Ce classique des études urbaines montre que les villes européennes (de taille moyenne) sont un phénomène historique de longue durée, et qu'elles demeurent innovantes et dynamiques malgré les processus de globalisation.
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2e édition augmentée d'une préface inédite
Patrick Le Galès
L'opinion est le cœur battant des démocraties modernes dont les sondages mesurent le pouls en permanence. Cet ouvrage permet à chacun de mieux comprendre le fonctionnement des sondages ainsi que leur influence réelle ou supposée dans la vie politique.
Nouvelle édition entièrement actualisée
Roland Cayrol
BAsed on political sociology and military sociology, this fine research work, provides a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of the French forces.
Sociologie de la décision
Bastien Irondelle
An illuminating essay, in a European context where multiculturalism tends to fade the shadow of a "neo-assimilationism," notably in France where ethnic statistics and the under-representation of minorities remain subjects for fierce debate.
Comparaisons franco-britanniques
Romain Garbaye
The origins and power of mercantile institutions are among the enigmas that this work attempts to explore across an original theoretical context as well as a series of studies on the wine market, biotechnology firms, and the convention ISO 26000.
Pierre François
By involving contemporary paradigms of economic geography, comparing the development strategies employed by the central European States to others, Irish or Asian, this book provides a valuable framework for understanding the new geography of Europe.
Recomposition et européanisation des territoires
Gilles Lepesant
Gaboriaux's book tracks republican approaches to rural votes. She shows how Republicans themselves changed their version of the Republic to make it more attractive to peasants, so that by the 1870s they were seen as the model for the Republican citizenry.
Les républicains face au bonapartisme rural (1848-1880)
Chloé Gaboriaux
Second volume of the Public Policy series, this opus focuses on the effects of public action on the social and political body
Olivier Borraz, Virginie Guiraudon
While some leaders toy with the rules, bending them to their own benefit, the citizenry, often complacent in matters of favoritism and other abuses of power, does not easily sanction these acts in the end. This is the paradox of French democracy.
Petits arrangements avec la probité
Pierre Lascoumes
This book is a history of the mind, clarifying contemporary political issues through the lens of the intellectual contexts of the past. The author examines the different ways political structures are created within the evolution of western civilization.
Enjeux et défis contemporains
Astrid von Busekist
En plein retour de la question agricole, cet important ouvrage collectif analyse le rapport complexe des agriculteurs français à la modernité et à la tradition, au marché, à l'État et à l'Europe, et la façon dont ils s'insèrent dans la mondialisation.
De la fin des paysans au retour de la question agricole
Bertrand Hervieu, Nonna Mayer
Des Français pas vraiment différents des Européens : la spécificité française, ne serait-elle qu'un mythe ? C’est ce que démontre ce livre en s’appuyant sur les données empiriques inédites de l’enquête European Social Survey !
Daniel Boy, Bruno Cautrès
This book offers the first global approach on the impact of oil wealth in Algeria, Libya and Iraq from 1970 to 2008. Luis Martinez gives elements of causalities to the "Arabic spring", in particular in the oil-rich countries.
Algérie - Libye - Irak
Luis Martinez
This book addresses what is called the "crisis of representation". Parting from the idea that this is a rhetorical issue, it attempts to shed light on the truth of representative systems.
Structure et fondement d'une crise
Didier Mineur
The term "Righteous of France" makes reference to "Righteous Among the Nations" created by the Hebrew State. The expression has been reclaimed by French public powers. The author confrontes several of questions posed by contemporary debates on memory.
Politiques publiques de la mémoire
Sarah Gensburger
Gilbert Rist presents a radical critique of neoclassical economics from a social and historical perspective. This book is necessera because it changes the focus on the ongoing debates about economics.
Gilbert Rist
The essays cover four major themes: the political situation on the eve of the 2007 elections, the role of France in relations between Western/Eastern Europe after 1989, the link between politics and culture, and the metamorphoses of the modernizing state.
Onze essais sur la politique et la culture
Philippe Urfalino, Martha Zuber
Gender is a central organizer of contemporary neoliberal globalization. Uniting international specialists on issues rarely confronted, this work renews criticism of the economic, social, political, cultural, ideological consequences of globalization.
Genre, classe, race et nouvelle division du travail
Jules Falquet, Helena Hirata