Participatory and Digital Democracy at the Local Level

Über den Autor

Thierry Côme holds a PhD. and a habilitation in management sciences. He is a professor of public management and a member of the research department LAREQUOI. He has held numerous administrative and scientific responsibilities at the University of Reims-Champagne-Ardenne, where he was vice-president in charge of student associations and international relations, and director of the student orientation service. He is currently director of the University Institute of Technology of Mantes-en-Yvelines, Paris-Saclay University. He has directed fifteen theses, written twenty-one articles in peer-reviewed journals, co-authored three books, co-edited six books, and written over thirty book chapters. He is also deputy mayor in charge of finance for a French city of 10,000 inhabitants.

Gilles Rouet holds a PhD. in history and a habilitation in social sciences. He is a professor of public management, currently responsible of one of the three axes of the research department LAREQUOI, and director of the Institut Supérieur de Management, Institut d'Administration des Entreprises de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Université Paris-Saclay (France), since 2015. He held a Jean Monnet ad Personam Chair since 2009. Coordinator and evaluator for several European programs from 1993, he was cooperation attaché at the French Embassies in Slovakia and Bulgaria (2004-2014). Member of the editorial board of the journal Hermès, CNRS, reviewer for a dozen scientific journals, he is editor of several series and collections, and has published a dozen books, about fifty collective books and more than two hundred and forty papers, chapters or contributions in a dozen countries.