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School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

FacilityVillejuif, France
About: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences is a facility organization based out in Villejuif, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 1230 authors who have published 2084 publications receiving 57740 citations. The organization is also known as: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales & EHESS.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the continuity between conflict and property within the frame of a theory of access to natural resources is highlighted, and the plurality of actors involved in disputes over natural resources in African drylands beyond the farmer-herdsman configuration.
Abstract: Conflicts over natural resources and property concern the distribution of entitlements to resources and social identities. The highlighting of this continuity enables the insertion of conflict into a broader historical and theoretical framework dealing with social change, as well as access to and control over resources. However, this reveals nothing about the discontinuity between tensions over natural resources and outbreaks of conflict involving physical and symbolic violence. Case studies carried out in Mali and Benin provide an empirical basis for the discussion of the following set of exploratory hypotheses: they stress the continuity between conflict and property within the frame of a theory of access to natural resources; they emphasise the plurality of actors involved in disputes over natural resources in African drylands beyond the farmer–herdsman configuration; and they see resource conflict, property and policy as a matter of persuasion, that is, representation and narrative.

16 citations

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TL;DR: The authors propose a cross-linguistic analysis of mood choice in Italian with epistemic predicates, showing that the distinction between expressive and inquisitive attitudes is not an idiosyncrasy of nonfactive epistemics.
Abstract: Italian is a well-known exception to the cross-linguistic generalization according to which 'belief' predicates are indicative selectors across languages. We newly propose that languages that select the subjunctive with epistemic predicates allow us to see a systematic polysemy between what we call an expressive-'belief' (featuring only a doxastic dimension) and an inquisitive-'belief' (featuring both a doxastic and an epistemic dimension conveying doxastic certainty (in the assertion) and epistemic uncertainty (in the presupposition)). We offer several previously unseen contrasts proving this distinction and offer a new analysis for mood choice cross-linguistically. We argue that the distinction between expressive and inquisitive attitudes is not an idiosyncrasy of non-factive epistemics. We provide novel data, showing that fictional predicates (dream, imagine) license the subjunctive. We explain the indicative/subjunctive alternation by again appealing to epistemic uncertainty and disentangling expressive from inquisitive-fictional meanings. We thus pave the way for a new typology of attitudes relying on this systematic polysemy and propose new criteria to explain mood distribution cross-linguistically.

16 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the effects of competition in regulated industries may have positive or negative side effects on the provision of collective goods or services, and that these effects are closely related to the industrial strategies developed by utilities and the regulatory environment within which they operate.
Abstract: The introduction of competition in regulated industries may have positive or negative side-effects on the provision of collective goods or services. The paper shows that these effects are closely related to two associated elements: the industrial strategies developed by utilities and the regulatory environment within which they operate. Regulatory rules and corporate strategies influence the treatment of public service obligations. This raises a major issue regarding the regulation of public utilities. To reduce the drawbacks of the introduction of competition, it is necessary to set regulatory rules that allow the implementation of market configurations enabling public utilities to follow a public service orientation rather than a pure market-based approach. © CIRIEC 1999.

16 citations

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04 Nov 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interpret cette evolution des politiques sociales en France, en reference a definition de la pauvrete proposee par Simmel, en insistant sur le sens que pourrait avoir le brouillage des frontieres entre travail and assistance.
Abstract: Avec l’instauration du Revenu de solidarite active (RSA) en juin 2009, la France connait une reforme d’envergure de sa politique de lutte contre la pauvrete. D’abord experimente dans 34 departements, ce nouveau dispositif semble s’inscrire dans le prolongement des amenagements deja instaures dans le passe et visant a permettre le cumul d’un salaire et d’une partie d’un revenu minimum, ce que l’on a qualifie de mecanismes d’interessement. Mais cette premiere analyse se revele insuffisante pour rendre compte de cette reforme et de ses consequences. Ce dispositif suscite d’importantes controverses entre ceux qui defendent la priorite a l’action contre le developpement du phenomene des travailleurs pauvres, et ceux qui denoncent un risque de fragilisation de la protection du droit du travail, mais aussi d’une partie des actifs occupes par le developpement d’un sous-emploi. Dans cet article, nous interpretons cette evolution des politiques sociales en France, en reference a la definition de la pauvrete proposee par Simmel, en insistant sur le sens que pourrait avoir le brouillage des frontieres entre travail et assistance.

16 citations


Authors

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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Philippe Aghion12250773438
Andrew J. Martin8481936203
Jean-Jacques Laffont8333232930
Jonathan Grainger7832919719
Jacques Mehler7818823493
James S. Wright7751423684
Thomas Piketty6925136227
Dan Sperber6720732068
Arthur M. Jacobs6726014636
Jacques Mairesse6631020539
Andrew E. Clark6531828819
François Bourguignon6328718250
Emmanuel Dupoux6326714315
Marc Barthelemy6121525783
Pierre-André Chiappori6123018206
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202318
2022134
2021121
2020149
2019119
2018118