Universite de bordeaux
cnrs

Comparative approaches to autonomy policies//

Acronym:

COMPAC

Funding:

ANR Programme d'Investissement d'Avenir (PIA)

Project's holder:

Philippe MARTIN

Associated team:

COMPTRASEC UMR 5114 CNRS - Université de Bordeaux ; Centre Emile Durkheim (CED) UMR 5116 CNRS - Sciences Po - Université de Bordeaux ; PASSAGES UMR 5319 CNRS - Université de Bordeaux-Montaigne - Université de Bordeaux - École nationale supérieure d’architecture et de paysage de Bordeaux ; ARENES UMR 6051 CNRS - Université Rennes 1 - Sciences Po Rennes ; Bordeaux Population Health (BPH) U 1219 Université de Bordeaux - INSERM

Duration:

5 years (September 2022 - August 2027)

Abstract:

The COMPAC project responds to the two axes of challenge 2 of the call for proposal “Autonomy, ageing and disabilities”. Its aim is to explore in depth and compare different national systems of autonomy policy or long-term care (Germany, Canada, China, Spain, Finland, Holland, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, Sweden), and to study in detail and in a targeted manner certain territorial arrangements and local systems that can be observed in France. It aims in particular to question the established categories of public action, the operating paradigms, the existing typologies of welfare regimes in the different countries mentioned, as well as the local arrangement of public policies on the scale of some French departments. On this point, the project will study and compare several territorial organisations and their repercussions on the systems of actors and professional practices. Integrated in this analysis of local systems, the approach of the pathways of the persons requesting help (assistance pathway and biographical pathway) will also be mobilised in order to grasp the logics of adjustment between supply and demand of intervention.

Supported by five French university laboratories (COMPTRASEC, PASSAGES, CED, ARENES, BPH) and an international consortium of researchers, the project will favour several disciplinary approaches (law, sociology, political science, economics, demography, psychology, geography) and different methods of investigation, organised around 3 workpackages :

  • WP1 : “Analysing the categories of public action in the field of old age and disability policies”
  • WP2 : “Comparative study of the organisational models of social protection systems with regard to loss of autonomy”
  • WP3 : “Study of local arrangements, territorial logics in the construction of service provision in France”