Patrick Le Galès
Biographic Data
| ID | 303300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Le Galès |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Le Galès |
| SIGNATURE | LE GALÈS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 92 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1057 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Explorer le Policy State: Densification et interdépendances des politiques publiques
Depuis plus d’un siècle, les politiques publiques n’ont cessé d’être multipliées au sein des États. Pourtant, paradoxalement, elles sont encore souvent étudiées isolément et sans s’interroger sur ce que leur densification fait à l’État. Cet article programmatique propose une conceptualisation du « policy state », une notion forgée par Karen Orren et Stephen Skowronek, pour placer les interactions entre politiques publiques au centre de l’analyse.…
Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector
This paper advances research on policy accumulation by analyzing its political consequences in the French housing sector. It argues that, in the context of decentralization reforms, the accumulation of policy instruments has undermined national steering capacities and intensified territorial inequalities. Decentralization accelerated accumulation by decoupling policy formulation from the costs and administrative responsibilities of implementation…
Metropolitan governance as organised anarchy: The case of the Paris region
The Rise and Fall of the Sociology of the Global City
In the 1980s and 1990s, a series of publications, including Saskia Sassen's landmark book The Global City, triggered a new current of research aiming to link a cycle of globalized financial and tech capitalism to a new type of city, analogous to what the industrial city had been in the past. This article first reviews this literature in relation to the history and sociology of the world city. It then reviews criticism and sociological questions a…
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies
International audience
Castells, Cities And The Network Society: Formidable Ambition, Great Intuitions, Selective Legacy
This paper reviews the formidable but selective influence of Castells' analysis of the network society and the information revolution. First, the paper argues that the theorization and the style of writing this type of grand theory have both contributed to the success of those papers but also limited their long‐term influence. Second, it argues that Castells decisively contributed to identify the importance of global networks. However, his system…
Sociologie politique de l'action publique: Le moment du référentiel
Cette contribution montre combien l'article de Pierre Muller, « Les approches cognitives des politiques publiques » ( Revue française de science politique , 50 [2], avril 2000, p. 189-208), s'est avéré un papier de combat visant à établir l'analyse des politiques publiques comme un sous-champ essentiel de la science politique. Notre article reprend les questions majeures de l'ordre social et politique, d'une part, de l'autonomie des politiques pu…
The Rise of Local Politics: A Global Review
Not all politics is local. Not even local politics is necessarily local. The reemergence of local politics is not comparable to the nationalization of politics but is rather an element making multilevel policies more or less interconnected. This global review (not including North America) suggests that the rise of local politics is explained by three set of processes—( a) democratization, including protest, ( b) economic globalization, urbanizati…
L’État britannique recomposé par le Brexit: Global Britain or Centralised England
À la suite de travaux comparatifs sur l’État en Europe, l’article vise à mettre en évidence, interpréter et parfois expliquer les dynamiques de recomposition de l’État britannique liées au Brexit. Elles se combinent avec une décennie d’austérité sévère et la crise de la Covid-19. Le départ de l’Union européenne (UE) pose des questions existentielles à l’État britannique. L’article vise tout d’abord à montrer les conséquences du Brexit sur l’organ…
Work in London, love in Paris: Middle class mobility over the Channel Tunnel
Our paper contributes to the analysis of the transformation of middle classes in Europe by linking the issue of spatialization of class at the transnational and urban levels with the question of mobility and skilled migration. We therefore analyse the migration motives and urban practices (lifestyle and residential choice) of about ninety mobile middle class French nationals in London and middle class British nationals in Paris. The respondents b…
Gouverner la métropole parisienne
