Documents found
-
61.More information
Research Framework: The article offers an overall thinking on French family policy, its history, discourses, objectives and theoretical interpretations. Objectives: It seeks to establish that a reading from its contemporary point of departure reveals that French family policy has put children, and not primarily the family, at the center of its concerns. Methodology: A secondary analysis of major texts dealing with this family policy, as well as a synthesis of the author's work, provide the methodological substrate adopted for this text. A shift in analytical focus and a renewed understanding of the wide range of socio-ideological debates and public policies support the overall approach. Results: It emerges that the historical and discursive variation of French family policy is, more or less explicitly, based on one invariant: the child. This is because the child presides over a conception of the child as a good of the nation, at the level of the republican state that post-revolutionary France has adopted. The family thus acts by delegation, and the State takes its place in case of failure or need. Conclusions: Contributing to the satisfaction of the needs of the child in his or her family is not only the initial objective of family policies but also their current objective. Contribution: It is therefore to the re-reading of French family policy, in the light of the social valorization of the child proclaimed by many countries, that the article commits.
Keywords: politique familiale, politique publique, famille, enfant, État, familialisme, idéologie, République, France, family policy, public policy, family, child, State, familyism, ideology, Republic, France
-
62.More information
AbstractThis article deals with institutionalism in the study of contentious politics. We distinguish between an old institutionalism that stresses above all the role of political institutions and of institutional opportunities (access to the political system, configuration of power, strategies of the authorities, etc.), on the one hand, and a new institutionalism that intends to reintroduce the notion of culture as well as the discursive aspects of political opportunities, on the other. Neo-institutionalism thus allows us to combine political-institutional and cultural factors in the study of contentious politics. A brief example concerning the political mobilization of migrants illustrates the advantages of this approach and of its methodological corollary which is political claims analysis.
-
70.More information
The work of Claude Lefort can be described as a phenomenological reflection on political life. According to him, social life stands as the manifestation of the political logic, which is specific to each society. In other words, everything that is political constitutes a true “phenomenon” displaying through the various aspects of common life. Lefort's analysis allows him to consider “the political” in itself, without reducing it to any other reality. Moreover, it forces us to reconsider the role of the political thinker. However, Lefort does not pay much attention to some aspects of our political experience. In particular, he does not seem to be interested in studying opposing opinions within the public space.