La contribution de Jane Mansbridge à la théorie politique est majeure : soucieuse toute sa vie d’allier recherche empirique et approche théorique, elle a beaucoup apporté à la critique du choix rationnel et à une réflexion sur la démocratie comprise comme un processus permanent, toujours en mouvement.
Anna Grzymala-Busse, professeur en sciences politiques, veut montrer le rôle qu’a joué l’Église médiévale dans la fondation de l’État moderne : un thème ancien dont le renouvellement se heurte à certaines limites.
Comment ce symbole de liberté qu’est l’automobile pour les Américains les mène-t-elle à un cycle d’endettement et d’emprisonnement ?
Bruno Perreau explore le concept de minorité à travers une analyse de ce qui sépare démocratie et domination majoritaire. S’appuyant sur l’injustice vécue, l’éthique minoritaire serait la fondation de relations politiques plus émancipatrices.
Le sociologue américain Harrison White a contribué de façon décisive à développer l’analyse des réseaux sociaux. Outre ses travaux dans ce domaine, sa synthèse théorique et sa compréhension des formations sociale irriguent divers champs comme la sociologie de l’art et la sociologie économique.
While public authorities currently seem to prefer to use incentives rather than constraints to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, economists are developing increasingly effective tools to measure the effectiveness of these policies.
Five leading scholars of Big Tech studies share their views on the hopes and dangers of the on-going Digital Revolution. Their answers reveal the pressing need for more political, social and economic theorizing of these dynamics.
The American sociologist Harrison White made a vital contribution to the development of social network analysis. Besides his work in this field, his theoretical synthesis and his understanding of social formations have influenced a variety of fields such as the sociology of art and economic sociology.
How can we move beyond abstract architecture, where buildings are constructed without their audiences? Peter Ferretto’s method is based on observation, engagement, and the osmosis between teaching, practice, research, and social impact.
Digital products are changing how we live. Growing up in a hyper-connected world, the new “Generation Z” has developed different behaviors, attitudes, and values.
Technological change has outstripped existing law, creating a governance vacuum. The pressing need towards a renewal of regulations will likely lead to closed autonomous systems and further increase the fragmentation of the world order.
The digital world is the product of mutual transactions between technologies and humans. It produces innovations and knowledge gains that empower citizens and their ability to contribute to a more egalitarian science.
The digital world is the result of the accumulation of centuries of scientific and organizational progress. Virtuality is further enabled by the materiality of computers, objects that are themselves the product of economic exchanges and labor.
Laurence Ralph’s ethnography explores the various systems of punishment that injure black and brown Americans’ bodies and that contribute to maintain social hierarchies that rely on the vestiges of slavery. These injuries call for healing and overcoming trauma, and also for reparative justice.
Despite the rise of far-right parties and the adaptation of dictatorships to international pressures, political scientists Helen Milner and Daniel Treisman are confident in the future of Democracy, the only political model suited to accommodate the fast-paced innovations that are driving capitalism.
