Revue française de science politique

Revue française de science politique

Publisher : Presses de Sciences Po

This journal is a primary scholarly reference point in political science, both in France and across the world.

The return of the plebeian city
The disembedding from below of Lagos and Mexico City (1982–99)
Côme Salvaire
In Varia Volume 71, Issue 2, March 2021

Conceptualizing ageism in parallel to sexism and racism
The heuristic value and limitations of a common analytical framework
Juliette Rennes
In Varia Volume 70, Issue 6, November 2020

Does public policy shape voter registration?
People with disabilities and the 2017 French elections
Pierre-Yves Baudot, Marie-Victoire Bouquet, Céline Braconnier, Ghislain Gabalda
In Varia Volume 70, Issue 6, November 2020

In absentia
Proxy voting as a form of remote electoral participation
Baptiste Coulmont
In Varia Volume 70, Issue 3-4, May 2020

Why is youth unemployment higher in France than in Germany?
The political economy of economic citizenship
Tom Chevalier
In Varia Volume 69, Issue 5-6, September 2019

Can free software tackle the lack of transparency in the tax and welfare system?
Sociology of political hackers on the margins of the state
Sébastien Shulz
In Varia Volume 69, Issue 5-6, September 2019

Investigating a protest movement in the heat of the moment
Conducting a questionnaire-based survey among the gilets jaunes
Collectif d’enquête sur les Gilets jaunes, Camille Bedock, Zakaria Bendali, Antoine Bernard de Raymond, Anne-Gaëlle Beurier, Pierre Blavier, Loïc Bonin, Amaïa Courty, Magali Della Sudda, Gauthier Delozière, Christèle Dondeyne, Charif Elalaoui, Fabrice Flipo, Camille Frémont, Maxime Gaborit, Antonin Girardin, Théo Grémion, Pierre Guillemin, Métilde Havard, Mila Ivanovic, Damien Larrouqué, Alix Levain, Pauline Liochon, Frédéric Neyrat, Lucas Ormiere-Noblet, Laura Pauchard, François Pigot, Emmanuelle Reungoat, Tinette Schnatterer, Ludwig Spéter Lejeune, Floriane Soulié, Alfieri Valeria, Étienne Walker
In Varia Volume 69, Issue 5-6, September 2019

Human rights and revolution
Interwoven activisms in Argentina in the 1970s and 1980s
David Copello
In Varia Volume 69, Issue 4, July 2019

Making nature count
A look back at the UN System of National Accounts’ “environmental turning point”: From the 1980s to the 2010s
Yann Bérard
In Varia Volume 69, Issue 2, March 2019

Have European social sciences helped to create Europe?
The European University Institute, behavioralism, and the legitimation of European integration
Thibaud Boncourt
In European archives: Towards a renewed sociohistory of European forms of knowledge Volume 69, Issue 1, January 2019

The fraught development of a European public service doctrine
The genesis of the “service of general economic interest” (1958-1968)
Mélanie Vay
In European archives: Towards a renewed sociohistory of European forms of knowledge Volume 69, Issue 1, January 2019

Pitting the state against Europe
The development of legal orthodoxy in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to the Maastricht decision
Christophe Majastre
In European archives: Towards a renewed sociohistory of European forms of knowledge Volume 69, Issue 1, January 2019

From votes to seats
The 2017 French legislative elections
Bernard Dolez, Annie Laurent
In French elections 2017 (2) Volume 68, Issue 5, September 2018

Decentered voting
Generational renewal and voting culture in France
Vincent Tiberj
In French elections 2017 (2) Volume 68, Issue 5, September 2018

“Executive shift” or “Steering at a distance”?
Governing “excellence” in French higher education (2009–2012)
Natacha Gally
In Varia Volume 68, Issue 4, July 2018

Contested instruments
The emergence and influence of critiques of research governance instruments in France (1961–2015)
Jérôme Aust, Clémentine Gozlan
In Varia Volume 68, Issue 3, May 2018

How to keep a campaign promise without fulfilling it
A study of the Fessenheim closure
Eva Deront, Aurélien Evrard, Simon Persico
In Campaign promises Volume 68, Issue 2, March 2018

Who is the target?
Conditions for the fulfillment of redistributive campaign promises and the 2008 minimum vieillesse reform
Isabelle Guinaudeau, Olivier Costa
In Campaign promises Volume 68, Issue 2, March 2018

Policy entrepreneurs and voter engagement
The 2007 Pécresse Act on university autonomy and the role of the Conference of University Presidents
Isabelle Guinaudeau, Sabine Saurugger
In Campaign promises Volume 68, Issue 2, March 2018

The hidden consequences of a binding election pledge
Same-sex marriage and adoption rights
Stéphanie Abrial, Simon Persico
In Campaign promises Volume 68, Issue 2, March 2018

“Be consistent, young man!”
Spoken and unspoken issues of age assessment among unaccompanied young foreigners in Paris
Lisa Carayon, Julie Mattiussi, Arthur Vuattoux
In Varia Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2018

