How is collective action organised? How do collective actors work together? This rich dialogue highlights many fruitful reflections on instrumentation, helping to rethink social science and collective action today.
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Controverses, résistance, effets
Charlotte Halpern, Pierre Lascoumes
Adult vocational training generates many expectations in terms of safeguarding personal career paths and competitive business practices. But who should we focus on first, and how should training be conducted? Evaluation would allow us to reform the system, preserving only those providers who are creating real added value.
Marc Ferracci
Entrepreneurs in France have access to many forms of public financial support. Although the average quantity of aid is relatively small, the sum of all the funds is significant. this work reviews the main kinds of public financial support in France and provides an analysis of the different measures implemented in France and abroad.
Pierre-Yves Cabannes, Denis Fougère
For the past thirty years, unemployment in France has never dropped below 8% for any significant period of time. This is surely a sign that we need to reform our employment policies.
Pour en finir avec le retard français
François Fontaine, Franck Malherbet
La RFSP poursuit son travail d'analyse distanciée des récentes révolutions arabes avec un premier article sur la Syrie. Ce numéro publie également des résultats de recherches sur l’action publique, sur les attitudes politiques ou militantes.
Varia
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S'appuyant sur un important travail de recherche sur les politiques publiques et sur plusieurs enquêtes qu'il a lui-même réalisées au cœur de ce processus de fabrique, Philippe Zittoun propose une approche nouvelle de l'action publique qui permet de mieux comprendre l'activité de nos gouvernants, véritables Sisyphes des temps modernes.
Une approche pragmatique de l'action publique
Philippe Zittoun
Should politicla institutions refletc our societies' cultural diversity? As in a play, Cosimo and Therese draw us into their passionate discussions on issues of representation in a multicultural democracy. A brilliant introduction to the questions raised by the positive discrimination.
Penser la représentation dans une démocratie multiculturelle
Nenad Stojanović
Cet ouvrage, rédigé une équipe de chercheurs français, fournit un cadre pour comprendre la situation des partis en France et soulève également une interrogation sur une éventuelle « manière française » de les appréhender, en bref qui ouvre un débat.
Carole Bachelot, Alexandre Dézé
Florence Haegel
Un an après l'élection de François Hollande, cet ouvrage, abondamment illustré de cartes électorales thématiques, analyse les composantes de ce "vote normal" et s'interroge sur la possibilité d'une "présidence normale" face à des difficultés majeures.
Les élections présidentielle et législatives d'avril-mai-juin 2012
Pascal Perrineau
Sociology analysis what contemporary armies owe to the political, institutional and social context in which they develop. It recalls what the understanding of military matters brings to the understanding of our societies and phenomenas of power.
Jean Joana
Following extensive research in the Portuguese, Spanish, and French archives and a series of interviews with political and institutional actors from the period, this author offers an original history of migrants and Portuguese migration policies.
L'État portugais et ses migrants en France (1957-1974)
Victor Pereira
This didactic presentation of the controversies spurred by the idea of a « universal State » reveals the fault lines that they draw within the major contemporary ideological currents. An introduction to the philosophy of international relations.
Frédéric Ramel
What purpose do ambassadors serve? After a historical retrospective beginning in the Third Republic, the author shows that in spite of all these changes, the profession of ambassador has conserved its specificity and its usefulness.
Marie-Christine Kessler
An analysis of the oratorical secrets, manipulation techniques and favourite words of Nicolas Sarkozy, who invented a new kind of expression, shocking many in the process and creating an authentic break in the history of the 5th Republic! .
(2007-2012)
Damon Mayaffre
A passionate reading of the evolution of presidential speeches since 1958, in which we see delivery take precedence over content: the leader replaces the idea and political thought becomes a matter of communication.
Chirac, Mitterrand, Giscard, Pompidou, de Gaulle
The first analysis of the major reforms and policies that characterize Sarkozy's presidency.
Jacques de Maillard, Yves Surel
Based on a unique comparative analysis of four French presidential contests over the last two decades, this book is an original and comprehensive study of the sociological and psychological forces driving French voters' choices.
1988-1995-2002-2007
Éric Belanger, Bruno Cautrès
The comparative approach has become an indispensable tool for the production of knowledge. This manual aims to facilitate access for students / researchers / teachers to methods, data and comparative studies in France, Europe and the United States.
Guide d'accès aux grandes enquêtes statistiques en sciences sociales
Alain Chenu, Laurent Lesnard