Sciences Po CSO/CNRS CNRS

Les programmes de recherche du CSO

Over the last several years, the laboratory has been committed to a thorough restructuring into distinct research programs. Research at the CSO now falls into seven different programs, and the first five are priorities for the coming years while the latter will be progressively closed: Risk Management; New Forms of Economic Governance; Higher Education and Research; Healthcare Policy and the Rationalization of Medical Practice; Transformation of the State, Regions and New Regulations; Artists, Institutions, and Cultural Policy; Law and Social Regulation.
One of the laboratory’s primary objectives for the coming years, above and beyond the respective goals of each individual program, is to maintain a collaborative environment and promote reflections crosscutting all the different programs. The desired effect of this is to capitalize on different research activities in order to reevaluate large institutions such as the State, markets, professions, and organizations, and to collectively contribute to the sociology of organizations, economic sociology, and the sociology of public action.



New Forms of Economic Governance
   Network firms
 Firm management and overseeing change
 Markets and sustainable development
 Sociological analysis of markets

Higher education and research
   Governing universities and research institutions
 Europeanization of higher education systems
 Academic work and careers
 New forms of governance for higher education and research policies

Healthcare Policy and the Rationalization of Medical Practice
   Healthcare policy
 Rationalization of the healthcare system
 Management of healthcare issues

Transformation of the State and territories
   Regional transfers and governance
 Regional social and economic dynamics and the knowledge economy
 The transformation of public action
 Le travail des élus locaux

Risk governance
   Science and expertise
 Social movements and the State
 Crisis management and risk prevention

Artists, Institutions, and Cultural Policy
   Training and employment in art worlds
 Art market regulation and the emergence of an art world
 Patrimony: changes in museums and cultural policies
 Perspectives on the intellectual world

Law and Social Regulation
   The legal system and the police force confronted with new imperatives
 Social and family mediation