From regulating the worlds of welfare to regulating professional worlds
Care and domestic services in France and Germany
Clémence Ledoux
In Varia Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2018

When employers get involved in the political arena
Legacies and transformations of the territorial mobilizations of business interest groups: The case of the Milan region
Deborah Galimberti
In Varia Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2018

The heavy variables are still alive and kicking
The drop in voter turnout and the increase in electoral disparities in spring 2017
Céline Braconnier, Baptiste Coulmont, Jean-Yves Dormagen
In French Elections 2017 (1) Volume 67, Issue 6, November 2017

The electoral space of French cities
Intra-urban voting and social structures in the 2017 presidential election
Jean Rivière
In French Elections 2017 (1) Volume 67, Issue 6, November 2017

Running to stand still
The left-right divide in France in 2017
Vincent Tiberj
In French Elections 2017 (1) Volume 67, Issue 6, November 2017

The three electorates of the French right-wing primary
Mobilization and voting at the edge of political endogamy
David Gouard, Julien Audemard, Julien Boyadjian, Christèle Marchand-Lagier, Romain Mathieu, Laurent Olivier, Anaïs Theviot
In French Elections 2017 (1) Volume 67, Issue 6, November 2017

Seeing right through the campaign
Candidate dynamics in the 2016 French primary elections of the right and center using the la Boussole présidentielle® VAA
Thomas Vitiello, Bruno Cautrès, Vincent Martigny, Sylvie Strudel, André Krouwel
In French Elections 2017 (1) Volume 67, Issue 6, November 2017

Votes that are (really) not like others?
The many usages of blank and null votes
Jérémie Moualek
In French Elections 2017 (1) Volume 67, Issue 6, November 2017

The introduction of open primaries among Les Républicains and the Parti socialiste
The weight of the 2011 precedent and organizational bricolage (2016-17)
Rémi Lefebvre, Éric Treille
In French Elections 2017 (1) Volume 67, Issue 6, November 2017

Nominations for presidential
Candidates: Whom do the elected representatives vote for?
Raùl Magni-Berton, Corentin Poyet
In French Elections 2017 (1) Volume 67, Issue 6, November 2017

Long-distance islamist oppositions
Tunisian and Egyptian mobilizations in France (1990-2016)
Margot Dazey, Mathilde Zederman
In Varia Volume 67, Issue 5, September 2017

Mobilize through emotions, mobilize emotions
The case of the victims of diethylstilbestrol (DES)
Coline Salaris
In Varia Volume 67, Issue 5, September 2017

French sociology and the military issue
An antipolitical tradition
Laure Bardiès
In Varia Volume 67, Issue 5, September 2017

Little exchanges between friends
Remarks on the ambivalence of routine relationships between officials and service users in Senegal
Sidy Cissokho
In Varia Volume 67, Issue 4, July 2017

The telephone operators of France’s Chamber of Deputies
Communication infrastructure and division of labor at the Palais Bourbon during the Third Republic
Jonathan Chibois
In Varia Volume 67, Issue 4, July 2017

Sectorial declassing and public gatherings
Elements of sociography of Nuit Debout Place de la République
In Varia Volume 67, Issue 4, July 2017

A Moment of Acute Disrespect
Why do American and European interethnic studies differ?
Yves Schemeil
In Varia Volume 67, Issue 4, July 2017

“Great” critique, “little” critique, and “the” revolution
Toward a non-normative understanding of criticism
Elsa Rambaud
In Varia Volume 67, Issue 3, May 2017

Thomas Jefferson and his thinking about Native Americans
Understanding a nature at the basis of a human project
David Bergeron
In Varia Volume 67, Issue 3, May 2017

What lies behind context?
A critique of the concept of context as it is used in electoral sociology
Julien Audemard
In Varia Volume 67, Issue 2, March 2017

What is war?
A reinterpretation of Carl von Clausewitz’s “formula”
Adrien Schu
In Varia Volume 67, Issue 2, March 2017

Privatization and fragmentation of violence in Colombia
The central position of the state
Jacobo Grajales
In Varia Volume 67, Issue 2, March 2017

A science without scientists?
The paradoxes of the emergence of political science in France, 1945-68
Brigitte Gaïti, Marie Scot
In Towards a Social History of Political Science Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2017

“The French Connection”
Elements for a history of international history in France
Nicolas Guilhot
In Towards a Social History of Political Science Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2017

The Atlantic structuration of European studies
The Ford Foundation and the European Community Institute for University studies in the generation of an “object”
Antonin Cohen
In Towards a Social History of Political Science Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2017

Paradigmatic parties
“LaPalombara & Weiner”, “Lipset & Rokkan”, and normal political science in the 1960s
Francisco Roa Bastos
In Towards a Social History of Political Science Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2017

