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100			_aRouban, Luc
245			_aPublic management and politics: senior bureaucrats in France
260			_c2007
300			_ap.473-501.
520			_aWhy is new public management reform so difficult to implement in France? In order to answer this question, this article examines the changes that have affected the higher civil service since the late 1970s. Decision-making networks have been considerably politicized, and public policies are now largely devised by ministerial cabinets staffs. Simultaneously, the tasks of career senior civil servants are increasingly technical and specialized. The management reforms undertaken since 2002 by an economically liberal government might have offered senior bureaucrats the opportunity to regain a more active professional role, but the reforms run counter to their political culture, since the large majority of them still share a leftwing political ideology. Reformers seem to have no other choice than to change the institutional system in order to resolve this contradiction. - Reproduced.
650			_aCivil service - France
650			_aPublic administration - France
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aPublic Administration
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