About Mattei Dogan

Mattei Dogan is a Paris based sociologist, political scientist, and comparativist.  His publications span the larger half of the 20th century – his first work appeared in 1949 and his most recent in 2008.  Dogan’s oeuvre reflects a life full of globetrotting, direct observation, and critical thinking about the changing world around him.  He speaks four languages fluently.  

He has published in a wide array of fields, including:  political sociology, electoral behavior, political elites, interdisciplinary research, social scientific methodology, religious beliefs, and political mistrust. 

He became affiliated with the National Center for Scientific research in 1953 where he is today an emeritus research director.  For twenty years, he held dual academic positions:  in the United States and France.  He was a professor of political science at the University of California at Los Angeles to where he commuted every spring quarter.  He has been a visiting professor at the University of Indiana, Yale, Trento (Italy), the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Tokyo).  He has been a lecturer at many other universities across the world. 

In 2001, he took the initiative of creating a non-profit foundation devoted exclusively to the social sciences.  This foundation which bears his name offers twenty-one prizes for excellence in academic research and oversees three online anthologies:  Online Anthology of Comparative Research, Online Anthology Literature as a Mirror of Social Realities, and Online Anthology of Social Sciences of Religion and Agnosticism.   The Fondation Mattei Dogan also sponsors innovative scientific enterprises from time to time (www.fondationmatteidogan.org)