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Nonna Mayer

Nonna Mayer is Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS and a member of the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po. She is a former chair of the French Political Science Association

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France’s Democratic Malaise: Stop Blaming Citizens, Start Reforming Institutions

Nonna Mayer and Frédéric Gonthier

When eight in ten French citizens feel unrepresented, the problem lies not with democratic fatigue but with a political system that has forgotten how to listen.