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• 30 sep 2019

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Seeing Politics through Intermediation and Intermediaries

  This seminar proposes to look at politics through the lens of political intermediaries and what they do, i.e. intermediation. Intermediaries can be defined as an assorted group of actors (political brokers, political parties, interest groups, movements) who acts as a hinge between two or more levels, actors or social institutions; while intermediation , as a process, encompasses all the mediations that these actors perform in order to keep the political system intact (Zaremberg, Guarneros-Meza, and Lavalle 2017; Gunther, Puhle, and Montero 2007; Kitschelt 2004; Smith 2007). The question we are interested in relates to the transformations in the roles of these agents and processes of mediation since the neo-liberal transformation has engulfed the processes of public policy formulation, contestation and enactment.

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• 07 oct 2015

  Istanbul

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Contested Hybrid Democracy: Endorsing or Revisiting the Liberal Model in non-Western Countries

  IPSA Istanbul 2016

  Democracy has become a worldwide reference in terms of political organization and governance. While the universal character claimed by such a model has largely been theorized from a Western point of view, the variety of uses and appropriations from non-Western countries, including emerging States, remains unexamined. Disappointed with the results brought by the transition paradigm, the hybrid regimes literature tends to assess the unequal reception of the democratic model in non-Western countries. Nevertheless, the hybrid regimes analytical frame does not exhaust the question of the inner workings of these regimes, since its scientific referential remains based on Western theories and focuses on the uncompleted democratization processes and dynamics. This panel aims at switching the analytical frame towards the reception of the democratic model in non-Western countries through an assessment of uses and reappropriations of this model by political and social actors. Non-Western countries represent an interesting reflection ground for testing appropriation-reject dialectics regarding the Western democratic model. While this model directly inspires some of these countries (India, South Africa or Turkey), it has been rejected by other countries (China and Russia). Are there emerging models of democracy or counter-democracy models in non-Western countries ? We shall address these questions related to the unequal reception of the democratic model in non-Western countries.

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• 12 déc 2013	09 jan 2014	06 fév 2014
  03 avr 2014	05 jui 2014

  Paris

  Seminar - Law

  Law and social sciences

  "Déesse" seminar

  Avec le soutien du Bureau scientifique de Sciences Po, le programme Droit et sciences sociales (Déesse) vise à favoriser les discussions, au-delà des frontières disciplinaires, entre ceux et celles qui se reconnaissent dans ce domaine de recherche en plein renouvellement. Étudiant.e.s, enseignant.e.s et chercheur.se.s de Sciences Po et d'autres institutions sont bienvenu.e.s au séminaire, dont les séances s'articuleront soit autour de la présentation d'une enquête, soit autour de la lecture collective de décisions de justice distribuées au préalable, lecture introduite par l'un des participants.

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