DECENTRALIZATION IN MITTERRAND'S FRANCE
- 1 September 1983
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Public Administration
- Vol. 61 (3) , 237-252
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1983.tb00519.x
Abstract
The French governmental system comprises a mixture of central and local power. The Socialist Government came to power pledged to decentralization. This is being achieved through a series of laws. Yet separating central and local affairs has raised major problems. There are contradictions within the Socialists’ ideology with regard to decentralization and the implementation of the programme has been slowed down. The reform is likely to produce a redistribution of power within the system which is neither unambiguously centralist or decentralist but a mixture of the two.Keywords
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