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Preeminent health policy experts in the US. This article analyzes the policy experts that have been the most consulted by US policymakers on health care reforms since the 1970s. It shows that since then, these actors, despite being attached to various non-governmental organizations, have represented a recruiting ground of advisors and appointees from which US policymakers can choose. The article argues that this specific system of expertise, coined “peri-administration”, is in the US political system a resource in many aspects similar to European high civil service. Highlighting it meets the recent efforts to reconceptualize the US government by taking into account actors located outside of federal institutions.

The “return of the state” and new authority relations in Russia
Since Vladimir Putin arrived in office in 2000, how has the Russian central government been regaining footing in strategic sectors which largely run out of its control after the collapse of the USSR ? This article shows that, thanks to the oil rent resources, Central authorities try to cope with the legacy of social relations which de facto marginalised them in the 1990s. Yet, the main point is the way they impose themselves as dominant actors through the so called “power vertical”. The article strives to understand, by focusing on the field of higher education, how new authority relations and modes of control and influence are established by this political regime.

Police killings and riots
This article highlights the role of naturalized and binding “typified trigger signs” used by actors to coordinate before the outbreak of a collective action. A history of police killings' becoming a riot trigger in the suburbs of Lyon offers a better comprehension of rioters' calculations, putting aside their various motivations. In the early 1980s, riots were not “natural” reactions to police killings. They progressively occurred when certain conditions were met (good weather, weekend...). However, the repetition of the “police killing-riot” scenario in this area and the construction of a collective memory institutionalized the sign so that in the 1990s, each police killing led to relatively coordinated riots.

Which meaning of european integration?
The deep crisis currently affecting the EU leads to a reflection on the very meaning of European integration, and in particular on the sense of belonging to that organization. Based on the approach of Karl Deutsch security communities this contribution is twofold : firstly we aim at operationalizing the concept of sense of community proposed by Deutsch so that we can analyze the European feeling ; we then propose a typology of the sense of community by group of countries. From a methodological standpoint, the study was conducted through the methods and techniques provided by multiple correspondence analysis. The above studies rely on survey data from Eurobarometer wave 83.1 of March 2015 which has been conducted on a population of 17 390 people in the 28 states EU Member States.