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100 _aThoenig, Jean-Clande
245 _aTerritorial administration and political control: decentralization in France
260 _c2005
300 _ap.685-708.
520 _aThis 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.
650 _aDecentralization - France
650 _aDecentralization
773 _aPublic Administration
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