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AbstractThis paper is an attempt to apprehend the political process that resulted in the adoption of Bill 112 (fall 2002), the Quebec Law against poverty and social exclusion. The first part of the paper describes the “normal” structure of representation in the Quebec society along six dimensions. The second part shows how the social mobilisation of the Collectif pour un Québec sans pauvreté has successfully (but temporarily) modified the political process. Two elements appear central : the fact that the Collectif had invested the legislative arena and the fact that poor people were themselves producing the political solutions of the bill.
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Vegetarian meals, halal meat, local and organic food origin, modulated prices… The issues associated with school canteens have become issues of political conflict, accompanying the more general politicisation of food issues since the late 1990s. This article examines how school canteens have been politicised, based on two main hypotheses. First, school catering issues have become more visible and conflictual at the national level, in connection with the development of new cleavages in Western European political systems, between identity and cosmopolitanism, on the one hand, and between ecologism and productivism, on the other. Second hypothesis, the wide autonomy and diversity of local actors in the implementation limits the influence of this politicization on school catering policies at the local level. To test these hypotheses, we analyse quantitatively (classification) and qualitatively two corpora of more than 10,000 articles devoted to this subject and distinguish between national and regional arena; we also rely on five case studies in four rural towns, based on interviews and observation material. These data confirm the hypothesis of a national politicisation through increased visibility and conflict, as well as the association with new cleavages, but show the limited and differentiated effects of this national politicisation at the local level.
Keywords: politiques publiques, alimentation, restauration collective, clivages, politisation, public policies, food policies, collective catering, cleavages, politicization
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An analysis of the literature on the World Bank's influence on national education policies indicates that, in the majority of cases, this influence is difficult to discern, in particular in Francophone West Africa, because of significant theoretical and methodological gaps. This article presents the major currents in the literature and suggests avenues to rethink the influence of the World Bank, based on examples from Mali and Senegal.
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Analyzing the local-level implementation of participatory integration policies, this article asks how a stronger tie is woven between migrant women and French and Finnish societies. Careful observation of a mothers' café in Helsinki and a creative writing workshop in Paris, two distinct tools of participative integration policies, allows for discovering significant differences in the tie that is effectively produced between migrant women and their host society despite the policies' identical agendas. Unconvinced by the interpretative framework of ‘national models of integration', this research examines variation in the techniques of ‘attachment work' in the light of local-level explananda, namely the history of the institutions and the organization of the policy tools that are being compared. It advocates for the ethnographic method's unique contribution to international comparison, i.e. the possibility to develop multi-level analyses and partial but realist comparisons.
Keywords: comparaison internationale, ethnographie, Finlande, France, genre, politiques d'intégration des immigrés, comparative method, ethnography, Finland, France, gender, immigrant integration policies
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The existence of a public library, as well as the conditions that govern it depend on the city. Consequently, the perception of elected officials and their interest in the library are critical for its survival and development. However, the relative importance of the library and the financial resources allotted cannot solely depend on a political orientation or the will of elected officials. The stakeholders and political choices that have an impact on libraries are diverse and numerous.