01534pab a2200181 454500 180718b2010 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Gervais, Julie Merging to survive? Institutional legitimacy and material considerations in the light of the reorganization of corps within the French civil service 2010 p.425-441. Sep The article sets out to examine the mergers of corps of top technical civil servants in France from two angles: their institutional and material dimensions. Its findings are based on archive material relating to the negotiations that marked the reform processes and on interviews with the protagonists of the reform within the ministries, cabinets, professional associations and trade unions of the corps in question. Rather than consider the top civil servants simply as the instruments of change, affected (or otherwise) by it, or even as obstacles to the reforms under examination, the article looks at their capacity to take action , to defend their interests and their long-term survival. One of the central questions raised by this study into the mergers is whether they make it possible to maintain and reproduce the models of domination of the great corps on the machinery of government. Continuity in and through change is at the heart of the debate. - Reproduced. Civil service - France Civil service International Review of Administrative Sciences N 89307 89307 89307 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 76, Issue no: 3 AR89767 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR