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• 15 nov 2018

  16 nov 2018

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  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Do elected representatives (really) like democracy ?

  Political staff facing citizen participation

  What is the relationship of elected officials with democracy and citizen participation? How do they perceive their roles as representatives, their status and their political room for maneuver? How do they understand the democratic role of citizens and their skills? How do these issues determine different profiles of elected officials and different political trajectories? What are the relationships of elected representatives and partisan organizations with democratic institutional reforms. How do they deal with the issue of democratizing democracy? These questions will be at the heart of this conference. Based on empirical work, original or reviewed, this symposium aims to show how elected representatives imagine what "good participation" should be, how they relate to the so-called "democratization" or "deprofessionalization" of political life, how they conceive the social demand for participation, how they construct policies of participation on this basis (often referred to as "supply policies") and potentially draw lessons about their own democratic experiences and their roles as representatives. At the crossroads of the sociology of public action, political roles and political behaviors, this conference aims to sum up the current state of research about political staff facing citizen participation.

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• 02 mar 2015

  Call for papers - Thought

  Le neutre

  La notion de neutralité, ainsi que l’indique son étymologie, neuter (ni-ni), refuse de prendre parti et d’inscrire sa parole, qu’elle soit assujettie à l’ordre social ou qu’elle se prétende révolutionnaire, dans un espace des possibles ouvert et simultanément limité par ce qui est contesté. Or l’idéal de retraite ne relève-t-il pas du simple fantasme et le déni de toute prise de position dans l’espace politique n’équivaut-il pas à la reconduction pleine de mauvaise foi de ce qu’il y à proprement de politique jusque dans le refus d’en reconnaitre le domaine sans limites d’exercice ?

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