School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

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: Politics & Context (language use). 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.

A Sketch of the Earliest Mongolic Language: the Brāhmī Bugut and Khüis Tolgoi Inscriptions

Abstract: The present article deals with the earliest known sources on a Mongolic language discovered in 2014 by the international team Dieter Maue (Germany), Mehmet Ölmez (Turkey), Étienne de La Vaissière and Alexander Vovin (both France) on two inscriptions. The importance of this discovery is three-fold: first, it gives us a glimpse of the earliest Mongolic language, predating by more than six hundred years the hitherto known earliest monument in a Mongolic language; second, in spite of the fact that the language of the inscriptions is somewhat close to Middle Mongolian, it provides the evidence of certain features that were previously only suggested for reconstructed forms of Mongolic; and finally, it significantly changes our general understanding of the mediaeval ethnolinguistic history of Central Asia.

Female Board of Directors and Organisational Diversity in Japan

Abstract: Enhancing gender diversity on boards of directors is an important policy agenda across societies. Despite being the third largest economic power in the world, the proportion of female members on boards of directors in Japan was only 3 per cent in 2016, which is one of the lowest among the OECD countries. This paper examines the data of listed firms in Japan, and explores the impact of institutional change on organisational diversity in terms of gender diversity on boards. In particular, it focuses on analysing the institutional pressure which Japan has been recently undergoing: financialisation and incremental regulatory reform. It is found that firms take institutional change as an incentive to relieve institutional pressure. Whilst increasing foreign investors and new policies encourage independence and gender diversity on boards, Japanese firms relieve both pressures by appointing female directors as outside directors after regulatory reform. Further, it is also found that firms have persistence in maintaining their corporate governance systems even when they are transforming their systems. Firms that implemented a more independent board structure do not necessarily nominate female board members, because the implementation of a more independent system complements board gender diversity.

Varieties of capitalism, growth and redistribution in Asia and Latin America

Abstract: Both Latin America and Asia observed an impressive growth of their economies from the turn of the century until 2013. One of the differences between Asia and Latin America is that while redistribution and social security increased significantly in the second and growth was accompanied by reduced inequality, in Asia we have seen the contrary, increasing inequality, a more inefficient and decreasing social protection and no intent to redistribute. This paper wants to answer in what respects the mode of development of Asia, as characterized mainly by China, is more sustainable than the one followed by Latin America. JEL Classification: P5.

La dama duende [the phantom lady]

Abstract: From his very earliest writings, art was always important for Georges Bataille. Rather than something static, art, for Bataille, always involves an experience and an exigency towards freedo...

Livres, Pouvoir et Théorie

Abstract: Cet article s’interroge sur le type de theories qui sont produites dans des livres et uniquement dans des livres, sans garantie disciplinaire ni institutionnelle. A partir de deux cas, une methode comptable et un traite sur la noblesse, il vise a montrer que l’identification des conditions materielles et sociales d’evolutions de la pensee (contexte de redaction d’un ouvrage, circulation ou marche de l’imprime, commande) revient finalement a une analyse par l’esprit du temps, des lors que le livre est traite comme un resultat ou un produit, et que le travail qu’il effectue n’est pas pris en compte. Les cas choisis revelent que l’ajustement d’un livre a une demande ou a une action politique n’est pas une explication, utilisable telle quelle par l’historien, mais le fait d’une interpretation des besoins de theorie suscites par cette action. Cette interpretation, comme fait, est a expliquer: on la comprend ici comme proposition de manieres de savoir que seule la reconnaissance du pouvoir, c’est-a-dire l’activation de reseaux et de relais sociaux, peut valider.