Post-doc at CNRS in sociology of political attitudes

Background

This position is part of the "cap and share" research program, funded by the French National Research Agency.

The aim of this program, covering the period 2025-2028, is to study the effects and reception of a hypothetical international climate policy, known as cap and share, consisting of capping and pricing CO2 emissions and returning the resulting revenues in the form of an equal monetary transfer for each human, which would involve major North-South transfers.

Missions

The aim of this position is to reveal and analyze the attitudes of Americans and Europeans to climate change, extreme poverty and global redistribution.

Through videoconference interviews with a random sample of the population, the aim will be to establish respondents’ attitudes, their determinants, and the factors or arguments that influence them.

This position will be carried out in close collaboration with a supervisor experienced in quantitative survey methods and attitudes to climate and redistribution policies (Adrien Fabre).

He/she will be responsible for conducting 300 half-hour semi-structured interviews and 30 in-depth interviews in English. She/he will then transcribe and classify these interviews automatically (using tools such as Whisper and ChatGPT), code them manually, and analyze them statistically. The quantitative analysis of the interview data will be complemented by a narrative analysis of the 30 in-depth interviews. An integrative analysis will check whether the observations converge according to the method used. The work will culminate in one (or more) scientific publication(s).