Yves Sintomer is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is a political science professor at Paris 8 University and a researcher at the CSU-CRESPPA (CNRS/Université de Paris 8), also affiliated to the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin) and the Sociology Institute of Neuchâtel university (Switzerland). His last book : Petite histoire de l’expérimentation démocratique. Tirage au sort et politique d’Athènes à nos jours, Paris, La Découverte, November 2011.