Publications des institutions partenaires
Environmental Securitization within the United Nations: A Political Ecology Perspective
If empirical evidences show that environmental security is on the United Nations agenda, very few studies try to understand the agenda-setting process of this issue. My thesis research intends to fill this gap by analyzing the process of environmental securitization within the organization. Securitization theories and critical security studies propose a first useful set of...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Watering surrounding deserts: A lifetime of spreading feminist insights. An interview with Barrie Thorne, UC Berkeley
Barrie Thorne – who was until recently Professor and Acting Chair of Gender and Women's Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley – has been active in the collective effort to bring feminism into the US academic world. She has fought relentlessly for over 40 years to promote women and gender studies in higher education. This creative...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Quality of deliberation: A multilevel analysis
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Les processus de transfert de politiques publiques et les nouvelles techniques de gouvernance
Cette contribution a pour objectif d’étudier les processus de transfert de politiques publiques dans le champ du développement et de la lutte contre la pauvreté. À travers l’étude des Conditional Cash Transfers aux Philippines, nous tenterons de montrer comment cette politique, née dans les années 1990 en Amérique latine, a été mise à l’agenda du gouvernement philippin. Nous...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2013
Political opportunities, citizenship models and political claim-making over Islam
This article engages with the systematic analysis of two main dimensions of political opportunities—namely institutional opportunities and discursive opportunities—so as to appraise their impact upon claim-making in the field of Islam. We account for cross- national variations of claim-making in terms of (1) visibility of Muslims, (2) use of collective action, and (3) salience of...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Outcomes of Social Movements and Protest Activities
Scholarship has left the study of the consequences of social movements in the background for a long time, focusing instead on movement emergence, characteristics, and dynamics. Since the mid-1970s, however, scholars have paid an increasing interest in how social movements and protest activities may produce change at various levels. The existing literature can be ordered according to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Biographical consequences of activism
Social and political movements have a wide range of effects. The biographical consequences of social movements are one of them. They can be defined as effects on the life-course of individuals who have participated in movement activities, effects that are at least in part due to involvement in those activities (see McAdam 1989; Goldstone & McAdam 2001; Giugni 2004 for reviews)....
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Public discourses about Muslims and Islam in Europe
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Paths towards Consensus: Explaining Decision Making within the Swiss Global Justice Movement
We examine the conditions leading social movement organizations to adopt consensus in their internal decision making. To do so, we look at organizations of the Swiss global justice movement, which puts the search for consensus at center stage. Our findings show that the ways in which social movement organizations take decisions and their vision of democracy more generally are not...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
The policies of unemployment protection in Europe
The abundant literature on welfare state policies, regimes or ‘worlds’ has been only limitedly interested in unemployment protection, and even less in youth unemployment protection. What is clearly lacking in the literature is an updated analysis of the most recent policies developed in European countries targeting youth. This mini-symposium aims to fill in this gap by presenting...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
New challenges for the welfare state: The emergence of youth unemployment regimes in Europe?
In this article we discuss the emergence of ‘youth unemployment regimes’ in Europe, that is, a set of coherent measures and policies aimed at providing state responses to the problem of unemployment and, more specifically, youth unemployment. We classify these measures and policies along two main dimensions: unemployment regulations and labour market regulations. Using original data...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Patterns of change in youth unemployment regimes: France and Switzerland compared
The comparison between France and Switzerland enables us to compare a country that has a strong interventionist tradition in the labour market and whose youth unemployment is endemically high with a more liberal country that is faced with a more recent increase in youth unemployment but which, nevertheless, remains relatively measured. Starting from different rules and values, the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Functional regulatory spaces
This article develops the concept of ‘‘Functional Regulatory Space'' (FRS) in order to analyze the new forms of State action addressing (super) wicked problems. A FRS simultaneously spans several policy sectors, institutional territories and levels of government. It suggests integrating previous policy theories that focused on ‘‘boundary-spanning regime,'' ‘‘...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Public Discourses about Muslims and Islam in Europe: A Comparative Analysis
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Privacy, Democracy and Surveillance
How should we think about our claims to privacy and their relationship to security? Must we suppose that privacy should give way before the demands of security whenever the two cannot both be fully protected? This is the position presented by Sir David Omand on numerous occasions and, most recently, in his response to the revelations of Edward Snowden. However, this article shows,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Dialogue sur les quotas : Penser la représentation dans une démocratie multiculturelle
Les institutions politiques doivent-elles être le miroir de la diversité culturelle de nos sociétés ? Pourquoi est-il crucial qu'un Afro-Américain ait pu devenir président des États-Unis ou que le gouvernement français accueille une ministre d'origine musulmane ? Est-il nécessaire que le gouvernement belge soit composé d'un nombre égal de francophones et de...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2013
The origins of electoral systems: A configurational research analysis
The present thesis examines the question of electoral system choice by means of a crisp-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis. The thesis argues for the development of a configurational comparative research strategy, making use of both qualitative and quantitative methods, in order to explain the relative influence of potentially causal explanatory factors. The study privileges the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
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