Publications

Les cadres institutionnels de l’expertise renvoient aux principes théoriques et aux modalités pratiques de formes d’expertise particulières. Peu de chercheurs se sont intéressés à leur formation tout comme au travail des entrepreneurs pour promouvoir ces formes. À travers le cas du développement de l’Expertise collective (une méthode de revue systématique de la littérature) par le directeur de l’INSERM et son entourage entre 1982 et 1994 en France, cet article démontre que ces cadres sont le produit d’un processus long, incrémental et contingent. Ce processus repose sur trois activités des entrepreneurs de formes d’expertise : la mise en pratique de leurs représentations par expérimentation (ou essai-erreur) ; l’examen des dispositifs existants ; la promotion et la négociation de ce cadre, notamment auprès des commanditaires potentiels.

Entretien [réalisé par Pascal Bonnard et Frédéric Zalewski, Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, N° 2021/2], avec Simon Godard auteur d'une thèse en histoire contemporaine, intitulée "Construire le "bloc'' par l'économie. Configuration des territoires et des identités socialistes au Conseil d'aide économique mutuelle (CAEM), 1949-1989" (soutenue en 2014)"Ses travaux portent sur l'histoire du communisme, la sociohistoire de l'économie, l'histoire de l'Europe, la construction et la circulation des savoirs économiques et l'analyse des réseaux transnationaux. Dans cet entretien, il revient de manière comparative sur les dynamiques de désintégration qui se produisent en Union soviétique et Europe centrale et orientale dans les années 1980 et qui culminent avec l'effondrement de l'URSS en 1991. Il montre notamment en quoi l'histoire du CAEM permet, d'une part, d'éclairer les logiques d'institutionnalisation et d'acculturation qui ont cours même dans des conditions aussi spécifiques que celles de cette organisation, si tributaire de la guerre froide, et, d'autre part, de mettre en perspective les processus d'intégration à oeuvre sur le continent européen, avant comme après 1991."

Guillaume Devin : Studying International Relations through the Lenses of Social Sciences -- International relations (ir) are an object of sociology as any other. Contrary to the Anglo-Saxon founding fathers of the discipline of IR who have been very attached to delineating domestic affairs (realm of welfare) and international politics (quest of survival), Guillaume Devin was never interested to stick to a theoretical perspective of ir which would be detached from sociological input. Beyond sociology, he always tried to open the study of ir to other social sciences, history, and law. This article attempts to give an account of this multidimensional study of ir.

After two decades of research on throughput legitimacy, making sense of the stock of accumulated knowledge remains a challenge. How can relevant publications on throughput legitimacy be collected and analysed? How can the level of throughput legitimacy be measured? Which policy activities contribute to the production of throughput legitimacy? To answer these questions, we designed and implemented an original systematic literature review. We find that the measurement of the level of throughput legitimacy introduces a number of problems that call for the systematic and rigorous use of a more complete set of precise, specific indicators to advance the theory of throughput legitimacy. A number of participatory decision-making activities contribute to the production of throughput legitimacy. Engaging in these activities is not without risk, as variations in throughput legitimacy affect input and output legitimacy. To prevent vicious circles, lessons can be drawn from the literature on collaborative governance and decision-makers’ strategies to support effective collaboration between stakeholders.

Abstract Scholars have long investigated connections between types of knowledge use and types of policy subsystem. Yet, most of them focus on the learning function of expert information. The legitimizing function of knowledge—when expertise serves as a substitute for decision (Boswell in J Eur Public Policy 15(4):471–488, 2008)—has attracted less attention. An empirically validated explanation of this function is still missing. This article tests existing hypotheses regarding which features of the subsystem are conducive to the legitimizing function. The demonstration rests upon a case study: France’s Ministry of Agriculture’s commissioning of INRA to carry out a systematic literature review on pain in farm animals. Two types of factors are involved in the legitimizing function of knowledge: environmental mechanisms (an adversarial policy subsystem, concentration of policy authority) and relational mechanisms (coalitions displaying epistemic uncertainty and exerting pressures on the source of policy authority, a policy broker mitigating the conflict between the two coalitions).

Whilst the politicization of the EU has been increasingly studied over recent years, the analysis has been focusing mainly on political parties and media. Thus, although not completely overlooked, studies looking at EU politicization amongst individuals remain scarce. This article presents a new qualitative dataset from 21 focus groups conducted across social groups and four countries. It was designed to observe processes of (de-)politicization at citizens’ level, how they talk about the EU and along which cleavages are their attitudes structured. This comparative research design sheds new light on discourses and opinions on Europe, mechanisms of politicization and political discussions.

Notice du Dictionnaire critique et interdisciplinaire de la Participation sur le "Droit de la démocratie participative" : proposition d'une définition, et mise en avant des grandes problématiques qui traversent la question. Le Dicopart est édité par le Gis Démocratie et Participation. En accès libre.

