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The end of the Blair-Brown years

by Antoine Colombani & Nicolas Delalande (04-05-2010)

Whatever the final outcome, the British elections of May 6, 2010 will undoubtedly mark the end of a political cycle. After thirteen years in power, Labor experiences political and intellectual wear and tear that places them in an unfavorable situation with voters. Against the background of an unprecedented economic crisis and a weakening of the legitimacy of political staff, the three major parties each try in their way of embodying the change that the British wish. All three remain the heirs of the original political synthesis forged by New Labor. The life of ideas offers an overview of this heritage and its challenges, from the question of the economic model of Great Britain to that of the effectiveness of its social system.

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French company to the test of pension reform

by Nicolas Duvoux & Audrey Williamson (13-04-2010)

To understand the challenges of the pension reform that is announced, The life of ideas offers a series of interviews with researchers. What diagnosis can we make of the current system ? What issues must face its reform ? On what parameters to work ? What is the role of social partners ? What use of international comparisons ? Thomas Piketty, Bruno Palier, Anne-Marie Guillemard, Louis Chauvel and Pierre Concialdi answer these questions.

Essays & debates

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Evaluation and review lists

by Florence Audier (15-09-2009)

The evaluation, and the place occupied by bibliometry, are at the heart of current debates. The challenges are major: will be equipped with credits, universities considering bibliometry as the supreme indicator of activity and the quality of research. However, as Florence Audier shows, the French have designated the targets of excellence of the journals to which they do not receive, except special networks.

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Internet democratic virtues

by Dominique Cardon (10-11-2009)

How to characterize the political forms of the Internet revolution ? In this essay, Dominique Cardon highlights the tensions that cross the network of networks, in particular the radical equality of Internet users, the extreme visibility of subjectivities, the production of new solidarities, the construction of legitimacy. Dive into “ Internet democracy ».

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But who are these economists ?

by James K. Galbraith (23-02-2010)

The financial crisis revealed the failure of the dominant currents of thought of economic science, which had not seen it coming. But this is not the case for all economists. In response to Paul Krugman’s article published in the New York TimesJames K. Galbraith returns here to the work of researchers who had been ignored, both by regulators and by the majority of the scientific community. These works today offer the conceptual framework of a new financial regulation.

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Risk and multitude

by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (16-03-2010)

The failure of the virus vaccination campaign H1N1 has sometimes been put on the account of “ crazy rumors »Driving on the internet. This interpretation misses the essential, according to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, which offers a stimulating historical parallel between the inoculation of the smallpox XVIII^e century and the episode of 2009. Its analysis highlights risk limits as a technique of conviction and body management.

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The reception of Stuart Mill in France

by Djamel Souafa & Vincent Guillin (18-05-2010)

How did the political thought of John Stuart Mill spend the English Channel ? Vincent Guillin and Djamel Souafa analyze the conditions of receipt of Considerations on the representative government in France of the Second Empireand show the interest of returning to the Millian theory of the democratic government today.

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What is non-recourse to social law ?

by Philippe Warin (01-06-2010)

The non -recourse to social rights extends more and more and becomes a central concept in the analysis of public policies. Philippe Warin examines the various causes of this phenomenon, from pure and simple ignorance to the failure of demand, including the non -demand by disinterest or disagreement.

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Cities: parasites or resources deposit ?

by Sabine Barles (25-05-2010)

Cities consume and transform considerable flows of energies and materials. How their “ metabolism »Can he contribute to their sustainability ? Sabine Barles returns to the contradictions of urban self -sufficiency by taking an interest in the question of resources and waste in urban areas. Exploring the means of controlling resources from an endogenous development perspective, it sketches the ways of a dematerialization of societies.

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Confucianism, a political model ?

Guillaume Duournier & Paul Charon (15-06-2010)

China would be in the process of also asserting itself as a political model ? Paul Charon and Guillaume DUTOURNIER criticize the recent proposals of Daniel A. Bell on the issue. According to the latter, the “ Confucian tradition Would constitute the response best suited to the imperatives of efficiency of modern governments, and to the aporia of Western democracy.

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NUDGE or benevolent paternalism

by Emilie Frenkiel (22-10-2009)

In NudgeRichard Thaler and Cass Sunstein are inspired by behavioral economics to offer original solutions to various public health, savings or ecology problems. The book, whose impact on the Obama administration or the British conservatives is undeniable, is a real political bestseller.

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Multilingualism is a humanism

by Leyla Dakhli (4-11-2009)

“” The language of Europe, said Umberto Eco, this is the translation ». In an essay on political resonances, François Ost takes up arms for the diversity of languages ​​and their irreducibility. The translation takes place first within the same language, and must be freed from the myth of the single language.

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Art in situation

by Aline Caillet (25-11-2009)

Far from an approach to art centered on works and artists, Jérôme Glicenstein makes the exhibition The heart of the aesthetic experience. The exhibition not only links objects, places and audiences, but it also helps to reveal the meaning of works in a specific way.

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The just and the good

by Céline Spector (6-01-2010)

In the courses he provides Harvard, Michael J. Sandel defends, against political liberalism, the idea that politics must promote the best kind of life and not be content to guarantee the rights of individuals. The work he has drawn from it is attractive, but he does not respond to all the objections that communitarianism should face.

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Autonomy, aspiration or condition ?

by Robert Castel (26-03-2010)

Alain Ehrenberg develops in The Malaysian Society A sociology of individualisms based on the comparative analysis of social meanings of autonomy in the United States and in France. If the decentering is beneficial, the subject seems to design autonomy independently of its social conditions of possibility.

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Work in all its states

by Dominique Méda (3-05-2010)

Is work an evil in itself ? Not at all, according to Michel Lallement which paints a nuanced painting, free from any ideology, of the various aspects that work today takes according to economic changes and managing strategies.

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Absolutism and its judges

by Katia Weidenfeld (18-01-2010)

Jacques Krynen shows in a beautiful synthesis that the power of judges does not date from yesterday: already under the old regime the high magistracy claimed a sharing of royal power. The myth of absolutism is thus revised by a study as learned as they are aches. But what about the rest of the magistrates and men of law ?

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Pornography, a democratic question

by Mathieu Tracman (10-05-2010)

Is work an evil in itself ? Not at all, according to Michel Lallement which paints a nuanced painting, free from any ideology, of the various aspects that work today takes according to economic changes and managing strategies.

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We have always been modern

by Anne Boissière (24-05-2010)

What is modern ? Would it be belonging to an era now over, as the proponents of post-modernism suggest ? At the reverse of the agreed definitions, Pierre-Damien Huyghe defends a conception of the modern based on the modifying power of the technique, which has always characterized the human being.

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Slander or paradoxes of freedom of expression

by Antoine Lilti (04-06-2010)

Two works devoted to slander in the Age of Enlightenment highlights the explosive character of speech and literature when they have free rein. But the attacks targeting the king and Marie-Antoinette soon threatened the new democratic power. Consequently, how to make the principles of press freedom compatible compatible with the protection of individual reputations ?

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There Fnacstory of normalization

by Frédérique Leblanc (24-06-2010)

How an avant-garde cultural enterprise is gradually falling into the (first) rank of trade: Vincent Chabault tells the story of the Fnacfrom its Trotskyist origins to the present day.