Publications

Nonna Mayer, Sociologie des comportements politiques, Paris, Armand Colin, 2010

From political discussions to demonstrations, from voting to political consumerism, from strikes, election boycotts, to activist uses of the Internet: Nonna Mayer’s book offers an encompassing perspective on a central question of political science: political participation. It presents classic and contemporary models of voting behaviour, core concepts of current political sociology, builds on the analysis of political participation surveys and offers multiple comparisons between French and American patterns of political behaviour.

Antonin Cohen, Bernard Lacrox, Philippe Riutort, Nouveau manuel de science politique, Paris, La Découverte, 2009

This new textbook offers a broad presentation of political science. It brings together more than 70 scholars and covers all major topics of political science from a perspective of political sociology: from the historical construction of states through political parties, institutions, public administration, and voting behavior, to social movements, European construction and international relations.

Olivier Fillieule, Eric Agrikoliansky, Isabelle Sommier (eds), Penser les mouvements sociaux. Conflits sociaux et contestations dans les sociétés contemporaines, Paris, La Découverte, 2010

Social movement studies constitute today a specialized field within the social sciences, at the intersection of sociology, political science, and history.  Most of the core concepts were developed in the US, while the interest in social movements has been less sustained in Europe. French sociology of social movements, however, has been built on a number of original and distinct methods and approaches that this book explores in order to critically assess the core concepts of the contentious politics approach: use of instruments from critical sociology, suspicion of positivist methods in favor of more qualitative approaches, development of studies on non-Western societies, as well as on so-called unlikely mobilizations of groups lacking resources, dialoguing with closely related sub-fields such as the study of interest groups or the sociology of social problems.