Brazilian society was shaken by turmoil in the 1920s and 1930s. The country was rocked by heated debates over race and immigration, burgeoning social movements in cities and the countryside, entrenched oligarchies clinging to power, and nature being despoiled. Against this turbulent backdrop, a grou...

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...

The environment and sustainable development have received unprecedented political and social attention during the five years Sarkozy: proactive statements, ambitious reforms, etc. However, the overall interpretation of reforms and policies should not be limited to an analysis of the proactive politi...

The National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) series provides information on health expenditures by or on behalf of families and individuals, the financing of these expenditures, and each person's use of services. The Survey of American Indians and Alaska Natives (SAIAN) was designed in collaborati...

The latest African Health Policy issue dates from December 1987 (D. Fassin and E. Le Bris (Dir.), ‘Health Policies’, African Policy, No 28, 1987). This dossier aims to fill this gap of more than 30 years and to reflect the significant recent changes in the world of public health in Africa. The shape...

Since 2003, more than 400 popular districts categorized as sensitive urban zones and 4 million inhabitants have become part of a program initiated by the Framework Act on Town Planning and Urban Renewal (so-called “Borloo law”). In order to achieve district transformation and social diversity, the p...

, most of which emerged at the beginning of the xx century, have often been perceived as conservative corporatist groups, and in particular the Society of History and Geography Professors (SPHG), and as such have been made responsible for the difficulty of reforming the school disciplines they inten...

The presence of all young children on the streets sometimes manifests itself as gestures of escape and exploration that have been removed from parental supervision. On closer inspection, the event inspired by these “escape gestures” seems to reveal an essential dimension of the sensitive urban relat...

Fishing is one of the most important socio-economic activities in the Mediterranean and particularly in the Maghreb. In Algeria, in recent decades it has become a leading employment sector for a large part of the coastal population. Exploitation of the sea is also one of the main animal protein reso...

The image of the Second Empire was disgraced for a long time in our national culture. Indeed the French defeat at Sedan, Victor Hugo’s diatribes and the Coup combined to firmly corroborate the dark vision of the period. Yet some historical studies have partly restored it by showing the reality of th...

The relative success of the fight against inflation and excessive attention over the short period tend to mask trend developments in developed economies. The political consensus on the idea of restoring the “big balances” means that the reasons for the continuing rise in unemployment in Europe — a f...

Lebanese pre-war town planning was “liberal”, but centralised, like the economy. In fact, there were few plans, old ones and many derogations. The war has multiplied the centres of influence, creating a sort of forced decentralisation, and Beirut broke out into several areas of influence. Post-war,...

* INRA-IREP BP 47 X 38040 Grenoble cedex (FRA) Dissemination of the document: INRA-IREP BP 47 X 38040 Grenoble cedex (FRA) National audience The principles of the LAITIERE policy put in place in Canada between 1967 and 1975 allow effective monitoring of the produced quantum and public funding of sup...

The Moroccan State’s strategy since independence has been aimed at limiting the weight of cities and maintaining rural rural areas in the countryside by means of a rural spatial planning and equipment policy, a refusal of industrialist choice. Despite this proactive attitude, public action has at th...

Rationing of healthcare resources has emerged as an important issue, which has been discussed by medical experts, policy-makers, and the general public. We consider a rationing problem where medical units are to be allocated to patients. Each unit is reserved for one of several categories and each c...

Wieviorka Olivier. Ogé Frédéric Le journal l’action française and the domestic policy of the government of Vichy. In: Twentieth Siecle, History Review, No 8, October — December 1985. pp. 143-144.

Externalities and uncertainty play an important role in the design of regulatory policies. Regulatory tools must be selected while taking into consideration the side-effects that regulated products or services have on other individuals and on the environment. This study investigates the externalitie...

This article discusses how public policy understands the concept of inclusion of students with special educational needs or skills, translates it into legislation and brings such regulations into practice. Based on an ethnographic observation, we explore the diverse ways in which inclusive practices...

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This poll, fielded April 13-14, 1999, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, First Lady Hilla...

The next session of the normative policy philosophy seminar will take place on Tuesday, 9 February 2021, from 17 a.m. to 19 p.m., online. Participation is based on registration with: urfalino (at) ehess.fr. Patrick Savidan (Paris-Est Créteil University) will speak on: Inequalities as a public proble...

The public finance crisis of 2008 led to a proliferation of public revelations by the media of tax avoidance behavior. International mobilization demonstrates the limit of national legal action.This thesis proceeds from the principle that the legal scope of tax evasion becomes limited and penal repr...

The experimental economy is increasingly used in the agricultural economy. This article reports on a Researchers School organised in 2015 by Department SAE2 (Social Sciences, Agriculture and Food, Space and Environment) of the INRA in order to take stock of the work using this method and discuss its...

national audience The zero-rate eco-loan (EPTZ) allows home owners to finance energy renovation works without paying interest. Launched in 2009, this flagship environmental policy of Grenelle has not achieved the desired success. Today, the Citizens’ Climate Convention (2020) proposes to generalise...

In the context of achieving the new Sustainable Development Goals, revenue mobilization is a high priority in developing countries and in Sub-Saharan Africa, where governments’ ability to tax remains limited. Using a unique revenue dataset spanning the period 1980-2010, we analyze three important ta...