Participations 2016/2 (N° 15) – Special Issue “Participer aux États-Unis : les town meetings”

Paula Cossart, Andrea Felicetti, James Kloppenberg (guest editors)

Type: Edited Volume
Year: 2016

Paula Cossart, Andrea Felicetti, James Kloppenberg
Introduction. Les town meetings, mythe fondateur de la démocratie américaine

Xavier Blandin
Note de traduction

Caroline W. Lee, Traduction Laurent Vannini
Les 21st Century Town Meetings dans les années 1990 et 2000 : assemblées délibérantes et marchandisation de l’authenticité politique dans une époque d’austérité

Michael Zuckerman, Traduction Xavier Blandin
Le mirage démocratique du town meeting américain

David D. Hall, Traduction Laurent Vannini
La démocratie délibérative dans le contexte des town meetings de la Nouvelle-Angleterre du XVIIe siècle

Daniel R. Mandell, Traduction Xavier Blandin
Les town meetings de Nouvelle-Angleterre et les populations indigènes : Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1730-1775

Sandra M. Gustafson, Traduction Camille Salgues
Town meeting et race en Amérique

Robert W. T. Martin, Traduction Camille Salgues
« D’une manière pacifique et ordonnée ». Town meetings et assemblées populaires à l’époque de la fondation des États-Unis

Entretien avec Frank M. Bryan, William W. Keith, James T. Kloppenberg, Jane J. Mansbridge, Michael E. Morrell,Graham Smith, Traduction Xavier Blandin
Qu’apporte l’étude des town meetings à la quête d’une démocratie plus participative et délibérative ?

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News

30/07/2018

ERC Starting Grant 2018 for Alice Mattoni

Alice Mattoni, Research Fellow at COSMOS and Assistant Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore, has been awarded the ERC Starting Grant 2018 for the research project BIT-ACT: Bottom-up initiative and anti-corruption technologies: how citizens use ICTs to fight corruption.

16/06/2018

Martin Portos wins the Juan J. Linz Prize to the Best thesis in Political Science 2017

Martin Portos was just awarded with the Juan J. Linz Prize to the Best thesis in Political Science 2017 with his tesis “Voicing outrage, contending with austerity. Mobilization in Spain under the Great Recession”, realized under the supervision of prof. Donatella della Porta.

18/05/2018

Donatella della Porta at the Belleuve Forum in Berlin - May 23, 2018

On May 23rd, 2018, the Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier talks with Donatella della Porta, Christoph Möllers and David Van Reybrouck about anti-politics, anti-establishment and the dangers of indifference to the political to address the 2018 topic of the Forum "Society without Politics - Testing Liberal Democracies".

Publications

Journal Article - 2018

Comparing hybrid media systems in the digital age: A theoretical framework for analysis

Alice Mattoni and Diego Ceccobelli

The relationship between media and politics today is deeply entrenched in the wide use of information and communication technologies to the point that scholars speak about the emergence of hybrid media systems in which older and newer media logics combine. However, it is still unclear how the configuration of hybrid media systems changes across countries today, especially with regard to the interconnection between media and politics. The article develops a theoretical framework to capture such national differences.

Journal Article - 2018

New Technologies as a Neglected Social Movement Outcome: The Case of Activism against Animal Experimentation

Manès Weisskircher

Based on novel empirical research, this paper analyzes a crucial and understudied case of a movement pushing for new technologies: the animal rights movement and its efforts to push for alternatives to animal experimentation.

Cosmos

The Centre on Social Movement Studies