Serge Hurtig (France), Editor, International Political Science Abstracts

Serge Hurtig, born in 1927 in Bucharest, has lived in France since 1939, except for four years (1942 to 1946) in Buenos Aires and two years (1946 to 1948) in  Washington, D.C., as a student at the Georgetown University  School of Foreign Service. He graduated in 1950 from the Paris Institut d’Etudes Politiques, and was before  his retirement in 1995 a member of the Graduate Department of Political Science of the Institut, as well as Secretary General (1971-1991) and then Scientific Director (1991-1995) of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques – the two institutions known jointly as “Sciences Po”. He also held teaching positions at the Bologna Center of Johns Hopkins University and the Grenoble and Bordeaux Instituts d’Etudes Politiques.

 His connection with IPSA dates back to 1952, when he attended the Hague Congress as assistant to Jean Meynaud, then Secretary General. He was IPSA’s Secretary General from 1960 to 1967, and Vice President of the Executive Committee from 1979 to 1985.  Appointed in 1963 editor of the International Political Science Abstracts, which had been founded in 1951, he was joined in that position by Paul Godt in 2000. Paul Godt became editor in 2003, with Serge Hurtig continuing as co-editor.

 He had been one of the founders of the ECPR and of  the French-American Foundation (France). Publications include : ed., Alain Savary : Politique et Honneur, Paris, 2002 ; “Teflon II, Président des Etats-Unis ? Bill Clinton et l’opinion publique américaine”, in B. Badie and P. Perrineau, eds., Le Citoyen, Mélanges offerts à Alain Lancelot, Paris, 2000 ; “Developments in the world of political science journals”, in E. Bort and R. Keat, eds., The Boundaries of Understanding : Essays in Honor of Malcolm Anderson, Edinburgh, 1999.