Chenot, Bernard

Philisophie des nationalisations françaises - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1980

Three trends of very various origin seem to have met to convey to French public corporations their status and present image: a legal, a political, and a more recent yet not less efficient technocratical trend. After analyzing the impact of these various trends, the author shows that it is the combined effect, producing at times unexpected results, of such different forces which explains the contradictions encountered all along the making of what is now known as the public sector, and its uncertain boundries and provides an illustration of rather than a solution to the problems encountered by its functioning