Bøger af Pierre Rosanvallon

How social and intellectual changes undermine our justifications for the welfare state The welfare state has come under severe pressure internationally, partly for the well-known reasons of slowing economic growth and declining confidence in the public sector. According to the influential social theorist Pierre Rosanvallon, however, there is also a deeper and less familiar reason for the crisis of the welfare state. He shows here that a fundamental practical and philosophical justification for traditional welfare policies—that all citizens share equal risks—has been undermined by social and intellectual change. If we wish to achieve the goals of social solidarity and civic equality for which the welfare state was founded, Rosanvallon argues, we must radically rethink social programs.Rosanvallon begins by tracing the history of the welfare state and its founding premise that risks, especially the risks of illness and unemployment, are equally distributed and unpredictable. He shows that this idea has become untenable because of economic diversification and advances in statistical and risk analysis. It is truer than ever before—and far more susceptible to analysis—that some individuals will face much greater risks than others because of their jobs and lifestyle choices. Rosanvallon argues that social policies must be more narrowly targeted. And he draws on evidence from around the world, in particular France and the United States, to show that such programs as unemployment insurance and workfare could better reflect individual needs by, for example, making more explicit use of contracts between the providers and receivers of benefits. His arguments have broad implications for welfare programs everywhere and for our understanding of citizenship in modern democracies and economies.

Ny bog af den franske historiker og demokratiforsker Pierre Rosanvallon. Populismens århundrede er det første bud på en sammenhængende teori om og kritik af populismen som politisk projekt. I bogen undersøger Rosanvallon populismens elementer, trækker de historiske linjer op og sætter det hele på politiske begreber. Populismen har fuldstændig forandret det 21. århundredes politik. Alligevel har vi endnu ikke forstået populismen og de omvæltninger, den fører med sig. Vil man forstå populismen i alle dens facetter, og hvordan den tegner det politiske landkort op på ny, skal man forstå den som en politisk kultur. Populismens Århundrede indgår i Informations Forlags serie Europæiske Ideer. Bøgerne i serien er aktuelle og skelsættende bøger fra toneangivende europæiske intellektuelle og forfattere om, hvor Europa står i dag – og hvor vi skal hen.Pierre Rosanvallon (f. 1948) er fransk historiker og sociolog og har været professor ved Collège de France siden 2001. Hans bøger er oversat til 22 sprog og udgivet i 26 lande. Med "Populismens århundrede" udkommer han for første gang i dansk oversættelse. ANMELDELSER: ”Den bedste bog om populismen, jeg har læst. ” – Rune Lykkeberg"Kommunismens havde Marx, liberalismen havde Tocqueville. Men populismen har ikke haft sin store teoretiker. I hvert fald ikke før Pierre Rosanvallon" - Politiken

Faced with government's ineptitude, people are attracted to strong leaders and bold action. As Pierre Rosanvallon demonstrates, "presidentialism" may reflect the particular concerns of today, but its many precursors show that democracy has always struggled with tension between popular government and concentrated authority.

Arguing that the French have cherished and demonized Jacobinism at the same time-their hearts following Robespierre, but their heads turning toward Benjamin Constant-Rosanvallon traces the long history of resistance to Jacobinism, including the creation of associations and unions and the implementation of elements of decentralization.

Society's wealthiest members claim an ever-expanding share of income and property--a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon, the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. Just as significant, driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of equality itself.

It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But in Democratic Legitimacy, Pierre Rosanvallon, one of today's leading political thinkers, argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. He makes the case that the sources of democratic legitimacy have shifted and multiplied over the past thirty years and that we need to comprehend and make better use of these new sources of legitimacy in order to strengthen our political self-belief and commitment to democracy. Drawing on examples from France and the United States, Rosanvallon notes that there has been a major expansion of independent commissions, NGOs, regulatory authorities, and watchdogs in recent decades. At the same time, constitutional courts have become more willing and able to challenge legislatures. These institutional developments, which serve the democratic values of impartiality and reflexivity, have been accompanied by a new attentiveness to what Rosanvallon calls the value of proximity, as governing structures have sought to find new spaces for minorities, the particular, and the local. To improve our democracies, we need to use these new sources of legitimacy more effectively and we need to incorporate them into our accounts of democratic government. An original contribution to the vigorous international debate about democratic authority and legitimacy, this promises to be one of Rosanvallon's most important books.