La légitimité et son contraire, l'illégitimité, ne sont en réalité que des instruments de conquête, de conservation et de contestation du pouvoir. S’appuyant sur la pensée de Max Weber, Yves Mény rappelle que cette notion multiforme et changeante repose avant tout sur une croyance, celle d’une juste domination des dominants sur les dominés.

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Political mistrust is a French speciality. Political scientists are constantly measuring its range and intensity. Here, Luc Rouban has set out to understand its mechanisms.

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The transformation of society is taking place through a wide range of tactics and experiments. In order to better understand these movements' attitude to emancipation and particularly how they see the principle of equality, Réjane Sénac has interviewed 130 movement leaders, social entrepreneurs, and activists, with a wide range of affiliations.

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Political scientist and sociologist Emmanuel Henry draws on numerous cases to show how industry implements veritable strategies to exclude subjects that threaten its activities from the public debate.

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Well before 1789, it was the American and English revolutions that gave rise to the grand principles of collective life. In France, the Republic - proclaimed three times - has often wavered, and it was not until its third incarnation that the great public freedoms were established.

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Economics as a discipline was conceived by men in the interests of a society run by men. Feminist economics renews the themes and approaches of this discipline and uses its knowledge and tools to work towards gender equality.

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Une enquête « à chaud » auprès d'acteurs de la crise du Covid-19, qui, plutôt que des défaillances individuelles ou des dysfonctionnements techniques, met en avant des facteurs organisationnels : mauvaises leçons tirées du passé, faux sentiment de sécurité, confiance aveugle dans les outils de planification.

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The book re-examines the land issues at the heart of the power dynamics in contemporary history.

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Jean-Marc Offner déconstruit un par un ces dogmes, hérités des Trente Glorieuses, qui continuent de gouverner villes et territoires, qui ignorent les réalités d'un XXIe siècle urbain, mobile, connecté, et sont inadaptés aux exigences environnementales.

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Fine connaisseuse des systèmes universitaires français et étrangers, Christine Musselin s'appuie sur les résultats de ses recherches menées depuis les années 1980 pour porter un diagnostic sur l’état actuel de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche en France.

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The notions of merit and equal opportunity constitute not only the precepts of a society where strong inequalities persist, but that they are, in certain ways, contrary to justice.

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Taking stock of the current impossibility to radically change our lifestyles and organization, this book nevertheless calls on us to follow several realistic paths to adaptation and reform, in the interests of preparing a less somber future.

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Are we really on the eve of the collapse of democracy? In view of the economic and political changes underway in countries like Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, the author argues that democracies will reinvent themselves.

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There is a Catholic doctrine on capitalism, but it must be read between the lines of the pontifical texts. It could be summarized as follows: it is possible to operate within capitalist structures, but only to the extent that one does not adopt the behavior that capitalism presupposes. This is a position that requires a certain juggling act.

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A whole series of cognitive biases prevent us from making rational decisions: conformity, aversion to loss, excessive self-esteem, preference for the short-term, etc. This book is a critical analysis of behavioral knowledge and its applications, in order to understand its success and explore its limitations.

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We all understand that infinite growth in a finite world is impossible, yet we act as if that were not true.To preserve our mental health we refuse to consider embarrassing truths, hoping that all will turn out well, but not really knowing how...

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Although the notion of gender was promoted by sociologists to shed light on relations of domination, invoking it at every opportunity – from the feminisation of language to political parity – establishes the idea that men and women are still, above all, and in every way prototypes of their sex group rather than unique individuals.

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To understand the reasons for the failure of memory policies and shed light on the public debate, this book return to the sources of these memory policies and, without political bias or taking sides, ask – where do these policies come from? What do they really do? How can we make them work effectively?

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