Articles by Émilie Frenkiel

January 12, 2026

🎈 How a student citizens' assembly in France is reshaping a Parisian university

Émilie Frenkiel

A pioneering new deliberative democracy project invites university students, faculty and administrative staff to develop transformative measures to future-proof their institution against social and environmental challenges. Reintroducing deliberation into education and beyond, argues Émilie Frenkiel, could bridge the representative disconnect between citizens and institutions

Émilie Frenkiel

Associate Professor in Political Science, Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC)

Émilie is an assessor to the president of UPEC for student life and participatory devices.

She is also vice-head of the Institute of Political Studies Fontainebleau-UPEC.

Her research interests are citizen participation, deliberative democracy, Chinese contemporary politics, university politics and governance.

She has mainly published on participatory processes in China and, more recently, on citizens' assemblies organised in universities.

Since 2023, she has managed the network of deliberating universities (UNIDELIB).

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