Cecile Vigour is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar, and a research professor in sociology and political science at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Sciences Po Bordeaux. She is a specialist of public policy analysis, political sociology, sociology of law and courts. Vigour works on 3 main topics.
Research interests and current research activity
1) Her latest research focuses on how French citizens perceived and experienced law, courts, and the police, based on focus groups and a quantitative survey.
The research she is starting further explores one dimension, regarding access to justice and inequalities. The aim is to deepen understanding why so many people fail to (or do not) resort to their rights, when they are facing conflicts, because this generates inequalities; and to understand if and how citizens make a link between those conflicts rooted in their daily lives, and the democratic institutions. She will carry out photo-elicitation interviews completed by a quantitative survey, and if possible observations in courts.
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2) In previous research, Vigour studied reform policies and changes of the judicial system in Europe (Belgium, France, Italy and the Netherlands).
3) She also studied members of parliament and other elected people: their conceptions of democracy, & representation; roles and values; participation to the lawmaking process.
Vigour was a president of the Committee on Sociology of Law of the French Sociological Association (2013-2017), and of the French Political Science Association (2018-2023).
Publications
Vigour published in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, International Journal of Sociology, Journal of Legislative Studies, Law and Social Inquiry. She edited special issues in Current Sociology, and Law and Social Inquiry. She also published: La justice en examen. Attentes et expériences citoyennes, Paris, Puf, 2022 (with B. Cappellina, L. Dumoulin et V. Gautron) ; Réformes de la justice en Europe. Entre politique et gestion, De Boeck, 2018.
Vigour is a member of the editorial board of French politics review.