Peters, B. Guy

Réforme d'un État? Les changements au sein du governement américain - Paris : ENA, 2003

The administrative apparatus of the United States has seen important reforms in the past decades. However, they have not given rise to significant changes in the state : they rather represent a break in continuity within a well established tradition of the state in the United States. That the United States has not introduced as extensive reforms as the United Kingdom or New Zealand during this period is in part due to the fact that managerial changes brought in elsewhere were to a certain extent already present and well integrated in the administrative culture of the US