Public Management of Society: Rediscovering French Institutional Engineering in the European Context

Though the past three decades has seen a flowering of academic studies of public administration and public management in British and American universities, almost none of this effort has been devoted to France, which clearly has made a huge contribution to both theory and practice in these fields. Dutch scholar of law, economics, and social sciences Eyden breaks through the language barrier by providing anglophones an overview of the public management of society in France. First he sets out the nature of the public management of society and the issues that arise in studying it. Then he covers the Fifth Republic; public policymaking, politics, and the public management of society; France in the international and co-national arena; and theoretical perspectives. The disk looks at historical aspects since the first century, and contains the bibliography. There is no index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR