LECTURES ESTIVALES RECOMMANDÉES
Pour préparer l’année à venir et vous aider à mieux comprendre les cours, l’équipe pédagogique vous conseille les lectures indiquées ci-dessous. Elles ne sont pas obligatoires, mais fortement recommandées car vous n’aurez peut-être pas le temps de lire ces ouvrages au cours de l’année.
Licence 1
Alexis de Tocqueville, De la démocratie en Amérique, Livre II, 1840
Max Weber, Le Savant et le politique, 1919
Jean-François Sirinelli, La Ve République, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2009 (2e édition) ou 2013 (3e édition). https://www.puf.com/content/La_Ve_R%C3%A9publique
Licence 2
Epistémologie et méthodologie des sciences sociales
Emile Durkheim, Les règles de la méthode sociologique, 1894
Public Policy
Kingdon, John W., Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, Longman Publishing Group, 2011
Sabatier, Paul (ed.), Theories of the Policy Process, Boulder, Westview Press, 2006
Histoire des idées politiques contemporaines
Corey Robin, The Reactionnary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Pierre Rosanvallon, La société des égaux, Le Seuil, Paris, 2011.
Political Sociology
Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: the collapse and revival of American community, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2000
Les théories économiques dans l’Histoire
J.M. Keynes, La pauvreté dans l’abondance, Gallimard, 2002.
Frédéric Lordon, D’un retournement l’autre, Seuil, 2011.
Licence 2 – entrée directe – lectures obligatoires
- Pauline Türk, Théorie générale du Droit constitutionnel, Gualino Editeur Collection Mémentos LMD
- Jean Baudouin, Introduction à la science politique, Paris, Memento Dalloz
- Jean-Yves Dormagen et Daniel Mouchard, Introduction à la Sociologie Politique, De Boeck, 2010
- Raymond Boudon, La logique du social, Paris, Hachette, 1979
- Olivier Nay, Histoire des idées politiques, Paris, Armand Collin, Chapitres 1 à 4
- Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, London, Vintage, 2010
- Nathalie Brack et Olivier Costa, Le Fonctionnement de l’Union européenne, Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2014.
Master in Global and European Politics
MAKE SURE YOU’RE PREPARED: SOME GOOD SUMMER READS
Nothing better than reading a little bit to get a taste of and/or remember and strengthen your knowledge in Political Science in International Relations. These texts have been selected to offer you a panorama of the fundamentals you will have to acquire and discuss. This is especially crucial for students without a bachelor in political science (but not restricted to them!): for those of you in this situation, please make sure you have read many texts. This will save you some extra work and unnecessary stress in the Fall Semester.
This list is not exhaustive but encompasses classics in many disciplines. They are available online
- On thinking in Social Sciences: intellectual work and epistemology
POPPER, Karl, “A Survey of Some Fundamental Problems,” in The Logic of Scientific Discovery, New York: Harper TorchBook, pp. 27-48. https://goo.gl/2UCech
WEBER, Max, 2004 [1917]. « Science as vocation », in The Vocation Lectures, edited and with an Introduction by David Owen and Tracy B. Strong, trans. Rodney Livingstone, Indianapolis/Cambridge : Hackett Publishing Company, pp. 1-31. https://goo.gl/P3DtMp
- On the basics of Political Science and Comparative Politics
SARTORI, Giovanni, 1970. “Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics”, American Political Science Review, 64: 1033-1053. https://goo.gl/7nqbNa
COLLIER, David, LEVITSKY, Steven Levitsky, 1997. “Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research,” World Politics, 49(3): 430-451. https://goo.gl/QB8WZZ
- On International Relations
COX, Robert W., 1981. “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory,” Millennium – Journal of International Studies, 10(2): 126–55.
HOFFMAN, Stanley, 1977. “An American Social Science: International Relations,” Daedalus, 106(3): 41- 60. https://goo.gl/8dSdgh
KOSKENNIEMI, Martii, 2005. “International Law in Europe: `Between Tradition and Renewal,” The European Journal of International Law, 16(1): 113-124. https://goo.gl/VpQm4Z
KRATOCHWIL, Friedrich, RUGGIE, John, 1986. “International Organization: A State of the Art on an Art of the State.” International Organization, 40(4): 763-775. https://goo.gl/BnDf7B