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Villa Médicis
Depuis plus de deux cents ans, la Villa Médicis est le siège de l’Académie de France à Rome créée par Louis XIV et jouit d’un prestige unique au monde. Dans un lieu d’une beauté inouïe, elle accueille des artistes, des écrivains, des réalisateurs, des historiens de l’art. Succédant à des directeurs illustres, dont le peintre Balthus, Pierre-Jean Rémy l’a dirigée de 1994 à 1997. Des créateurs du monde entier, des mécènes s’y sont rencontrés. Ce livre raconte avec passion et humour la vie intense de la Villa Médicis. Querelles picrocholines, fantasmes ministériels mais aussi grands moments de création. Amusé et grinçant, poétique et rêveur, ce journal constitue un tableau unique de la « vie d’artiste », mais aussi du bonheur d’être à Rome. Pierre-Jean Rémy, de l’Académie française, a été directeur de la Villa Médicis à Rome et président de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.
L'invention de la bureaucratie
La naissance et le développement de la bureaucratie est, en France, en Angleterre et aux États-Unis, le fruit d'un processus politique complexe et discontinu, long de deux siècles, dans lequel se sont investis et confrontés de nombreux groupes sociaux et courants de pensées. L'histoire de la fonction publique et de ses agents s'inscrit en effet dans celle des changements économiques et sociaux qui ont contribué à transformer l'organisation et l'action de l'État. Mais elle traduit surtout la manière particulière dont chaque société se représente le rapport qu'elle entretient avec la puissance publique en vertu de sa conception de la démocratie. Dans ce livre passionnant, Franç...
Sociologie de la corruption
Pratique sociale très répandue dont la définition reste pourtant délicate, la corruption est devenue tardivement un objet d'étude pour les sociologues, les anthropologues, les économistes et les juristes. Quels sont les effets, positifs ou négatifs, de cet échange inégal entre des protagonistes privés et/ou publics ? Et peut-on déterminer les causes socioculturelles ou institutionnelles à l'origine de ces comportements ? Quels sont les avantages recherchés par les acteurs ? Comment le public réagit-il face à la médiatisation des affaires de corruption ? Enfin, quels sont les instruments déployés à l'échelle internationale pour lutter contre ces agissements ? Les réponses théoriques et empiriques des sciences sociales à ces interrogations éclairent un sujet auquel les citoyens à la recherche d'informations fiables portent une attention croissante.
Representations and Othering in Discourse
This volume examines the construction of Turkey's possible European Union accession in French political discourse. In today's France, heated debates regarding Turkey's EU membership are turning into an essential part of European identity formation. Once again, the `Turkish Other' functions as a mirror for defining not only the `European Self', but also European values. By providing a genuine and multi-disciplinary approach for studying the Otherness attributed to Turkey, this book contributes to our understading of the Self/Other nexus in International Relations. Within a Critical Discourse Analysis framework, this study explores the socio-historical basis of the construction of Turkey's Oth...
Party Politics and Decentralization in Japan and France
Using Japan and France as case studies, this book argues that decentralization is fundamentally an "oppositional" policy advocated by political parties in opposition, placed on the legislative agenda when they come to power, and pursued at times even when it ceases to make partisan sense to do so. In short, decentralization occurs when the opposition governs.
Citizens and the New Governance
This volume addresses the relationship of citizenship and public management in Europe. After 15 years of state reform, it is time for an overall discussion of the theoretical and empirical impact and limits of New Public Management, as one of the latest reorientations in public administration, on the practice of citizenship. It points out the tension between a focus on improvement of state bureaucracies, on the one hand, and the involvement of citizens in the co-production of policies on the other. It also points to a fundamental change that is taking place: the imortance of state apparatuses for the development and sustainability of viable societies is being de-emphasized and special attention to "governance" is now taking over the central place, that for so long has been occupied by attention to "government". Through the eco-production of public policies by citizens and public authorities working together, a new civil society is emerging. The book highlights the fact that the re-invention of the citizen is of crucial importance to public administration practice, as well as to the various public administration disciplines in Europe.
The French at War, 1934-1944
The years 1934 to 1944 remain the most contentious and dramatic decade in modern French history. Covering the Occupation, the Vichy regime, the Resistance and collaboration, Nick Atkin provides an important introduction to this key period. Accessible and concise, the book offers a wide-ranging synthesis of key themes and events. Looking ahead to the present day, the book also examines how the French establishment and public have coped with the legacy of Vichy, and explains why the occupation is still ever present in French politics and everyday life.
Latin American Bureaucracy and the State Building Process (1780-1860)
The process of construction of national states had a decisive moment during the period of revolutions that spanned from the end of the eighteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century. Even if it was a generalized process throughout the Western world, the majority of social scientists that have analyzed it have based their theoretical models on the European and North American experiences. This volume pays particular attention to the historical experience of Latin America and accounts for its distinctive regional and national characteristics through the analysis of cases. It also evokes the existence of certain features of the process that historiography has not sufficiently taken into con...
Dismantling Democratic States
Bureaucracy is a much-maligned feature of contemporary government. And yet the aftermath of September 11 has opened the door to a reassessment of the role of a skilled civil service in the survival and viability of democratic society. Here, Ezra Suleiman offers a timely and powerful corrective to the widespread view that bureaucracy is the source of democracy's ills. This is a book as much about good governance as it is about bureaucratic organizations. Suleiman asks: Is democratic governance hindered without an effective instrument in the hands of the legitimately elected political leadership? Is a professional bureaucracy required for developing but not for maintaining a democratic state? ...
