Taking as its object "the vote in the village", in the 20th and 21st centuries this book focuses on building a sociology and history “at ground level” of local political practices.

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Faced with tensions between the State and the local government representatives on the one hand, and in the light of the forcoming municipal elections on the other, this book about the former Lille Mayor and Prime Minister Pierre Maury is more than ever in the news.

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Political rallies are a major tool of the election campaigning and as such are strategically used to build a candidate's presidentiality. As a device, they also function as a place for interaction and socialization between the various kind of actors brought together (candidate, political staff, activists, audiences, journalists, technicians, etc.).

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Despite its small size, its population of one million, Djibouti has managed in a few years to acquire an international reputation. Djibouti's visibility can be surprising. The country benefits from a key strategic positioning in the Horn of Africa.

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Constitutional courts, central banks, and regulatory agencies have become an ubiquitous and pervasive feature of contemporary democracies. They are constitutive of an overall process of delegation of governmental functions to institutions put at distance from direct electoral or governmental « pressures ». Through a variegated set of empirical ...

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Where is gone social justice? As inequalities are growing everywhere in the world, this is a key question. This book undertakes to answer it, using survey and qualitative data in France and in "hot" points on the globe. Starting from ordinary actors, social movements, concrete contexts, he draws the kaleidoscope of the current trials, ...

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À l'ère d’internet et d’une redéfinition de la relation entre médecin et patient, synthèse et analyse des méthodes et thérapies de soin de plus en plus populaires dans le contexte germanophone

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This book is an invitation to 'think the state' through an in-depth sociology of the managerialisation of an elite located at its summit. It captures the tensions between its attraction to the private sector and the imperatives of public service.

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In a context of mistrust of parties and politicians (distance from political arenas, ideological jamming, politico-financial affairs, "drifts" of political communication…), denigration of the work of journalists.

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Évolution des rapports germano-polonais dans leur contexte européen depuis les années 2000.

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Insidious chemical or radioactive contamination of a living environment, plurality of dimensions and contradictory issues to be respected, difficulty in constructing an integrative and shared territory project... there are many situations in which conventional, technical, economic, administrative and legal solutions prove to be helpless.

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Vu de l'extérieur, la transition énergétique allemande fait figure de succès, ce qu’a rappelé volontiers Angela Merkel. Qu’en est-il au juste ? La transition allemande s’articule autour de trois objectifs : la sortie du nucléaire, son remplacement par les énergies renouvelables, une diminution de la consommation d’énergie, en particulier...

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The virtues of primaries, supposedly an opportunity for a renewal of the democratic life and parties, are questionned today as disenchantment grows from the US to France.

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Alors qu'une nouvelle formulation du Traité dit de l'Elysée sur l’amitié et la coopération franco-allemande de 1963 est en gestation, ce dossier s’interroge sur les acquis de ce traité et les perspectives d’évolution des relations franco-allemandes dans un contexte international marqué par la mondialisation, la fragilisation du lien transatlantique

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Created in order to support Vladimir Putin, the party United Russia has widely dominated the Russian political landscape for more than 15 years. Communist Party of the Soviet Union resurgence or tool for the leaders: what role does it play?

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An election campaign cannot design anymore without Internet. The intensive use of Facebook and Twitter did it change the manners to campaign?

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Public policies are permanently targeting, producing and categorizing "publics ". It seems an obvious and well-known fact. However, these operations are rarely considered as central issues for policy analysis. Based on original empirical researches, gathering several policy sectors (immigration, public health, public participation, open data,...

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La mémoire des juifs assassinés par le recours à des pavés enserrés dans les trottoirs des villes, créés par l'artiste allemand G. Demnig.

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