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The Rising Invisible Majority

by Alessandro Arrigoni & Emanuele Ferragina, 1 March

When Fiction Meets Social Science
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Why Central Bankers Should Read Economic History

by Éric Monnet, 8 February

How can economic policy-makers use economic history as a guide for their deliberations and decisions? Focusing on the case of...
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The Japanese Press: a Global Exception?

by César Castellvi, 11 January

Economic Crisis and Political Polarization

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Life and Survival in Wuhan

by Simeng Wang, 28 December 2020

This article presents a portrait of the city of Wuhan, which has been at the center of the news since the appearance of...
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Emotions at Work

by Lauren A. Rivera, 2 November 2020

The Role of Affects in Recruitment
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Money Is the Gatekeeper of Politics

by Raymond La Raja, 21 October 2020

One is mistaken to think that corporations dominate the electoral process in the United States is misplaced. The problem is...
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The Oligarchs’ Charter

by Timothy Kuhner, 20 October 2020

With taxpayer suffrage abolished and universal suffrage achieved, political participation in our democratic societies should...
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Elections for Sale?

by Emmanuelle Avril, 14 October 2020

The Funding of Political Parties in Britain
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The Limits of Transparency

by Eric Phélippeau, 13 October 2020

Money in French Politics
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Deciding Together

by Florent Gougou & Simon Persico, 16 July 2020

The Citizens’ Convention on Climate and the Democratic Challenge
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A New Conflict Era

by Floriano Filho, 13 July 2020

The Growing Tensions between Japan and the Korean Peninsula
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Against the “Grain of the Voice”

by Catherine Rudent, 6 July 2020

Studying the voice in songs
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How Fiction Can Help Us Navigate the Pandemic

by Chandra Mukerji, 2 July 2020

The Decameron and the Black Death
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“Brains” and their “Servants”: the New Class Domination

by Bruno Palier, 25 June 2020

A Response to Torben Iversen, Part III
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Building a Society That Values Care

by Kathryn Cai, 22 June 2020

Covid-19 in an Aging Society
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Are Capitalist Democracies Really Resilient?

by Cyril Benoit, 18 June 2020

A Response to Torben Iversen, Part II
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Are Capitalist Democracies Really Resilient?

by Jenny Andersson, 17 June 2020

A Response to Torben Iversen, Part I
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How Austerity is Worsening Coronavirus

by Matthew Soener, 4 June 2020

The Covid-19 virus follows years of austerity politics in Europe and this market-driven ideology is already shaping...
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The Globalisation of Lockdowns

by Éric Charmes & Max Rousseau, 1 June 2020

Planetary urbanisation revealed
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Working in China in the Covid-19 Era

by Gilles Guiheux & Ye Guo & Renyou Hou & Manon Laurent & Jun Li & Anne-Valérie Ruinet, 25 May 2020

China managed to maintain a certain amount of economic activity during the lockdown, but at what cost and under what...
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Beyond Backlash

by Priscila Delgado de Carvalho, 21 May 2020

How Gender Discourse Reaggregates Conservatisms
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Tracing Apps to Fight Covid-19

by Marine Al Dahdah & Mohammad Javed Alam, 18 May 2020

Are surveillance technologies effective?
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Taiwan’s Energy Security Challenges

by Floriano Filho, 14 May 2020

From Geopolitics to Environmental Issues
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Brexit and the Two Irelands

by Ophélie Siméon, 4 May 2020

Signed in 1998, the Good Friday Agreement brought the three-decade civil war in Northern Ireland to an end. Most...
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Can Covid-19 Crisis Change Italian Politics?

by Alessandro Mulieri, 27 April 2020

Democracy in Times of Global Pandemic
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The Covid-19 Crisis in India

by Marine Al Dahdah & Mathieu Ferry & Isabelle Guérin & Govindan Venkatasubramanian, 13 April 2020

A Nascent Humanitarian Tragedy
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Fortunetellers and Teahouse Workers

by Di Wang, 9 April 2020

Migrant Peasants in Post-Mao Chengdu
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Covid-19: Chronicle of an Outbreak Foretold

by Philippe Sansonetti, 30 March 2020

What are Covid-19 and the coronavirus? What are the parameters, causes and effects of this disease? What are the short and...
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What is a Public Health Problem?

by Frédéric Orobon, 30 January 2020

On Abortion and Drugs
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The Origins of the French État-providence

by François-Xavier Merrien, 13 January 2020

An inquiry into the origins of a controversial term
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Discrimination Against Japan’s Burakumin Community

by Caroline Taïeb, 9 January 2020

Discrimination against the Burakumin people has infiltrated Japanese society for centuries and still exists today, proving...
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Writing the History of “Natural” Disasters

by Lukas Schemper, 30 December 2019

The case of Messina
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Algorithms and Territorial Regulation

by Dominique Cardon & Maxime Crépel, 16 December 2019

Uber, Waze, Airbnb… The algorithms that control these platforms are based on an optimisation of the service provided to the...
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William Thompson, a Pioneer of European Socialism

by Caroline Gomes, 5 December 2019

An Irish landowner, economist, philosopher and defender of women’s rights, William Thompson was one of the greatest Socialist...
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Media Ownership in the Digital Era

by Ross Tapsell, 3 October 2019

Indonesia & the Philippines in the face of digitalisation
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Free from Politics?

by Nolwenn Salmon, 30 September 2019

Chinese Environmental Journalists Between Neutrality and Commitment
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The Print Media Reform in Post-Junta Myanmar

by Chloé Baills, 26 September 2019

Myanmar’s internationally acclaimed regime reform has subtly impacted the media environment. Civil society was involved in the...
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The Afro: More Than a Hairstyle

by Ary Gordien, 19 September 2019

Recent contentious comments on social media in France show that the hair of Afro-descendants is still stigmatized. How is one...
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Scarlet Letters

by Nicolas Delon, 2 September 2019

Meat, Normality and the Power of Shaming
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Protest Music in the Age of Trump

by Ron Eyerman, 25 April 2019

The presidential election campaign and the unexpected election of Donald Trump was cause for immediate reaction from the...
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Elon Musk: the High-Stakes Gambler of Technological Capitalism

by Arnaud Saint-Martin, 14 March 2019

The career path of SpaceX’s CEO traces the contours of new technological capitalism. While Elon Musk is often hailed as a...
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The ‘Animal Cause’ and the Social Sciences

by Jérôme Michalon, 11 February 2019

From anthropocentrism to zoocentrism
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Towards an Ecological Cinema

by Olivier Dorlin, 23 January 2019

Hollywood cinema tends to represent climate change in catastrophist and sensationalistic movies. By contrast, a new type of...

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