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Territorial administration and political control. Decentralization in France

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  • Jean-Claude Thoenig

    (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

The paper is based on intensive longitudinal field research. It suggests an interpretative model of territorial governement in France. Relations between national and local authorities as well as policy-making processes suggest that the centralized state has face 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 is neither a new localism nor a new centralism pattern. It is the product of incremental and ongoing trade-offs between centrifugal and centripetal forces. This complexity reflects a situation that is under the rather conservative, as well tight, control of national politicians who hold multiple local elected mandates

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  • Jean-Claude Thoenig, 2005. "Territorial administration and political control. Decentralization in France," Post-Print halshs-00139986, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00139986
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    Cited by:

    1. Albert Santasusagna Riu & Ramon Galindo Caldés & Joan Tort Donada, 2019. "Furthering Internal Border Area Studies: An Analysis of Dysfunctions and Cooperation Mechanisms in the Water and River Management of Catalonia, Aragon and the Valencian Community (Spain)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(16), pages 1-12, August.
    2. Jean-Claude Thoenig, 2006. "El rescate de la publicness desde lo estudios organizationales," Post-Print halshs-00139962, HAL.
    3. Nicolas Gavoille, 2021. "Pay for politicians and campaign spending: evidence from the French municipal elections," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 188(3), pages 455-477, September.
    4. Jean-Claude Thoenig, 2011. "Institutional Theories and Public Institutions," Post-Print halshs-00638348, HAL.

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