Maverick or naive?
The positions of the Université de Vincennes in French political science in the 1970s
Christelle Dormoy-Rajramanan, Laurent Jeanpierre
In Towards a Social History of Political Science Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2017

The most consulted experts in the United States: the hypothesis of a peri-administration
The case of healthcare policy (1970-2010)
Ulrike Lepont
In Varia Volume 66, Issue 6, November 2016

The "return of the state" and new forms of domination in Russia
The case of higher education
Carole Sigman
In Varia Volume 66, Issue 6, November 2016

Police blunders and riots
The genesis of a typical trigger indicator in the Rhône department (1979-2000)
Alessio Motta
In Varia Volume 66, Issue 6, November 2016

Thinking about Radicalization
A Processual Sociology of the Variables of Violent Engagement
Xavier Crettiez
In Varia Volume 66, Issue 5, September 2016

Expatriate Corsicans and the Vote au Village
Mechanisms of Control and Expressions of Sentiment (Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries)
Jean-Louis Briquet
In Varia Volume 66, Issue 5, September 2016

The “Economist” in Politics
French Socialist Experts of the 1970s
Mathieu Fulla
In Varia Volume 66, Issue 5, September 2016

The Strategic State Committed to Financial Markets
The Creation of a French Public Debt Management Office
Benjamin Lemoine
In The Politics of Organization Volume 66, Issue 3-4, May 2016

How Specialization is Used in the Police
Discrete Forms of Public Management of Policing
Élodie Lemaire
In The Politics of Organization Volume 66, Issue 3-4, May 2016

Bringing the Healthcare State Back in
Political Issues of Integration Through Merger: The Case of Regional Health Agencies
Frédéric Pierru, Christine Rolland
In The Politics of Organization Volume 66, Issue 3-4, May 2016

The Politics of Merger
The New Frontiers of the Territorial State
Philippe Bezes, Patrick Le Lidec
In The Politics of Organization Volume 66, Issue 3-4, May 2016

Retrenchment of the center and conflict at the peripheries
The failure of urban projects for the reconversion of military sites in Italy
Francesca Artioli
In Varia Volume 66, Issue 2, March 2016

(Re)christianizing the popular classes
The Catholic Church and faith training (1921-1939)
Marie-Pierre Wynands
In Varia Volume 66, Issue 2, March 2016

Professional and political logic in identity checks
Different policing styles in France and Germany
Jacques de Maillard, Daniela Hunold, Sébastian Roché, Dietrich Oberwittler, Mathieu Zagrodzki
In Varia Volume 66, Issue 2, March 2016

Making Representative Claims
The Social Construction of Political Representation
Virginie Dutoya, Samuel Hayat
In Making Representative Claims Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2016

A World Parliament of Labour?
Study of a century of tripartite representation at the International Labour Organization
Marieke Louis
In Making Representative Claims Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2016

A Representative Claim Made in the Name of Women?
Quotas and the political representation of women in India and Pakistan (1917-2010)
Virginie Dutoya
In Making Representative Claims Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2016

The social anchoring of representation
Becoming a spokesperson in municipal women’s conferences in Recife, Brazil
Marie-Hélène Sa Vilas Boas
In Making Representative Claims Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2016

Representation as Performance
Working to embody subaltern groups in two community organizations in Los Angeles
Julien Talpin
In Making Representative Claims Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2016

Publicity and Transparency
The status of representation and political visibility in Kelsen and Schmitt
John Pitseys
In Making Representative Claims Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2016

The uses and abuses of virtue in contemporary republicanism
Philip Pettit and the temptation of perfectionism
Jérémie Duhamel
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2015

Who shifts when public opinion shifts?
The evolution of demand for state intervention in the European Union since the 1990s
Frédéric Gonthier
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2015

Governing through the neighbourhood community (shequ) in China
An ethnography of the participative bureaucratisation of residents’ committees in Beijing
Judith Audin
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2015

Acknowledging divisions within the working class
The political participation of workers and employees
Camille Peugny
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 5-6, September 2015

From national champion to international champion
Resistance and transformations to a model of competition in the energy sector during the period 1990–2010
Scott Viallet-Thévenin
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 5-6, September 2015

Legal realism and international realism in the United States during the interwar period
Neglected reformist convergences between political science and law
Olivier Zajec
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 5-6, September 2015

The social sciences and the traces of big data
Society, opinion, or vibrations?
Dominique Boullier
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 5-6, September 2015

The Republic of Florence (from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries)
Historical and Political Issues
Jean Boutier, Yves Sintomer
In Florence (1200-1530): Reinventing The Political Volume 64, Issue 6, November 2014

Electoral systems and conceptions of community in Italian communes
(Twelfth–fourteenth centuries)
Hagen Keller
In Florence (1200-1530): Reinventing The Political Volume 64, Issue 6, November 2014

Institutional Practices of the Florentine Republic
From the Regime del Popolo to the Electoral Reform 1282-1328
Piero Gualtieri
In Florence (1200-1530): Reinventing The Political Volume 64, Issue 6, November 2014

