Even before the decentralization laws, French cities have shown a capacity to manage themselves. It is even possible that these laws actually undermined this capacity. To give claim to these assertions, it is necessary to build a concept of municipal government that credits the existence of a political capacity in cities going back to the endoftheXlX1" century. Municipal government is intimately linked to both French republican and welfare states. Its present difficulties arise with the latters'transformations.Les villes françaises n'ont pas attendu les lois de décentralisation pour se doter de capacités de gestion. Paradoxalement, ces lois ont coïncidé avec la remise en cause de ces capacités. Pour étayer ces deux propositions, il est néce...
Elected local officials and the test of decentralization In France, elected members of local authori...
[The number of municipalitie in France is explained by the geography and the history of settlement i...
International audienceFrom clientelism to technocracy : one hundred years of municipal democracy in ...
Even before the decentralization laws, French cities have shown a capacity to manage themselves. It ...
Even before the decentralization laws, French cities have shown a capacity to manage themselves. It ...
International audience[For several centuries, the French cities remain under a very strong supervisi...
International audience[For several centuries, the French cities remain under a very strong supervisi...
International audience[For several centuries of royal, imperial or republican centralism, the balanc...
From fragmentation to Federalism, the metropolitan government in a french large city, Toulouse, Fran...
International audience[In France, before 1981, even if the municipalities were involved in economic ...
textabstractIn the political organization of France, the so-called 'Jacobean logic' plays an importa...
From urban governance to city government ? Continuity or recomposition of the frameworks of public a...
From urban governance to city government ? Continuity or recomposition of the frameworks of public a...
From fragmentation to Federalism, the metropolitan government in a french large city, Toulouse, Fran...
Elected local officials and the test of decentralization In France, elected members of local authori...
Elected local officials and the test of decentralization In France, elected members of local authori...
[The number of municipalitie in France is explained by the geography and the history of settlement i...
International audienceFrom clientelism to technocracy : one hundred years of municipal democracy in ...
Even before the decentralization laws, French cities have shown a capacity to manage themselves. It ...
Even before the decentralization laws, French cities have shown a capacity to manage themselves. It ...
International audience[For several centuries, the French cities remain under a very strong supervisi...
International audience[For several centuries, the French cities remain under a very strong supervisi...
International audience[For several centuries of royal, imperial or republican centralism, the balanc...
From fragmentation to Federalism, the metropolitan government in a french large city, Toulouse, Fran...
International audience[In France, before 1981, even if the municipalities were involved in economic ...
textabstractIn the political organization of France, the so-called 'Jacobean logic' plays an importa...
From urban governance to city government ? Continuity or recomposition of the frameworks of public a...
From urban governance to city government ? Continuity or recomposition of the frameworks of public a...
From fragmentation to Federalism, the metropolitan government in a french large city, Toulouse, Fran...
Elected local officials and the test of decentralization In France, elected members of local authori...
Elected local officials and the test of decentralization In France, elected members of local authori...
[The number of municipalitie in France is explained by the geography and the history of settlement i...
International audienceFrom clientelism to technocracy : one hundred years of municipal democracy in ...