| Titre | La reconfiguration de l'administration centrale | |
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| Auteur | M. Jacques Chevallier, Professeur à l'Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas, directeur du Centre d'études et de recherches de science administrative (CERSA) | |
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Revue | Revue française d'administration publique |
| Numéro | no 116, mars 2006 Gérer les carrières ? | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Gérer les carrières ? Etudes |
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| Page | 715 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Reconfiguring Central Administration
Jacques Chevallier.
The article looks at how French central administration is slowly and patiently being
reorganized in an effort to remedy the three major dysfunctions from which its structures
have traditionally suffered : the continual regrouping of ministries, the excessive
enlargement in staff and functions of ministerial cabinets, and the heterogeneity of the
internal organization of ministries. With the emergence of new needs and criteria for
action, remedies applied in the 60s — fusion of ministries and recourse to ministerial
secretaries-general — did not last long. The reorientation of the state around strategic
functions and the carrying out of the subsidiarity principle in fact forced central
administration into a radical revision of its role, all the more necessary due to the
increasing importance of the efficiency standard for public action and its main concrete
manifestation, the 2001 Finance Act. Successive reforms, introduced since the beginning
of the 1990s have undeniably had positive effects, such as the generalization of the
distinction between strategic and operational functions and the reorganization of certain
services (regrouping of directorates and reappearance of ministerial secretaries-general).
Two important difficulties nonetheless persist : the first is the force of inertia of the
traditional organizational rationale; the second is the difficult coexistence between this
latter, based on a management approach, and the organisational rationale issuing from
recent reforms and based on planning. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=RFAP_116_0715 |