From individual redress to the development of a collective cause
The legal mobilization of victims of DES
Emmanuelle Fillion, Didier Torny
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 4, July 2015

The Turkish Army in Politics
Institutional autonomy, the formation of social coalitions, and the production of crises
Gilles Dorronsoro, Benjamin Gourisse
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 4, July 2015

The Political Programme as Genre. The Sociology of Producing Party Programmes
The Example of Bad Godesberg
Karim Fertikh
In Varia Volume 64, Issue 5, September 2014

The Political Determinants of the Frequency of Democratic Reform
Western Europe, 1990-2010
Camille Bedock
In Varia Volume 64, Issue 5, September 2014

Co-optation or avoidance?
The place of environmental issues in the platforms of the major governing parties
Simon Persico
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 3, May 2015

A non-consensual transformation of the political arena
The authorisation of a multi-party system and the introduction of alternance of power in Turkey (1945-1950)
Benjamin Gourisse
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 3, May 2015

Competitive party systems
Where do Duverger and Sartori diverge?
Miroslav Novák
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 3, May 2015

Judicialisation and Direct Democracy
Switzerland’s Ban on Minaret Construction
Hervé Rayner, Bernard Voutat
In Judicialisation And The Governance of Religion Volume 64, Issue 4, July 2014

Variations in the Judicialisation of the Alevi Issue
From Turkey to Europe
Élise Massicard
In Judicialisation And The Governance of Religion Volume 64, Issue 4, July 2014

Constitutional Courts as Religion-Harnessing Agents
Lessons from Israel and Malaysia
Ran Hirschl
In Judicialisation And The Governance of Religion Volume 64, Issue 4, July 2014

The Production of Social Acceptability
Privatisation of water services and social norms around access in Latin America
Pierre-Louis Mayaux
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 2, March 2015

The Rhetorical Trap: A Moral Coercion
Reflections on the influence of “moral arguments” on the process of public action
Hélène Dufournet
In Varia Volume 65, Issue 2, March 2015

Rethinking the Role of Victims in Criminal Proceedings
Lawyers’ Normative Repertoire in France and the United States
Janine Barbot, Nicolas Dodier
In Varia Volume 64, Issue 3, May 2014

Exiting Conflict or Reasserting the Struggle?
The Exhumation and Making of “Republican Victims” in Spain
Sélim Smaoui
In Varia Volume 64, Issue 3, May 2014

Mobilisations As a Result of Deliberation and Polarising Crisis
The Peaceful Protests in Syria (2011)
Adam Baczko, Gilles Dorronsoro, Arthur Quesnay
In Varia Volume 63, Issue 5, September 2013

The Social Production of Revolt Reconsidered
A Study of Changes in the Membership of the French Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire since 2002
Florence Johsua
In Varia Volume 63, Issue 5, September 2013

The “Battles” of Paris and New York
An Analysis of the Transnational Electoral Behaviour of Senegalese Immigrants in France and the United States
Jean-Philippe Dedieu, Lisa Chauvet, Flore Gubert, Sandrine Mesplé-Somps, Étienne Smith
In Varia Volume 63, Issue 5, September 2013

An Urban Laboratory
New York on the Policy Market in the Fight against Poverty
Élisa Chelle
In Varia Volume 63, Issue 5, September 2013

Building Political Consensus
The Common Agricultural Policy and the Environment in Europe
Matthieu Ansaloni
In Varia Volume 63, Issue 5, September 2013

From the Île de Ré to the Île d’Arros
Stories, Symbols and Statistics in the “Tax Shield” Experiment (2005-2011)
Nicolas Delalande, Alexis Spire
In Varia Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2013

Brought to Light but Left in the Dark
Knowledge and Ignorance in Occupational Health Policies
Jean-Noël Jouzel, François Dedieu
In Varia Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2013

The International Distribution of Diplomatic Labour
An Analysis of French Foreign Policy towards the Iranian Nuclear Problem
Florent Pouponneau
In Varia Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2013

Reshaping Regional Identities through Enlargement
An EU/ASEAN Comparison
François Bafoil
In Varia Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2013

Towards a sociology of revolutionary situations
Reflections on the Arab uprisings
Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi, Olivier Fillieule
In Arab Uprisings, Reflections on Revolutionary Situations in Context Volume 62, Issue 5-6, September 2012

Abeyance networks, contingency and structures
History and origins of the Tunisian revolution
Choukri Hmed
In Arab Uprisings, Reflections on Revolutionary Situations in Context Volume 62, Issue 5-6, September 2012

“Revolutionary” trajectories in Tunisia
Processes of political radicalization 2007-2011
Amin Allal
In Arab Uprisings, Reflections on Revolutionary Situations in Context Volume 62, Issue 5-6, September 2012

On the road to revolution
How did “depoliticised” Egyptians become revolutionaries?
Youssef El Chazli
In Arab Uprisings, Reflections on Revolutionary Situations in Context Volume 62, Issue 5-6, September 2012

