Maxime André is a PhD candidate in Political Science from Sciences Po Lyon in France. He joined Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences as a visiting scholar in 2018. Maxime is the coördinator of the New England office of the Institut des Amériques (IdA), which is hosted at Boston College.
His research focuses on American government, and more specifically on the impact of citizen participation in the implementation of public policies. In 2017, Maxime visited Brown University to pursue a research project on Prohibition in the State of Rhode Island. This research allowed to establish a link between the actions of citizen organizations and the development of state interventionism in the United States.
At Boston College, Maxime is working on his PhD dissertation, this time tackling the New Deal era. This research pushes further his previous work by interrogating the influence of citizen organizations on the implementation of the New Deal programs in the 1930s. By bridging the gap between Prohibition and the New Deal, Maxime proposes a new take on the political history of American interventionism, emphasizing the people’s role in this development.