L’audit social en tant que champ de recherche et pratique professionnelle a tout intérêt à recourir à une analyse en terme de capital humain. La première partie de cet article a pour objectif de mettre en évidence dans quelle mesure la notion de capital humain est indispensable à...

We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties....

Most opportunistic-type models of political business cycles tend to posit a given objective for incumbents: maximisation of re-election chances. Though taking an opportunistic view too, we suggest a new explanation for a fiscal policy cycle: the incumbent’s concern with her own welfare in...