The Structuration of The Yemeni Revolution
Exploring a process in motion
Laurent Bonnefoy, Marine Poirier
In Arab Uprisings, Reflections on Revolutionary Situations in Context Volume 62, Issue 5-6, September 2012

Understanding And Analysing The Vote In The 2012 Presidential Elections
The contribution of electoral geography
Michel Bussi, Jérôme Fourquet, Céline Colange
In Arab Uprisings, Reflections on Revolutionary Situations in Context Volume 62, Issue 5-6, September 2012

Between disgust and moral indignation
The socio-genesis of an activist practice
Christophe Traïni
In Varia Volume 62, Issue 4, July 2012

The French ‘Maisons du peuple’ as politicising spaces
A study of the La Paix workers' cooperative in Roubaix (1885-1914)
Paula Cossart, Julien Talpin
In Varia Volume 62, Issue 4, July 2012

Measuring parliamentary effectiveness in the French National Assembly
The contribution of non-parametric frontier methods
Julien Navarro, Nicolas Gérard Vaillant, François-Charles Wolff
In Varia Volume 62, Issue 4, July 2012

A government of peers?
Collegiality at the top levels of political parties: the case of the Parti Socialiste in France
Carole Bachelot
In Varia Volume 62, Issue 3, May 2012

Is the force of the tragic event an artifact?
Victim movements through the lens of event theories of collective action
Stéphane Latté
In Varia Volume 62, Issue 3, May 2012

Was Karl Marx truly against human rights?
Individual emancipation and human rights theory
Justine Lacroix, Jean-Yves Pranchère
In Varia Volume 62, Issue 3, May 2012

Does rent really hinder democracy?
A critical review of the “rentier state” and “resource curse” theories
Mohammed Hachemaoui
In Varia Volume 62, Issue 2, March 2012

The Belgian communitarian conflict: between contingent identity and historical determinism
A path dependence analysis of community formation and institutional trajectories
Nadim Farhat
In Varia Volume 62, Issue 2, March 2012

French party competition through the lens of electoral priorities
Issue competition and issue uptake
Sylvain Brouard, Emiliano Grossman, Isabelle Guinaudeau
In Varia Volume 62, Issue 2, March 2012

Representing the intersection in France and America
Theories of intersectionality meet social science
Alexandre Jaunait, Sébastien Chauvin
In Varia Volume 62, Issue 1, January 2012

Online press serving local democracy
A morphological analysis of political forums
Sylvain Parasie, Jean-Philippe Cointet
In Varia Volume 62, Issue 1, January 2012

Two-axis politics
Values, votes and sociological cleavages in France (1988-2007)
Vincent Tiberj
In Varia Volume 62, Issue 1, January 2012

Emancipated Instruments
Dependence on instruments in the management of agricultural water pollution in the Côtes-d'Armor department (1990-2007)
Magalie Bourblanc
In Varia Volume 61, Issue 6, November 2011

The Discrete Hand
Global finance and the city
Dominique Lorrain
In Varia Volume 61, Issue 6, November 2011

Moral offense versus religious freedom
The ground zero controversy
Nadia Marzouki
In Varia Volume 61, Issue 5, September 2011

Do Jihadist “Martyrs” really want to die?
An emic approach to self-sacrificial radicalization in Pakistan
Amélie Blom
In Varia Volume 61, Issue 5, September 2011

From self-censorship to social protest
Speaking out online in an authoritarian context
Séverine Arsène
In Varia Volume 61, Issue 5, September 2011

Politics in the fire station
An ethnographic approach to relationships to politics in the firefighting world
Romain Pudal
In Varia Volume 61, Issue 5, September 2011

The genesis of political parties
An analysis of the Front National, the Movimento Sociale Italiano and the Islamic Salvation Front
Myriam Aït-Aoudia, Alexandre Dézé
In Varia Volume 61, Issue 4, July 2011

Interest groups seen from the local perspective
Property developers in the housing sector in France
Julie Pollard
In Varia Volume 61, Issue 4, July 2011

The new dynamics of knowledge and the persistence of power relations
The limited impact of important transformations in occupational health expertise
Emmanuel Henry
In Varia Volume 61, Issue 4, July 2011

How and why group interviewing improves the analysis of political reasoning
Group composition and discursive dynamics
Pierre Lefébure
In Collective Interviews New Uses Volume 61, Issue 3, May 2011

How interpretative schemas of a public problem are socially rooted and used
Analysis of conversations about climate change
Jean-Baptiste Comby
In Collective Interviews New Uses Volume 61, Issue 3, May 2011

Classifying and judging political transgressions
The contribution of a focus group approach and employing quantitative methods to analyze qualitative data
Jean-Michel Lecrique, Pierre Lascoumes, Philippe Bezes
In Collective Interviews New Uses Volume 61, Issue 3, May 2011

