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
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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. […]
6 April 2018

The Effects of Economic Conditions on the Sorting of Jobs and Workers

Are there more qualified unemployed people when the economy is in recession? Are the unemployed then more often forced to accept low-quality jobs? Conversely, do […]
13 October 2017

Cogito n°3

This third issue of Cogito opens with a feature on the fundamental challenges that metropolises are facing around the world with regard to the environment, […]
12 October 2017

The metropolises of risk

A CNRS research director at the Centre for the Sociology of Organizations, Olivier Borraz conducts research on risk governance. Initially focused on environmental and health […]
28 September 2017

How waste disrupts power relations in Lagos

Côme Salvaire, a PhD student at Sciences Po’s Center for International relations, has devoted his thesis to the architecture of urban political organizations through the […]
2 September 2017

When the Internet sheds light on the transformation of messages

We know that the transmission of messages between individuals is often imperfect and/or incomplete. The transformation of a single word or group of words can […]
22 March 2017

Cogito n°2

In an election year full of twists, an overview of our work on elections – a central and foundational research subject at Sciences Po – […]
25 January 2017

Fraternity versus equality

A myth worth revisiting Does France, the so-called country of human rights, display exemplary equality? This is the question that Réjane Sénac seeks to answer […]