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Focusing on Congress and questions of health protection, Anne Laure Beaussier shows how the changes in federal power since the 1970s and the ideological polarization between democrats and republicans have affected the social policies of this country.
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Une histoire politique
Anne-Laure Beaussier
The entire standard theory of central banking is constructed on the model of independence to the state. Yet the history of central banks comes back to the state, or rather to the nation-state. In order to understand the reasons for this paradox, this book analyses the evolution of the relationship between fifteen central banks and the state.
Olivier Feiertag, Michel Margairaz
Table of contents: Making Representative Claims - A World Parliament of Labour? - A Representative Claim Made in the Name of Women? - How Some Actors Become a Representative in Brazilian Participatory Institutions? - Representation as a Performance - Publicity and Transparency
Prétendre représenter la représentation politique comme revendication
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Unemployment affects more young people with low education and skills. The solution to this problem is to improve educational provision. This book compares the performance of various education, training and prevention in several European countries - the Netherlands, Poland, France and Sweden - and the United States.
Des jeunes laissés pour compte
Francis Kramarz, Martina Viarengo
The post-Cold War was a one-dimension world, synonymous with US material preeminence and the normative hegemony of liberalism on global governance. Can the ascent Chinese, Russian revisionism or revivalism Islamist challenge this order?
Dario Battistella
Table of contents: The State in the U.S. Between Political Invisibility and Institutional Fragmentation- Why can't Americans see the State?- Federalism and Policy Instability- Veto-Player or Agent of Reform? Congress, Health Care Entitlements, end the Changing American State- How America's "Devolution Revolution" Reshaped its Federalism
L'État en Amérique : nouveaux regards
More than just an atlas, this work is a true toolbox. Acessible and instructional, the atlas describes the dynamic paradoxical changes essential for a full comprehension of globalization processes, with a special report on United States.
Comprendre l'espace mondial contemporain - Dossier spécial États-Unis
Marie-Françoise Durand, Thomas Ansart
This book analyses the internal and external policies of Obama's term, with a particular attention to the institutional and partisan context marked by the end of the conservatism of Bush's years and the difficult emergence of a new progressivism.
Olivier Richomme, Vincent Michelot
50 years after the independance of African States, the history of the interest and active support of the United States in the development of the Francophonie.
Enjeux africains 1960-1970
Marine Lefevre
How do new immigrants integrate themselves into culturally sensitive cities in the United States and the United Kingdom? Despite multicultural tensions, local players have succeeded in transcending their differences. Is this a model France could follow?
Expériences anglaise et américaine
Emmanuelle Le Texier, Olivier Esteves
An analysis of the American democratic system throughout the course of the 20th century, as illuminated by the Nixon presidency.
Le cas Nixon
Romain Huret
Sève propose de revisiter le système de santé américain au moment où la santé occupe une place majeure dans la campagne présidentielle aux États-Unis.
Les États-Unis et la santé
Cet ouvrage de recherche s'interroge sur la violence des rapports économiques, leur dimension conflictuelle, et les luttes pour la domination qui traversent le capitalisme dans sa configuration "mondialisée".
Frédéric Lordon
Forty years after May 1968, this work investigates the resurgence and the itinerary of the revolutionary violence of the extreme left in France, United States, Italy, Germany and Japan.
Isabelle Sommier
This book invites the reader to rediscover the knowledge and the practices that shape our experience of the vote...
Yves Déloye, Olivier Ihl
Spécial : L'Amérique de George W. Bush
If everything seems to have changed, September 11 has revealed strong tendencies in American society. Mistrust of the State and international organizations, withdrawal into local communities, self-defense by arms…..
Sophie Body-Gendrot
Faut-il se fier aux discours et aux données officielles annonçant une stabilisation, voire un recul de la délinquance ? La violence urbaine serait-elle un phénomène dépassé ? Que met-on derrière ces termes ?