Intro -- POLICY ANALYSIS IN FRANCE -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Editors' introduction to the series -- 1. Policy analysis in France: introduction -- Introduction -- Policy analysis: what it means and how it is studied in the French context -- Policy analysis in France: an enduring disconnect between academic and practitioners' knowledge -- The added value of policy analysis for understanding state restructuring and policy developments in France -- Understanding changes in the politics and practices of policy analysis in the French context -- Book outline -- Part One. The styles and methods of public policy analysis -- 2. On the path to public policy analysis: an 'administrative science' between reform and academy -- 'Administrative science' as a national and transnational cause (1830-1930) -- The uncompleted institutionalisation of 'administrative science' and the foundations of public policy analysis (1930s and 1940s) -- 3. The emergence of modern policy analysis in France -- Introduction -- The transfer of decision-making tools -- Academic institutionalisation -- Conclusion -- 4. Recent developments within French policy studies -- Introduction -- The impact of ideas upon public policies -- Institutions and actors within policies -- Does policy analysis only study the making of policies, or the state and politics? -- Conclusion -- 5. Methods of French policy studies -- Introduction -- The empirical observation of the policy process -- Methodological research design -- Practitioners' policy analysis methods -- Conclusion -- Part Two . Policy analysis by governments -- 6. Civil servants and policy analysis in central government -- Civil servants and policy analysis at school -- Civil servants and policy analysis at work -- Conclusion -- 7. Policy analysis in French local government.

An old, dense and underestimated territorial administration -- Vertical and horizontal transformations -- The emergence of a new paradigm of territorialisation -- Conclusion -- 8. Beyond weakness: policy analysis in the French parliament -- A parliament in a weak position -- The discrete contribution of the French parliament to policy analysis -- Conclusion -- Part Three . Committees, public inquiries, and consultants -- 9. Public inquiries, committees -- Knowledge mobilisation mechanisms beyond the political and administrative system -- The increasing complexity of the decision-making process and competing forms of expertise -- Conclusion -- 10. Management consultants as policy actors -- The consultant: the new state expert icon -- Felicity conditions for resorting to consultants -- The impact of consultancy -- Part Four . Parties, interest groups, research institutes and think tanks -- 11. The field of state expertise -- The building of a field of state expertise (1945-65) -- From the 'crisis of the Plan' to the neoliberal turn (1965-95) -- A rising politicisation of state expertise? (1995 to the present) -- Ad hoc commission reports -- Conclusion -- 12. Political parties and think tanks: policy analysis oriented toward office-seeking -- Policy issues in professional political parties -- Intra-party policy analysis influenced by presidentialisation -- Policy analysis from extra-party sources -- Conclusion -- 13. Economic interest groups and policy analysis in France -- Little-known economic interest group activities -- Economic interest groups and the interventionist French model -- Economic interest groups: public policy 'experts'? -- The metamorphosis of economic interest groups -- Conclusion -- 14. NGOs, civil society and policy analysis: from mutual disinterest to reciprocal investment -- Introduction.

CSOs and NGOs in the French context: origins and latest developments -- Civil society organisations and policy analysis: a long period of mutual lack of interest -- The increasing use of policy analysis as an action repertoire -- Conclusion -- 15. Trade union expertise in public policy -- An influence linked to certain key historical events -- A limited production of analyses of public policy -- Links between the production of information and the internal dynamics of trade unions -- Conclusion -- Part Five . Academic policy analysis -- 16. Economics and policy analysis: 'from state to market'? -- Introduction -- A state-centred economic expertise -- The emancipation of academic economics and the rise of market-oriented policies -- The transnational bureaucratisation of economic expertise? -- Conclusion -- 17. The academic world of French policy studies: training, teaching and researching -- A long-term separation between the training of elites, universities and research -- The diffusion of policy process studies within the academic world: from innovation at the periphery to institutionalisation in existing disciplines -- Conclusion -- 18. Public policy analysis in France: from public action to political power -- Public policy and public action: the singular French approach of the sociology of public action -- Analysing political power through the prism of the theory of public action -- Conclusion: political power under tension -- Index.

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