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Many reasons have shaped immigration into the EU over the past decade. Since then, attitudes towards immigration have not only gained public attention but have also shaped political debate and discourse in recent regional, national, and EU elections. The global financial crisis of 2008 increased the importance of migration in the social welfare uph...
The French municipal elections of 2020 were marked by the emergence of ‘citizen lists’ in several cities. These lists are discussed here as ‘weak’ form of new municipalism: they integrate some ideas and logics of new municipalism without having the same level of radicality as the most emblematic international examples of the movement. By analysing ...
Data-driven campaigning has become one of the key foci for academic and non-academic audiences interested in political communication. Widely seen to have transformed political practice, it is often argued that data-driven campaigning is a force of significant democratic disruption because it contributes to a fragmentation of political discourse, un...
Since its foundation in the 1950s, social policy has been an issue of contention within the European Union and its member states. The issue was raised most recently in 2017 with the commission’s initiative to introduce the European Pillar of Social Rights. The ensuing debate has been a suitable opportunity to examine the reception in one of the mem...
Cette thèse porte sur la participation des femmes au gouvernement du Parti de la justice et du développement (AKP) en Turquie. En dépit de la sous-représentation politique des femmes, la mise en place de ce que l’AKP a nommé le « municipalisme des services » a permis à des militantes, bénévoles et professionnelles de devenir actrices du gouvernemen...
Delivered by François Debras (Jérôme Jamin's substitute for the year 2021-2022), the course aims to teach students the American political system (institutions, mechanisms, actors, values and issues) on both the international and national scene, at both the federal and state levels. The course consists of 8 chapters: I) Introduction, II) The Congres...
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As a vast literature on political disaffection, populism, "pitchfork politics," and the emergence of an "age of anger" testifies, the nature of democratic politics and the socio-political context in which it operates appear to have shifted sharply during the last decade. This is reflected in the rise of challenger parties, the election of unorthodo...
The underrepresentation of women in elected assemblies is one of the fundamental problems modern democracies struggle with. This paper focuses on party selectors as one of the core actors on the demand side. By exploring which Flemish local party chairs hold conservative or progressive gender role attitudes, this paper moves beyond the formal dimen...
Organization scholars have extensively studied both the politics of organization and the organization of politics. Contributing to the latter, we argue for further and deeper consideration of political parties, since: (1) parties illuminate organizational dynamics of in- and exclusion; (2) internal struggles related to the constitution of identitie...
This article analyzes the insertion in social movements and the profile of militants of the Chilean Broad Front at the time of its formation in 2017 using testimonies collected through 26 semi-structured interviews. The testimonies collected from Broad Front militants are contrasted with testimonies from militants of the Chilean Socialist and Commu...
