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Le modèle de « l'État-stratège » : genèse d'une forme organisationnelle dans l'administration française

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Bezes, Philippe·2005·Sociologie du Travail
DOI 10.1016/j.soctra.2005.10.001
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Cet article retrace la genèse d'une nouvelle forme d'organisation du système administratif en France, désignée sous le nom d'« État-stratège », qui redessine, dans les années 1990, les relations entre administrations centrales et services territoriaux de l'État. La séparation entre les fonctions stratégiques de pilotage et de contrôle de l'État et les fonctions opérationnelles d'exécution et de mise en œuvre des politiques publiques est au cœur de ce changement. Cette transformation suit deux processus. D'un côté, l'adoption de mesures concrètes de « gouvernement à distance » fait l'objet de luttes de pouvoir entre trois acteurs ministériels majeurs (ministère de l'Intérieur, du Budget et de la Fonction publique). De l'autre, est produite une nouvelle « catégorisation » légitime de l'État, portée par des hauts fonctionnaires généralistes, dans le cadre de grandes commissions de réforme, et inspirée des idées du New Public Management. La fabrique d'une nouvelle forme d'organisation étatique renvoie ainsi à deux dynamiques et deux dimensions, politique et idéelle. — Numéro spécial : Les nouveaux formats de l'institution. Since the 1990s, a new organisational form of the administrative system in France has been steadily redefining relations between central administrations and local state units. Labelled “the steering state” or the “managerial state”, this new paradigm hinges on separating the strategic functions of steering and controlling the state from the operational functions of execution and policy implementation. The making of this new form of state organization involves two parallel processes: political and cognitive. For one thing, the adoption of concrete measures for “government at distance” results from power struggles between three major ministries (Home Office, Budget and Civil Service). For another, a new legitimate “categorization of the state” is being formed in the major committees involved in the reform process of the 1990s; it is borne by top civil servants and inspired by the ideas of New Public Management. — Special issue: New patterns of institutions.

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Authors
Bezes, P.
Affiliations
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
Corresponding author
Bezes, Philippe
ORCID
Bezes, Philippe
Venue
Sociologie du Travail
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2005-10
Volume
47
Issue
4
Pages
431-450
ISSN
0038-0296 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.soctra.2005.10.001
OpenAlex
W2022860616
Cited by
143
References
52
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FWCI
11.69
Type
journal article
Language
fr
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Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Public Administration and Governance
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Public Administration and Political Analysis
Keywords
state organization, French public administration, central-local government relations, New Public Management, civil service reform

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