Chaotiquement, une métropole parisienne est en train d’émerger. C’est ce que démontrent les auteurs de cet ouvrage, en relisant l’histoire de la gouvernance de ce territoire, prise en tension entre la volonté de l’État de contrôler la capitale à coup de plans stratégiques et d’organisations, et l’établissement de coopérations horizontales respectant la vieille opposition entre Paris et sa banlieue. Avec le temps, ces deux logiques ont perdu de le…
À la recherche du politique dans les villes
Cet article est une contribution à la compréhension du politique dans les sociétés contemporaines plus ou moins mondialisées envisagé à partir des villes et non de l'État, en faisant l'hypothèse que les processus d'urbanisation et de mondialisation contemporains ouvrent des possibilités de différenciation du politique et des régulations politiques à l'échelle soit transnationale soit infranationale. Cette urbanisation planétaire remet en cause à …
Dictionnaire des politiques publiques
Superstar Cities” & the Generation of Durable Inequality
The striking economic agglomerations emerging in affluent democracies are generating, reproducing, and expanding inequalities. A major mechanism for this is housing, which is both a repository for wealth and, under these conditions, a magnifier of wealth. Access to urban areas – the site of educational, labor, and marriage market advantages – is contingent upon access to housing. We use comparative analysis of cases in Europe (London and Paris) a…
The challenge of researching “partial exit” and “rootedness” among upper-middle classes in European cities
The rise of mobilities has paved the way for important changes within cities and the possibility for urban upper-middle classes to exit from their cities and national societies, disinvesting on them, while still taking profits in a process of deterritorialization with important consequences at the collective level. Investigating the extent to which upper-middle classes shaped and are still rooted (or not) in their cities is a challenge, even more…
Penser les transformations par la comparaison. Action publique, villes et instruments
Patrick Le Galès est directeur de recherche au CNRS au Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée de Sciences Po Paris, professeur de sociologie et de science politique à Sciences Po et doyen fondateur de l’École urbaine de Sciences Po. Cet entretien a été réalisé par Lionel Francou, doctorant en sociologie à l’Université catholique de Louvain (boursier Anticipate-Innoviris), membre du Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires Démocratie…
Reconfiguring European States in Crisis
The three constituencies of the state: Why the State Has Lost Unifying Energy
We address resurgent populism by examining structural processes of state transformation in the UK, the US and France. Scholars stress the ‘unifying energy of the state’, a set of institutions and policies capable of limiting inequalities and defending legal regimes. One characteristic of modern Western statehood were packages of policies designed to integrate social groups and territories in part by ensuring common standards of provision and soci…
Un monde à la carte
Avec les processus de mondialisation, certains groupes sociaux développent des mobilités transnationales parmi lesquels les cadres supérieurs semblent susceptibles de tirer avantage de ces dynamiques. Il apparaît pourtant que, malgré ces mobilités, les cadres supérieurs étudiés dans cet ouvrage à Paris, Lyon, Milan et Madrid demeurent profondément ancrés dans leurs quartiers et leurs villes. Leurs choix résidentiels sont marqués par des héritages…
Neoliberalism and Urban Change: Stretching a Good Idea Too Far
Does neoliberalism matter for cities, urbanization processes, urban governance and policies? How and to what extent? What does this even mean? These questions are important as neoliberalism is a contentious and powerful political project and paradigm. This paper argues that: (1) it may be fruitful to be clearer about the meaning of neoliberalism rather than adopting an encompassing constructivist framework; and (2) that neoliberalism may not expl…
Performance measurement as a policy instrument
The rise of government by indicators, by figures may reveal a new wave of rationalization organized by the state in the classic Weberian sense. Contemporary forms of government are marked by the rise of indicators, measures and new metrics to compare, certify, codify and evaluate. In many countries, performance measurement has become one of the symbols of the transformation of governance. The paper aims to show how performance indicators are a pa…
