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.

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.

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?

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

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,...

Social democracy is a challenge to labour relations that, since the 2000s, many reforms - Sapin, Rebsamen, El Khomri, Macron - have sought to address. It is no longer a question of developing the free expression of employees but, on the basis of negotiations between employers and trade unions, of promoting self-regulation in each branch of ...