12 February 2022

The Environment and the Modernity of Political Ideas

An Untold Story It is clear that the great modern political theories are closely intertwined with environmental issues. However, this dimension has been underexplored in […]
12 February 2022

Care Earnings in the United States and 24 European Countries

The Role of Social Policy and Labour Market Institutions How to explain the low wages plaguing American care workers? Is the situation the same in […]
12 February 2022

Order and Disorder in French Public Media

by Dominique Cardon, Jean-Philippe Cointet, Pedro Ramaciotti Morales, médialab Following an initial study conducted in 2018 in collaboration with Sciences Po’s School of Journalism and […]
12 February 2022

Enforcing Constitutions: A Democratic Undertaking?

In his recently published Comparative constitutional litigation. A critical introduction to constitutional procedural law (LJDG, June 2021), law professor Guillaume Tusseau advances the undertaking he […]
12 February 2022

‘Too many civil servants’: History of a Mantra

Some presidential candidates are calling for a massive reduction in the number of civil servants: they are not cost-effective enough. There is nothing new about […]
12 December 2021

Human and Social Sciences at the Bedside of Health?

How do public authorities address the numerous contemporary health issues? How do they position themselves with regard to definitions, organisation, regulation, care, and prevention? What […]
12 December 2021

Health and Politics

By Patrick Castel, Centre for the Sociology of Organisations The humanities and social sciences have long highlighted a key truth: health cannot be reduced to […]
12 December 2021

Are Communicable Diseases Only Communicable?

By Catherine Cavalin, IRISSO & LIEPP, and Paul-André Rosental, Centre for History Scope and Discussion of the Epidemiological Transition For half a century, the so-called […]
12 December 2021

The Agrofood Industry and Its Political Activities

By Daniel Benamouzig, Centre for the Sociology of Organisations and Joan Cortinas, Health Chair On 30 May 2018, the headline of Libération read ‘Comment les […]