Brexit: Understanding the socio-economic origins and consequencesThe Fault lines unveiled by BrexitMultiple economies: before and after BrexitAccidental tourists: Brexit and its toxic employment under…
The unprecedented geopolitical shift resulting from Brexit reflects deep socio-economic fault lines within and beyond the UK. In many ways foreshadowing the US presidential election of Donald Trump, Brexit brought to the surface and gave a public voice to socio-economic divisions that were deeply embedded, sometimes illogical, but until now had either been ignored or hushed out of ‘respectable’ public debate. This Discussion Forum emanates from a…
Urban Policy in Europe
L'instrumentation de l'action publique: Controverses, résistance, effets
Comment s'organise l'action collective ? Comment les acteurs coopèrent-ils ? La recherche en sciences sociales a donné des réponses très diverses à ces questions. Cet ouvrage propose de centrer l'attention sur les aspects concrets et sur les supports matériels de l'action collective : les instruments, les outils et les dispositifs tels qu’ils sont aujourd’hui mobilisés pour analyser les marchés, le capitalisme, les entreprises et différentes form…
Dictionnaire des politiques publiques
Introduction: Understanding Public Policy through Its Instruments-From the Nature of Instruments to the Sociology of Public Policy Instrumentation
Public policy instrumentation and its choice of tools and modes of operation are treated either as a kind of evidence (governing means making regulations, taxing, entering into contracts, communicating, etc.) or as if the questions it raises (the properties of instruments, justifications for choosing them, their applicability, etc.) are part of a rationality of methods without any autonomous meaning. This paper aims to explain the significance of…
Du gouvernement des villes à la gouvernance urbaine
From the governing of cities to urban governance. Patrick Le Galès. The concept of urban governance is introduced and discussed in order to show the extent to which centre-periphery relations and institutional analysis no longer explain city government changes in Britain and France. Two middle range concepts, urban growth coalitions and urban regimes, are analysed and criticised for being too American. Instead of focusing on a problem-solving app…
Exploring Governance in a Multi-Level Polity: A Policy Instruments Approach
The study of public policy instruments in national settings has contributed significantly to our understanding of policy, political systems, and relations between state and citizen. Its promise for the EU, where instrument-centred research has hitherto been limited in coverage and method, remains by contrast largely unfulfilled. This article discusses the political sociology approach to instruments, developed by Lascoumes and Le Galès as an alter…
Regulations and Governance in European Cities
In Europe today, the state is being challenged, and this is leading to renewed questioning of the linkages between social regulation and political regulation. Territories, or sub‐national levels (particularly towns and cities), can constitute one level on which different types of regulation are enmeshed and structured, and where a mode of governance is structured. This paper reviews the uses of the concept of governance by those institutionalist …
Une révolution bureaucratique britannique: Autonomy Without Control, or “Freer Markets, More Rules”
L'article a pour point de départ un puzzle : comment rendre compte des transformations des comportements routiniers de groupes, d'organisations et d'individus en Grande-Bretagne ? À partir d'une analyse précise des interdépendances entre État et marché et du rôle de l'État dans la création du marché tirée de Weber et de Polanyi, nous proposons de reprendre et d'adapter la notion de révolution bureaucratique avancée par Weber. Nous défendons la th…
Cities as national champions
As governments, committed to neo-liberalism but still committed to pursuing national economic success, seek for policy approaches that evade international competition law, they may turn to favouring national champion cities, usually but not always capital cities. This usually also favours particular industries and firms, but only indirectly. This is not the same as policies for favouring backward or declining regions, as the champions selected ar…
Neoliberalism and Urban Change: Stretching a Good Idea Too Far
Does neoliberalism matter for cities, urbanization processes, urban governance and policies? How and to what extent? What does this even mean? These questions are important as neoliberalism is a contentious and powerful political project and paradigm. This paper argues that: (1) it may be fruitful to be clearer about the meaning of neoliberalism rather than adopting an encompassing constructivist framework; and (2) that neoliberalism may not expl…
