The rights state: rights politics and institutional practices.

Summary The right to housing, the rights of the sick, equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship of disabled people, the right to a minimum income, etc. The reference to subjective rights has become increasingly important in the production of legislation, in France as in other Western countries. Can the State guarantee the reality of these new rights recognized to individuals? What capacities do public actors have to implement them? How do claims in terms of rights contribute to transforming the modalities of state intervention and to shifting the boundaries of public action? The book investigates this "State of rights", based on various national cases in Belgium, Canada, France and Sweden and in various sectors of public action - disability, discrimination, health, housing, school policies. It shows how state institutions, through their daily practices, make or break the rights of individuals. It pays particular attention to the new organizations (Ombudsman, departmental houses for the disabled, Halde) which, outside the judicial arena, participate in this rights policy via mediation, access to rights or rights attribution mechanisms. A faithful exploration of rights practices in public action, enriched by contributions from law, sociology and political science.