What Are Sciences Po's Researchers Tackling in the Latest Cogito?

South Africa, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, post-communist Eastern Europe, post-dictatorship Latin America, etc. Since the 1990s, many countries have sought to negotiate a transition to peace after mass violence. Sandrine Lefranc examines the parameters for success.  

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Benevolence is rarely considered a component of international relations. However, it is real and cannot be dismissed as a naive approach. Frédéric Ramel argues that this benevolence, which is sometimes double-edged, contributes to the recognition of collective and individual particularities.
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China’s poverty reduction reform targets rural areas, with a particular focus on village governance. Is it producing results? Three economists explore most of the dimensions of this question – down to the household level – in Xin County.
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For the Chinese Communist Party, modernisation has long meant rooting out traditions. Considering them backward, modernisers fought them and erased them from the national narrative. Pierre Fuller uncovers the dynamics of this erasure.
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Since its emergence in the public debate in the middle of the 19th century, the notion of laïcité has constantly been subject to reinterpretation, and even ideological confrontation. In order to clarify its various meanings, Lucien Jaume traces its sources of inspiration and inflection over time and space.
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What is the purpose of public policy evaluations? How are they produced? How to familiarise the public with the issues at stake in order to strengthen democracy? Anne Revillard presents collective and transdisciplinary research with many takeaways.
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Digital technology, blamed for many of the ills of contemporary journalism, is also the keystone of data journalism, which is of undeniable value. However, it disrupts journalistic practices and ethics, as Sylvain Parasie demonstrates in his field study.
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How to understand pregnant women who refuse screenings for Down’s syndrome? To answer this question, Gaëlle Larrieu conducted a study that reveals both the difficulty to resist medical pressure and the reasons for refusal.
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In their collective work – the society of organisations – 28 researchers from the Center for the Sociology of Organizations examine the interlinkage of institutions and of rules surrounding our daily lives. They analyse the proliferation of organisations and its consequences, calling on the academic community and citizens to grasp their determining effect.

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The greening of campuses is not just about fighting global warming: it can also improve children’s well-being, socialisation, and sensitivity to the environment. These are the objectives of the City of Paris’s Oasis program, which sought the expertise of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies to ensure the effectiveness of these social impacts. The results were more than promising.

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As we know, schooling for all does not suffice to reduce inequalities in life trajectories; it can even exacerbate them. In order to identify where the problem lies, Ghazala Azmat is conducting a research project (ERC) to analyse the various constraints weighing on individuals’ choices. She considers a range of factors: technological barriers, social diversity of institutions, role models, and psychological factors..
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If there is a Russian intellectual who has theorised the cultural ideology that marks Putin’s Russia, it is Alexander Prokhanov. Juliette Faure, a doctoral student at CERI, focuses her research on this complex man with a tortuous path. She presents his sources of inspiration, evolution, and dream of a protean Empire.

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