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From Emergence to Institutionalization
To go further, two other questions enable us to tackle the problem of access
to the COMEX: “Is your N+1 a member of the COMEX?” and “How many times do
you participate in the COMEX each year?” The results are shown in the following
diagrams.
These responses call for several observations. If we cross-reference the
answers to both these questions, we see that 12 people reply “no” to both of them.
In other words, 16.6% of the people questioned have no access, direct or indirect,
to their COMEX. The number of times people participate in the COMEX annually
is zero in 38.4% (N=28) of cases and low (one to three times per year) for the same
proportion. This being the case, it is difficult to say that security is perceived as a
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