In contrast to the "official history" of the Conseil d'État that presents it as a prestigious and neutral institution, new work ought to reflect on how the grand corps of the Conseil d'État has been implicated in the major issues and crises of French political history, especially in the twentieth century. Drawing on recent historiography, this article focuses in particular on the Conseil d'État during World War II and the Algerian War. It also analyzes the variety of everyday practices of the Conseil d'État and its role in the development of administrative law. Finally, this article examines the professional careers of the members of the grand corps that have staffed this institution. It thus seeks to chart, through the study of a single institution, a path for writing the political history of the state administration that engages with the work of legal scholars as well as political scientists.
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La difficile écriture de l'histoire du Conseil d'État
Alain Chatriot
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 23–42 (20 total)
The Reform of the Public Administration: Centralization and Reorganization
Fabrizio Di Mascio and Alessandro Natalini
The modernization of the public administration has been one of the main objectives pursued by the Renzi government. What distinguishes the reform cycle launched in 2015 is the emphasis on centralization, unification, and the reduction of institutional fragmentation in the public sector after a long period in which autonomy and the organizational pluralism of administrations and government levels were enhanced. This reform strategy is consistent with the underlying trends of transformation in the political and institutional systems, in which the power of the prime minister has gradually increased. The actual impact of these reform measures, however, depends on concrete organizational instruments of subsequent implementing legislation in a context characterized by persistent spending cuts, which are necessary to maintain financial stability.
In Italian Politics
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 155–173 (19 total)
Echoes arising from two cases of the private administration of populations
African immigrants in twentieth-century Spain and Indians in nineteenth-century Ecuador
Andrés Guerrero
The article simultaneously explores three lines of reflection and analysis woven around the comparative reverberations (in space and time) between citizenship and the administration of populations (states of exception) in the Republic of Ecuador during the nineteenth century and the Kingdom of Spain in the twenty century. The first thread tries to answer the question whether it is possible for concepts generated in a country of the Global South to be used usefully in analyzing a different Northern reality, inverting the usual direction in the flows of transfer and importation of “theory.“ The second theme of comparative reverberation explores a network of concepts concerning the citizenship of common sense and the administration of populations, that is the “back-patio“ aspect of citizenship, particularly its historical formation in the domination of populations in the Republic of Ecuador during the nineteenth century. It is centered on the process of identification in the daily exchanges between interpares citizens and extrapares non-citizens. The last section involves testing concepts forged in the author's studies of Ecuadorian history for their utility in analyzing the current situation of modern sub-Saharan immigrants in Spain (using concrete examples), and their reclusion to the private sphere in spaces of exception and abandonment. Here, the article concentrates on the difference between the public administration of populations and the private administration of citizens. The article uses documentary material relating to nineteenth-century Ecuador and twentieth-century Spain and Senegal.
Italian Foreign Policy and the Obama Administration: Between New Opportunities and Constraints
Emiliano Alessandri
Despite Silvio Berlusconi’s much-publicized friendship with US President
George W. Bush, the election of Barack Obama in November 2008
did not lead to any appreciable deterioration of US-Italy relations. The
clash of personalities and “ideologies” that some had predicted did not
materialize. The two leaders soon established a cordial and pragmatic
relationship. The emphasis on continuity, however, did not deter
change. In fact, the shift in priorities and approach brought about by
the Obama administration during its first year in office altered the context
within which Italian foreign policy was carried out. New opportunities
opened up as Italy’s engagement with Russia and Iran, which
had attracted criticism in the past, also became the stated goal of the
US government. At the same time, Italian foreign policy was faced
with new constraints as Obama’s new course combined US leadership
with coordination, expecting European allies to consult with Washington
on dossiers having both national and transatlantic dimensions.
In Italian Politics
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 149–167 (19 total)
Parliamentary Control and Foreign Policy in Germany: The Bundestag’s Use of Formal, Instrumentalities in Overseeing the Administration’s Foreign Policy
James Ryan Anderson
In a little more than a decade, Germany’s role in international affairs—
particularly from a military perspective—has radically changed. Whereas
German participation during the Persian Gulf War of 1991 was
basically limited to providing financial support to the international
coalition led by the United States, by the end of 2001, German soldiers
were operating under combat conditions in the United Nations peacekeeping
mission to Afghanistan. During (and even before) this transition,
little attention has been devoted to the German Bundestag’s
constitutional role as overseer of executive foreign affairs activities.
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2002
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 1–14 (13 total)
Tax Compliance Dancing
The Importance of Time and Space in Taxing Multinational Corporations
Lotta Björklund Larsen and Benedicte Brøgger
governments and MNEs revealed a disconnectedness between national tax systems. States adapted their tax regimes and empowered their national tax administrations. Some even attempted to attract foreign direct investment with promises of low tax rates; what
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 85–109 (25 total)
Agricultural Fire or Arson?
Rural Denizens, Forest Administration, and the Colonial Situation in Algeria (1850–1900)
Antonin Plarier
? Forest fires were indeed accompanied by legitimizing or disqualifying speeches that revealed what was at stake. The will of the forestry administration to eradicate this agricultural practice resulted in severe repression, much as observed in metropolitan
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 9–24 (16 total)
The Regime of Invisibility in Closed Spaces of Debate
How and Why Shale Gas Was Perceived as a Non-Problem for Almost a Year in France
Sébastien Chailleux and Philippe Zittoun
the shadows of the Administration and of gas companies. 3 The second element is to analyze the multiple disputes in which these statement coalitions engage to impose their own statement in the policy process. We underline the considerable uncertainty
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 20–41 (22 total)
Writing for different audiences
Social workers, irregular migrants and fragmented statehood in Belgian welfare bureaucracies
Sophie Andreetta
’. Stéphanie sighs: ‘People come asking for things, and then they don't want to bring any documents. But we are in the administration. Without documents, you cannot do anything’ (field notes, April 2019). Especially in large cities, welfare bureaucracies
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 91–110 (20 total)
Famine and the Science of Food in the French Empire, 1900–1939
Yan Slobodkin
physiology than with medicine, treating colonial subjects as experimental subjects first and only incidentally as patients. In the wake of the First World War, however, nutrition took on unprecedented importance in the administration of empire. The new
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 52–75 (24 total)