01512pab a2200181 454500008004000000100001700040245008100057260000900138300001300147362001100160520095700171650002701128650001801155773002601173909001001199999001701209952010401226180718b1998   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aClark, David  aThe modernization of the French civil service: crisis, change and continuity  c1998  ap.97-115  aSpring  aThis article examines the policy of Fifth Republic governments towards the modernization of the French civil service, with particular reference to the period since 1989. It has three main objectives. The first is to clarify the terms of the French debate about the crisis of the state, which is necessary to an understanding of the intellectual context of reform. The second is to describe and analyse the various strands of `administrative modernization' policy. The third is to provide an interim assessment of the impact on the structure and culture of the civil service of what is an on-going programme of administrative reform. The origins and development of modernization policy are examined from a `regulationist' perspective which emphasizes that modernization is intended to re-assert the legitimacy and effectiveness of state action, most notably by deconcentrating the management of public policies to the `local' civil service. - Reproduced  aCivil service - France  aCivil service  aPublic Administration  a38598  c38598d38598  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 76, Issue no: 1pAR38953r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR