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...