Superstar Cities” & the Generation of Durable Inequality
The striking economic agglomerations emerging in affluent democracies are generating, reproducing, and expanding inequalities. A major mechanism for this is housing, which is both a repository for wealth and, under these conditions, a magnifier of wealth. Access to urban areas – the site of educational, labor, and marriage market advantages – is contingent upon access to housing. We use comparative analysis of cases in Europe (London and Paris) a…
Urban Governance And Policy Networks: On The Urban Political Boundedness of Policy Networks. A French Case Study
The paper analyses the changes within two policy domains in one French city. The aim is not so much to demonstrate the role of policy networks but to stress the importance of their articulation within a given political space. The paper does not conclude on the emergence of a new type of network governance but rather shows how urban political élites have deliberately encouraged the formation of policy net‐works in Rennes. That strategy makes sense…
Sociologie de l'État en recomposition
Dans cet article introductif, King et Le Galès rappellent tout d'abord les enjeux de la sociologie de l'État, champ de recherche en recomposition, tout comme l'État qu'elle vise à étudier. Ils mentionnent, d'une part, l'importance de l'État dans la structuration, la régulation des conflits, les inégalités, le pilotage des sociétés européennes et, d'autre part, les arguments mis en avant dans la littérature qui justifient l'intérêt pour la recompo…
Transnational mobility and rootedness: The upper middle classes in European cities
Some authors argue that ‘mobilities’ form the distinctive feature of late modern societies and represent a new social cleavage between cosmopolitan mobile élites and urban residents more rooted in their local neighbourhoods. One assumption in contemporary discourses of rootedness is that this new transnational or global society entails an ongoing process of uprooting individuals and a mainly mobile élite packing up and relocating. In this article…
Cities and states in Europe
The article assesses the rise in importance of cities in Europe, which are relying on their demographic and economic dynamism, on the one hand, and their political strategies on the other. In most European countries, urban elites are trying to implement medium‐term development strategies and to fight against fragmentation. Globalisation represents both a constraint and an opportunity for cities; it does not determine their strategies or policies.…
Brexit: Understanding the socio-economic origins and consequencesThe Fault lines unveiled by BrexitMultiple economies: before and after BrexitAccidental tourists: Brexit and its toxic employment under…
The unprecedented geopolitical shift resulting from Brexit reflects deep socio-economic fault lines within and beyond the UK. In many ways foreshadowing the US presidential election of Donald Trump, Brexit brought to the surface and gave a public voice to socio-economic divisions that were deeply embedded, sometimes illogical, but until now had either been ignored or hushed out of ‘respectable’ public debate. This Discussion Forum emanates from a…
Controlling the Urban Fabric: The Complex Game of Distance and Proximity in E uropean Upper‐Middle‐Class Residential Strategies
This article presents an open discussion of the processes of urban secession and gentrification in contemporary E uropean cities, arguing that intergroup social dynamics in urban spaces are generally more complex than either extreme mutual avoidance or the colonization of neighbourhoods by the wealthiest groups. We analyse the residential strategies of urban upper‐middle class managers in various E uropean metropolitan areas through in‐depth semi…
Work in London, love in Paris: Middle class mobility over the Channel Tunnel
Our paper contributes to the analysis of the transformation of middle classes in Europe by linking the issue of spatialization of class at the transnational and urban levels with the question of mobility and skilled migration. We therefore analyse the migration motives and urban practices (lifestyle and residential choice) of about ninety mobile middle class French nationals in London and middle class British nationals in Paris. The respondents b…
The three constituencies of the state: Why the State Has Lost Unifying Energy
