Les politiques publiques face à leurs protestataires.
Résumé
Exploring logics of contentious policies: public policies and their challengers.
The growing number of protest activities centred on policy outcomes has contributed to put the question of evolving relationships between public policies and their challengers back into fashion. This larger phenomenon leads to the following general assumption: some elements of the logics of State restructuring in the European Union can be explained by evolving relationships between public policies and their challengers. Public policy analysis and social movement theory have repeatedly addressed the issue of evolving relationships between public policies and their challengers, yet failing to analyse their structuring effects on the logics of State restructuring. Drawing on a brief review of the literature, as well as on some empirical evidence gathered in own research, this article aims at critically analysing the theoretical and the methodological issues raised by the operationnalisation of this assumption.
The growing number of protest activities centred on policy outcomes has contributed to put the question of evolving relationships between public policies and their challengers back into fashion. This larger phenomenon leads to the following general assumption: some elements of the logics of State restructuring in the European Union can be explained by evolving relationships between public policies and their challengers. Public policy analysis and social movement theory have repeatedly addressed the issue of evolving relationships between public policies and their challengers, yet failing to analyse their structuring effects on the logics of State restructuring. Drawing on a brief review of the literature, as well as on some empirical evidence gathered in own research, this article aims at critically analysing the theoretical and the methodological issues raised by the operationnalisation of this assumption.
Cet article a pour objet de rendre compte des enjeux théoriques et méthodologiques que posent les modalités d'opérationnalisation de l'hypothèse selon laquelle une partie des logiques de recomposition de l'action publique est structurée par les formes de mobilisation de ces protestataires. A partir d'une revue, non exhaustive, de la littérature, nous montrons les limites posées par l'attribution a priori de rôles entre acteurs publics et protestataires, nous procédons à l'analyse critique des catégories d'analyse existantes pour rendre compte des effets propres au contexte politique et institutionnel sur les dynamiques de l'action collective ; et nous analysons le caractère disjoint des temporalités propres aux dynamiques de l'action collective et aux logiques de recomposition de l'action publique.