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L'ouvrage publié par Frank Dobbin aux Presses de l'université de Princeton en 2009 sous le titre Inventing equal opportunities offre une contribution innovante et stimulante sur les thèmes de la diversité et de l'égalité des chances aux États-Unis mais aussi sur ce qu'il nous permet de comprendre en creux sur le cas français. Pour rendre pleinement compte de la richesse de cet ouvrage, nous avons choisi de solliciter des auteurs s'inscrivant dans différentes perspectives disciplinaires car Frank Dobbin mêle analyse des mouvements sociaux, de l'action publique, du système juridique et des mobilisations professionnelles.

Frank Dobbin's Inventing equal opportunities , published by Princeton University Press in 2009, has arrived at just the right time in a France where the theme of "diversity" has permeated big firms and where equal opportunity policies are being debated in the educational system, which, from kindergarten to university, is being accused of fostering inequality. This book provides a stimulating, innovative contribution to our understanding not only of these questions in the United States but also of the French case. We thought it was time to organize a symposium on a book that recounts and dissects nearly fifty years of development in equal opportunity policies in the United States. To fully describe the wealth of information in this book, we asked authors with different disciplinary perspectives to take part. By analyzing social movements, public actions, the legal system and occupational forms of mobilization, Frank Dobbin has revitalized and challenged accepted ideas about the role of public players in regulating behavior. He has also shown that legal uncertainty in civil rights cases has led to the formation of corporate standards that, though private, have the value of public ones. ; L'ouvrage publié par Frank Dobbin aux Presses de l'université de Princeton en 2009 sous le titre Inventing equal opportunities offre une contribution innovante et stimulante sur les thèmes de la diversité et de l'égalité des chances aux États-Unis mais aussi sur ce qu'il nous permet de comprendre en creux sur le cas français. Pour rendre pleinement compte de la richesse de cet ouvrage, nous avons choisi de solliciter des auteurs s'inscrivant dans différentes perspectives disciplinaires car Frank Dobbin mêle analyse des mouvements sociaux, de l'action publique, du système juridique et des mobilisations professionnelles.

The authors provide an encompassing eight-point characterization of regimes designed to cover all cases of this complex multicriteria concept, arguing that not all eight characteristics need be present for a regime to exist but that the larger the subset, the more a governing coalition constitutes a regime. The regime concept is then applied to six London boroughs during the early to mid-1990s. They demonstrate the utility and limits of the regime concept in identifying and explaining the politics of these boroughs at this time, suggesting that three of the cases constitute different types of regimes, and the other three constitute failed regimes.

1 Perspectives 1. - Part I DISCIPLINES 21. - 2 Anthropology 23. - 3 Economics 41. - 4 Gender Studies 56. - 5 History 70. - 6 International Political Economy 84. - 7 Law 100. - 8 Sociology 115. - Part II AREAS 135. - 9 Africa 137. - 10 Central and eastern Europe 153. - 11 East Asia 169. - 12 The European Union 188. - 13 Latin America 201. - 14 South Asia 216. - 15 The United States 231. - 16 Conclusion 247

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: The Challenge of Carl Schmitt -- 1. What Is the State of Exception? -- 2. Negotiating the Rule of Law: Dilemmas of Security and Liberty Revisited -- 3. Beyond the Exception -- Part Two: The American Experience with Emergency Powers -- 4. The American Law of Overruling Necessity: The Exceptional Origins of State Police Power -- 5. To Save the Country: Reason and Necessity in Constitutional Emergencies -- 6. Powers of War in Times of Peace: Emergency Powers in the United States after the End of the Civil War -- 7. Was There an American Concept of Emergency Powers? John Dewey, Carl Schmitt, and the Democratic Politics of Exception -- 8. Charles Merriam and the Search for Democratic Power After Sovereignty -- 9. Constitutional Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century American Political Thought -- Part Three: Broadening the Exception -- 10. Frederick Douglass and Constitutional Emergency: An Homage to the Political Creativity of Abolitionist Activism -- 11. Delegated Governance as a Structure of Exceptions -- 12. Spaces of Exception in American History -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index

The New Labour government elected in May 1997 claimed that it would modernise the welfare state, by rejecting the solutions of both the Old Left and the New Right. New Labour, new welfare state? provides the first comprehensive examination of the social policy of New Labour; compares and contrasts current policy areas with both the Old Left and the New Right and applies the concept of the 'third way' to individual policy areas and to broader themes which cut across policy areas. The contributors provide a comprehensive account of developments in the main policy areas and in the themes of citizenship and accountability, placing these within a wider framework of the 'third way'. They find a complex picture. Although the exact shape of the new welfare state is difficult to detect, it is clear that there have been major changes in areas such as citizenship, the mixed economy of welfare, the centrality of work in an active welfare state, and the appearance of new elements such as joined up government at the centre and new partnerships of governance at the periphery. New Labour, new welfare state? provides topical information on the debate on the future of the welfare state and is essential reading for students and researchers in social policy, politics and sociology