Do survey respondents always say the same thing?
Matches and mismatches between questionnaire responses and contributions to collective interviews
Florence Haegel, Guillaume Garcia
In Collective Interviews New Uses Volume 61, Issue 3, May 2011

Sociological intervention
Evolutions and specificities in a methodology
Olivier Cousin, Sandrine Rui
In Collective Interviews New Uses Volume 61, Issue 3, May 2011

When public authorities foster and equip a protest movement
The invention of “rare diseases” in the United States and Europe
Caroline Huyard
In Varia Volume 61, Issue 2, March 2011

A public policy designed and run by a private entrepreneur
Tensions between public health and private interest in the battle against obesity in France
Henri Bergeron, Patrick Castel, Étienne Nouguez
In Varia Volume 61, Issue 2, March 2011

Corporate lobbying and multilateral environmental agreements
Examples from the climate change and biosecurity sectors
Amandine Orsini, Daniel Compagnon
In Varia Volume 61, Issue 2, March 2011

European coordination alla bolognese
Notes on the instrumentation of the European higher education area
Pauline Ravinet
In Public Policy Seen through the Prism of its Instruments Volume 61, Issue 1, January 2011

No autonomous public policy without ad hoc instruments
A comparative and longitudinal analysis of the European Union's environmental and urban policies
Charlotte Halpern, Patrick Le Galès
In Public Policy Seen through the Prism of its Instruments Volume 61, Issue 1, January 2011

Uncertain instruments
The computerization of public administration and changes in public policy (1966-1975)
Pierre-Yves Baudot
In Public Policy Seen through the Prism of its Instruments Volume 61, Issue 1, January 2011

Scholarly constructs and the legitimization of European policies
The circulation of knowledge on wine and the vine
Antoine Roger
In Varia Volume 60, Issue 6, November 2010

Political engagement 2.0
New activist networks within the socialist e-party
Thierry Barboni, Éric Treille
In Varia Volume 60, Issue 6, November 2010

Towards a new paradigm shift in French political science?
On rational choice in political science: critical debates
Pierre Favre
In Diverse Perspectives on Elections Volume 60, Issue 5, September 2010

Everyday ethnic categorizations and the relationship to politics
Notes on the youth of working-class neighborhoods and their relationship to politics
Camille Hamidi
In Representatives and the Represented: The Representatives of Diversity and the Visibility of Minorities Volume 60, Issue 4, July 2010

Compliance theories
A literature review
Julien Étienne
In Varia Volume 60, Issue 3, May 2010

The genesis of a codification
The reform of French political finance and the parliamentary learning process, 1970-1987
Éric Phélippeau
In Varia Volume 60, Issue 3, May 2010

“Ten majestic figures in long amaranth robes”
The formation of the court of justice of the European communities
Antonin Cohen
In The Political Sociology of European Law Volume 60, Issue 2, March 2010

Defining the European union court of justice
Commemorative strategies and the making of a transnational esprit de corps
Antoine Vauchez
In The Political Sociology of European Law Volume 60, Issue 2, March 2010

How Europe became law
The first international academic congress on the ECSC (Milan-Stresa 1957)
Julie Bailleux
In The Political Sociology of European Law Volume 60, Issue 2, March 2010

From feelings to emotions (And back again)
How does one become an animal rights activist?
Christophe Traïni
In The Political Sociology of European Law Volume 60, Issue 2, March 2010

The ballot box and the shotgun
Electoral violence during the 1848 French constituent assembly election
Olivier Ihl
In Political Attitudes: Past & Present Volume 60, Issue 1, January 2010

Politics despite themselves
Catholic women's political mobilization in France and Italy, 1900-1914
Magali Della Sudda
In Political Attitudes: Past & Present Volume 60, Issue 1, January 2010

The politicization of religious commitments
Reassessing the determinants of participation in May '68
Julie Pagis
In Political Attitudes: Past & Present Volume 60, Issue 1, January 2010

Moments that make men
Elements for a pragmatist approach to civic competence
Julien Talpin
In Political Attitudes: Past & Present Volume 60, Issue 1, January 2010

The American State
Between political invisibility and institutional fragmentation
Daniel Béland, François Vergniolle de Chantal
In The American State Volume 64, Issue 2, March 2014

Federalism and policy instability
Centralization and decentralization in contemporary American federalism
Timothy J. Conlan
In The American State Volume 64, Issue 2, March 2014

Veto-player or agent of reform?
Congress, health care entitlements, and the changing American state
Kimberly J. Morgan
In The American State Volume 64, Issue 2, March 2014

Dopamine's Political Career
The Circulation and Appropriation of a Scholarly Reference Point in the Field of Drug Policies
Nicolas Fortané
In Varia Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2014

Europe at Work
Europeanisation in the Employment Sector: Effects and Instruments
Mehdi Arrignon
In Varia Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2014

