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• 15 oct 2014

  Clermont-Ferrand

  Call for papers - History

  Republican citizenship and the challenge of fear

  Discourse, practices and receptions (from the Revolution to the present day)

  Ce colloque se propose d’aborder la question de la citoyenneté républicaine à l’épreuve des peurs. Il réunira des historiens mais également des spécialistes d’autres disciplines (science politique, sociologie, droit, etc.). Si l’objet d’étude porte sur le cas français, les analyses comparatives voire transnationales seront les bienvenues.

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• 31 déc 2012

  Clermont-Ferrand

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Referendums and the European democratic ideal

  There has most definitely been a renewed interest in referendums in Europe. Over time, some countries such as Switzerland have fully integrated this form of popular ballot into their political practises while others, having scarcely used them in the past, are turning to them more and more. Given that the absolute purity of referendums contrasts sharply with the imperfections of representative democracy, they are often considered to be the impassable horizon of the democratic ideal. In this sense, they can be considered to be the essential expression of democratic will. Yet referendums are more frequently referred to in political discourse than they are actually put into use.

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