Le Coq et les revues dada

En 1920, Cocteau et Radiguet éditent une revue intitulée Le Coq, qui se présente comme un dépassement de Dada, et qui aboutit à la création d’une « ligue antimoderne ». Pourtant, Dada est plusieurs fois cité dans la revue, qui reprend aussi les caractéristiques typographiques de revues dada. Mais il apparaît que Le Coq n’a pas saisi la «propagande» dada, qui n’utilise les moyens de la publicité que pour s’en abstraire.

Direct democracy and political trust: Enhancing trust, initiating distrust–or both?

This study investigates the relationship between direct democracy and political trust. We suggest a solution to the controversy in research centering on positive versus negative effects of direct democracy by analytically differentiating between the availability of direct democratic rights and the actual use of those rights. Theoretically, greater availability of direct democratic rights may enhance political trust by increasing citizens’ perception that political authorities can be controlled as well as by incentivizing political authorities to act trustworthily. In contrast, the actual use of the corresponding direct democratic instruments may initiate distrust as it signals to citizens that political authorities do not act in the public’s interest. We test both hypotheses for the very first time with sub-national data of Switzerland. The empirical results seem to support our theoretical arguments.

High prevalence but limited evidence in complementary and alternative medicine: guidelines for future research

The use of complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM) has increased over the past two decades in Europe. Nonetheless, research investigating the evidence to support its use remains limited. The CAMbrella project funded by the European Commission aimed to develop a strategic research agenda starting by systematically evaluating the state of CAM in the EU. CAMbrella involved 9 work packages covering issues such as the definition of CAM; its legal status, provision and use in the EU; and a synthesis of international research perspectives. Based on the work package reports, we developed a strategic and methodologically robust research roadmap based on expert workshops, a systematic Delphi-based process and a final consensus conference. The CAMbrella project suggests six core areas for research to examine the potential contribution of CAM to the health care challenges faced by the EU. These areas include evaluating the prevalence of CAM use in Europe; the EU cititzens’ needs and attitudes regarding CAM; the safety of CAM; the comparative effectiveness of CAM; the effects of meaning and context on CAM outcomes; and different models for integrating CAM into existing health care systems. CAM research should use methods generally accepted in the evaluation of health services, including comparative effectiveness studies and mixed-methods designs. A research strategy is urgently needed, ideally led by a European CAM coordinating research office dedicated to fostering systematic communication between EU governments, the public, charitable and industry funders, researchers and other stakeholders. A European Centre for CAM should also be established to monitor and further a coordinated research strategy with sufficient funds to commission and promote high quality, independent research focusing on the public’s health needs and pan-European collaboration. There is a disparity between highly prevalent use of CAM in Europe and solid knowledge about it. A strategic approach on CAM research should be established to investigate the identified gaps of knowledge and to address upcoming health care challenges.

Catching Reality or Bowing Disciplines: How to Move the Study of Citizenship

In his contribution, Joppke justifies his selection of foundational scholars by linking each to what he sees as the three key facets of citizenship: status, rights and identity. Maarten Vink explicitly links his research agenda to the first, status, and outlines why it is so important. In identifying three facets of citizenship, Joppke acknowledges that some academics would include political participation, but he ultimately decides against it. But here we can, and should, broaden citizenship studies by bringing in insights from the behavioral politics tradition in domestic politics - when and why people engage in political acts - and from the social movements literature in sociology. I believe that the American debate on immigration reform, admittedly stalled, would not have advanced as far as it has without the social movement activism of DREAMers - unauthorized young people pushing for a path to citizenship - and the belief that Barack Obama won re-election in part because of the Latino vote. Importantly, one type of political activism demands formal citizenship, the other does not. As many contributors note, the “national models” approach has had a significant impact on citizenship studies. Whether one views such models through a cultural, institutional or historical lens, this tends to be a top-down, macro-level framework. What about immigrants’ agency? In Canada, although the ruling Conservative government is shifting citizenship discourse to a more traditional language - as Winter points out - it has not reduced immigration, ended dual citizenship, or eliminated multiculturalism, all goals of the Reform Party that the current prime minister once helped build. “Lock-in” effects (or policy feedback loops) based on high immigrant naturalization and the coming of age of a second-generation with citizenship also d emands study, in North America and elsewhere. Much of the research thus far suggests that political decisions over citizenship status and rights do not seem linked to immigrants’ political activism. State-centered decision-making may have characterized policy in the early post-World War II period in Europe (and East Asia?), but does it continue to hold today? Majority publics and immigrant-origin residents are increasingly politicized around citizenship and immigration. Does immigrant agency extend citizenship status, rights and identity to those born outside the polity? Is electoral power key, or is protest necessary? How is citizenship practiced, and contested, irrespective of formal status? These are important and understudied empirical questions, ones that demand theoretical creativity - across sub-fields and disciplines - in conceptualizing and understanding citizenship in contemporary times.

Die Schweiz anderswo - La Suisse ailleurs

Kurztext Gegenwärtig leben über 732 000 Schweizer Bürgerinnen und Bürger im Ausland, mehr als jede zehnte Person mit Schweizer Pass. Die Beiträge gehen den Fragen nach, inwiefern die erst seit dem 20. Jahrhundert so bezeichneten «Auslandschweizer» als wirtschaftliche «Brückenköpfe» dienten, inwiefern ihre kommunikativen Netzwerke kulturelle Transfers bewirkten und Formen des Wissensaustausches begünstigten oder welchen Beitrag umgekehrt die (ehemaligen) Auslandschweizerinnen und Auslandschweizer zu Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Sozialpolitik und Kultur in der Schweiz leisteten. Sie befassen sich aber auch mit der historischen Konstruktion der Bevölkerung als einer neuen politischen Kategorie. Nicht nur für die Neuzeit ist zu fragen, mit welchen Politiken und Massnahmen Obrigkeit, Behörden, Staat und Verwaltung die eigene Population konstituierten und festigten und sie je nachdem über die bestehenden (nationalstaatlichen) Grenzen hinweg ausdehnten. Plus de 732 000 citoyennes et citoyens suisses vivent actuellement à l’étranger, soit plus d’une personne sur dix titulaires du passeport helvétique. Les contributions rassemblées interrogent dans quelle mesure les «Suisses de l’étranger» – désignés ainsi à partir du 20e siècle seulement – ont servi de relais pour le commerce extérieur, ainsi que dans quelle mesure leurs réseaux de communication ont contribué aux transferts culturels et favorisé des formes d’échange du savoir ou, à l’inverse, quels sont les apports des (anciens) Suisses de l’étranger dans les domaines de l’économie, de la science, de la politique sociale et de la culture lors de leur retour en Suisse. Les contributions portent également sur la construction historique de la population en tant que nouvelle catégorie politique. La question de savoir à travers quelles politiques et mesures l’autorité, les pouvoirs publics, l’Etat et l’administration ont constitué et consolidé leur propre population et, suivant les cas, l’ont étendu au-delà des frontières (nationales) existantes concerne autant l’époque contemporaine que les périodes antérieures.