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Analyse et pilotage des politiques publiques: France, Suisse, Canada
Le projet de la modernisation de l’État entraîne de nombreux défis qui demandent une réflexion en profondeur sur la légitimité des actions publiques. Pour pouvoir juger de leur pertinence, de leur efficacité et de leur efficience par rapport à une situation sociale jugée politiquement problématique et inacceptable, un modèle d’analyse des politiques publiques est nécessaire. Il s’…
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2015
Capacités évaluatives et recherche académique: quelle dynamique en Suisse?
Ce chapitre s’articule entre trois temps. Nous rappelons brièvement en quoi consistent les capacités évaluatives, les stratégies de développement de celles-ci et le rôle qu’y tient la recherche scientifique. Nous présentons ensuite un très bref résumé du développement des capacités évaluatives en Suisse, en mettant la focale sur la contribution de la recherche académique à la…
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2015
Equality v Conscience? Ethics and the Provision of Public Services
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Democratic Equality and Freedom of Religion: beyond coercion v. persuasion
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Demoi-cracy in the European Union: principles, institutions, policies
In a ‘demoi-cracy’, separate statespeoples enter into a political arrangement and jointly exercise political authority. Its proper domain is a polity of democratic states with hierarchical, majoritarian features of policy-making, especially in value-laden redistributive and coercive policy areas, but without a unified political community (demos). In its vertical dimension, demoi-…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Austerity and protest: popular contention in times of economic crisis
What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined, create a greater potential for protest? With protest movements and events such as the Indignados and the Occupy Movement receiving a great deal of attention in the media and in the popular imaginary in recent times, this path-breaking…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Did EU Membership of the Central and Eastern European Countries Contribute to Peace?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Changement climatique au Conseil de sécurité : reconfigurations du débat Nord-Sud
Dès les premiers efforts de politisation des questions environnementales à l’international dans les années 1960 puis 1970, les Etats se sont divisés entre pays développés au Nord et pays en développement au Sud. Ces oppositions se retrouvent aujourd'hui dans les positions officielles des Etats membres au Conseil de sécurité, qui a discuté des implications sécuritaires du…
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2015
La lutte anti-terroriste "contre" les réseaux urbains. Vers un nouveau modèle d'urbanité
Au-delà de la prise de conscience de protéger les réseaux matériels et immatériels fait jour le débat sur la nécessité de mieux les séparer les uns des autres. Déjà certains pays cherchent à produire des internet locaux autonomes pour réduire la menace extérieure du hackage et d’espionnage. En matière de sécurisation fait jour aujourd’hui un imaginaire stratégique que l’on pourrait…
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2015
Welfare Institutions, Resources, and Political Learning: Interacting with the State as an Incentive for the Political Participation of Long-Term Unemployed Youth
This paper examines the impact of interactions with welfare institutions on the political participation of long-term unemployed youth in two cities. We assess the role of resource redistribution and of political learning on engagement in protest activities. We use a unique dataset of long-term unemployed youth to predict the probability that long-term unemployed youth participate in…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Impacts of Courts on Policy Implementation in a Federal State: Evidence from Disability Insurance in Switzerland
Swiss cantons have extensive autonomy in implementing federal laws. This leads to heterogeneity in cantonal practices and policy outputs. This article explores the extent to which courts contribute to the convergence of cantonal outputs. It focuses on the disability insurance benefits granted by cantonal administrations, and on the related judicial rulings by cantonal courts and the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Environmental Movements in Advanced Industrial Democracies: Heterogeneity, Transformation, and Institutionalization
Environmental movements are networks of informal interactions that may include individuals, groups, and organizations engaged in collective action motivated by shared identity or concern about environmental issues. This article reviews literature on environmental movements (including antinuclear energy movements) according to four main aspects: the social bases and values underlying…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Does the class cleavage still matter? The social composition of participants in demonstrations addressing redistributive and cultural issues in three countries
This article examines the role of social class for individual participation in social movements, more specifically in street demonstrations. The authors use protest survey data in order to avoid the limitations of previous research by contextualizing the effect of social class on participation in protest. The analysis focuses on demonstrations addressing redistributive and cultural…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Peace Movements
The origin of peace movements can be traced back to the early nineteenth century, with the foundation of the first peace societies in the Anglo-Saxon world. Issues addressed by the movements include the general fight against war and promotion of peace (including internationalism), antiwar mobilization, nuclear disarmament (including nuclear test ban), mobilization against military…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Democracy, Epistemology and the Problem of All-White Juries
ABSTRACT Does it matter that almost all juries in England and Wales are all-White? Does it matter, even if this result is the unintended and undesired result of otherwise acceptable ways of choosing juries? Finally, does it matter that almost all juries are all-White if this has no adverse effect on the treatment of non-White defendants and victims of crime? According to Cheryl…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Introduction to the Debate: Does Descriptive Misrepresentation by Income and Class Matter?
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English / 01/01/2015
The politics of fiscal policy during economic downturns, 1981-2010
ThisarticleinvestigatesfiscalpolicyresponsestotheGreatRecessioninhistoricalperspective.It explores general trends in the frequency, size and composition of fiscal stimulus as well as the impact of government partisanship on fiscal policy outputs during the four international recessions of 1980–1981, 1990–1991, 2001–2002 and 2008–2009. Encompassing 17–23 Organisation for Economic…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Le traité historique entre l'Union européenne et la l'Ukraine. Au-delà des controverses, la réalité du texte
The Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine made history because it was one of the elements that triggered the most serious international crisis of the early twenty-first century in Europe. This treaty has been the subject of many very contradictory representations : Kremlin supporters critized it harshly. The Ukrainian opposition - now in power - incensed it . The EU…
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Français / 01/01/2015
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