This page is intended to present a representative sample of work in progress from members of the Centre for European Political Sociology, which will be regularly updated.
Centred on a sociological approach to European studies, political science and public policy analysis, the GSPE's research explores the transformations
of public action and the Europeanisation of politics. This broad interdisciplinary framework is divided into three main research areas.
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01/27/2009
Rationality, Institutions and Reflexivity in the EU: Some Ontological and Epistemological Considerations.
Keywords: Sociological theory, Rationality, Political Institutions, Epistemology, Ontology.

Author
Niilo KAUPPI
Director of Research - CNRS
Deputy Director (GSPE)

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01/05/2009
European games & institutional innovation: The making of Eurojust.
Keywords: Magistrate, European construction, Political institutions and agencies, Bureaucracy, Organisational theory.

Author
Michel MANGENOT
Senior Lecturer - Deputy Director (GSPE)

Translated from French by Jesse Tatum & Jean-Yves Bart.

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01/05/2009
Historical and political sociology of the EU: What's new in France?
Keywords: European studies, Elites, Reflexivity, European institutional field, Political sociology.

Author
Didier GEORGAKAKIS
Professor

Translated from French by Jean-Yves Bart.

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01/05/2009
General patterns of women's representation in the European Parliament: did something change after 2004?
Keywords: Gender and politics, MEPs, European elections, Political paths, Parliamentary work.

Authors
Willy BEAUVALLET & Sébastien MICHON
Post-Docs

Translated from French by Jean-Yves Bart.

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10/28/2008
Women in the European Parliament:
effects of the voting system, strategies and political resources.
The case of the French delegation.
Keywords: Gender and politics, MEPs, European elections, Political paths, Parliamentary work.

Authors
Willy BEAUVALLET & Sébastien MICHON
Post-Docs

Translated from French by Emmanuel Kobena Kuto, Jesse Tatum & Jean-Yves Bart.
 
 
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05/05/2009
Europeanisation through elective affinities:
Active social policy model and national control policies of the unemployed.
Keywords: Europeanisation, Active social state, Unemployment, European Employment Strategy, Elective affinities.

Author
Vincent DUBOIS
Professor

Translated from French by Emmanuel Kobena Kuto.


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01/27/2009
Europeanisation and the reform of the State: The influence of the European Union in the reform of the Czech public administration (1996-2004).
Keywords: European Union, State, Reform, Central administrations, Czech lands.

Author
Magdalena HADJIISKY
Senior Lecturer

Translated from French by Jesse Tatum & Jean-Yves Bart.


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01/05/2009
The uncertain legitimacy of occupational health policies.
Keywords: Public policy, Public health, Workplace health, Publicity, Legitimacy.

Author
Emmanuel HENRY
Senior Lecturer

Translated from French by Claudia Colotti & Jean-Yves Bart.


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11/04/2008
Urban sustainable development and the challenge of French metropolitan strategies.
Keywords: Sustainable development, City, France, Environment, Comparison.

Author
Philippe HAMMAN
Senior Lecturer in Sociology (CRESS)
Associate Researcher (GSPE)

Translated from French by Jesse Tatum, Emmanuel Kobena Kuto & Jean-Yves Bart.


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10/28/2008
Cultural policy in France - Genesis of a public policy category.
Keywords: Cultural policy, Policy category, State, Symbolic power, Socio-history.

Author
Vincent DUBOIS
Professor

Extracts translated from
La politique culturelle. Genèse d'une catégorie d'intervention publique. Paris, Belin, 1999, 381 pages, by Cristina Fernandez, Jean-Yves Bart and Luc Vailler.

 
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05/29/2009
The emergence of European political foundations: Political entrepreneurs and transnational transfers.
Keywords: European political foundations, EU, European communication policy, European Parliament, European Commission.

Author
Dorota DAKOWSKA
Senior Lecturer

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01/27/2009
Sociology of a new field of knowledge: gender studes in post-communist Eastern Europe.
Keywords: Countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Postcommunism, Feminist studies, Gender
studies.

Author
Ioana CIRSTOCEA
Researcher - CNRS

Translated from French by Patrick Ganne & Jean-Yves Bart.


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10/28/2008
The ambivalent politicisation of European communication
Genesis of the controversies and institutional frictions surrounding the 2006 White Paper.
Keywords: European communication, EU, White Paper, European public space.

Authors
Philippe ALDRIN & Jean-Michel UTARD
Senior Lecturers

Translated from French by Emmanuel Kobena Kuto, Jesse Tatum & Jean-Yves Bart.


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01/27/2009
“French Suburbs”: a New Problem or a New Approach to Social Exclusion?
Keywords: Exclusion, French suburbs, social problem.

Author
Sylvie TISSOT
Senior Lecturer


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01/05/2009
Visits of sovereignty and the articulation of the national and the local in France and Germany on the eve of World War I.
Keywords: Visits of sovereignty, Political legitimacy, National integration, comparative theory.

Authors
Nicolas MARIOT
Senior Lecturer (CNRS-CURAPP)

Jay ROWELL
Senior Lecturer (CNRS) - Director (GSPE)