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FRONT NATIONAL SUPPORTERS, NORTH AND SOUTH. A SOCIO-GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LE PEN ELECTORATE IN 2017. Using a multi-scale and multi-method approach, this article explores the idea of a geographically dual Front National (FN) electorate. This duality does not refer solely to differing sociological characteristics in the northern and southern regions of France, but also to peri-urban zones throughout the country that express support for the FN despite being radically different in composition and demographics. This article highlights that while per-iurban zones are largely favourable to the FN, they are far from forming a homogeneous entity. The reasons for voting for the FN in these various spaces can be radically different, and at times even contradictory.

NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. EXAMINING THE LOCALISED STRUCTURE OF 1968s POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT IN SWITZERLAND. With a view to revisiting the concept of how « new social movements » and new cleavages subsequently emerge, this article looks at the relationships that political organisations and social movements develop and maintain with each other. From a localised perspective and using multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), this article compares how activist communities in the 1968s were structured in the Swiss cities of Geneva and Zurich respectively. The events of 1968 and their wake brought a widespread increase in political involvement, including movements that condemned many forms of non-economic domination. But the two cities saw different activists and different organisations at work. This analysis reveals how the same doctrinal labels, though claimed by movements in both cities, did not necessarily correspond to identical or even similar militant objectives.

MAKING NATURE COUNT. BACK TO THE « ENVIRONMENTAL TURNING POINT » OF THE SYSTEM OF NATIONAL ACCOUNTS (1980S TO THE PRESENT DAY)This article examines the work undertaken by international organisations over the past several decades to mainstream the environment into national agendas. At the crossroads of multiple controversies regarding how to measure well-being and adapt to economic globalisation/regionalisation, sustainability (and its environmental stakes) is arguably the most complex challenge faced by the United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA) today. The question nevertheless arises whether trying to mainstream the values of sustainability into national agendas should be accompanied by a new breed of statistics, which would assign a greater importance to the protection of nature and concomitant attempts to go beyond a predatory and inegalitarian capitalist model.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH CORRUPTION (IN DEMOCRACIES) ? A CONTRACTUALIST APPROACH. Contemporary approaches to political corruption have largely dispatched with moral theories, instead conceiving of corruption as an ill of a strictly political nature. Institutional analysis condemns it for its attack on our institutions, which are left unable to perform their primary functions, whereas relational analysis denounces the relational injustice of which corrupt public officials are guilty. I shall examine these two approaches, supplementing them with a contractualist perspective, according to which political corruption is morally unjustifiable for the same reasons that manipulation and promise-breaking are. In other words, political corruption consists in the violation of the expectations public officials have led us to develop regarding how they intend to exercise the power associated with their office.