Governing from the Centre

Core Executive Coordiation in France
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-925601-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

Two leading authors challenge the assumption that France has a well coordinated government. The constitutional, political,and policy frameworks of coordination are critically assessed in relation to the central actors and spending ministries, as well as the formal and informal mechanisms of coordination. Four case studies are examined; the European Union, budget, privatization and immigration policy processes. The book concludes with forthright findings on a fragment executive struggling to steer a disparate and partially paralyzed institutional structure.

The research findings offer precise cautionary recommendations to policy makers against the dangers of overconfident recourse to 'joined up' government. The findings are relevant, not merely to France, but generally to Western states more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hayward, Jack

Wright, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Methodenlehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I

- The French Context of Coordination: a Fractured Indivisible Republic

- The Normative, Political, and Administrative Frameworks

- Hierarchical and Horizontal Coordination: the Central Actors

- Vertical Fragmentation: the Spending Ministries

- Part II Sectoral Policy Coordination: Four Case Studies

- European Union Coordination and the Core Executive

- Tactical Privatisation: Changing the Mix in the Mixed Economy

- Coordinating the Response to Immigration Pressures: an Unending Quest

- Part III

- Overall Coordination: the Impracticable Imperative

Über Autor(innen)

(formerly Nuffield College, University of Oxford)