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The Chinese State at Work

About: Susan Greenhalgh, Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China, Harvard University Press.

by Christopher Kutarna [09-02-2012]
Foreign opposition to the Chinese one-child policy build up in 1980s, put forth by American conservatives looking for an anti-abortion cause célèbre. But looking at this most famous of Chinese (...)
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The Fall of the House of Obama?

Can Obama still defend an agenda for prosperity?

by Pauline Peretz [30-12-2011]
Is there still room for hope at the White House?
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Liberty, Equality, or Fraternity between the Generations?

About: A. Masson, Des liens et des transferts entre les générations, Editions de l’EHESS.

by Cécile Van de Velde [23-03-2011]
Liberty, equality, or fraternity between the generations — how should we think about “fair” transfers from one generation to the next? In a meticulous and bold essay, André Masson demonstrates that (...)
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Challenging Family Rhythms

About: L. Lesnard, La famille désarticulée. Les nouvelles contraintes de l’emploi du temps, PUF.

by Christophe Giraud [29-12-2010]
Transformations of work disrupt family time. Relying on a rigorous statistical approach, Laurent Lesnard draws attention to the consequences produced in family life by the turmoil of atypical (...)
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In the Best Interest of the Child

LGBT parents and same-sex parenting in the United States

by Jennifer Merchant [22-11-2010]
Are the arguments regarding ’the interest of the child’ given by opponents of same-sex parenting founded? Recent studies in the United States compare the academic achievement, personal development (...)
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The family is priceless

An introduction to the work of Viviana Zelizer

by Jeanne Lazarus [26-11-2009]
Exploring the relationships between the economy and the family through the issue of financial compensation for the death of a child or decisions relating to food allowance, the work of Viviana (...)
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Which direction for the welfare state?

by Isaac William Martin [06-03-2009]
Isaac Martin gives us an account of the American welfare state, at a time when the current economic crisis seems to pave the way for a new New Deal. According to him, however, it is unlikely that (...)
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