Vincent Michelot, Ph.D.

Sciences Po Lyon

Dr. Vincent Michelot is Professor of American Politics and emeritus Director of Sciences Po Lyon in France. This spring he is teaching comparative politics as visiting professor at the University of Virginia. He also serves on the board of Fulbright France and is vice-president of the research council of Institut des Amériques. Michelot is a frequent commentator on both French and American politics and has written widely about US elections, presidential power and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is currently at work on an essay on political parties in France and the United States provisionally entitled \_Weak Parties, Weak Democracies\_. A graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud, he holds a Ph.D. from Université de Provence and an \_Habilitation à diriger des recherches\_ from Sciences Po Paris.