New factors such as governance, ownership and citizen’s participation are now a central focus of development programmes, especially in the scope of the new international poverty reduction strategies (PRSP and HIPC initiatives). To gain a better understanding of countries’ trajectories and...

L'article met en relief la passivité des cadres dirigeants du ministère de l'Équipement face à la décentralisation de 1981-2 et leurs raisons. Il détaille les cadres cognitifs dominants dans les services extérieurs. Il resitue les transferts de compétence et les adaptations dans une...

A travers la question juridique, économique, sociale et politique des services publics, c'est la question de leur idée même qui est aujourd'hui posée. Peut-on encore la soutenir ? En quels termes ? L'exception française est-elle durable ?

Since 1986, Vietnam has been reforming its economic system, moving from a centrally planned economy to a market-oriented economy connected to the rest of the world. This process has been shaped by the tensions and power relationship between moderate and radical reformers and the interaction of...

From post-war era beginning until 1956 - the year which the ministry of Labour celebrated the first half-century it had been in existence -, its division for Labour and Employment was a strikingly stable organisation. Nearly each of its high-ranking managers (the assistant principals, the...

Does publicness still make sense as an issue for further research? Classic organizational sociology (or standard theory) has provided a breakthrough for understanding public administration and management, but has not fully explored the agenda. Publicness is analytically characterized by the...

The General Public Policy Review marked a turning point in the history of administrative reform. It created, in particular, an exceptional system inspired by project management, from decision making to the follow-up of modernizing measures undertaken, that replaced the traditional regime of...

In this paper, I offer an ethnographic approach of the involvement of public services user in the shaping of public management reform. Drawing on a two years fieldwork in a French organization dedicated to the definition of administrative simplification reforms, I argue that this emerging set of...

This paper presents composite indicators of the institutional and policy characteristics of educational systems, collated from the questionnaire responses of 26 Member countries. These indicators provide an overview of the institutional framework in the primary and secondary education sector and...

Le texte réhabilite la question de la nature publique des organisations publiques. Il propose un cadre théorique et méthodologique pour ce faire. Il propose de lier la recherche sur les fonctions d'efficience et d'efficacité en matière de politiques publiques aux dynamiques d'action...