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Titre Réformer ou reformer les administrations projetées des Afriques ? Entre routine anti-politique et ingénierie politique contextuelle
Auteur Dominique Darbon
Mir@bel Revue Revue française d'administration publique
Numéro no 105-106, janvier-mars 2003 La réforme de l'Etat et la nouvelle gestion publique : mythes et réalités
Rubrique / Thématique
La réforme de l'Etat et la nouvelle gestion publique : mythes et réalités
 Moderniser ou transformer les administrations ?
Résumé anglais Reform or Re-Form the Projected Administrations in African Countries ? Between Routine Antipolitics and Political Engineering. Since the mid 1970s, the states and administrations projected in African countries have been subjected to reform procedures as intensive as they are contradictory. A general agreement on the architecture of the state apparatus, summed up in “The Washington Consensus” or in documents produced by the OECD's PUMA at the end of the 1990s, approved and legitimized the options chosen by the structural adjustment plans and techniques linked with New Public Management. This reform however, built around an outspoken refusal of a system dominated by politics and grounded in the strategic games of decision-makers of rich and poor countries alike, is all the more uncertain not only due to the insistence on a purely developmentalist and externalized understanding of change, but to a continual change of tools and theoretical orientations as well. Faced with these difficulties, it seems evident that institutional engineering should be given back its political and social dimension.
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