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World Cybercrime Index ranks countries by threat level. It stems from the ERC funded project CRIMGOV, led by Federico Varese.

William Genieys looked at health insurance reforms in France and in the USA and studied unelected governmental welfare elites that made those reforms possible.

They present a special issue of the journal Competition and Change on “The European Investor State in the Making”, that they co-edited.

Political dynasties belong neither to the past nor only to authoritarian regimes. Think about the Trudeau family in Canada, Le Pen in France, or Kirchner in Argentina. An explanatory factor: having lived in a political environment provides skills.

Interview with Patrick Le Galès

In this situation of dismal surprise, the unity and resolve of the EU and its member states has been tested and, to the surprise of many, if not most observers, the EU actually responded swiftly and with ambition, Matthias Thiemann notes in an article.

In this episode, Nonna Mayer, a specialist in radical ideologies and populism, answers questions regarding the rise of right-wing populism in France and Europe at large.

Social networks pose very complex challenges to governments. Those who want to sell news have become very good at creating clickbaits on negative news, knowing that we are naturally more sensitive to this kind of news.

How and by whom are the dominant narratives on migrations produced? How do they impact public policy, individuals and society as a whole?

In the fallout of the 2008 crisis, macroprudential policy has been installed as the policy remedy against future financial instability, a primary focus being developments in the real estate sector.

Decay, frugality, green growth; so many concepts that invite us to rethink our growth appeal as it dominated the 20th century.

The French National Consultative Commission for Human Rights (CNCDH) has just published its 2022 annual report on the fight against racism, antisemitism and xenophobia. Nonna Mayer, Vincent Tiberj, Yuma Ando and Tommaso Vitale contributed to the report by analysing data from the "racism barometer".

What do social movements have to say about climate change? What is their role in local and global governance of climate change? How do climate activists coordinate alternative futures in a postapocalyptic present?

Cities are the main sources of pollution, but they also are the major actors for struggling against it.

In order to achieve the European Union's target of carbon neutrality by 2050, the transportation sector must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 90%. The implications are significant for European cities.

A key trend in European politics since the 1990s has been the delegation of important policymaking responsibilities to unelected decision-makers such as independent agencies and supranational actors.

The invasion of Ukraine has once again brought the issue of European Union enlargement to the fore.

How often and how intensively are administrative structures inside central governments created, split up, merged and reformed by hierarchically shifting them, changing their names or even abolishing them?

The rise of the largest crime organisation in South America analysed by Gabriel Feltran, Researcher Director at Sciences Po.

In early 2023, as the reform project for the pension system being debated in the French parliament generates significant social mobilization, Bruno Palier, CNRS research director in political science, reflects on the history and evolution of pension systems in Europe, as well as the French welfare state through the prism of gender.

La pandémie de Covid-19 a mis en évidence à quel point les processus de propagation affectent nos vies en profondeur. Mais elle révèle aussi comment se propagent des informations, des consignes, des rumeurs...

The existence of a collective memory, consistent, undeniable, and shared by all, has become ingrained in our thinking.

Election after election, radical right-wing and populist parties are increasingly present in European parliaments and governments.

The reform of health studies, incorporated in the law of July 24, 2019, and in effect since the 2020 academic year, ended the "Première année commune aux études de santé" (PACES, First Common Year of Health Studies) and the numerus clausus.