuvre de l'APA", Revue Française des Affaires Sociales, 2,67-89
- S Jacquot et C Ledoux 2021 "Les partenaires sociaux à l'épreuve du genre et de l'intersectionnalité dans l'Union européenne", Politique européenne, 4, 74, 10-37
- C Ledoux 2021 "Framing the feminised home-based services sector at European level: the evolving role of Trade Unions and Employer’s Organisations", Politique européenne, 4, 74, 78-107
- F van Hooren, C Ledoux, B Apitzsch and A Eleveld 2021 "Inclusive advocacy? Trade-union activity in support of the rights of domestic workers in Continental Europe", Politique européenne, 4, 74,108-134
- C. Ledoux, V. Guiraudon and C. Sonnet, 2026 "Home Care Workers and Industrial Relations during and after the COVID Pandemic in England and France" in H. Gottfried, E. Boris and N. Guimaraes (eds), Caring Beyond Borders, Brill.
- F. Van Hooren, C. Ledoux and B. Apitzsch 2026 "The Poltics of care work and migration" in Cleton L., Irastorza N., Weimar, A and Zhyznomirska L. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Politics and Migration in Europe, Routledge, 433-445
- C Ledoux 2022 « L’Etat social au défi du marché » in O. Giraud et G. Perrier (eds.), Politiques sociales, l’état des savoirs, La Découverte, 270-284
- C Ledoux et R Krupka 2021 "Negotiating in a Highly Feminised Sector: The French Domestic Work and Home-based Care Sector", in A. Elomäki, J. Kantola and P. Koskinen Sandberg (eds.), Social Partners and Gender Equality: Change and Continuity in Gendered Corporatism, Palgrave, 71-95
- C Ledoux, R Encinas de Muñagorri et V. Guiraudon 2021 "Becoming an Organised Actor in a Welfare Market: Employers in the French In-Home Domestic/Care, in C. Ledoux, K. Shire et F. van Hooren (eds.) The Dynamics of Welfare Markets. Private Pensions and Domestic/Care Services in Europe, Palgrave, 317-342
Additional information
Research projects
- Co-coordinator of the french part of the european research project ORIGAMI (2023-2025).
- Principal investigator of the research project COVICARE (2021-2024).
- Research project on the The Euopeanisation of Home-Based Service Employers' Organisations during a CNRS sabbatical and a Marie-Curie Fellowship at the FRIAS (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg) (2019-2021; 2022)
- Member of the research project PROFAM (2018-2021).
- Associated to the PHS Quality Project. Here the main report, june 2020
- Speaker of the Study Group "The politics of fiscal welfare markets (2016-2018)" based at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies HWK, in Delmenhorst (Germany).
- Member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Sozialreform since 2025, Gouvernement et Action Publique since 2022, the Revue des Politiques Sociales et Familiales since 2020
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) since 2025
- Member of the Scientific council of the research center Law and Social Change ie DCS (Nantes University) since 2018
- Evaluator for the EURIAS Fellowships (2015, 2016, 2017) and FIAS Fellowship Programme (2020).
- Participation to the jury of l'épreuve écrite de sociologie au concours d'entrée de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (2017 et 2018).
- Evaluator for the French-German University
Fellowships in different foreign institutions
Administrative Responsibilities at Nantes University
- 2023-2024 : 3 months at the Maison Française of Oxford University (MFO)
- 2022: 5 months FRIAS Senior Fellow 2022 and Marie Curie Fellow of the European Union, Institute for Advanced Studies in Fribourg, FRIAS, Germany.
- 2020 : 5 weeks at the Université de Saint Louis, Bruxelles, Belgium (supported by Alliance Europa)
- 2018 : 9 days at the University College Dublin -UCD, Dublin, Irland (supported by a Hubert Currien Fellowship)
- 2014-2016: 9 months in different sequences, Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Studies, HWK), Delmenhorst, Germany.
- 2009: 3 months at the Zentrum für Sozialpolitik -ZeS, Brême, Germany (supported by the CIERA)
- 2009: 3 months at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin -WZB, Berlin, Germany (supported by the CIERA)
- 2007-2008: 6 months at the Zentrum für Sozialpolitik -ZeS, Brême, Germany (supported by the CIERA)
- Co-director of the master 2 Science Politique de l'Europe since 2016
- Member of the Research Commission of the University Nantes (2016-2020)
- Member of the Conseil d'Administration of the Foundtion of the University Nantes (2016-2021)
- Membre du conseil de gestion de la faculté de Droit et de Science Politique (2012-2016)
- Co-director of the Licences Parcours Europe (2012-2015)
- 2011 : PHD in Political Science, Sciences Po Paris, Centre d'études européennes (France) : "L'Etat-providence et les mondes professionnels. La construction politique des métiers féminisés d'intervention dans la sphère privée. Une comparaison France- République Fédérale d'Allemagne depuis les années 1970" , Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. Mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury.
- 2006 : Master's degree in Politival Science (Public Policies Analysis), Sciences Po Paris, France
- 2005 : Agrégation in Social Sciences (National Teacher's Dipl.), position 6 in the national ranking.
- 2002 : Laureate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENS), Department of Social Science.
- 1999-2002 : "classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles", B/L, lycée Pothier, Orléans.
Updated on 17 April 2026.