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Urban rankings has widely increased in recent years, however the ways in which these records are being mobilized by urban actors has not yet become a matter for comprehensive sociological research. At a time when city-competition is commonly presented as a major driving force for urban policies, this study represents a major opportunity to gain ins...
Business Organisations as Service Providers
Using the Provision of Services as a Means of Increasing Recruitment in Local Business Organisation
Contrary to trade unions, French business organisations make it a priority to offer their members a wide range of services. This article specifically examines the context in which local business organisati...
Choosing Urban Expertise for a Europe of Cities: The Eurocities Network and its Experts
Since the end of the 1980’s, the European network of cities called Eurocities draws on a range of expertise in order to establish itself as a network, to stand out as an interlocutor on urban issues in the eyes of European institutions and to take part in defini...
Studying the political capacity building process in cities with weak assets for governance represents a real scientific added-value: how to deliver collective actions when economic actors are less inclined to cooperate with public actors? Starting from fieldwork carried out on the policy-making in urban renewal in Saint-Etienne, a French city nearb...
Depuis 1982, en France, la décentralisation de la formation professionnelle de l'État aux Régions est en cours. Ce processus s'accompagne de transformations des modes de production, puis de mobilisation dans l'action publique, des connaissances concernant les liens entre formation et emploi. Ces transformations sont ici analysées dans une perspecti...
The question of the interaction of time in the political process and time in policy making is approached here through the study of two locally elected representatives and their relationship to time. The comparative study of the lengthy careers ofH. C. andJ.M. allows us to analyze to what extent the uncertainty of electoral results contributes to sh...
With roots going back to the 18th century, parades in Northern Ireland are ritualised and festive community marches that often give rise to rioting and public disorder. Thanks to specific know-how regarding demonstration and counter-demonstration techniques: mass occupation of public space and how routes and dates can be influenced and modified, mi...
In the mid 1980s, following the first stages of the decentralisation process initiated in 1982, certain French administrative regions started acquiring tools for the observation of the training-employment relationship in order to prepare for their new responsibilities in the areas of education, training and economic development. In so doing, the go...
