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En s'appuyant sur certains acquis de la sociologie des professions, notamment les travaux d'Eliot Freidson et Andrew Abbott, l'article analyse les limites du processus d'institutionnalisation de la représentation des gouvernements urbains en Europe, et les effets dynamisants de la structuration d'une politique régionale pour l'affirmation d'enjeux et de savoirs spécifiques au gouvernement urbain. Dans un deuxième temps, il montre que ce n'est donc pas par des modèles d'analyse topdown ou bottom up d'européanisation des politiques publiques que l'on peut comprendre l'affirmation des gouvernements urbains, mais par une attention plus soutenue aux relations transnationales et aux coopérations interprofessionnelles qui le caractérisent.

http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/jointsessions/paperarchive/granada.aspx ; The sociological study presented in this paper focuses on the role of local institutions in the structuration of international bonds of friendship. The role of cities as actors in the international relations' system has been questioned in the literature since the 60' (Boulding, 1968). In a more institutional perpspective, studies have also taken into account the importance of subnational entities in the definition of foreign policies, but mainly in federal States (Duchacek, 1986 ; Duchacek, Latouche, Stevenson, 1988, Hocking, 1993, Belanger, 1995, Phelippart, 1998). Yet, even when initiatives of municipalities have been studied for themselves (Hobbs, 1994), friendship initiatives have rarely been the main centre of interest (except Khalaf, 2002). The following paper will focus on the structuration of bonds of friendship at the local level, and stress the importance of institutional configurations in this process.

http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/jointsessions/paperarchive/granada.aspx ; The sociological study presented in this paper focuses on the role of local institutions in the structuration of international bonds of friendship. The role of cities as actors in the international relations' system has been questioned in the literature since the 60' (Boulding, 1968). In a more institutional perpspective, studies have also taken into account the importance of subnational entities in the definition of foreign policies, but mainly in federal States (Duchacek, 1986 ; Duchacek, Latouche, Stevenson, 1988, Hocking, 1993, Belanger, 1995, Phelippart, 1998). Yet, even when initiatives of municipalities have been studied for themselves (Hobbs, 1994), friendship initiatives have rarely been the main centre of interest (except Khalaf, 2002). The following paper will focus on the structuration of bonds of friendship at the local level, and stress the importance of institutional configurations in this process.

http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/jointsessions/paperarchive/granada.aspx ; The sociological study presented in this paper focuses on the role of local institutions in the structuration of international bonds of friendship. The role of cities as actors in the international relations' system has been questioned in the literature since the 60' (Boulding, 1968). In a more institutional perpspective, studies have also taken into account the importance of subnational entities in the definition of foreign policies, but mainly in federal States (Duchacek, 1986 ; Duchacek, Latouche, Stevenson, 1988, Hocking, 1993, Belanger, 1995, Phelippart, 1998). Yet, even when initiatives of municipalities have been studied for themselves (Hobbs, 1994), friendship initiatives have rarely been the main centre of interest (except Khalaf, 2002). The following paper will focus on the structuration of bonds of friendship at the local level, and stress the importance of institutional configurations in this process.

Town twinning can be seen as the first activity to involve municipal institutions as such in wide-ranging and long-term international action. Twinning fits Eric Hobsbawm's definition of an 'invented tradition'. The French federalists played a decisive part in this process of invention, bringing European municipalities together in order to ensure an eventual European political union. Before long, however, the so-called bilingualist movement also turned to twinning as a way to further a universal mutual understanding that transcended the East–West divide. This resulted in a big clash between the French twinning organisations. Thus, the invention of town twinning needs to be studied alongside the dynamic political tensions that emerged on the French political scene during the Cold War

International audience ; Development economics seems to rediscover the importance of domesticating violence as a condition of democratic empowerment. According to the theoretical framework developed by North, Wallis and Weingast (NWW), developing countries are defined as limited access orders that reduce the violence potential of powerful elite organizations through the manipulation of economic rents and the negotiation of more or less stable elite coalitions. NWW's framework must be credited for reintroducing social orders in economics' research agenda; allowing for different paths to development, and highlighting violence and conflict as a central force in societies. In this paper, we first go back to the discussion of two main challenges in NWW's theory and methodology. The first one is their pluralist understanding of open access societies. The second is the way they link micro-level behavior to macro-political changes. We show here that, though alternative strategies could be followed, the methodological problem underlined by critics is somehow inevitable. We then apply the alternative frameworks we designed to Thailand, which has been through what observers may call a " failed democratization process " in the last decades, in order to bring out the key challenges to build up analytical frameworks of failed processes. 2