In this path-breaking book, the author argues that European countries' political-economic
policies, practices, and discourses have changed profoundly in response to globalization …

Democracy in Europe is about the impact of European integration on national democracies.
It argues that the oft-cited democratic deficit is indeed a problem, but not so much at the level …

In the reform of the welfare state, countries' experiences depend not only on their
economics, institutions, and policy responses but also on politics, that is, on governments' …

Do legitimating discourses matter for a country's successful adjustment to economic policy
change? Or can adjustment more simply be explained by the interplay of economic and …

Until relatively recently, French élites seemed to have found a winning combination for the
communicative discourses through which they legitimated European integration and …

Le «cadre logique» est une technique de rationalisation de l'action publique centrée sur la
planification par objectifs, devenue omniprésente dans les institutions de développement. Il …

In this paper, after reconstructing some essential phases in the evolution of automatic
analysis of texts, the steps of an—ideal “strategy for the statistical analysis of textual data are …

Statisticians are accustomed to processing numerical, ordinal or nominal data. In many
circumstances, such as socio‐economic, epidemiologic sample surveys and documentary …

Afin de capter l'opinion, la parole politique a recours à diverses stratégies de communication
dont la répétition est l'un des outils rhétoriques. La lexicométrie vise à analyser ces discours …

The traditional televised debate remains a decisive event in the French presidential
elections. This study aims to examine the ways in which French presidential candidates in …