The Erosion of the Algerian Taboo
An Alternative Explanation for the Transformation of Military Organisations in France
Grégory Daho
In Varia Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2014

Re-evaluating Kant's Cosmopolitan Law
European Citizenship as a Transition from the Right to Visitation to the Right to Residence
Martin Deleixhe
In Varia Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2014

The Economy and the Vote in 2012
A Crisis Election?
Nicolas Sauger
In The 2012 French Presidential Elections (2) Volume 63, Issue 6, November 2013

A Campaign Effect
The Decline in French Opposition to Nuclear Power in 2011-2012
Sylvain Brouard, Florent Gougou, Isabelle Guinaudeau, Simon Persico
In The 2012 French Presidential Elections (2) Volume 63, Issue 6, November 2013

Europe as a Polarising Issue
Its Effects on the Electoral Offer and Voting Preferences in the 2012 French Presidential Election
Céline Belot, Bruno Cautrès, Sylvie Strudel
In The 2012 French Presidential Elections (2) Volume 63, Issue 6, November 2013

Candidates Matter in Parliamentary Elections
France as a Least Likely Case Study
Sylvain Brouard, Éric Kerrouche
In The 2012 French Presidential Elections (2) Volume 63, Issue 6, November 2013

Conquering America
The Legislative Election Campaign in the First Constituency for French Residents Abroad
Cédric Pellen
In The 2012 French Presidential Elections (2) Volume 63, Issue 6, November 2013

Tracking change in the French-style gender gap
Through the 2012 presidential election
Réjane Sénac, Maxime Parodi
In French Election 2012 (1) Volume 63, Issue 2, March 2013

One choice, multiple reasons
Political preferences, the space of possibilities and votes in 2012
Vincent Tiberj, Bernard Denni, Nonna Mayer
In French Election 2012 (1) Volume 63, Issue 2, March 2013

The end of tripartition?
The reconfiguration of the right and the transformation of the party system
Florent Gougou, Simon Labouret
In French Election 2012 (1) Volume 63, Issue 2, March 2013

Is French IR emerging?
French IR scholars in the 2011 trip survey
Jérémie Cornut, Dario Battistella
In French Election 2012 (1) Volume 63, Issue 2, March 2013

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Volume 72, Issue 3, May 2022

The impact of international affairs on economics (and vice-versa): Towards a sociology of international economic policy
Volume 72, Issue 1-2, January 2022

RFSP (1951-2021): 70 years of political science
Volume 71, Issue 5-6, September 2021

The Brexit challenge for the analytical models of political science
Volume 71, Issue 4, July 2021

The Ideal Library of the RFSP
Special issue
Issue 1, 2021

Mixed methods: Towards a 3.0 methodology?
Volume 71, Issue 3, May 2021

Varia
Volume 71, Issue 2, March 2021

Making a living from politics: Financial compensation for elected representatives
Volume 71, Issue 1, January 2021

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Volume 70, Issue 6, November 2020

Political sociology of passeurs actors and the circulation of knowledge, norms and public policies
Volume 70, Issue 5, September 2020

Varia
Volume 70, Issue 3-4, May 2020

Varia
Volume 70, Issue 2, March 2020

Approaching the state via its administration
Volume 70, Issue 1, January 2020

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Volume 69, Issue 5-6, September 2019

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Volume 69, Issue 4, July 2019

Varia
Volume 69, Issue 3, May 2019

Varia
Volume 69, Issue 2, March 2019

European archives: Towards a renewed sociohistory of European forms of knowledge
Volume 69, Issue 1, January 2019

Process tracing: Causal paths
Volume 68, Issue 6, November 2018

French elections 2017 (2)
Volume 68, Issue 5, September 2018

Varia
Volume 68, Issue 4, July 2018

Varia
Volume 68, Issue 3, May 2018

Campaign promises
Volume 68, Issue 2, March 2018

Varia
Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2018

French Elections 2017 (1)
Volume 67, Issue 6, November 2017

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Volume 67, Issue 5, September 2017

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Volume 67, Issue 4, July 2017

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Volume 67, Issue 3, May 2017

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Readings: Historical Approach of Politics
Volume 67, Issue 2, March 2017

Towards a Social History of Political Science
Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2017

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Volume 66, Issue 6, November 2016

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Volume 66, Issue 5, September 2016

The Politics of Organization
Volume 66, Issue 3-4, May 2016

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Volume 66, Issue 2, March 2016

Making Representative Claims
Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2016

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Volume 65, Issue 5-6, September 2015

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Volume 65, Issue 4, July 2015

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Volume 65, Issue 3, May 2015

Varia
Volume 65, Issue 2, March 2015

Varia
Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2015

Florence (1200-1530): Reinventing The Political
Volume 64, Issue 6, November 2014

