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This article characterizes the political and coalitional system in the Belgian federal governments. It underlines the ways governmental coalitions function and their impact on public policies' conception and implementation as well as on the law-making process. Based on a veto players analysis (which refers to the institutional and partisan actors whose agreement is required to change a policy), it also considers the institutionalization of the political practices facilitating the reaching of an agreement. The rules of the political game, which have been progressively formalized by actors, do not only influence the capacity to implement reforms, but above all the choice of the procedures mobilised and the selection among diverse alternatives. In Belgium, those rules reveal the tensions between coalitional constraints and compromises necessary to overcome the disagreements between parties and linguistic groups. Adapted from the source document.

Etude de la politique economique mexicaine a la fin de la presidence de Miguel de la Madrid, telle qu'elle s'est exprimee a travers le "pacte de solidarite economique", et de comment se presentent les options ouvertes au nouveau gouvernement, apres les elections de 1988: recul de l'inflation et nouvelle politique de change; austerite et assainissement budgetaires; gestion de la dette exterieure et priorite a l'investissement etranger

IN MULTINATIONAL STATES, THERE ARE OFTEN SPECIFIC DEMANDS FOR AUTONOMY. THESE ARE DIFFICULT TO RECONCILE WITH UNIFORM THEORIES OF THE STATE, YET PROPOSALS FOR ASYMMETRICAL GOVERNMENT AROUSE CONSIDERABLE OPPOSITION. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE STATE AND THE EMERGING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TERRITORY AND POWER ARE SUCH THAT ASYMMETRY IS BECOMING A MORE IMPORTANT FEATURE OF THE MULTINATIONAL STATE. THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST ASYMMETRY ARE ANALYZED.

The book traces the origin of Quentin Deluermoz and consolidation of a figure of the Parisian public space: the policeman, became in the 1880s, peace keeper. As emphasized by the beautiful preface by D. Kalifa, this monograph describes both the structuring of a new professional world, contributing in this direction has the history of police crafts, and its integration in the Parisian social and urban order wider participant historiography of urban spaces. The main thesis is relatively simple: although the movement has been struck and nonlinear, we attended the progressive incorporation of uniformed police in the Parisian space. Adapted from the source document.