RENAUDIE, Olivier

La policie et les alternances politiques - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1999

The effect of shifts in political power allows the level of politicisation of key posts to be ascertained by following the career paths of their occupants. The influence of political alternations on the nominations at the head of police authorities varies a lot from one authority to another. Moreover, promotions are more or less swift depending upon the function exercised. It appears that the politicisation of the police, and particularly of authorities, is real, but that it is not uniform, and especially that the political criterion is not the only used to designed appoiments