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Research Framework : This article is part of a broader reflection on the future of family policies, including their beneficiaries, the change of levels responsible for their development and implementation, and the delegitimization of intermediary bodies involved in this process. Objectives : To better define the parameters of family policies and to outline the elements of a frame of reference that could be used to map the scope of this policy area in different countries. Methodology : This article is based on the contributions in this thematic issue, a review of the literature, and the research expertise of the authors. Results : The ideas presented in this article focus on delimiting the scope of family policies by analyzing the beneficiaries, the intervention fields, the founding principle(s) and the actors. Based on the cases of France and Quebec, the authors present, in the form of questions, the criteria that could make it possible to define how family policy is defined in a given region. Conclusions : At international and often at national levels, the scope of family policy still appears vague. In fact, it is impossible to provide a single and shared definition, adapted to all the countries where the term is used. Despite some commonalities, "family policy" remains difficult to define. Contribution : The authors confirm that family policies cannot be understood without being considered in the context of the current dynamic of the social state as a whole.
Keywords: politique familiale, services de garde, congés parentaux, politique publique, family policy, child care, parental leave, public policy
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AbstractThis article demonstrates that the political involvement of young women activists in political parties and feminist groups should be interpreted as an action of “taking responsibility”. These young women experience political involvement as an obligation towards other people and social institutions, and as a responsibility and duty of citizenship. Engagement is also a means of acting for social change, revealing the forward-looking aspect of responsibility. Finally, the political activism of young women illustrates the emergence within politics of new forms of subjectivity. These are characterised by strong personal beliefs and by passion, rather than by ideology or group ties to a party.
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AbstractFollowing a stay in Chile during A. Pinochet's ruling, W. Cavanaugh works out a political theology based on a sacramentary ecclesiology which which presents the Eucharistic liturgy as a realization of the Body of salvation in Christ in the social body. The paper discusses the theological interest of this approach from the point of view of the political visibility of the ecclesial body.
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As intercommunities develop in France, the question of public reading networks is now entering the field of cultural action policy, in the wake of documentary policy. Within this framework, the latter will engage in a methodical and contractual program, taking into account the geographical, social and cultural diversities of its territories. Whatever the realities of the context, the mutualist mechanism will bring additional meaning and services to the population.
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Theoretical studies of foreign policy show that the very subject of the discipline is highly undefined. This is the reason why we shall try, first and foremost, to provide an answer to three fundamental questions. Is there a natural difference between foreign policy and decision-making, or is foreign policy only a sum total of decisions? Is there a difference between a foreign policy which dictates the major general trends and the various policies which apply to restricted scenes of action ? What is the difference between the objectives which actors assign to various policies and their implementation in the international System, thus making their evaluation a problem ? We then deal with the state of studies entered upon by three schools of thought and set down the results registered by the behaviorist trend, the theoretical dilemma it had to face and the dead end it led to. The second trend, historical and political, has, for its part, dealt with comparative analysis of historical cases according to the method of localized and structured comparison. Finally, the third trend, historical, economical and structuralist, has resorted to the world System paradigm of I. Wallerstein. The problem of this paradigm is the transposition of the debate between the supporters of the Annales school (structural serial history, economical and social contingencies) and the historians of international relations (who favour history of events and the role of the state). This approach also focuses on the debate about the dichotomy international relations/transnational relations. In the ends, rigorous and interdisciplinary research studies is deemed necessary for the promotion of studies in foreign policy.