https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Political-Scientist-the-President-and-his-Post https://booksandideas.net/The-Political-Scientist-the-President-and-his-Post 2024-06-13T08:38:00Z text/html en Christophe Le Digol Politics power elections political science executive power protest La machine du pouvoir <span class="caps">AFSP</span> Cairn.info <p>How do citizens view the power of the President of the Republic? An analysis of letters sent to the Élysée Palace reveals the relationship between French citizens and their head of state, as well as the role played by an invisible service: the presidential post office.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Regulating-Globalisation https://booksandideas.net/Regulating-Globalisation 2020-04-23T07:00:00Z text/html en Sylvain Maechler International capitalism globalisation labour industry regulation political science exploitation Books and ideas originals <p>The excesses of globalisation, including labour exploitation and environmental degradation in global industries, are often seen as the result of a lack of rules. Tim Bartley shows that these rules exist and overlap—they are just failing because they ignore the context in which they operate.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Chinese-Intellectuals-Speak-to-the-World https://booksandideas.net/Chinese-Intellectuals-Speak-to-the-World 2020-03-09T08:00:00Z text/html en Émilie Frenkiel China internet Video Interviews freedom of speech political science intellectual history <p>With China's regained power on the world stage, making accessible and studying the way intellectuals reflect on their country and contribute to the global conversation has become indispensable.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Sontag-as-Metaphor https://booksandideas.net/Sontag-as-Metaphor 2020-02-13T08:00:00Z text/html en Benjamin Balint Arts culture women literature political science biography Books and ideas originals interpretation <p>In this new biography of Susan Sontag, Benjamin Moser draws on hundreds of interviews and on the writer's restricted archives to offer a fascinating portrait of a woman driven to extremities both personal and intellectual.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Inventing-Reinventing-Questioning-Democracy https://booksandideas.net/Inventing-Reinventing-Questioning-Democracy 2016-07-25T06:00:00Z text/html en Mélanie Cournil Politics Society History democracy people political science vote <p>How can we define democracy today? What role does or should the people play in the democratic process<small class="fine d-inline"> </small>? Through its summer selection, Books&Ideas offers to rediscover a group of four interviews and reviews, published in 2015 and 2016, which have tackled these questions through the prism of history, philosophy and political sciences.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Civic-Hacking-and-our-Political-Future https://booksandideas.net/Civic-Hacking-and-our-Political-Future 2016-02-25T08:00:00Z text/html en Émilie Frenkiel Society democracy internet Video Interviews participation people political science Text Interviews <p>Can fresh air come from young democracies like Taiwan and civic-minded hacktivists like Audrey Tang? This interview shows that both help renew democratic practices in providing sophisticated collaborative, participatory and deliberative tools.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Reception-of-John-Stuart-Mill-in-France https://booksandideas.net/The-Reception-of-John-Stuart-Mill-in-France 2011-05-09T08:03:55Z text/html en Vincent Guillin & Djamel Souafa Carousel Great Britain Philosophy democracy liberalism political science <p>How did the thought of John Stuart Mill cross the English Channel? Vincent Guillin and Djamel Souafa analyze the reception of <i>Considerations on Representative Government </i>in Second Empire France and show why it is interesting to reconsider Mill's theory of democratic government today.</p>