Les élu·e·s aiment-ils la démocratie ? Do elected representatives (really) like democracy ?

Quel est le rapport des élu·e·s à la démocratie et à la participation citoyenne ? Comment perçoivent-ils leurs rôles de représentants, leurs statuts et leurs marges de manœuvre politiques? Comment appréhendent-ils le rôle des citoyens en démocratie et les compétences qui leurs sont associées ? En quoi ces enjeux délimitent-ils différents profils d’élus et différentes trajectoires politiques ? Quels sont les rapports des élu.e.s et des organisations partisanes aux réformes institutionnelles démocratiques ou à la problématique et la "cause" de la démocratisation de la démocratie ? A la croisée de la sociologie de l’action publique, des rôles et des comportements politiques, ce colloque a ainsi pour ambition de faire le point sur le rapport du personnel politique à la démocratie et la participation citoyenne.What is the relationship of elected officials with democracy and citizen participation? How do they perceive their roles as representatives, their status and their political room for maneuver? How do they understand the democratic role of citizens and their skills? How do these issues determine different profiles of elected officials and different political trajectories? What are the relationships of elected representatives and partisan organizations with democratic institutional reforms. How do they deal with the issue of democratizing democracy? These questions will be at the heart of this conference. Based on empirical work, original or reviewed, this symposium aims to show how elected representatives imagine what "good participation" should be, how they relate to the so-called "democratization" or "deprofessionalization" of political life, how they conceive the social demand for participation, how they construct policies of participation on this basis (often referred to as "supply policies") and potentially draw lessons about their own democratic experiences and their roles as representatives. At the crossroads of the sociology of public action, political roles and political behaviors, this conference aims to sum up the current state of research about political staff facing citizen participation