Jean-Luc Parodi (8 June 1937 – 21 January 2022) was a French political scientist.

Biography

Jean-Luc was the son of

Alexandre Parodi Alexandre Parodi (1 June 1901 – 15 March 1979) liases Quartus and Cératwas a French senior civil servant, a member of the French resistance, General de Gaulle's appointee in charge of the French Committee of National Liberation, French ...

, a Councillor of State and a member of the

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. His uncle,

René Parodi René Parodi (8 December 1904 – 16 April 1942) was a French magistrate, member of the French resistance and publisher of an Underground media in German-occupied France, underground newspaper during World War II. He was reported as hanged aft ...

, was made a Companion of the Liberation posthumously, following his death in 1942. Parodi studied at

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, writing a memoir under the direction of and earning his degree in 1960. He also wrote a thesis on the political system of the

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under the direction of

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. He earned a doctorate in political science in 1974. In 1964, he became a researcher at the (CEVIPOF), where he stayed for the entirety of his career. He served as Secretary-General of the from 1980 to 1999 and directed the ''Revue française de science politique'' from 1991 to 2008. He was also heavily involved with the

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, where he was a pioneer in the analysis of political polls. He was the first person to predict a presidential election in France in

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and the first to analyze municipal elections in

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. Parodi carried out political research at the

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alongside Olivier Duhamel, moving to

Éditions du Seuil Éditions du Seuil (), also known as Le Seuil, is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' (th ...

in 1993 after a nomination from . He was an Officer of the

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. He died in Paris on 21 January 2022, at the age of 84.

Publications

*''La Vie économique et sociale de la nation'' (1969) *''La Constitution de la Cinquième République'' (1985) *''L'Hérédité en politique'' (1992) *''L'Écriture de la Constitution de 1958'' (1992)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Parodi, Jean-Luc 1937 births 2022 deaths People from Paris French people of Italian descent French political scientists Sciences Po alumni Officers of the Legion of Honour