We address resurgent populism by examining structural processes of state transformation in the UK, the US and France. Scholars stress the ‘unifying energy of the state’, a set of institutions and policies capable of limiting inequalities and defending legal regimes. One characteristic of modern Western statehood were packages of policies designed to integrate social groups and territories in part by ensuring common standards of provision and soci…
Performance measurement as a policy instrument
The rise of government by indicators, by figures may reveal a new wave of rationalization organized by the state in the classic Weberian sense. Contemporary forms of government are marked by the rise of indicators, measures and new metrics to compare, certify, codify and evaluate. In many countries, performance measurement has become one of the symbols of the transformation of governance. The paper aims to show how performance indicators are a pa…
Gouverner les très grandes métropoles
The very large metropolis, a new phenomenon in urban and political history, poses a number of challenges, particularly as concerns government. A comparison of the large and very large metropolises of the developed countries with those of the developping countries shows the emergence of types of government which integrate collective actions shared by various actors, elected public officials in particular and, increasingly, technical networks. Thes…
Power Relations and Social Mix in Metropolitan Neighbourhoods in North America and Europe: Moving Beyond Gentrification
Research on spatial segregation has suggested that social mix may be a temporary phase in class displacement, where relations between different groups are at best divided or ‘tectonic’, for instance in E ngland. Political and policy discourses, by contrast, tend to uncritically valorize social mix as a means to breaking up concentrations of poverty and providing neighbourhoods with a middle‐class voice. In the literature, little attention has bee…
Politique de la ville en France et en Grande-Bretagne: Volontarisme et ambiguïtés de l'État
Patrick Le Galès Urban Policy in France and Great Britain : The Central Government's Will and Ambiguity Given the shifts in urban policies adopted in France and Great Britain, three sorts of explanations are discussed : interest groups, ideology, and the central government's interests. Urban policies do not correspond to classical models of public policy. Is it possible to switch to a new, stabler model ? Since it is not essential to the state, u…
Pas d'action publique autonome sans instruments propres: Analyse comparée et longitudinale des politiques environnementales et urbaines de l'Union européenne
Dans quelle mesure l'analyse des formes d'instrumentation, c'est-à-dire du choix et de la combinaison d'instruments, expliquet-elle l'émergence et le développement d'une action publique autonome ? L'entrée par les instruments apporte-elle un éclairage fécond sur l'évolution des formes de pilotage de l'action publique privilégiées au sein de l'Union européenne ? À partir d'une analyse comparée et systématique des instruments des politiques europée…
New state space in Western Europe
Is Political Economy Still Relevant to Study the Culturalization of Cities
In order to analyse and explain the growing importance of culture in cities, this article briefly reviews three traditions of urban political economy (Marxist, neo-classical and neo-Weberian). The paper argues that rather than looking for a new embracing reductionist cultural studies paradigm, it is probably more fruitful to work on the combination of culture, social structures, economics and politics, for instance in the Weberian or neo-Gramscia…
The Future of Urban Sociology
Over the course of the 20th century, sociologists have made rich and diverse contributions to urban studies, from the Chicago School with their focus on urban ecology, to the ‘radicalism’ of New Urban Sociology emphasizing neo- Weberian and neo-Marxist approaches (Bulmer, 1984; Faberman, 1979; Saunders, 1986). In both phases, sociologists positioned themselves as prominent critics and reformists of urban society, intimately connected with the ide…
Contracts versus competitive bidding: Rationalizing urban policy programmes in England and France∗
In recent years both Britain and France have initiated major reforms of the organization of urban policy which have followed the introduction of new mechanisms for the allocation of resources to urban regeneration schemes. In the case of City Challenge, local partnerships were invited to engage in a competitive bidding exercise while the Contrat de Ville was based on a process of negotiation between the state and the different tiers of local gove…
Grande-Bretagne: Le gouvernement contre les villes
