About

Clémence Ledoux is Associate Professor of Political Sciences (Maîtresse de Conférences) at Nantes University (France). Her research focuses on social care, gender, public policy analysis, the transformation of welfare states and the development of welfare markets. In the framework of the GEPP Project and the ANR PROFAM project, she investigated with Annie Dussuet the practices of street level bureaucrats in charge of decisions regarding home care allowances for the elderly in a French sub-national territory. Since 2019, thanks to her Marie Curie Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies in Freiburg (FRIAS, Germany), she developed a research project on business organisations involved in home services in different countries and also on the Europeanisation of these actors. She is currently coordinating the COVICARE research project, which aims to understand how the Covid-19 crisis, by revealing and exacerbating tensions around home care work for the elderly, has transformed the legal and social frameworks of this work, in France, Germany and the UK.

Publications

Ledoux C, 2023, “Political parties, interest groups and the contestation of home care. The case of France”. European Journal of Politics and Gender.

Van Hooren F and Ledoux C, 2023, “The limits of social investment and the resilience of long-term care”. European Journal of Social Security.

Dussuet A et Ledoux C, 2022, « Le rôle des proches dans les plans d’aide de l’Apa à domicile », Informations sociales, (4), 100-108.

Dussuet A, C. Ledoux and C. Sonnet, 2022, “Gouverner le pouvoir discrétionnaire des street level bureaucrats. Le cas de la mise en oeuvre de l’APA”, Revue Française des Affaires Sociales, 2, 67-89

Jacquot S and C Ledoux, 2021, “Les partenaires sociaux à l’épreuve du genre et de l’intersectionnalité dans l’Union européenne“, Politique européenne, 74 (4),10-37

Ledoux C, 2021,  ” Framing the feminised home-based services sector at European level: the evolving role of Trade Unions and Employer’s Organisations”, Politique européenne, 74 (4), 78-107.

Van Hooren F, C Ledoux, B Apitzsch and A Eleveld, 2021, “Inclusive advocacy? Trade-union activity in support of the rights of domestic workers in Continental Europe”, Politique européenne, 4, n°74, 108-134.

Ledoux C and A Dussuet, 2020, “Elder Care Allowances in Action : Missed Opportunities for Gender Transformation”,  French Politics, 18 (1-2), 71-92.

Dussuet A and C Ledoux, 2019, “Implementing the French elderly care allowance for home-based care: bureaucratic work, professional cultures and gender frames”, Policy and Society, 38 (4), 589-605.

Email: clemence.ledoux@univ-nantes.fr