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SummaryThis article seeks to demonstrate that regulationist economists can account for the specific logic of politics, as long as they reformulate and enrich the conceptual architecture of their approach. The first part redefines the economy and economics, as well as the polity and politics, and it conceptualizes the state as a relational and institutional complex endowed with its own economy — an economy of taxation and redistribution. In a similar fashion, the second part portrays money and law as mediations. Finally, the third part presents a topology of the social. Besides the five basic institutional forms of the regulation approach — the wage relation, competition, money, the state, and international relations — a sixth is introduced, namely law. No longer portrayed side by side, these six forms are articulated so that the specific logic of politics is considered on the same plan as the merchant logic of capital. With this reformulation, the political order can be explained from a regulationist point of view, one that is enriched by an understanding of the interdependence between the political and capitalist orders.
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Based on data collected through an online survey conducted in April 2008, this paper proposes the first detailed sociopolitical profile of political bloggers in Quebec. Specifically, the research provides a detailed assessment of Quebec bloggers' motivations to blog, their political involvement in online content dispersion and social networks as well as their participation in offline formal and informal political and civic activities. This description helps to better understand the specificities of an emergent and ever-growing community of politically active citizens. Additionally, the research draws contrasts with previous studies of the U.S. political blogosphere and indicates that Quebec's blogosphere represents a “distinct society” in the North American context due to its minority status on the continent.