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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Thoenig, Jean-Clande |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Territorial administration and political control: decentralization in France |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2005 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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p.685-708. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
This paper, which is based on recent field research, suggests an interfpretative model of territorial government in France. Relations between national and local authorities as well as policy-making processes suggest that the centralized state has faced a major decline of its hegemony and that decentralization reforms have induced a polycentric dynamic. Seven basic characteristics and three key properties of the model are discussed. The emerging model fits neither a new localism nor a new centralist pattern. It is the product of ongoing and incremental trade-offs between centrifugal and centripetal rationales. This complexity reflects a situation that is under the rather conservative, as well as tight, control of national politicians who hold multiple local elected mandates. - Reproduced. |
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Decentralization - France |
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Decentralization |
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Public Administration |
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