La nouvelle édition de ce manuel de science politique propose une présentation des connaissances disponibles en science politique, entièrement revue et augmentée. Unique manuel collectif en langue française, mobilisant l'expertise de plus de 80 auteurs, il réunit les meilleurs spécialistes des nombreux thèmes abordés. La diversité de ces thèmes, des objets les plus classiques de la discipline (l'Etat, les régimes et institutions politiques, les partis politiques, les politiques publiques, les déterminants du vote) aux thèmes les plus contemporains (la mobilisation, la construction européenne, la mondialisation, la communication politique), le traitement novateur de certaines questions (le soviétisme, le militantisme), l'attention particulière accordée aux relations transnationales (les flux transnationaux, les transitions démocratiques) et à la politique comparée (l'Afrique, la Chine, la Russie, l'Inde, l'Amérique latine, le monde arabe), la discussion des auteurs de sociologie (de M. Weber à P. Bourdieu, de E. Durkheim à N. Elias) et d'histoire (de E. Kantorowicz à E. J. Hobsbawm, de Ch. Tilly à I. Kershaw), l'historicisation des processus sociaux qui ont donné corps à la politique moderne (la construction de l'Etat parlementaire, la professionnalisation de l'activité politique, l'invention de l'électeur) font de cet ouvrage un outil de travail indispensable et incomparable. Il s'adresse aux étudiants en science politique et aux étudiants de droit, histoire, sociologie, économie ayant des options de science politique au programme dans le cadre de leur cursus LMD, au sein des universités comme des instituts d'études politiques, en France et dans les pays francophones (Belgique, Suisse, Québec, etc.). Par sa clarté pédagogique et son exhaustivité thématique et bibliographique, il est destiné aux étudiants de tous niveaux, de la L1 au M2 (incluant la préparation aux concours). La présence de plusieurs encadrés dans chacun des chapitres fournit des illustrations et des approfondissements aux diverses sections et autorise différents niveaux de lecture en fonction des centres d'intérêt de chacun. L'utilisation des index et de la table des matières fait de ce manuel un outil pédagogique et scientifique consultable à loisir pour s'initier à un sujet ou approfondir ses connaissances.

In 1983—as France struggled with race-based crimes, police brutality, and public unrest—youths from Vénissieux (working-class suburbs of Lyon) led the March for Equality and Against Racism, the first national demonstration of its type in France. As Abdellali Hajjat reveals, the historic March for Equality and Against Racism symbolized for many the experience of the children of postcolonial immigrants. Inspired by the May '68 protests, these young immigrants stood against racist crimes, for equality before the law and the police, and for basic rights such as the right to work and housing. Hajjat also considers the divisions that arose from the march and offers fresh insight into the paradoxes and intricacies of movements pushing toward sweeping social change. Translated into English for the first time, The Wretched of France contemplates the protest's lasting significance in France as well as its impact within the context of larger and comparable movements for civil rights, particularly in the US.

Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that symbolic power—the power to dominate—is solely symbolic. He emphasized that symbolic power helps create and maintain social hierarchies, which form the very bedrock of political life. By the time of his death in 2002, Bourdieu had become a leading public intellectual, and his argument about the more subtle and influential ways that cultural resources and symbolic categories prevail in power arrangements and practices had gained broad recognition. In Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals, David L. Swartz delves deeply into Bourdieu’s work to show how central—but often overlooked—power and politics are to an understanding of sociology. Arguing that power and politics stand at the core of Bourdieu’s sociology, Swartz illuminates Bourdieu’s political project for the social sciences, as well as Bourdieu’s own political activism, explaining how sociology is not just science but also a crucial form of political engagement.

Law and the Formation of Modern Europe explores processes of legal construction in both the national and supranational domains, and it provides an overview of the modern European legal order. In its supranational focus, it examines the sociological pressures which have given rise to European public law, the national origins of key transnational legal institutions and the elite motivations driving the formation of European law. In its national focus, it addresses legal questions and problems which have assumed importance in parallel fashion in different national societies, and which have shaped European law more indirectly. Examples of this are the post-1914 transformation of classical private law, the rise of corporatism, the legal response to the post-1945 legacy of authoritarianism, the emergence of human rights law and the growth of judicial review. This two-level sociological approach to European law results in unique insights into the dynamics of national and supranational legal formation.

This volume discusses the various interrelations that exist within and between social and political phenomena.

En pleine congruence avec l’ambition du Groupe Européen pour l’Administration Publique d’encourager les échanges interculturels, ce livre constitue une entreprise originale, mi-anglophone mi-francophone. Cet ouvrage issu du Congrès du GEAP 2010 a pour objet de combler un déplorable fossé et de donner une visibilité internationale au « cas français ». Dès lors ce livre, en 18 chapitres rédigés en français par une équipe interdisciplinaire (politistes, sociologues, historiens, socio-historiens, juristes) avec plus de 150 pages en anglais et une vaste bibliographie unifiée, entend offrir à tous les spécialistes de l’administration publique de par le monde un point d’accès unique au plus récent état des savoirs sur l’administration en France – ce pays où le mot État s’écrit avec un E majuscule. ============================================ In full compliance with the ambition of the European Group for Public Administration to encourage cross-cultural exchanges, this book is a genuinely original undertaking. It is a hybrid Anglophone-Francophone product. This book from EGPA 2010 Conference purpose to bridge a regrettable gap and to give international visibility to the “French case”. Thus, this book, in 18 chapters written in French by an interdisciplinary team (political scientists, sociologists, historians, sociohistorians, jurists) with more than 150 pages in English and a vast unified bibliography, offers to all students of public administration in the world a unique entry gate to the latest state of the art of administrative studies in France – this country where the State is to be spelled with a capital S.

Elites are 'on trial' firstly for their role in the past and shaping the context for the crisis, secondly in terms of how they responded to the crisis and finally in terms of what role they are playing in the aftermath. This book is concerned with what happens when elites are challenged by crisis and helps us understand 'elites on trial'.