Varia
Volume 64, Issue 5, September 2014

Judicialisation And The Governance of Religion
Volume 64, Issue 4, July 2014

Varia
Volume 64, Issue 3, May 2014

The American State
Volume 64, Issue 2, March 2014

Varia
Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2014

The 2012 French Presidential Elections (2)
Volume 63, Issue 6, November 2013

Varia
Volume 63, Issue 5, September 2013

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Public Polices, Discursives Approaches
Volume 63, Issue 3-4, May 2013

French Election 2012 (1)
Volume 63, Issue 2, March 2013

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Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2013

Arab Uprisings, Reflections on Revolutionary Situations in Context
Volume 62, Issue 5-6, September 2012

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Volume 62, Issue 4, July 2012

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Volume 62, Issue 3, May 2012

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Volume 62, Issue 2, March 2012

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Volume 62, Issue 1, January 2012

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Volume 61, Issue 6, November 2011

Varia
Volume 61, Issue 5, September 2011

Varia
Volume 61, Issue 4, July 2011

Collective Interviews New Uses
Volume 61, Issue 3, May 2011

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Volume 61, Issue 2, March 2011

Public Policy Seen through the Prism of its Instruments
Volume 61, Issue 1, January 2011

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Volume 60, Issue 6, November 2010

Diverse Perspectives on Elections
Volume 60, Issue 5, September 2010

Representatives and the Represented: The Representatives of Diversity and the Visibility of Minorities
Volume 60, Issue 4, July 2010

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Volume 60, Issue 3, May 2010

The Political Sociology of European Law
Volume 60, Issue 2, March 2010

Political Attitudes: Past & Present
Volume 60, Issue 1, January 2010

Working to Reform the Police in Western Countries
Volume 59, Issue 6, November 2009

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Volume 59, Issue 5, September 2009

The Foreigner or the Issue of Models and Transfers
Volume 59, Issue 4, July 2009

A Return to Parliament
Volume 59, Issue 3, May 2009

Gender on the Border between Politics and Policy
Volume 59, Issue 2, March 2009

Right-Wing Activists
Volume 59, Issue 1, January 2009

On Responsibility
Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2008

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Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2008

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Volume 58, Issue 4, July 2008

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Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2008

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Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2008

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Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2008

Voter Competence
Volume 57, Issue 6, November 2007

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Volume 57, Issue 5, September 2007

The 2007 Presidential Elections
Volume 57, Issue 3-4, May 2007

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Volume 57, Issue 2, March 2007

Undertaking Fieldwork under “Difficult” Conditions
Volume 57, Issue 1, January 2007

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Volume 56, Issue 6, November 2006

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Volume 56, Issue 5, September 2006

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Volume 56, Issue 4, July 2006

Public Policy and International Relations
Volume 56, Issue 3, May 2006

The Transformation of Interest Groups in France
Volume 56, Issue 2, March 2006

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Volume 56, Issue 1, January 2006

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Volume 55, Issue 5, September 2005

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Volume 55, Issue 4, July 2005

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Volume 55, Issue 3, May 2005

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Volume 55, Issue 2, March 2005

Political Analysis of Public Policy: A Clash of Approaches, Concepts, and Methods
Volume 55, Issue 1, January 2005

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Volume 54, Issue 6, November 2004

Ideas, Defense Policies, and Strategy
Volume 54, Issue 5, September 2004

The Regional and Elections of March 2004
Volume 54, Issue 4, July 2004

NGOs in the Face of Alter-Globalist Movements
Volume 54, Issue 3, May 2004

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The Revue française de science politique (RFSP) is a primary scholarly reference point in political science, both in France and across the world. It publishes original research articles in all areas of the discipline, plus critical readings, review articles, short book reviews, and survey articles on specific topics that synthesize existing scholarship.

The RFSP is required reading for researchers, university teachers and students of political science, and is also an essential resource for academics in other social sciences and those actively engaged in political life, as well as the general reader interested in the scholarly analysis of politics.

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Bruno Cautrès, Brigitte Gaïti, Jacques Gerstlé, Charles Girard, Bertrand Guillarme, Florence Haegel, Sandrine Lefranc, Sabine Saurugger, Sylvie Strudel, Yves Surel, Pascal Vennesson.

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Marc Abélès, François d’Arcy, Bertrand Badie, Pierre Birnbaun, Louis Bodin, Philippe Braud, Jacques Chevallier, Michel Dobry, Jean-Luc Domenach, Olivier Duhamel, Élizabeth Dupoirier, Béatrice Giblin-Delvallet, Catherine Grémion, Gérard Grunberg, Pierre Hassner, Guy Hermet, Serge Hurtig, Bruno Jobert, Bernard Lacroix, Alain Lancelot, Marie-Claire Lavabre, Jean Leca, Bernard Manin, Guy Michelat, Pierre Muller, Michel Offerlé, Mona Ozouf, Jean-Luc Parodi, Claude Patriat, Pascal Perrineau, Hugues Portelli, Jean-Louis Quermonne, Yves Schemeil, Dominique Schnapper, Johanna Siméant, Jean-Claude Thoenig, Jean-Claude Vatin.

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