Our research focuses on cooperation between institutions in the implementation of their policies in the regions. This issue is of particular importance in a particular economic context of financial crises and excessive state indebtedness, where efforts are made to control the allocation of public fu...

Émile de Laveleye (1822-1892) est un professeur d’économie politique de l’Université de Liège. Diplômé en droit, il a publié de très nombreux articles et ouvrages portant notamment sur l’organisation de la société et de l’État. Ses écrits témoignent d’une importante préoccupation accordée à l’égalit...

On analyse les organisations interétatiques et plus particulièrement les intégrations régionales. Ces dernières sont appréhendées comme une voie médiane entre l'échelon étatique et le niveau international. On y précise une série de concepts tels que celui de « région », de « régionalisme » et de « r...

Paris and Tokyo are; two world capitals which attract tourists, students, artists and foreign investors. To face their competitors, these two big cities are starting several urban planning projects. In Paris, as in Tokyo, construction takes place in several districts. However, the procedures for est...

In the eyes of some contemporary authors, camera sciences appear to be a ‘success story’ of state-building. They then embody the first attempt in Europe, at the end of modern times, to systematise the study of public management and to establish a practical administration science, of which Germany wo...

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This article looks at the modes of government of two species of highly migratory amphihalin fish: European eel (Anguilla anguilla) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Based on a long ethnographic survey, this text proposes to analyse the arrangements of the governments of fisheries and stocks in cont...

This article proposes a re-visit of the ‘Fortoul survey’, a collection of popular poetry carried out in France under the auspices of the Ministry of Public Instruction and Cultes between 1852 and 1877. In contrast to a dominant historical reading which considers that, at that time, the definition of...

How artists, more specifically graphic and plastic, take part in the ‘intellectual figure’. The figure of the activist seems to correspond to it (1) in his report to the intellect and knowledge, (2) through his ethical commitment and (3) through his public visibility. Thus, this chapter shows how hi...

Scientific and technical expertise has been at the centre of many debates for some 20 years, following controversy and business issues, in particular with regard to health and environmental risks. Under public pressure, expertise in these areas had to be reformed and offered guarantees in terms of i...

La procédure de révision de la constitution en Belgique exige deux étapes qui ralentissent le processus. La discussion entre Hugues Dumont, professeur de droit constitutionnel à l'Université Saint-Louis et moi-même a porté sur la pertinence et la probabilité d'une modification de cette procédure.

This thesis explores the way in which power relations are constructed in French primary schools, by posing the question of the reality of the "power" of school principals. Power is mainly understood in the Croatian sense, as the control of areas of uncertainty by the various actors involved. French...

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Access to drinking water and sanitation remains a problem for many limenians living in outlying neighbourhoods, often the result of land invasions and self-construction. In an international context of poverty alleviation, the Peruvian government has for about 20 years started to focus on water acces...

Au 31 janvier 2020 à minuit (heure de Bruxelles), le Royaume-Uni a quitté l'Union européenne. Cette sortie n'est pourtant pas totale : conformément à l’accord de retrait, le pays est entré dans une transition qui lui permet de négocier sa future relation avec l’UE, tout en restant provisoirement int...

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Today, representation is presented as a controversial subject of political and symbolic fighting. The absence of any dialogue and the insurmountable distance between representatives and representatives has led to revolutionary international activation with social movements that have managed to coord...