CHIPI in English

Founded in 2006, the CHIPI is a research unit focusing on the interconnected domains of the history of ideas and political theory.

Main research subjects:

The aim of the CHIPI is to bring to the research in political science a historical and philosophical perspective.

Two main fields of investigation are privileged:

• In the history of ideas: the study of the systems of political representation from the end of the Ancien Regime to the present;
   
• In political theory: the study of the relations between the individual and the state ( citizenship, rights and freedoms, public opinion …) 

Current research topics:

• Theories of democracy and representation
• History of classical liberalism
• The French Revolution in European context
• Swiss nationalism
• Direct democracy