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Population, the state, and national grandeur - Demography as political science in modern France (Paperback, New edition)
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Population, the state, and national grandeur - Demography as political science in modern France (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Population, Famille et Societe - Population, Family, and Society, 31
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Only in France is demography essentially the population science: it
is taught at school, newspapers feature the evolution of fertility
rates in their headlines and the subject sparks ideological debates
in the media. How did demography become a national identity issue?
The French exception is attributable to a political history that
reached fulcrums during the Second World War under the racist Vichy
regime and then after the Liberation, with the development of
population policies and the creation of the French National
Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). The book is the first to
retrace its controversial genesis and analyze its ramifications for
the following decades. It shows how theories, institutions and
demographic policies developed simultaneously in France. Its
reflection on the links between ideologies, science and the state
offers a model that could be applied to the history of many other
scientific disciplines. Paul-Andre Rosental's indispensable study
examines the emergence of demography as an autonomous discipline
and its association with the state in mid-twentieth-century France.
Demography's success in the immediate post-war years came in part
from its dual concern with both "science" and "action," which
allowed policy makers to claim both knowledge and expertise in
addressing social problems. Rosental's measured tone hides a
provocative argument that should serve as both a model and a foil
for others working in the history of the human sciences. Joshua
Cole, University of Michigan.
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