Aderentes e militantes: a participação político-partidária na era do Partido Cartel.

O artigo analisa o estado da arte da literatura sobre as transformações nas formas de participação político-partidária produzida nas últimas décadas. Dois objetivos principais guiam nossa argumentação: (i) fornecer um panorama de referência que possa contribuir ao desenvolvimento de pesquisas sobre esta temática e (ii) atenuar a segmentação que caracteriza as distintas correntes analíticas. Revisando trabalhos publicados em revistas e livros anglo-saxões e franceses, comparamos suas problemáticas, as questões teóricas subjacentes, bem como os métodos de administração da prova utilizados. Destarte, identificamos a estruturação de dois campos de produção politológica que se comunicam pouco. De um lado, uma tradição “Political Science”, mainstream, cujos estudos privilegiam uma abordagem sistêmica e comparada, apoiando-se em uma demonstração fundamentalmente estatística. De outro lado, uma tradição “Sociologie Politique” desenvolvida na França e cuja perspectiva de análise é internacionalmente pouco conhecida. Influenciadas pelo paradigma interacionista, suas pesquisas empregam o método sócio-etnográfico e redirecionam o foco de análise aos níveis meso e micro social. Fazendo um balanço crítico das principais contribuições de ambas as vertentes, apontamos algumas tendências atuais observadas pelos especialistas. Insistimos, particularmente, no potencial heurístico oferecido pelo enfoque da Sociologia Política para agregar novos elementos para a compreensão deste fenômeno

Mobile Phones as Assistive Technologies: Gaps and Opportunities

In the last decade, mobile phones have become invaluable allays in the everyday lives of people with disabilities. Even in low and middle income countries mobile phones are highly popular and the penetration rate of mobile technology is almost three times higher than for desktop computers and broadband lines. Despite their diffusion and their importance, large datasets on how people with disabilities in lower resourced settings use mobile phones, the services they access and the barriers they encounter when interacting with mobile technology, are scarce. This article presents data from a survey with 1000 participants that explored how people with disabilities use mobile phones and the impact that mobile technology has on their daily lives. Findings highlight the presence of a mobile gap with many people with disability struggling to acquire and operate mobile phones independently. Most respondents had only access to basic or feature phones that lacked appropriate accessibility features and offered limited functionality. However, participants still described mobile phones as invaluable tools that could increase access to basic services and offer support in many important activities in their daily lives

Externaliser la sélection de candidats pour mieux contrôler l’appareil. Les logiques paradoxales des primaires ouvertes en Argentine

À plusieurs égards, le modèle argentin d’élections « primaires, ouvertes, simultanées et obligatoires » (PASO) représente un cas sui generis. En premier lieu, il s’agit d’une technologie de régulation imposée par les pouvoirs publics à travers la réforme de la législation électorale de 2009. Encadrée par une loi nationale, l’organisation des primaires argentines est homogénéisée et synchronisée à la différence des États-Unis où chaque État fédéré définit sa propre réglementation. En second li..

The role of goal congruence in the formation of consumer emotions

Cahiers de Recherche du CERAG, n° 2006-13, 21 pThis research tests a new model of emotions' formation and its influence on attitude and purchase intention. Results show that goal congruence is an antecedent of emotions, which in turn impact attitude and purchase intention. The findings also shed light on the moderator role of goal relevance

The role of goal congruence in the formation of consumer emotions

Cahiers de Recherche du CERAG, n° 2006-13, 21 pThis research tests a new model of emotions' formation and its influence on attitude and purchase intention. Results show that goal congruence is an antecedent of emotions, which in turn impact attitude and purchase intention. The findings also shed light on the moderator role of goal relevance

Stratified exercise therapy compared with usual care by physical therapists in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial protocol (OCTOPuS study)

OBJECTIVES: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is characterized by its heterogeneity, with large differences in clinical characteristics between patients. Therefore, a stratified approach to exercise therapy, whereby patients are allocated to homogeneous subgroups and receive a stratified, subgroup-specific intervention, can be expected to optimize current clinical effects. Recently, we developed and pilot tested a model of stratified exercise therapy based on clinically relevant subgroups of knee OA patients that we previously identified. Based on the promising results, it is timely to evaluate the (cost-)effectiveness of stratified exercise therapy compared with usual, "nonstratified" exercise therapy. METHODS: A pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial including economic and process evaluation, comparing stratified exercise therapy with usual care by physical therapists (PTs) in primary care, in a total of 408 patients with clinically diagnosed knee OA. Eligible physical therapy practices are randomized in a 1:2 ratio to provide the experimental (in 204 patients) or control intervention (in 204 patients), respectively. The experimental intervention is a model of stratified exercise therapy consisting of (a) a stratification algorithm that allocates patients to a "high muscle strength subgroup," "low muscle strength subgroup," or "obesity subgroup" and (b) subgroup-specific, protocolized exercise therapy (with an additional dietary intervention from a dietician for the obesity subgroup only). The control intervention will be usual best practice by PTs (i.e., nonstratified exercise therapy). Our primary outcome measures are knee pain severity (Numeric Rating Scale) and physical functioning (Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score subscale daily living). Measurements will be performed at baseline, 3-month (primary endpoint), 6-month (questionnaires only), and 12-month follow-up, with an additional cost questionnaire at 9 months. Intention-to-treat, multilevel, regression analysis comparing stratified versus usual care will be performed. CONCLUSION: This study will demonstrate whether stratified care provided by primary care PTs is effective and cost-effective compared with usual best practice from PTs

Les primaires ouvertes

Le temps des vertus magiques prêtées aux primaires, du renouvellement de la vie démocratique à la rénovation des partis, aura été de courte durée. Des États-Unis à la France, l’heure est aujourd’hui au désenchantement. Ce retournement d’image doit nous interroger. Comment cet instrument de régulation de la compétition politique a pu se muer en facteur de divisions et d’imprévisibilité électorale ? Pour interroger cette crise de la primarisation des systèmes partisans, les enquêtes rassemblées dans cet ouvrage, menées de l’Argentine à la Russie, montrent pourquoi la contagion de ce système électoral ne saurait se lire comme le simple résultat d’une adaptation mécanique du modèle nord-américain ou d’un processus irrésistible de diffusion. C’est le paradoxe de ce nouveau standard international de désignation. Alors qu’il peine de plus en plus à démontrer son efficacité et sa légitimité, le retour aux modes de sélection antérieurs reste plus que jamais un sujet tabou pour les partis.The virtues of primaries, supposedly an opportunity for a renewal of the democratic life and parties, are questionned today as disenchantment grows from the US to France