How do German intra-party tribunals manage internal conflicts? More specifically, why do they accept some cases for trial but reject others? Required by law to strictly adhere to implement rule of law standards, German intra-party tribunals are designed to insulate conflict regulation from politics. Meanwhile, research on judicial politics highlights the role of political and... Lire la suite
François Briatte will present a paper at the 9th annual conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA) in Belfast, 20-22 June 2019. The paper, which is co-written with economist Ewen Gallic from University Aix-Marseille, is about how we can measure the left-right political positions of French Twitter users, including politicians, journalists, and members of... Lire la suite
Giulia Sandri is now Book Review Editor and member of the Editorial Board of the Italian Political Science Review . The mandate runs from 2019 to 2023.
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Soirée “Spécial Masters”
Nos anciens partagent leur expérience ! Vous recherchez un master ? Vous vous posez des questions sur votre spécialisation ? Venez à la rencontre de nos anciens étudiants de masters et échangez avec eux sur leur expérience au sein des Facultés de l’Université Catholique de Lille et après leur diplôme. Rendez-vous le 19 mars 2019,... Lire la suite
Policy brief accompanying the Nature Sustainability paper Rasmussen et al. (2018) Social-ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification. Nature Sustainability 1, pp. 275-282, DOI: 10.1038/s41893-018-0070-8. Sustainable agricultural intensification appears in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a key strategy for ending hunger (SDG2) and achieving sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems (SDG15). Yet, it is not... Lire la suite
Brendan Coolsaet was awarded a 3-year grant by the French Foundation for Biodiversity’s (FRB) Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB) for his project “Towards ‘just conservation’: linking theories and practices of justice in biodiversity conservation” Over the past three decades, biodiversity conservation has expanded, from a focus on nature preservation alone, to... Lire la suite
François Briatte will present a paper at the 15th Congress of the French Political Science Association (Association Française de Science Politique, AFSP) in Bordeaux, 2-4 July 2019. François Briatte will present a paper at the 15th Congress of the French Political Science Association (Association Française de Science Politique, AFSP) in Bordeaux, 2-4 July 2019. The... Lire la suite
Belgium is characterised by profusion and centrality of parties. The Belgian party system is split in two, it is highly fragmented and the effective number of parties has increased drastically through the years, largely due to the multiplication of cleavage politics (Delwit 2012). Parties are also central social and political actors, to the point that... Lire la suite
The effectiveness and capacity of survival of democratic regimes has been recently and widely questioned in the public and political debate. Both democratic institutions and political actors are increasingly confronted with rapid economic and societal transformations that, at least according to some observers and commentators, they not seem to be ready or equipped to manage... Lire la suite
The year 2017 represents a key moment in the political life of the PD. The party celebrated 10 years of existence and did so by electing a new leader via open primaries, following the same symbolic process of its founding moment in 2007. However, the party has radically changed in the last decade and in... Lire la suite