| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
French politics, society, and culture series |
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French politics, society, and culture series.
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| Contents |
Political leaders and bureaucratic organizations -- Restructuring bureaucratic organisations -- Links to the leadership: positional or personal? -- Ensuring responsiveness, competence and loyalty -- Steering policy through administrative and financial tools -- Roads planning and funding -- Regionalization -- Lessons from regional planning in France -- Appendix: Political leaders 1944-2008 |
| Summary |
Politicians, bureaucrats and leadership in organizations is the first book-length study of the French regional agency DATAR-DIACT. At one level, it is a story of the interactions and infighting of political leaders and the bureaucrats as they develop an ambitious regional development policy from the Vichy wartime period to the present day. At another level, it sheds new light on a topic of importance to theoreticians and practitioners alike: political leadership in a bureaucracy. It shows how French political leaders exercise or not their constitutional and political powers, to control government organisation, appointments and funds, and to modify public policies, such as road-building or regionalisation, according to their own interests. Innovative and transferable methodological techniques demonstrate convincingly, chapter by chapter, the impact of political leaders on institutions. It is a study of France that can be applied to other political and administrative systems |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
France. Délégation à l'aménagement du territoire et à l'action régionale.
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| SUBJECT |
France. Délégation à l'aménagement du territoire et à l'action régionale fast |
| Subject |
Regional planning -- France
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Political leadership -- France -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
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Political leadership
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Politics and government
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Regional planning
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| SUBJECT |
France -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051450
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| Subject |
France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230233829 |
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0230233821 |
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1349302740 |
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9781349302741 |
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