Politics, power, and bureaucracy in France : the administrative elite / Ezra N. Suleiman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suleiman, Ezra N., 1941- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executive departments--France.

Executive departments.

Cabinet officers--France.

Cabinet officers.

Government executives--France.

Government executives.

France--Politics and government--20th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1974.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The interaction between politics and administration has generally been ignored by students of bureaucracy. Ezra N. Suleiman, however, views the French bureaucracy as a dynamic and integral part of the French political system. Using survey data as well as historical and contemporary sources, he concentrates on the highest officials and examines their relationships with both the political sector and the society.After identifying the place of the state in French society the author deals with the recruitment of higher civil servants, using comparative data to explain why the high social origins of French civil servants have remained constant. His investigation of the important institutional mechanisms of the central administration stresses that even a centralized and powerful bureaucracy must be seen as a complex of institutions rather than as a monolithic organization. Finally the author deals with the relations of the higher civil servants with other groups in society and with the regime of the Fifth Republic.Originally published in 1974.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables

List of Graphs and Diagrams

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE. State and Society in France

I. The Administrative State

PART TWO. The French Administrative Elite

II. Background and Recruitment of the Administrative Elite

III. Education and Social Structure

IV. Social Class and Administrative Behavior

V. Administration As a Vocation

PART THREE. The Dynamics of the Central Administration

VI. The Minister and His Administration: Choice

VII. The Minister and His Administration: Relationship

VIII. The Ministerial Cabinet

IX. The Cabinet and the Administration: Political and Administrative Roles in the Higher Civil Service

X. The Administrative Super-Elite: Les Grands Corps de l'Etat

PART FOUR. The Administration and the Society

XI. The Administration and the Deputy

XII. The Administration and Interest Groups

XIII. The Bureaucracy and the Fifth Republic

XIV. Bureaucracy, Technocracy, and the Stalemate Society

APPENDIX: Questionnaire

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691645582

0691645582

9780691618586

0691618585

9780691100227

0691100225

9781400872664

1400872669

OCLC:

905863370