13 November 2023

The EU’s planned reconstruction efforts of Ukraine: A game changer?

Matthias Thiemann, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics Russia’s attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, came largely as a surprise to the world […]
17 April 2023
«Faites la paix, pas la guerre» par Banksy

Useful Knowledge About Wars and Peace

By Sergueï Guriev In his 1939 famous essay ‘The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge’, Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in […]
15 December 2022
Cogito 19 - Crédits ScPo

Cogito 19

In this issue, Cogito addresses structural issues: from secularism to the evaluation of public policies, and including economic, educational and gender inequalities, the manipulation of […]
18 December 2019

Are Finance and Democracy Irreconcilable?

A historical overview Finance is now considered to be the main driver of growing inequality. At the same time, governments are being pilloried for their […]
18 December 2019

Household Money, a Policy Issue

United States, 2008: “For Sale” signs cropped up in front of thousands of houses, becoming a symbol of almost forced household indebtedness. But as scandalous […]
11 April 2018
Studio with studio with brick walls and ragged windows, spotlights, camera with special devices for shooting video Crédits Pavel L, Shutterstock

Creating Illusion. Spotlight on the Production Designers

With support from the Foundation for the Social Sciences, which was created under the aegis of the Fondation de France, Gwenaële Rot, university professor and […]
11 April 2018
Pierre-Auguste_Renoir. Le Déjeuner des canotiers. Crédits : Domaine public

Is it Useful to Work on Sundays?

Is it useful to work on Sundays? Not according to Jean-Yves Boulin and Laurent Lesnard in their latest book Les Batailles du dimanche [Sunday battles]. […]
11 April 2018

Understanding inequalities in higher education steering

Agnès van Zanten is a CNRS research director, a member of the Observatory for Social Change (OSC) and a professor at Sciences Po. She co-leads […]
10 April 2018
Palais du Luxembourg By Ibex73 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Lawmaking: a spurt of acceleration

The emergency procedure, renamed accelerated one since 2008, enables the government to call for a conciliation committee between the Assembly and the Senate after one reading only. […]