By tracing the role the profession of business lawyer has acquired within the confines of the state and the market, the authors of this fascinating investigation explore the contours of this grey area at the edge of political and administrative institutions. What does this ascension cost us today, both politically and democratically ?
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Enquête sur un grand brouillage
Pierre France, Antoine Vauchez
This book questions the mechanisms that lead to this blackout and analyses the way in which workplace health policies are developed in France. It shows how the instruments and procedures for managing professional risks are now conceived by and for experts, which makes it very difficult for workers' representativeand citizens to appropriate them.
Les politiques de santé au travail
Emmanuel Henry
Drawing on hitherto overlooked sources, Christophe Defeuilley presents three urban histories, in London, New York, and Paris. He describes the major events that punctuated the creation of public water utilities. An in-depth look into the history, both great and small, of the world's three largest cities in 1900.
La création du service public de l'eau
Christophe Defeuilley
"Eat smart, be smart", "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle", "Same medicine, same results", "Smoking kills"… A critical attempt at deciphering an increasingly widespread form of governance, where individual behaviour becomes a space for public intervention.
Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier
Drawing from several surveys conducted between 2004 and 2010, this work describes the significant institutional, organisational and technical infrastructure necessary to transform electricity into commodities, and reveals the fundamental role of political decision-making, including with regard to liberal reforms and the creation of a new market.
Sociologie d'une réforme libérale
Thomas Reverdy
An anthropologist among analysts and traders! Horacio Ortiz analyses how these "experts" state the value of companies listed on the stock exchange and reveals the contradictions and weaknesses of this activity whose issues are crucial for the economic, political and social interest and yet poorly understood .
Enquête d'anthropologie politique sur l'évaluation des entreprises cotées en bourse
Horacio Ortiz
An indispensable work for anyone wishing to understand this shift, comprehend upcoming changes in Île de France and discover how France has entered the 21st century.
L'émergence d'une métropole
Frédéric Gilli
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.
Controverses, résistance, effets
Charlotte Halpern, Pierre Lascoumes
L'heure est au bilan des opérations de démolition-reconstruction des grands ensembles, lancées en 2003 par le programme national de rénovation urbaine. Ce livre dresse une précieuse mise en perceptive historique des politiques de la ville en France.
Démolition-reconstruction de l'État
Renaud Epstein
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
Far from the impediments of a heroic history of Europe with its crises and re-founding treaties, the author shows why and how law became the principal device through which Europe was able to impose itself as a new power centre.
L'invention d'un programme institutionnel pour l'Europe
Antoine Vauchez
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
The process of decentralisation is progressing all over Europe. France is no exception. The author analyses the rise of the regions and offers a new perspective on contemporay France, where local actors play an increasing role in public legislation.
Mobilisations, décentralisation et gouvernance en France
Romain Pasquier
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
The first analysis of the major reforms and policies that characterize Sarkozy's presidency.
Jacques de Maillard, Yves Surel
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.
Philippe Bezes, Alexandre Siné
Confronting the theory of chaos defending that very large cities are ungovernable, the authors attempt to show how these XXL cities work and are at the forefront of globalization.
Dominique Lorrain
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.
2e édition augmentée d'une préface inédite
Patrick Le Galès