L’étude « Présumé.e innocent.e ? Étude sur la détention préventive en Côte d’Ivoire » a été co-écrite par le CERDAP², la FIACAT et l'ACAT-CI, dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du projet de lutte contre la détention préventive injustifiée soutenu par la délégation européenne en Côte d'Ivoire. Si les textes internationaux de protection des droits humains ne prohibent pas l’usage de la détention préventive, ils rappellent que la liberté est la règle et l’enfermement l’exception. En 2014, le Commissaire à la CADHP et Rapporteur spécial des prisons et conditions de détention en Afrique établit ce constat : « Les détenus en provisoire sont souvent dans l’ombre du système de justice pénale car leur détention et leur traitement ne sont pas soumis aux mêmes niveaux de surveillance que les prisonniers condamnés. Les détenus en provisoire subissent des conditions de détention qui ne répondent pas au droit à la vie et la dignité, et sont vulnérables aux violations des droits de l’homme ». Ce sont donc les conditions légales et matérielles d’encadrement de cette pratique qui sont à étudier. L’analyse juridique ne peut pas se passer de celle des représentations sociales de la détention préventive, ni des pratiques judiciaires inhérentes à son utilisation quasi-systématique. La considération de l’ensemble des enjeux liés à la détention avant jugement nécessite par conséquent de les inscrire dans une réflexion plus large sur le sens de la réforme pénale et à interroger la prison en tant que projet politique. L’étude a ainsi mis en perspective les dynamiques sur lesquelles les acteurs locaux sont susceptibles de pouvoir s’appuyer afin d’étendre et de pérenniser leurs actions en faveur du respect des garanties judiciaires.

Vincent Tournier, Vincent Eltschinger, and Marta Sernesi (eds.). 2020. Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (Series Minor, LXXXIX). Excavations of the Adhālaka Great Shrine (MIA adhālaka-mahācetiya) at Kanaganahalli, between 1993 and 1999, have uncovered a wealth of sculptural and epigraphic remains that undeniably make it one of the most significant discoveries for the history of Buddhism in India in the last decades. Since the publication in 2013 of the excavation report in the Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India, the bibliography focusing on the site has steadily kept growing. With the edition of the Kanaganahalli inscriptions whose documentation was available to him, Oskar von Hinüber has laid the ground for a systematic study of their contents. The present remarks aim at addressing a point touched briefly upon by the editor, namely the monastic order or orders (nikāya) to which the Buddhist monks and nuns active at the site belonged. This issue is of crucial importance, not only as a means to reconstruct Kanaganahalli’s place in the institutional landscape of early Buddhism, but also because this information may shed light on the scriptural traditions that were in circulation at the site. This paper presents an edition and detailed analysis of the two inscribed objects containing explicit mentions of monastic orders, as well as related material from the site and from the Krishna river basin. This investigation establishes that monastic members of the Kaurukulla nikāya (closely related to the Saṁmitīyas), as well as members of—or lay donors devoted to—the Mahāvinaseliya nikāya, were both present at and around the Adhālaka Great Shrine. These two lineages stemmed from opposite parts of the Sātavāhana domain, namely Lāṭa in present-day Gujarat and the region of Dhānyakaṭaka (mod. Amaravati) in Āndhra. Members of the Kaurukulla nikāya, in particular, seem to have played a prominent role in the renovation of the site in the 2nd century CE. This said, as is also suggested by the scrutiny of coeval record from Amaravati, the quest for a univocal “school affiliation” of monuments may conceal much of the complex religious, political, and economic dynamics at work in each individual context.

Vincent Tournier, Vincent Eltschinger, and Marta Sernesi (eds.). 2020. Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (Series Minor, LXXXIX).Excavations of the Adhālaka Great Shrine (MIA adhālaka-mahācetiya) at Kanaganahalli, between 1993 and 1999, have uncovered a wealth of sculptural and epigraphic remains that undeniably make it one of the most significant discoveries for the history of Buddhism in India in the last decades. Since the publication in 2013 of the excavation report in the Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India, the bibliography focusing on the site has steadily kept growing. With the edition of the Kanaganahalli inscriptions whose documentation was available to him, Oskar von Hinüber has laid the ground for a systematic study of their contents. The present remarks aim at addressing a point touched briefly upon by the editor, namely the monastic order or orders (nikāya) to which the Buddhist monks and nuns active at the site belonged. This issue is of crucial importance, not only as a means to reconstruct Kanaganahalli’s place in the institutional landscape of early Buddhism, but also because this information may shed light on the scriptural traditions that were in circulation at the site. This paper presents an edition and detailed analysis of the two inscribed objects containing explicit mentions of monastic orders, as well as related material from the site and from the Krishna river basin. This investigation establishes that monastic members of the Kaurukulla nikāya (closely related to the Saṁmitīyas), as well as members of—or lay donors devoted to—the Mahāvinaseliya nikāya, were both present at and around the Adhālaka Great Shrine. These two lineages stemmed from opposite parts of the Sātavāhana domain, namely Lāṭa in present-day Gujarat and the region of Dhānyakaṭaka (mod. Amaravati) in Āndhra. Members of the Kaurukulla nikāya, in particular, seem to have played a prominent role in the renovation of the site in the 2nd century CE. This said, as is also suggested by the scrutiny of coeval record from Amaravati, the quest for a univocal “school affiliation” of monuments may conceal much of the complex religious, political, and economic dynamics at work in each individual context.