Großbritannien, Die Regierung gegen die Städte In zehn Jahren permanenter Reformen ist die Struktur der Beziehungen zwischen Zentralregierung und Lokalverwaltung grundlegend umgewälzt worden. Der Umfang der Reformen zur Finanzkontrolle und die Schaffung zentraler, mit bestimmten Stadterneuerungsprojekten beauftragter Ämter haben eine gravierende Zentralisierung und entsprechende Widersprüche zur Folge
La réforme du système fiscal local en Grande-Bretagne: L'enjeu de la Poll Tax
Patrick Le Galès, La reforma del sistema fiscal en Gran Bretana, la cuestión de la poll tax El gobierno de Margaret Thatcher ha tratado de responsabilizar a los consejos locales frente a sus propios electores haciendo que el cierre de su presupuesto dependa de un impuesto igual para todos, y por lo tanto particularmente sensible para los pobres que, se supone, son los que mayormente se benefician con los servicios locales
Propos d'un leader travailliste sur le gouvernement local
David Blunkett, Palabras de un líder laborista sobre el gobierno local El gobierno local británico ha resistido al ataque dirigido por la alianza entre los conservadores y el sector privado. Esta lucha habrá mostrado la necesidad de una desestización y de una gestion más próxima a los habitantes y más abierta a la iniciativa privada
Crise urbaine et développement économique local en Grande-Bretagne: L'Apport De La Nouvelle Gauche Urbaine
Urban crisis and local economic development in Great Britain : the contribution of the new urban left In Great Britain, the inner city crisis and the dissatisfaction brought about by the management of the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s paved the way for the « new urban left ». Its originality is two-fold : it has invested and asserted itself in local politics, called « low politics » ; in addition it. has proposed a new model of local …
Les facteurs sociaux locaux d'une politique de développement économique local: L'exemple de Coventry
Dans tous les pays développés atteints par la crise industrielle , les villes, et notamment les grandes villes, ont mis en place plus ou moins précocement des politiques de développement économique local. Coventry en Grande-Bretagne a attendu 1986, soit plus de cinq ans après l'effondrement de son industrie pour agir. L'auteur propose ici une explication de cette lenteur et des modalités de la politique finalement adoptée, non par le rôle des ins…
Top‐down to bottom‐up? Centre‐periphery relations and power structures in France's Gaullist party
Changes in centre‐periphery relations, both institutional (most notably decentralisation) and socio‐economic (the growing importance of cities) have radically altered the environment in which French political parties operate. The unprecedentedly close links between parties and the local political system that have resulted have profoundly affected power structures within the parties. Just as the Fifth Republic ‘presidentialised’ parties, so decent…
L’Inner City Policy en Grande-Bretagne
Inner City Policy in Great Britain The British urban policy has been progressively established during the sixties as a response to the difficulties of rapid urbanisation resulting from the industrial revolution of the XIXth century. However neither the efforts undertaken at a social and economic level by labour as well as tory governments nor the definition of new partnerships through numerous development or rehabilitation programmes have produce…
Lieux et pratiques sociales des étudiants dans la ville: Rennes, Besançon et Nanterre
Students' meeting places and social activities in the city Students' relationships to their city differ between the capital and the provinces. Students in regional capitals lead indépendant lives at their universities during the week but spend the weekend within the comfortable environment of their families. Parisian students work at the university and most of them still live with their parents. An independent minority is resigned to living in th…
Développement économique et territoires
Presentation de l'ouvrage de Georges Benko et Alain Lipiez (dir.), « Les regions qui gagnent, Districts et reseaux : les nouveaux paradigmes de la geographie economique », qui tente de donner un apercu du debat international concernant l'evolution de l'economie fin de siecle, et plus particulierement des modifications spatiales du tissu productif . L'A. souligne l'interet de ce livre pour le sociologue, du fait qu'il traite des formes de regulati…
Aspects idéologiques et politiques du partenariat public-privé
Le Gales Patrick. Aspects ideologiques et politiques du partenariat public-prive. In: Revue d'economie financiere. Hors-serie, 1995. Partenariat public-prive et developpement territorial . pp. 51-63.
