GUÉRANGER, David

L'impensé de la réforme intercommunale - la mise en place des administrations des communautés d'agglomération - Paris : ENA, 2004

The rapid increase of conurbation councils reveals a certain number of shortcomings in inter-communal reform. The Chevènement Act, to a great extent responsible for this increase, is mainly based on financial and fiscal mechanisms ; it does not include the administrative aspect of local institutions, for whose destabilisation it is partially responsible. Faced with this destabilisation, managerial procedures have been put in place and relations with the political authorities have been reinforced. Under these conditions, the inter-communal issue is more a matter of practical action than of administration, which was not the concern Chevènement reform