Books & ideas

The color of France's “yellow vests”

Aurélien Delpirou — 2018-12-17T07:00:00Z

Jacquerie, revolt of the peripheries, or revenge of the working class? The initial analysis of the “yellow vest” (gilets jaunes) movement has unleashed sociological prejudices. Yet this movement reflects not so much a France split in two as a multiplicity of territorial interdependencies.

Quebec: a Democracy in Crisis

Florent Guénard — 2012-06-25T03:09:49Z

Negotiations between protesters and the governement have failed: the political crisis ignited in Quebec several weeks ago is far from being over. For Professor Christian Nadeau, of Montreal University, much more is at stake here than student tuition fees. As the emergency law passed by Quebec's provincial government shows, the true object of the conflict is social democracy and the society that goes with it.

Is there yet a new New Labour agenda?

Olaf Cramme — 2007-11-12T09:08:25Z

Even before Gordon Brown took over as UK Prime Minister in June this year, one of New Labour's masterminds, the renowned sociologist Anthony Giddens, published his latest book entitled Over to you, Mr Brown. His ambitions are bold. Almost a decade after the publication of his widely debated The Third Way, which provided much of Tony Blair's intellectual underpinning, Giddens attempts anew to set the framework for a renovated ideological position and policy outlook for the centre-left. Its outcome is ambiguous.