Les sciences administratives: pérégrination des idées et luttes autour de
                        l’appropriation d’un label

Mavrot, Céline; Hurni, Pascal; Rosser, Christian

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“…Second, the comparison between the French and the U.S. case may contribute to understanding what is unknown against the background of what is well known. There has been very little research on the 20th-century intellectual history of French Public Administration in general (Bezes, 2002, 2009; Chevallier, 1986; Chevallier & Loschak, 1974; Payre, 2002), and the postwar reinterpretation of the politics–administration dichotomy in particular (Mavrot, 2015; Mavrot, Hurni, & Rosser, 2010), although French authors have been acquainted with the dichotomy ever since Montesquieu’s classic formulation of the trias politica (D. W. Martin, 1987).…”

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“…The second problem has to do with the emergence of political science as a self-conscious academic discipline (Chevallier, 1986; Mavrot, Hurni, & Rosser, 2010). Until World War II, law faculties had succeeded in maintaining most of the currents of the study of the state and administration under their purview (Favre, 1989).…”

Section: France: Public Administration Under the Umbrella Of Administmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Questioning the Constitutional Order: A Comparison of the French and the U.S. Politics–Administration Dichotomy Controversies After World War II

Rosser

Mavrot

2016

The American Review of Public Administration

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By comparing the French and the U.S. controversies on the appropriate position of public administration within the constitutional order of the state after World War II, this article aims to contribute to the historical clarification of the politics-administration dichotomy as one of the key ideas of administrative research and theory. The article underscores that the same phenomenon-the rejection of the dichotomy-has led to different conclusions among administrative scholars on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, the dichotomy was rejected in favor of a reinforcement of the legislature and the judiciary as well as a more representative administration to preserve the plurality of interests of American society. In contrast, the French rejection was aimed toward strengthening the executive and the administrative elite as guardians of the general interest. The article illustrates how ideas and values about public administration change according to different spatiotemporal contexts. If these contexts are disregarded, understanding remains fragmentary at best, if not misleading.

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Section: France: Public Administration Under the Umbrella Of Administmentioning

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Questioning the Constitutional Order: A Comparison of the French and the U.S. Politics–Administration Dichotomy Controversies After World War II

Rosser

Mavrot

2016

The American Review of Public Administration

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Les sciences administratives: pérégrination des idées et luttes autour de l’appropriation d’un label

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Questioning the Constitutional Order: A Comparison of the French and the U.S. Politics–Administration Dichotomy Controversies After World War II

Questioning the Constitutional Order: A Comparison of the French and the U.S. Politics–Administration Dichotomy Controversies After World War II

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