Norms and institutions enable large-scale human cooperation by creating shared expectations and changing individuals’ incentives via monitoring or sanctioning. Like material technologies, these social technologies satisfy instrumental ends and solve difficult problems. However, the similarities and differences between the evolution of material tech...
Le retard du Parlement italien dans l’élection d’un juge constitutionnel rouvre le débat sur les garde-fous pour assurer l’impartialité et l’effectivité des organes de justice constitutionnelle à un moment où les tentatives plus ou moins réussies de « capture » des cours constitutionnelles ou suprêmes de la part du pouvoir politique en place se mul...
The proliferation of fake synthetic media has grown exponentially in the past several years. The democratization of artificial intelligence tools propelled the use of deepfake technologies for both progressive and regressive purposes. Similar to fake news, the malicious use of deepfakes is a real threat to the democracy of nations because it can si...
La communication est une présentation de mon projet FNRS et de ses suites. Il s'inscrit dans la visée suivante : l’analyse de la représentation du pouvoir à l’époque moderne. J’utilise l’acception « représentation » aussi bien dans son volet iconographique que dans les écrits discursifs d’État et des acteurs de gouvernement, sur le temps long de la...
This spreadsheet is designed to be used in conjunction with the Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) collection of historic census data covering the period 1851 to 1921. For further details of the I-CeM data collection, please visit the comprehensive project website at: https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/icem/ Outline information on...
Contrary to common perceptions that institutions are unyielding ‘rules of the game’ requiring no effort for their preservation, evidence suggests they are far from static and require active engagement to adapt and evolve. Dynamics of change are critical in the face of diverse pressures including social movements, the climate emergency, government r...
Norms and institutions enable large-scale human cooperation by creating shared expectations and changing individuals’ incentives via monitoring or sanctioning. Like material technologies, these social technologies satisfy instrumental ends and solve difficult problems. However, the similarities and differences between the evolution of material tech...
Published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence
The political environment plays a crucial role in steering societies to address the challenges posed by global warming and contributing to global initiatives toward a resilient and environmentally sustainable future. Political regimes in different places in the democracy-authoritarianism spectrum show varying degrees of effort to reduce their natio...
Launched in 2010 by Democracy International, the Direct Democracy Navigator describes and updates all legal provisions for direct democracy around the world. It is currently being developed to include a historical series to capture legal changes over time. It aims to help identify the best practices, the obstacles, or the origins of direct democrat...
