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100	1		_aBEZES, Philippe _931636
245	1	0	_aCountry report : _bFrance: defensive versus offensive approaches to administrative reform in France (1988-1997): the leadership dilemmas of French Prime Ministers
260			_aMalden : _bWiley-Blackwell, _cJanuary 2001
520	3		_aFrom 1988 to 1997, all French prime ministers launched administrative reform programs with numerous concerns for increasing efficiency, strengthening responsiveness, or redesigning political and administrative roles within the state. However, these initiatives have never led to radical and disruptive changes. The institutional legacy seems to have strongly constrained the politics of administration. What, then, is the meaning of launching administrative reforms within the French political power configuration, and how does it "fit" with the way leaders try to establish their political authority? This article provides two empirical studies of different prime ministers (Michel Rocard under the Mitterrand presidency and Alain Jupp under the Chirac presidency) that can explain the nature of the French governments' commitments to these issues. It argues that understanding administrative reforms requires a mixture of institutional and actor-centered explanations, because these policies are really leadership challenges to the preexisting institutional order. As such, they are reflexively shaped or constrained by what they try to control and define. This paper shows that for a French prime minister to define the administration as a problem while building his own leadership can jeopardize the resources he will get from that same bureaucratic administrative system. This "power-reform dilemma" may explain why administrative reforms have proven more politically effective as an instrument of order-affirming impulses rather than as a disruptive strategy.
773	0	8	_tGovernance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions _g14, 1, p. 99-132 _dMalden : Wiley-Blackwell, January 2001 _xISSN 09521895 _w
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999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c32651 _d32651
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