01667pab a2200193 454500008004000000100002100040245016700061260000900228300001300237362000800250520097600258650002601234650002001260773005201280908000601332909001101338999001901349952010501368180718b2014   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aG�ransson, Mar  aThe measures adopted to increase the accountability of Belguim's senior civil servants: Strategic analysis of the political-administrative system at federal level  c2014  aump.52-6  aMar  a.NOver the past decade, Belgium, like many OECD countries, has set out to modernize the management of its public affairs. In April 2000, the Belgian federal government adopted a far reaching reform of the structures and functioning of the State: the Copernic Plan. One of the ambitions of the changes introduced by the reform is the accountability of senior civil servants. In line with this reform, various measures were developed, the results of which appear to be mixed. This article aims to analyse the outcome of these mechanisms through the behaviour of the stakeholders and their impacts on the regulation and practice of the mechanisms. To do this, the author uses the strategic analysis developed by Crozier and Friedberg (1977). In doing so, the interaction of the stakeholders in response to the measures introduced to increase accountability is highlighted in order to under. stand certain stand-offs still blocking the processes of modernization. - Reproduce  aCivil service - Belgi  aieCivil service  aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences  a9  a103804  c103800d103800  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 80, Issue no: 1pAR104264r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR