Sections: Cancer control · Health policy · Health inequalities · Intellectual property · Miscellaneous
For a full list of papers, please refer to my HAL-SHS records and to my current CV.
For the conference panel I co-organised with Thibault Bossy, please refer to the Contemporary Biopolitics page.
Cancer control
- Le cancer en plans. L'État et la lutte contre le cancer en France et en Angleterre, années 1990–2000
- PhD dissertation (in progress), Institute of Political Studies, University of Grenoble, exp. 2011.
- Quand la biopolitique change les politiques : survie au cancer et réforme du système de santé en Angleterre
- Paper presented at the 11th Meeting of the French Political Science Association, September 2011.
Additional material: paper, replication data and code.
- La mise en plan de l'action publique : planification et instrumentation des politiques de santé publique
- Paper presented at the “Policy Instruments: A Theoretical Discussion” conference, Sciences Po, January 2011.
Link to abstract only, first version of paper available on request.
- The Europeanization of Health System Performance. The EUROCARE study and Cancer Control in England
- Presented at the Council for European Studies (CES) 17th International Conference, Montreal, 15-17 April 2010.
An updated version was presented at the 8th ESPANET Annual Conference, Budapest, 2-4 September 2010.
- Institutionnalisation et médiatisation d'une prise de parole collective chez les malades atteints de cancer : les ‘États généraux’ de la Ligue nationale contre le cancer
- Co-authored with Sandrine Knobé; published in Hélène Romeyer (ed.), La santé dans l'espace public, Presses de l'EHESP, 2010.
- Review of M. Klawiter, The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism, 2008
- Published in Sociology of Health & Illness, 32, 2010.
- Review of K. Kedrowski and M. Sarow, Cancer Activism. Gender, Media, and Public Policy, 2007
- Published in Sociology of Health & Illness, 31, 2009.
Discussion: the review has been followed by a debate at the SHI forums.
- The Principles and Politics of Cancer Care in England
- Paper presented at the ESPANET Annual Conference, Helsinki, September 2008.
- More evidence on NHS targets and patient choice; Targets and cancer in the Conservative Party Health Green Paper; The Cancer Reform Strategy and UK government publications in cancer control, 1995-2006
- Documentary reviews, Intute Social Sciences Blog, 2007-2008.
- Governing the Cancer Care State. Cancer Control and Contemporary Health Policy in England and France
- MSc by Research in Social Policy dissertation, Department of Social Policy, University of Edinburgh, September 2007.
Here's a Wordle of my research on cancer control policy-making.
Health policy
- A Case of Weak Architecture: The French Ministry of Health
- Published in Social Policy & Administration, 44, 2010.
- Making European Health Policy in France
- Co-authored with Scott Greer; published in his book, Making European Health Policy in Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom, Open University Press, 2009.
- Review of A. Hann (ed.), Health Policy and Politics, 2007
- Published in Medical Sociology Online, 4, 2009.
I also have a course on health care and public health in Western democracies.
Health inequalities
- L'histoire politique des inégalités de santé en France et en Angleterre
- Published in Chantiers politiques, 7, 2009.
- Review of V. Navarro (ed.), Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities, 2007
- Published in the Journal of European Social Policy, 19, 2009.
- Research and Political Contexts of Acknowledgement for Social Inequalities in Health
- Letter published online by the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2008.
- Review of E. Dowler, N. Spencer (eds), Challenging Health Inequalities. From Acheson to ‘Choosing Health’, 2007
- Published in Medical Sociology Online, 3, 2008.
- Réduire les inégalités de santé en France et en Grande-Bretagne. Éléments d'analyse comparée
- MSc by Research in Political Science dissertation, Institute of Political Studies, University of Grenoble, June 2006.
- Un exemple de déphasage entre activité gouvernementale et activité de recherche. Le rapport Black et la recherche sur les inégalités de santé
- Paper presented at the C2SO/CRICS seminar “Engagements, déplacements, résistances dans les pratiques de recherche au quotidien”, École Normale Supérieure - Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, May 2006.
I also have a course on health inequalities.
Intellectual property
- Online Mobilization and Intellectual Property Rights Lawmaking in France and the European Union
- Paper co-presented with Yana Breindl at the
Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: An Impact Assessment
conference, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, September 2010.
Slides: presentation, additional network analysis.
- Activisme sur Internet et discours stratégiques autour de la propriété intellectuelle
- Co-authored with Yana Breindl; published in Terminal, 103–104, 2009.
- Parliamentary Controversy Expansion over Digital Rights Management in France
- Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Rennes, February 2008.
Data
Disclosure of interest: although not an activist myself, I have signed two petitions launched by interest groups that opposed the DADVSI and HADOPI bills. My opinion on whether the bills constitute appropriate legislation has no influence whatsoever on my research question, methodology or findings.
Miscellaneous
- Review of J. Thompson, Merchants of Culture. The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century, 2010
- Presented at the
Figures médiatiques de la représentation
seminar, Paris, 25 March 2011.
- Review of J. Moses and T. Knutsen, Ways of Knowing. Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research, 2007
- Published in the Graduate Journal of Social Science, 2010.
- La comparaison pair-à-pair dans l'univers des cadres interprétatifs de l'analyse politique comparée.
- Paper presented at the workshop
Écrire la comparaison
, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, June 2010.
See also Sidney Tarrow's original paper on paired comparison in Comparative Political Studies, 2010, which I discuss and expand in my own. A short version of Tarrow's strategy also appeared in the APSA-CP newsletter, Summer 1999.
- Quelle réforme du système de santé aux États-Unis ?
- Published in, and commissioned by, Le Mensuel de l'Université, April 2009; paper, without illustration.
See also Jacob Hacker's full paper in Politics & Society, 2009, and my radio interview with France Info on March 22, 2010 for later coverage on the anticipated effects of the final bill.
- L'élection du 4 novembre 2008 et la marge de manœuvre du nouveau président américain
- Published in Pouvoirs, 128, 2009.
See also Étienne Ollion's co-authored paper, Et Obama conquit l'Amérique
, in Mouvements, 2008, Sven Steinmo's paper Will Barack Obama Change America?
, and Lexington's piece, Leading the lawmakers
, in The Economist, 2009.
Data: Exit polls (CNN, New York Times, 2008).
- Review of D. Della Porta and M. Keating, Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences. A Pluralist Perspective, 2008
- Published in the Graduate Journal of Social Science, 2008.
- Comparaison inter-classements des revues en sociologie-demographie et en science politique
- Published in Bulletin de méthodologie sociologique, 100, 2008.
Data: Classements pour la science politique ; Effectifs par rangs.
- Un stigmate épistémologique. Le relativisme dans le strong programme de David Bloor, followed by Entretien avec David Bloor
- Article and interview published in Tracés, 12, 2007.
