| Titre | Obstacles, contraintes et résistances à la réforme administrative | |
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| Auteur | Andrew Dunsire | |
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Revue | Revue française d'administration publique |
| Numéro | no 5, 1978/1 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Études |
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| Page | 22 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
The administrative reform : obstacles, constraints and general resistance
While assessing the obstacles to administrative reform, the author brings them down to two main categories : constraints and general resistance. Apart from this overall distinction, he adds another one between behavioural problems and structural problems. Hence constraints may just like general resistance be due to either behavioural or structural problems. The author applies this distinction to different types of obstacles which administrative reforms have to cope with, i.e. political, economie, social, organizational, and psychological obstacles. Economic obstacles to reform are mainly structural constraints. Psychological obstacles are rather behavioural constraints. Political obstacles result from structural resistance. Social obstacles are due to behavioural resistance.
The conclusion that can be drawn from this analysis is that administrative reform has to watch out for the specific types of obstacles and allow for constraints and resistance arising from structure or attitudes. A reformer has to resemble a helmsman who knows how to assess the type, variety and size of obstacles to cope with ; he sets the targets and fixes the ways and means of reform which he negotiates along the lines of least resistance. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfap_0152-7401_1978_num_5_1_994 |
