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From a series of investigations between 2006 and 2008 in the 16th district of Paris, this article is interested in the political behavior of fractions of upper classes characterized by the importance of the economic capital, the status of independent and Practice of religion. This is in particular to test the hypothesis of a strong politicization of that bourgeoisie, founded on a high degree of political sophistication. The results of these surveys show that this hypothesis deserves to be nuanced. First, because the jurisdiction that is postulated for these voters is often much lower in practice they do not claim it in theory. Then, because of the distance to possess extraordinary abilities, they reason, like the others, using shortcuts and simplifications. Avoiding political debate rather they seek, they reveal particularly sensitive to the collective logic that are the principle of the production of opinions, for them and for others. Adapted from the source document.

From the nation to the region.
The National Front in Alsace and the resurgence of the demand for regionalism.
The success enjoyed by the National Front party is commonly analysed as an expression of regional specificity, reflecting the strength of tradition and the resulting withdrawal into one's identity. During the last few elections, the support in favour of the far right afforded by the spokespersons of the regionalist movement in Alsace would seem to underline this hypothesis. Looking back to the resurgence of the far right in the 1980s leads us nonetheless to temper this analysis considerably. Indeed, the rise of the National Front is less a question of regionalism in Alsace than the success of Jean-Marie Le Pen's party, and this has contributed to the revival in political terms of a demand for regionalism. In particular, it is in the context of internal struggles on both a political and social scale punctuating the institutionalisation of the far right in Alsace, that this resurgence of a demand to acknowledge the Alsatian identity must be understood. Thus, rather than demonstrating the weight of a specific «tradition» in Alsace, it stresses the power games which generally underlie political competition.

The interactionist sociological idea of the "militant career" provides a sequential model of commitment analysis that allows the phenomenon of militant commitment to be understood. Participants' involvement in the French Ligue des droits de l'homme (League of Human Rights) is analyzed in light of the past militant itineraries of these participants, & a biographical reconstruction of this involvement demonstrates that many of the militants pursue militant careers because they permit collective action that is free from the limits of the constraints associated with more traditional party organizations. Focus is placed on how the past experiences of these militants help shape their current choices & their understanding of their own actions. 1 Appendix. Adapted from the source document.

Seit Anfang der 80er Jahre beobachten Journalisten und Politologen der politischen Beteiligungsformen. Die sinkende Wahlbeteiligung, die wachsende Anzahl der Protestwählerstimmen (ins-besondere zu Gunsten der rechtsradikalen Partei ; Front National), das steigend wechselhafte Wählerverhalten verbunden mit einem häufigen Regierungswechsel und die Erscheinung von neuen "postmaterialistisch" genannten sozialen Bewegungen werden als Aus-druck einer Krise des klassischen Modells des Homo politicus gewertet. Allgemein Erklärungen zufolge würden diese neuen politischen Beteiligungsformen auf neuen vom Individualismus geprägten Bürgerverhaltensweisen, auf der Ablehnung eines stabilen Engagements sowie auf einer kritischen Einstellung hinsichtlich des politischen Systems beruhen. Jedoch lädt die Analyse der empirischen Angaben zu den gegenwärtigen politischen Verhaltens-weisen dazu ein, die vorhergehenden Feststellungen zu nuancieren. Reale Entwicklungen, welche die langfristigen Veränderungen der gegenwärtigen Gesellschaft widerspiegelt, sind zwar bemerkbar, aber es scheint übertrieben, von "Umwälzung" ja von "Krise des Politischen" zu sprechen. Wenn es wirklich eine Krise gibt, wäre sie eher bei den klassischen soziologischen Erklärungsmodelle des Politischen.

The opening of a cycle of transnational protest against globalization has been a major political phenomenon since the 1990s and it is indeed a very complex subject to analyse. Being a multi-organizational field –horizontal, decentralized and ideologically multiple–, transnational activism first raises questions of method. As it is shown in this paper by a genealogical approach focusing upon national contexts, anti-globalization movements offer a global frame as well as new resources and possibilities to longstanding political organizations. Then, the question of what builds the unity of such multileveled dynamics of contest is here examined through two collective inquiries based on the method of the Individual Survey in Rallies. During the counter-G8 summit which took place in June 2003 in France near the Swiss border, and the second European Social Forum held in Paris and the suburbs six months later, more than 2.000 European militants answered the questionnaires that were submitted to them each time. It appears that no-global militants have in common a large "cultural capital", a stable job, relatively high social origins, and an international socialization. Beyond this unity, the statistical approach reveals how they are characterized by subtle sociographical, organizational and ideological differences. It also brings to the fore that the type of protest event –from the confrontative form of the counter-summit to the more intellectual form of the Social Forum- partly defines the categories of militants who mobilize. ; Un ciclo transnacional de protesta contra la mundialización neoliberal se desarrolla desde los años noventa. Se trata de un fenómeno político trascendente cuyo análisis es complejo. Como campo multiorganizacional, horizontal, descentralizado e ideológicamente plural, el activismo transnacional levanta especialmente preguntas de método. Partiendo de un enfoque genealógico centrado en los contextos nacionales, este artículo muestra, por una parte, que el altermundialismo es un espacio de ...