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Political scientists make heavy use of census statistics but have given scant attention to the politics behind the production of those statistics. Key issues that merit analytic attention by political science include vote dilution, the policy of population growth and composition, distributional accuracy and census undercounts, the establishment of statistical races, the color-blind challenge to the ethnoracial classification, the political independence of federal statistics, the important distinction between the scientific production and the political use of the census and other statistical products, public concern about government intrusiveness, and the shift from survey and census data to administrative and digital data. Adapted from the source document.

Introduction / Mindie Lazarus-Black, Meera Deo, and Elizabeth Mertz -- Theory and Practice, Together at Last : A Heretical, Empirical Account of Canadian Legal Education / David Sandomierski -- Teaching International Lawyers How to Think, Speak, and Act like U.S. Lawyers : Notes on Inchoate Power and the Imperial Process / Mindie Lazarus-Black -- In the Law School Classroom : Hidden Messages in French Elite Training / -- Émilie Biland & Liora Israël -- Legal Training as Socialization to State Power: An Ethnography of Law Classes for French Senior Civil Servants / Rachel Vanneuville -- The Perennial (and Stubborn) Challenges of Affordability, Cost, and Access in Legal Education / Stephen Daniels -- Market Creep : "Product" Talk in Legal Education / Riaz Tejani -- Language, Culture, and the Culture of Language : International JD Students in the U.S. Law Schools / Swethaa Ballakrishnen & Carole Silver -- How the Law School Admission Process Marginalizes Black Aspiring Lawyers / Aaron Taylor -- The Culture of "raceXgender" Bias in Legal Academia / Meera E. Deo -- Canaries in the Mines of the U.S. Legal Academy / Elizabeth Mertz

Through an ethnographic account of the decision-making process of the World Social Forum (WSF) and its governance structures, specifically the International Council and the Local Organising Committee, the micro-politics of the alter-globalisation movements will be explored. Looking at the debates around whether the WSF should be an open arena or become an actor, the paradox of the "tyranny of structurelessness" will be presented. More accurately, this paper exposes the asymmetry between the values and the practices of the WSF process by analysing the role of "social movement entrepreneurs" and the complex constellations of conflicting interests. Theoretical claims of horizontal consensual and open decision-making are used to eliminate any democratic procedure, paving the way to highly unequal oppressive power relations that dominate the deliberative space of encounter between different movements. The paper questions the capacity of the World Social Forum to articulate alternatives to neoliberalism, and to present different and more democratic ways of doing politics. After having unmasked the oppressive power structures within a social movement claiming to fight against them, this paper advocates for moving beyond the WSF discursive dichotomy of "neoliberal/anti-neoliberal", and calls for a Gramscian resistance to the hegemonic neoliberal discourse played through direct transformative engagement with the institutions of our society. This paper offers a detailed view inside the black box of decision-making processes within social movements contributing to the academic as well as the activists' debate on their governance. This analysis is particularly relevant in the light of the global occupy and anti-austerity movements, which have been making similar claims to those of the WSF of being a leaderless initiative, without any political affiliation, and using consensual methodologies, thus facing some of the same shortcomings and challenges.

Based on the specificity of political science, which requires placing power as the central category of politics and the political system when analyzing various social phenomena and processes, the author of the article presents their vision of Russian identity in the past and present. The aim of the study is to determine the main stages of the formation of Russian identity and reveal its specific features, reflecting the specificity of state power and the political system of the country as a unique civilization model of human development. Research Methods: The nature of this work is based on the use of systemic, functional, value-oriented, historical, and some other methods of political analysis, representing a harmonious combination of their general scientific and specific fundamental directions. Research Findings. In the course of the analysis conducted, the author arrived at several conclusions. According to them, at the state level, Russian identity had a completely sovereign character in two cases. The first instance was related to Moscow's refusal to submit to the resolutions of the Florence Union Council, which preserved Russia as the only Orthodox state until Peter the Great. The second time our country became a civilization-state was in October 1917. The collapse of the Soviet Union positioned Russia as a peripheral element within the framework of the North Atlantic civilization and contributed to the establishment of a regime of "neo-Bonapartism" on its territory.

Who should provide food, and through what relationships? Whose livelihoods should be protected? For over 20 years the peasant farmers of La Via Campesina have been engaged in the fight against injustice, hunger and poverty under the banner of food sovereignty, 'the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems'. They campaign for healthy, sustainable alternatives to an industrial food system controlled by agribusiness companies and the architects of unfair trade agreements. This book draws on grounded case studies of agrarian movements in the Americas and Europe as exemplars of a 'power shift, ' as local opposition scales up to global action in an effort to wrest control of our food away from transnational corporations and back to communities.

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Editor's introduction -- Wittgenstein, Kuhn, and natural science : science : a perspicuous presentation -- Kuhn : the Wittgenstein of the sciences? -- Kuhn on incommensurability : inhabiting the standard reading -- Wittgenstein on incommensurability : the view from "inside" -- Values : another kind of incommensurability? -- Does Kuhn have a model of science? -- Inter-section : a schematic elicitation of Wittgensteinian criteria -- Wittgenstein, Winch, and "human science" : social science -- The ghost of Winch's ghost -- Psychiatry -- The hard case of (severe cases of) schizophrenia -- Extreme aversive emotions -- Economics -- Wittgenstein contra Friedman -- Cognitive science -- "Dissolving" the hard problem of consciousness back into ordinary life -- Conclusions -- Concluding summary -- Interview with Rupert Read (conducted by the editor) -- Bibliography -- Index

L'ouvrage rassemble des regards disciplinaires (historien, juridique, politologique, sociologique) sur l'européanisation, et les confronte afin d'en dégager les spécificités et points communs