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PRESSES DE SCIENCES PO (the University Press of Sciences Po) has a threefold role: to publish original research, to edit reference works for student use, and to help public and political debate. We publish advanced research in geopolitics, globalization and governance, sustainable development, trends in political life, change and development in society and 20th century history.

Please note that all of our titles are in French, unless otherwise stated.

Guillaume Sacriste

La République des constitutionnalistes
Professeurs de droit et légitimation de l'État en France (1870-1914)
Constitutionalist Republic
Law professors and the legitimization of the state in France (1870-1914)

This work retraces the invention of the constitutionalist, this law professor specializing in constitutional policy, and demonstrate how these professors played a crucial role in the advent of the new regime.

Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer

Pas de paix sans justice ?
Le dilemme de la paix et de la justice en sortie de conflit armé
No Peace Without Justice?
The dilemma of peace and justice after armed conflict

Examining the history of international criminal justice, from Nuremberg to today, with the aid of numerous examples from the Balkans to Libya, touching on Rwanda and Darfur, this book questions the pacifying effect of justice and its limitations.

Philippe Robert, Renée Zauberman

Mesurer la délinquance
Evaluating crime

This book brings a strictly scientific perspective to the measurement of crimes arguing for three major changes: an analyse over the long term, an evaluation method no longer monopolized by the most powerful and an urgente evaluation of financial crime.

Sébastien Lechevalier

La grande transformation du capitalisme japonais (1980-2010)
The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism (1980-2010)

The author analyses the profound transformation of Japanese capitalism, along with a reflection on the diversity of capitalisms. He shows that Japan is still a subjet of studies capable of throwing light on the global issues of the world economy.

Anne Muxel

La politique au fil de l'âge
Politics and age

Revolutionary at 20, conservative at 60: is there truth in this old adage? Do our political attitudes change as we age? This work gives light to the ties between age, generation, life cycle and our political lives.

Karoline Postel-Vinay

Le G20, laboratoire d'un monde émergent
The G20 Summit, Laboratory of an Emerging World

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the G20 has established itself as the primary forum for international economic cooperation. This book is an insightful analysis of its rise and its impact on the international order at a turning point of its trajectory.

Monique Dagnaud

Génération Y
Les jeunes et les réseaux sociaux, de la dérision à la subversion
Generation Y
Youth and social networks from derision to subversion

Monique Dagnaud decodes the digital cultures in which 15 to 30-year-olds are immersed and sketches a portrait of a generation somewhat lost yet ultra-connected. The web has revolutionized both the way they view the world and how they see themsleves in it.

Philippe Bezes, Alexandre Siné

Gouverner (par) les finances publiques
Governing (via) Public Finance

This book analyses public finances, in a context marked by the issue of government debt, budget constraints and the renewed policy of rigor and fiscal reforms.

Mariette Sineau

Femmes et pouvoir sous la Ve République
De l'exclusion à l'entrée dans la course présidentielle
Women and Power under the 5th Republic

50 years of history of conflict between women and power in France. This book tells the decisive stages of their accession to the highest steps of political life.

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CAPES AGRÉGATION 2011

« Les mobilités »
L'enjeu mondial - les migrations

« Les comportements et attitudes politiques : permanence et ruptures ? »
L'électeur a ses raisons
Français comme les autres ?
Le nouveau désordre électoral
Comment les électeurs font-ils leurs choix ?
L'électeur français en questions
L'acte de vote
La liberté de choisir
Explication du vote
Le citoyen sentimental
Comprendre les évolutions électorales
Classe, religion et comportement
Les ouvriers et la politique
L'expérience politique des jeunes
Le vote de tous les refus

« Les recompositions contemporaines de l'État »

Politiques publiques. 1, La France dans la gouvernance européenne
Politiques publiques. 2, Changer la société
Dictionnaire des politiques publiques
La France en mutations
Les Politiques européennes
Gouverner par contrat. L'action publique en question
Gouverner par les instruments
Le Retour des villes européennes