French Urban Policy: The implications for regeneration policies in the English regions
(1995). French Urban Policy: the implications for regeneration policies in the English regions. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 10, No. 3-4, pp. 379-398
Cultures of unemployment: A comparative look at long term unemployment and urban poverty
Contracts versus competitive bidding: Rationalizing urban policy programmes in England and France∗
In recent years both Britain and France have initiated major reforms of the organization of urban policy which have followed the introduction of new mechanisms for the allocation of resources to urban regeneration schemes. In the case of City Challenge, local partnerships were invited to engage in a competitive bidding exercise while the Contrat de Ville was based on a process of negotiation between the state and the different tiers of local gove…
Du gouvernement des villes à la gouvernance urbaine
From the governing of cities to urban governance. Patrick Le Galès. The concept of urban governance is introduced and discussed in order to show the extent to which centre-periphery relations and institutional analysis no longer explain city government changes in Britain and France. Two middle range concepts, urban growth coalitions and urban regimes, are analysed and criticised for being too American. Instead of focusing on a problem-solving app…
Politique de la ville en France et en Grande-Bretagne: Volontarisme et ambiguïtés de l'État
Patrick Le Galès Urban Policy in France and Great Britain : The Central Government's Will and Ambiguity Given the shifts in urban policies adopted in France and Great Britain, three sorts of explanations are discussed : interest groups, ideology, and the central government's interests. Urban policies do not correspond to classical models of public policy. Is it possible to switch to a new, stabler model ? Since it is not essential to the state, u…
Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side? What Went Wrong with French Regions, and the Implications for England
The experience of France’s elected regions offers both comfort and admonition to English reformers. That the centralised, unitary French state can establish regions as popularly legitimate and fully functioning governing institutions in a short space of time is an optimistic sign. Yet, notwithstanding Europeanisation and some examples of innovation, regions have been constrained by poor performance, weak leadership, the burgeoning departmental sy…
Comment devenir sociologue? Souvenirs d'un vieux mandarin
Deux jeunes disciples d'Henri Mendras (Patrick Le Gales et Marco Oberti) ont incite leur maitre a renouer les fils de sa memoire sur le mode de la conversation qu'il aime tant. Et ainsi ont vu le jour ces souvenirs d'un vieux mandarin a l'occasion desquels le professeur tocquevillien retrace les debuts de la sociologie, raconte l'eclosion des idees et les avatars des methodes, decrit les circuits universitaires, demonte les systemes des grandes e…
Politique culturelle et gouvernance urbaine: L'exemple de Rennes
Le cadre d'analyse de la gouvernance aide à comprendre les évolutions des politiques culturelles des villes en élargissant le regard vers des variables externes à l'organisation du secteur d'action publique qu'elles constituent. Le développement des politiques culturelles dans les grandes villes s'explique par le fait qu'elles sont centrales pour les élites urbaines qui tentent de constituer et/ou de faire apparaître les villes comme des acteurs …
Policy Statement
In the twenty-one years since its founding, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) has become a well-established, successful journal with a record of having published pioneering work in the field.We, the new editors and the new editorial board, wish to express our most heartfelt appreciation for the work of our predecessors: first
Villes en Europe
Cities and states in Europe
The article assesses the rise in importance of cities in Europe, which are relying on their demographic and economic dynamism, on the one hand, and their political strategies on the other. In most European countries, urban elites are trying to implement medium‐term development strategies and to fight against fragmentation. Globalisation represents both a constraint and an opportunity for cities; it does not determine their strategies or policies.…
Regulations and Governance in European Cities
In Europe today, the state is being challenged, and this is leading to renewed questioning of the linkages between social regulation and political regulation. Territories, or sub‐national levels (particularly towns and cities), can constitute one level on which different types of regulation are enmeshed and structured, and where a mode of governance is structured. This paper reviews the uses of the concept of governance by those institutionalist …
Is Political Economy Still Relevant to Study the Culturalization of Cities
In order to analyse and explain the growing importance of culture in cities, this article briefly reviews three traditions of urban political economy (Marxist, neo-classical and neo-Weberian). The paper argues that rather than looking for a new embracing reductionist cultural studies paradigm, it is probably more fruitful to work on the combination of culture, social structures, economics and politics, for instance in the Weberian or neo-Gramscia…
Cities in Contemporary Europe
European cities are at the centre of social, political and economic changes in Western Europe. This book proposes a new research agenda in urban sociology and politics applying primarily to European cities, in particular those that together make up the urban structure of Europe: a fabric of older cities of over 100,000 inhabitants, regional capitals and smaller state capitals. The contributors develop an analytical framework which views cities as…
Local production systems in Europe: Rise or Demise?
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