section 1. Strategic management in practice : varieties and different contexts -- section 2. Key roles in the strategic process : political and administrative leaders, and don't forget the citizens -- section 3. Does it work? -- section 4. Reforms, developments and challenges.

The Framework Law on Finance Acts (Loi Organique sur les Lois de Finance - LOLF) was passed by the French Parliament in 2001 and came into force in January 2006. As budget legislation it refocuses the relationship between rulers and ruled by modifying the connection between the state budget and...